Thanks to your tax dollars. Yes, yours.
Journalist Rebecca Solnit notes:
.. 'Much of the money for militarizing Miami came, appropriately enough, from an $8.5 million rider tacked onto the $87 million spending bill for the war in Iraq. Miami will pay directly, however, both in revenue lost from shutting the city down and, presumably, for activists' police brutality and civil-rights-violation lawsuits.' ..
Click on the link below to read the full article. Also, here's a link to the 'Corporate Media Roundup' of legal reports, and an account of detained seniors in today's Miami Herald.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17267
http://ftaaimc.org/en/2003/11/1951.shtml
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/7354963.htm