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October 18, 2025 Key Largo, Florida About 300 people, I think, were at the Key Largo demonstration when I left at 11 AM. Key Largo is about an hour south of Miami and an hour and a half north and east of Key West. There is only one road between

By Philip Cardella on September 23, 2025 US 41 between Miami and Naples near Mile Marker 48 Dozens gathered for prayer in the muddy recess off of US 41 across from the entrance to the South Florida Detention Center (aka A***** A*****, a racist name) after a stormy day in

Editor’s Note: while this post may look long according to the posting service, more than half of it is a transcription of a talk by Friends of the Everglades Executive Director Eve Samples. by Philip Cardella September 7, 2025 Florida, US 41, near mile marker 48 For six consecutive Sundays,

By Philip Cardella September 4, 2025 Miami, Florida The Too Long Didn’t Read Version: I stood in line for four and a half hours, then got to finally sit in the chambers to wait another half an hour before I got to say my 1 minute piece in defense of

September 1, 2025 By Philip Cardella There were a lot of protests (and related things like a prayer vigil and a rally) in South Florida this holiday weekend and organizers might be forgiven if they found the turnout at any one of them disappointing. From the fifth consecutive Sunday prayer

For five Sundays in a row religious groups from all over the state of Florida have convened in the middle of the first road to cross the Florida peninsula, US 41, to pray for the people detained in the tent city across the street from them in the photo above

by Philip Cardella August 25, 2025 Miami, FL A champion of human compassion, justice and equity in Miami for over 75 years, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Miami has been without an official religious leader for a while now. Being without paid religious staff doesn’t mean the small congregation in

August 23, 2025 by Philip Cardella Community Arts Program (CAP) wrapped up its 40th season with a chart topping performer in its Summer Concert Series on Thursday: new comer Tyreek McDole and his ensemble. CAP, a program started and maintained by Coral Gables’ oldest church, Coral Gables Congregational Church built

August 19, 2025 by Philip Cardella This past weekend in the Greater Miami Area there were at least two protest you may have missed. One received solid, though delayed, coverage, the other received none. TWIFL was at both. Let’s start with the small one that got no press coverage. Small

While perhaps 8,000 descended upon the Torch of Friendship on June 14th aka “No Kings Day” about 200 hundred gathered in the rain on July 4th for “No Kings II” in the same location. Meanwhile, local media reported 30-50, once again in front of Alligator Alcatraz an hour to

Philip Cardella. June 22, 2025. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside of the locked front gates of the mostly abandoned Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on Sunday, June 22, 2025 starting around 10 AM. At least 250 cars lined the narrow part of Tamiami Trail just west of the Dade County

Protests in Boca Raton, Florida I noticed various start times to protests in South Florida and wanted to hit a couple that would get less coverage than the one in Miami would (or at least I thought would). So, I got up early, drove over an hour to Palm Beach

By Philip Cardella

May 13, 2025 Miami Dade County– “Florida is coming for America...We can’t lose sight of the importance of making sure the nation understands this.” Two Florida Democrat groups located in North East Miami Dade County welcomed ACLU of Florida’s CEO Bicardi Jackson for a discussion about immigration in Florida

May 9, 2025 CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA The first audience member to speak at the Wednesday night Town Hall on Immigration held at the University of Miami cracked a joke about being a recovering reporter and then broke down sobbing. He never finished what he wanted to say. Others would cry