Umoja Village 11.20.06

In response to the affordable housing crisis and gentrification in South Florida, activists have squatted a publicly owned vacant lot and built a shantytown to house the homeless. I spent 24 hours in the Umoja Village and discovered a community in the making.
takebacktheland.blogspot.com

Here is another great video on Umoja Village:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiY1JcCSEyI

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• homeless
• liberty
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• miami
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• kombatrock

[LadyAmaltheaUnicorn]

I can't feel a tremendous amount of sympathy for these people because they live in a country where they can both go to school as well as borrow books at a library to educate themselves, for free, which will give them a better life than living in plywood shacks, speaking Ebonics and waiting for the government to give you hands out. They want to retain their ignorant urban culture while receiving the same benefits of an educated, non-lazy, person and that's wrong.

[kombatrock]

Your comments indicate general ignorance to how the system works in the USA and of how easy it is for a working class person to find himself/herself homeless. You defend a broken system but bash the victims and dismiss them as lazy when they fall through the cracks. Does that make you feel better?

[TRUTH975]

@LadyAmaltheaUnicorn

I'm sure if you were born to drug addicted parents suffering from untreated depression and medical conditions you would see the light by the age of 16 and be genius enough to make it out right ??

it's a vicious cycle, and the depression sets in at a young age and with that depression comes lack of energy, motivation, positive thinking, and hope.(they then result to drugs/alcohol to escape the harsh realities)

be greatfull and not so ignorant

[TheJomogogo]

Anyplace inhabited by people of african descent eventually becomes just like africa.

[TRUTH975]

@LadyAmaltheaUnicorn

and u just proved your ignorance, lack of education, and wisdom with that post.

congrats

[girlyousogroovy]

@thisissorowdy None of them pay taxes? They may not pay property taxes but they pay taxes just like you and I do whenever we buy something with a sales tax added to it.

[thisissorowdy]

Its not your land, none of those bums pay taxes.

they aren't " taking back the land ", they are just taking the land, and turning it into some kind of Haitian shithole.

[johnnyramma]

Once again....thanx to MAXX.!!

[mills8102]

It's a real shame that it burned down. Does anybody know what they are doing now? Is there another village in the works? BTW, please quit all the ignorant racist bullshit on both sides. This transcends race.

[s0nny80y]

those ignorants with access to a computer pale in comparison in understanding plight.

[s0nny80y]

its not a race thing...educate yourself on the sociopolitical atmosphere...immigrants set up a life in south florida, the closest place to live but it happens to be developed by rich, expensive developers...see, a mexican can cross the border into texas of california or wherever, but the geographical position of florida makes it a freaking journey to get out of south florida for better living...south florida, miami, its expensive and corrupt.