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  <title>Creative Loafing Tampa: Kelly Benjamin</title>
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    <title>Snowball&amp;#39;s ChanceA wintry ambush breaks down the barriers - for a while.</title>
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        INAUGURATE THIS: On placards, behind fences or on the street, the anti-Bush brigades made their feelings known....
       
      
        By Kelly Benjamin
      
      
      Washington D.C. - With the tightest security in the history of presidential inaugurations and 100 square blocks of the nation's capital under total lockdown, Republicans rejoiced at the reinstallation of George W. Bush last Thursday with a $45 million blowout set to the theme of "Celebrating Freedom." Never mind that the miles of 10-foot-high metal barricades, the legions of heavily armed riot cops and the 7,000 troops deployed to downtown D.C. made the ceremony feel more like a military occupation
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    <title>Lockdown</title>
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        What America didn't see during the RNC...
       
      
        By Kelly Benjamin
      
      
      For anyone who fears the Bush administration is leading this country on a course toward fascism, the pre-emptive suppression of political dissent last week during the Republican convention in New York City confirmed all suspicions.Following last Sunday's historic peaceful march across Manhattan, the police took the kid gloves off on Monday, Aug. 30. Over 5,000 peaceful marchers organized by the Poor People's Economic Human Rights campaign led an unpermitted march from the United Nations Building across Manhattan toward Madison Square
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2004 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Republicans Invade New York!</title>
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        A report from the front lines of the NYC/RNC protests...
       
      
        By Kelly Benjamin
      
      
      'The Republicans are coming! The Republicans are coming!" was the warning cry heard across the streets of Manhattan last week as thousands of protesters from across the country arrived in New York City to counter the $166 million pep rally for the reinstallment of George W. Bush.The delegates barely had a chance to unpack their flag lapel pins on Sunday before they were met with over an estimated 400,000 protesters marching for six straight hours down the streets of Manhattan
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    <title>Stifling Dissent</title>
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        By Kelly Benjamin
      
      
      Editor's note: Kelly Benjamin, a Tampa political activist and occasional Planet contributor, was more than a witness to the violence that erupted in Miami Nov. 20. He has the wound from a rubber bullet to prove it. Here is his report: Last Thursday began pleasantly enough for me, with an empanada and a cup of Cuban coffee, as I watched the sun rise over America's poorest city. I stood outside the Independent Media Center in the industrial slum of Overtown,
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>A Tampa Pirate and the FCC</title>
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        Corporate consolidation of the media serves a purpose, but it isn't ours...
       
      
        By Kelly Benjamin
      
      
      In the mid-1990s, at the peak of the pirate radio movement's noble struggle to free the airwaves from the hideous plague of homogenous commercial programming, more than 1,000 small micro-powered radio stations blossomed across the country, broadcasting eclectic local programming directly to their communities. Here in Tampa, we had at least eight stations on the air, each providing a unique voice to diverse segments of our community. With Puerto Rican gospel, Haitian newscasts, local hardcore, hip-hop, free jazz, government conspiracy
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2003 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>An Experiment in Democracy</title>
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        Angst and inspiration on the campaign trail...
       
      
        By Kelly Benjamin
      
      
      As a kid growing up in Tampa, I used to think I was a human guinea pig in some heinous experiment, trapped in a coldly calculated artificial environment filled with ugly strip malls and treacherous ghettoes and highway exit ramps. As a teenager, I used to walk the deserted, brightly lighted grid streets of downtown Tampa in the middle of the night and imagine what it used to look like 100 years ago. I was sure the whole city was
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2003 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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