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Journalist Under Prosecution Sues US Government For Seizing Materials

October 10, 2026 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , ,
Journalist Tim Burke sued the United States government for allegedly violating the Privacy Protection Act (PPA) when the Justice Department obtained search warrants against him.  The complaint against the government was filed on September 22, around a week after prosecutors notified the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida that it would seek a fresh indictment against Burke.  Burke also submitted a motion on the same date, which alleged that the government had violated his Sixth Amendment right to due process. They asked the court to dismiss the charges with prejudice.

Florida Is Executing Prisoners At A Record Pace

August 26, 2026 Pamela Colloff, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
This spring, Father Dustin Feddon began waking up in the middle of the night. Heart racing, he would stand at the bathroom sink in the dark, splashing cold water on his face until the feeling passed. For about a dozen years, Feddon had visited prisoners on Florida’s death row as their appeals wound their way through the courts. Some had waited for decades, but the priest learned, more or less, how to accompany people through years of confinement and isolation without losing himself in their desolation. Then in January 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at an accelerated rate.

Tallahassee Wins ‘Historic Harms’ Amendment On November Ballot

August 23, 2026 Thomas Spiers, Fight Back! News. , , ,
Tallahassee, Florida – On August 17, the Leon County Commission held a public hearing regarding the proposed Historic Harms amendment to the county charter. From the pressure of about a dozen speakers and the presence of dozens more, the commission voted 5-2 to advance the amendment to the November ballot for all county citizens to vote on. Commissioners Brian Welch and Christian Caban voted against the amendment. The Historic Harms amendment, if passed, would require the county to periodically investigate past county policies and determine what kind of harms were caused to certain geographic areas due to those policies.

FBI Asking Questions In Florida: Don’t Talk!

August 15, 2026 Committee to Stop FBI Repression, Fight Back! News. , , ,
On August 11 the FBI visited an Orlando activist, asking questions about Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) and its leadership. It’s clear that this is a part of a pattern of ongoing state repression that began in 2010, when more than 70 FBI agents took part in a series of coordinated raids that were aimed at activists of the anti-war international solidarity movements, and also members of FRSO. These agents are sniffing around, looking for people who will talk to them and help them do their work. As ever, their aim is to infiltrate and destroy our movements.

Black Power Radio Station Wins Victory For First Amendment Rights

August 3, 2026 Uhuru Solidarity Movement, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
On Wednesday, July 29, 2026, a federal appeals court unanimously ruled that the African People’s Education and Defense Fund (APEDF) has a valid complaint against Pinellas County for illegally revoking one grant and denying a second, totalling $100K, in violation of the group’s constitutional protections against racial discrimination and suppression of its First Amendment rights. The court’s decision in favor of the APEDF and its black community FM radio station, “Black Power 96” in St. Petersburg, Florida, has established new binding federal case law protecting organizations from being defunded based on the exercise of their First Amendment rights.

Real Estate Jitters At Tropic Of Cancer

August 2, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. , , , ,
Florida is the nation’s barometer of climate change. It’s on the cutting-edge of climate at latitude 24.5°N-to-31°N in-line with Egypt, Saudia Arabia, and Mexico. Significantly, it aligns with Tropic of Cancer at 23.5°N, the hottest latitude on Earth. It’s there that climate change dances its special rhythm in a precursor of what’s in store for the States. It shows up there first. Homeowners in Florida can attest to the costliness of living along the world-famous Tropic of Cancer via home insurance premiums, directly impacted by a rapidly changing climate that’s literally changing homeowner’s lives. Will other high-risk regions of America follow suit and how soon?

Floridians Made Resistance To Flock And Data Centers A Central Issue

July 26, 2026 Thomas Kennedy, Truthout. , , ,
Sam Altman, the embattled CEO of the AI technology company OpenAI, vacillates between warning of a labor market doom loop due to the technology his company developed and promising a new golden era for humanity just around the corner. In an essay posted to his X account this July, he claimed that “by safely stewarding AGI [artificial general intelligence] into the world, we can enter a new golden age of scientific discovery and progress, and usher in a bright future of incredible human flourishing.” Yet San Francisco technologists like Altman rarely spend significant amounts of time detailing the many ways AI technologies are being rapidly integrated into aggressive immigration enforcement infrastructure across the country, including adoption by local and state police departments tasked with detaining immigrants.

Florida Shuts Down Alligator Alcatraz

June 23, 2026 Thomas Kennedy, Truthout. , , , , ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), announced last week that all persons detained at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration jail were transferred to other facilities, and that the site’s giant tents and cages had been emptied. The reason given to the public was the risk posed by Florida’s hurricane season, with the agency offering this statement: “As we enter hurricane season, ICE and the state of Florida have moved illegal aliens from the soft-sided facility. For the safety of the illegal alien detainees, we transferred them to other facilities.”

Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro To Sociology Textbooks Illegal

March 8, 2026 Zachary Leveson, Truthout. , , , ,
Imagine the following scenario: You’re teaching Introduction to Sociology at a community college in Florida, and today, you’re trying to explain the well-documented pay gap between men and women in the United States. You check the guidance you just received from your dean, who received instructions via email from the executive vice chancellor of the Florida College System. The instructions state explicitly that explaining “unequal outcomes between men and women” in terms of “institutional sexism” would violate state law.

Machado Offers To Sell $1.7 Trillion Of Venezuela’s Assets To US Corporations

November 13, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. , , , , , , ,
María Corina Machado is a far-right Venezuelan coup leader who has been funded by the US government since at least 2003. The Donald Trump administration is waging war on Venezuela, and if it can succeed in overthrowing the leftist government of President Nicolás Maduro, Machado would help to lead the new pro-US regime in Caracas. Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, despite the fact that she openly supports Trump’s war on her country. She has for years called for a US military intervention to violently topple President Maduro.

Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Disappeared From ICE Database

September 27, 2025 Pedro Camacho, Orinoco Tribune. , , , , ,
Hundreds of people once held at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration processing center in Florida have vanished from federal records, prompting lawyers to accuse U.S. authorities of running a detention “black hole,” as a new sprawling report from El País has revealed. Immigrant advocacy groups told the news site that detainees formerly at the facility west of Miami disappeared from Immigration and Customs Enforcement‘s online locator and searches now yield the message: “Call the Florida Department of Corrections for details.” Luis Sorto of Sanctuary of the South, which has challenged restrictions on attorney access at the site, said plaintiffs in a lawsuit were moved elsewhere but never appeared in ICE’s tracking system.

Caravan Calls For Shutdown Of New Concentration Camp In Florida

September 26, 2025 Fight Back! News. , , , ,
Jacksonville, FL – On Saturday, September 20, dozens of cars embarked on a caravan led by the Jacksonville Immigrant Rights Alliance (JIRA) from Jacksonville to Sanderson in Baker County, Florida. It was a show of public resistance and solidarity with immigrants who are already being detained at a new detention center, disgustingly named by Governor Ron Desantis as “Deportation Depot.” Activists call it the “Baker Cruelty Camp,” or BCC. The announcement of BCC came as a desperate pivot from the previously planned Camp Blanding renovations, with the new location repurposing a shuttered correctional facility into a concentration camp only 15 minutes away from the Lake City Airport.

Emergency Rally In Orlando Denounces Trump’s Attacks On Venezuela

September 18, 2025 Fight Back! News. , , ,
Orlando, FL – On Friday, September 13, 20 activists held an emergency rally outside the Federal Courthouse in downtown Orlando to denounce the recent U.S. military attacks, and any future aggression, against Venezuela. The rally was organized by FRSO Orlando and co-sponsored by Orlando DSA, University of Central Florida Students for a Democratic Society, Orlando for Peace, and several other organizations. The event was in response to Donald Trump’s dangerous military escalations against Venezuela, including the deployment of U.S. warships into the Caribbean and a recent military strike against a Venezuelan boat that killed all eleven Venezuelan civilians on board. Trump’s government has also put a $50 million reward for the capture of the democratically-elected president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.

Judge Rules Shut Down Of Everglade’s Detention Camp After Protests

August 24, 2025 Elizaveta Vlasov, Fight Back! News. , , , , , ,
Miami, FL – The Miccosukee Tribe and Friends of the Everglades won their lawsuit to shut down the detention camp known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” as ruled by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams on Thursday, August 21. The lawsuit was filed on June 27, and Judge Williams ordered a temporary stop to the construction on the site two weeks ago. Now, the state has 60 days to move the detainees and dismantle what’s been constructed so far. The lawsuit was brought to the courts on the grounds of environmental damage caused by the facility to the fragile Everglades ecosystem. Twenty acres of land have been paved over with asphalt for the facility’s operations.

Fight Against ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Unites Immigrant, Environmental, And Indigenous Movements

July 3, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , , ,
The first arrivals to Trump’s new controversial ICE detention facility, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by Republican politicians for its location in the Florida wilderness, were set to arrive late on Wednesday, July 2. Since Trump came into office for the second time in January, his administration has been scrambling to meet the necessary benchmarks to fulfill Trump’s campaign promise to deport between 15 to 20 million people. The newly-opened detention center is part of Trump’s latest bid to escalate his regime of mass deportations, beginning to accept prisoners a month after the Trump administration raised the quota of immigration arrests to 3,000 per day. The facility is set to open with 3,000 beds ready, with plans to expand to up to 5,000.
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