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Trump has fallen asleep at the NBA Finals
23 years ago. Gad.
The Miami Model strips free speech & assembly rights, mass arrests, permits required (then denied), overwhelming cop presence, undercover ops, use of bullshit propaganda, coordinated rightwing "civic groups," everything that is now the norm from the MAGA Junta started here.
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The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) wanted open trade borders, reduction of tariffs and regulations.
So I made this map that shows how our Wall St. Masters view the world. Guess it's still relevant despite Trump and his goofball economics.
The SPJ Green Eyeshade Award (named after the visors copy editors wore before computers) was the least-est of the big awards a political cartoonist could win. Still, something I only fantasized of winning when I started out. I was no longer a political cartoonist, but it was a little thrill I admit.
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It was a big surprise. No one at the paper told me they entered it, or that it won Best Cartoon. A reader tipped me off, & I asked the editor. "Oh yeah. I meant to email you." Classic newspapers.
Almost a year later they sent me the actual award, a heavy wooden plaque in an unpadded envelope.
Funny. Financial blogger Barry Ritholtz reposted an old cartoon of mine It's from 2003 and ran as a full-pager in the Miami altweekly. Miami was hosting a big Free Trade meeting, w/ oligarchs deciding our fate moving forward.
This one won an award from the Society of Professional Journalists!
There were a number of these big Free Trade meetings in this era. The most infamous was in Seattle, with 60,000 protestors met with violent force by police.
In Miami, our masters were determined to head that off. They formulated the "Miami Model," which is still in use in any protest situation.
As I recall, the corners of the plaque had poked through the envelope. It was a miracle the whole thing hadn't fallen out. No note, or letter. Took me a sec to remember what it was. Again, classic newspapers.
Ugly award, so no matter. I took a photo of it and threw it away.
