It has started to get lots of national press as of late: CBS Early show, NBC, New York Times, Miami Herrald. For those that dont know, (read one of the articles: Time.com.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1580473,00.html)this group has confiscated govt land by using a county law against it self.
In a nutshell: a housing project was condemed & torn down with the promise of a rebuild 11 yrs ago & put $ up for the project. To date, no one knows where the $ is & the building is still an empty lot. A group used a law that forbids arrest of homeless on govt land doing life sustaning activities (eating, washing etc.) & took & occupied the vacant 1 acre lot & built a shantytown for the homeless w/ no help or support from govt. In fact govt tried to shut it down until all the press & now want to 'help'.
It was due to the gentrification of poor in the booming Miami real estate mkt.
I say, way to go! Since govt WONT help, do it ourselves.
2007-02-02
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