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Florida sit-in against ‘Stand Your Ground’
On July 16, three days after George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the Dream Defenders streamed into the governor’s suite to hold a sit-in.
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Industriales in Miami: Just baseball
There will be two games: one between former Industralistas living outside Cuba and the Havana visitors; the other, between all "the blues" and a selection of players from other…
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Cop still not charged after tasering Miami Beach teen artist to death
Subhash Kateel states that the law is very clear on this and wonders why criminal charges have not been filed against the cop who killed a young, graffiti artist who tried running away…
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When the state does not care
Florida plans to turn over three million Medicaid clients currently served by the state to private sector “managed care” providers. The truth is that private companies have no secret…
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‘Roid’ rage
The culture in which we live promotes steroid use by constantly presenting a muscular masculine figure as ideal, even if the muscles look artificial. Anabolic steroids can cause…
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Big Sugar messes with Mother Nature
As long as we continue returning elected officials to office who accept political contributions from Big Sugar, we will continue getting what we always have gotten: Huge volumes of…
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‘The age of the library is probably ending’
About one-third of Miami-Dade libraries will be closed in a county with almost 2.5 million people and which were visited by 8 million people last year. And what's the county…
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Stand Your Ground supporters should favor special session
Half of Florida supports Stand Your Ground, 43% want it changed or repealed. But neither the majority of Floridians who support it nor the Stand Your Ground that a massive minority…
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Baseball and the Cuban heart
Leonardo Padura and Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera at bat. Progreso Weekly publishes reflections of two great Cubans, both fans of baseball and Cuba. They express views about the game that…
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Industriales will play in Miami, “even if it’s in a canebrake”
Alejandro Cantón, president of Somos Cuba , the Florida agency that promotes the match, told Progreso Weekly in an exclusive interview that the games will take place "even if it's in a…
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