http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:56:04 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:56:04 I just wanted to share a photo essay I compiled of protest photographs I took during the last four years of Bush's administration.

http://carlosmiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/fuckoffbush2.jpg

See the rest of the photos here along with my commentary.

http://carlosmiller.com/2008/11/07... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/51 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:15:42 Why not send them all to Iraq?

If they want to bash the legs of brown children with their clubs for the crime of not walking fast enough, then they should be the ones partaking in our country’s occupation of the Iraqi people.

If they want to disguise themselves in riot gear and unanimously bea... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/50 Sat, 05 May 2007 19:54:54 As many of you know, I was arrested in February after photographing Miami police against their wishes. My trial begins May 7th, so I decided to start a blog to document developments in the case as well as to maintain a central location for all information regarding the case.

But I also want to do... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/49 Wed, 02 May 2007 14:19:09 Many of you are familiar with [link:journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/46|my arrest] last month, so maybe you can help increase exposure by clicking on "Digg it" at the top right hand corner of the story. The [link:www.category305.com/media-watch/miami-journalist-vs.-police.php|more ex... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/48 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:00:03 Thanks for asking. There's no inappropriateness about your question. This is probably the best place to find me on DU.

I've been really busy lately dealing with this legal situation. My initial arraignment got postponed to an unspecified date.

I wish I could tell you everything that is going o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/47 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:55:31 http://www.category305.com/magic-city/miami-police-arrest-journalist-2.php




EDIT:
Here is my initial post on the incident.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=272761... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/45 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:02:54 The cops slammed me to the pavement even though I offered no resistance, causing a deep abrasion on my right knee.

One cop grabbed me by the back of the head and repeatedly bashed my forehead against the sidewalk, causing abrasions and swelling to the right side of my forehead.

Another cop g... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/46 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:11:54 But my heart was not into it. However, I was on assignment for People Magazine as a reporter and they pay well, so I am not complaining.

But as I always do when I am on a non-photography journalism assignment, I had my camera with me. After all, there are not enough words in the English language... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/43 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:28:27 In almost exactly like what happened [link:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=280&topic_id=3428|in May 2005](where does the time go?), I was sitting at my computer when I see a car come speeding by with a cop car hot on his tail. A few seconds later I hear a loud c... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/41 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:52:07 Not Luis Garcia, a newly elected state representative who was running against a right-wing Cuban in a district that is 72 percent republicans or independents and includes Little Havana.

At 60 years old, Garcia is a lifelong democrat. After all, he says, it was Lyndon B. Johnson who first helped t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/39 Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:36:40 After all, not only did Hispanics make up eight percent of the total vote on Tuesday, but 73 percent of Hispanics voted democrat while 26 percent voted republican, according to CNN exit polls.

In 2004, Hispanics still made up about eight percent of the total vote, but only 55 percent voted democr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/38 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:46:29 Not that I ever voted for Bush. Not I ever voted for a republican. Not that I am anything close to a conservative.

No, that was my dad, and ever since I was a kid, we would get into serious political debates. I was the bleeding heart liberal, he was the Goldwater conservative. Before he died in ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/37 Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:54:17 As some of you know, I traveled to Cuba last May in an act of civil disobedience along with two other Americans. On our return through the Bahamas, we admitted we had traveled to Cuba rather than lie to a federal officer.

Homeland Security then detained us, searched our bags, lectured us on the ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/36 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:01:20 out of Cuba to the U.S. seeking asylum. It escalated when a group of Cubans stormed the Peruvian embassy in Havana, seeking asylum from Castro's communist regime.

When Peru granted asylum to the Cubans and any other Cuban who sought the same thing, more than 10,000 Cubans poured in through the ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/35 Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:47:34 Yes, the ones that are so fondly referred to on DU as [i]“Batistas”[/i] and [i]“fascistas”[/i] and [i]“racistas”.[/i]

The ones that many of you say deserve everything they got because they were fortunate not to have been living in poverty during the 1950s.

The ones that are referred to as [i]... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/34 Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:19:46 That Lebanon had the "right to defend" itself against Israel.

It was 1982 and Israel had invaded Lebanon in an attempt to quash the Palestine Liberation Organization, which was formed in 1964 with the goal to destroy Israel and replace it with a Palestinian state.

After all, not only were 711,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/33 Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:02:21 As a kid, I was your typical ADHD, flying-off-the-wall student. I was labeled all kinds of negative things that I won't even mention here because I have since pushed them out of my mind.

What these educators did not realize was that I was an avid reader who would spend hours in the library readi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/32 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:39:27 Rape was the motive for the murder. Or more precisely, the motive was to cover up the rape. And the murder of her family was to eliminate every witness to the rape.

From what I've read, the rape was premediated for days, if not weeks. It went from basic lust to basic barbarism. And once they cros... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/30 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:12:56 Because the flag is a material item and we are a material society.

Almost anyone can buy a flag. And if you have more money than your neighbor, you can buy an even bigger flag. Then you can bow down in front of the flag and sacrifice your first-born.

But the Constitution?

That is an abstra... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/27 Tue, 04 Jul 2006 04:47:16 I headed out to under the McCarthur Causeway, the bridge that leads from the City of Miami to Miami Beach, where every year, hundreds of people go to watch the fireworks over the Miami skyline.

It is also where numerous homeless people live. They sleep on the rock cliff under the bridge. Every n... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/26 Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:30:08 at Fallujah. After the atrocities we committed at Abu Ghraib. After the atrocities we committed at Haditha.

After the countless atrocities that we've committed that have not yet been reported as well as the atrocities that were reported that were quickly dropped from the radar.

Then we sure ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/25 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:29:04 A 9-year-old girl was shot to death by a stray bullet meant for someone else. She was a gifted student who won 14 awards for good grades in Spanish, math and music.

She is the 18th person under the age of 18 to have been killed by gunfire in Miami during the last 12 months.

But you don't see... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/23 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 05:30:52 [i]Click here to view the [link:www.magiccitymedia.com/WebGalleries/Havana/index.htm|Havana photo slideshow.] Or read my commentary about Havana and view the slideshow later, which is also linked at the bottom of the (yes, I know), very long post.[/i]



They throw the word [i]“libre”[/i] around... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/20 Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:23:14 [i]Proving once again that only the good die young, Soraya was a beautiful woman, inside and out. As a fellow Colombian-American, I just wish she was able to spread her message to the American masses before she died. Here's hoping her music will live on.
May you rest in peace, Soraya. (and forgive... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/18 Thu, 11 May 2006 01:16:40 I was the kid who always in trouble, the class clown, the one who had trouble controlling his impulses. If a teacher asked the class a question, I would blurt out the answer without raising my hand. Sometimes, I would just blurt out my thoughts regardless if she was asking a question or not.

This... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RagingInMiami/31 Tue, 09 May 2006 16:48:15