Tuesday, November 20, 2007

VIDEO: Miami activists take exclusive Fisher Island's private beach and make it public

Miami activists take exclusive Fisher Island's private beach and make it public
by SEIU repost Monday, Nov. 19, 2007 at 5:14 PM
info@seiu11.org

Off the coast of Miami on Saturday, November 17th, decorated boats ferried more than 100 activists as close as possible to the shore of the ultra-wealthy and until now thought to be off-limits beaches of Fisher Island to protest discriminatory and abusive treatment of the workers that clean, maintain, and protect the island. Activists then swam to shore.







The history-making landing put a public face on Fisher Island's "separate, but equal" mentality regarding the workers who service the island and the public. "Because they are so isolated, Fisher Island residents think they can wall themselves off from the poverty they create," said SEIU Local 11 Political Director Hiram Ruiz. "We set out to make a point, that there should be only one Miami, not one Miami for the wealthy and another for the rest of us."

* Check out Miami Herald coverage at
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/nicholas_spangler/story/312175.html, Fisher Island Protest video on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psL61pVP8O4.

Contributed by:
David


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