Photography is not a crime

By Carlos Miller
Just over a mile from where the U.S. Constitution is permanently displayed in Washington DC, photographers have been routinely harassed and threatened with arrest for daring to snap a photo inside one of the most historical and picturesque train stations in the United States.
The situation got so bad that even a TV […]

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By Carlos Miller
This is a bit belated but it’s been a busy week and I was hoping to incorporate this information in a longer post about what I’ve accomplished on this blog so far, but I’ve really haven’t accomplished anything yet except maybe stir the pot a little and hopefully raise a little awareness, so […]

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By Carlos Miller
Here is your chance to vote against me.
That means you, Jorge, and the rest of your First Amendment bashing crew.
My post, March on Mayors Protest Proceeds through Downpour, is one of four posts in the running for “Post of the Month” on the South Florida Daily Blog.
The post includes video and photos from […]

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By Carlos Miller
It’s not too often that a South Florida blog gets mentioned in the New York Times blog, which is maintained by the paper’s metro reporters.
But it’s not too often that a South Florida blog writes about an upcoming New York event either
Monday morning, a few hours after I had posted the article about […]

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By Carlos Miller
A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who are touring the country and interviewing Americans for a school project have arrived in New York City where they have announced a flash mob in support of photographers’ rights.
The flash mob is scheduled for 7 p.m., Monday, June 30th, 2008 at Grand Central Terminal.
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Update: Read my article on this subject in the Miami New Times.
By Carlos Miller
Momoko Sudo, the Japanese artist who watched helplessly as a Coral Gables police officer deleted the photo she took of him as well as the other photos she had taken that day, was able to retrieve the photo using recovery software.
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Update: Momoko Sudo was able to retrieve the photo. Check it out here.
By Carlos Miller
After taking a photo of a police motorcycle, Momoko Sudo said a Coral Gables police officer stormed up to her, demanded her camera and deleted all the images from her memory card.
Officer “Rodriguez” then removed the memory card and slammed […]

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By Carlos Miller
National leaders of the largest journalism organization in the United States have expressed their disappointment in Miami-Dade County Court Judge Jose L. Fernandez for violating my First Amendment rights.

Fernandez, as I mentioned in a previous post, gave me an extremely harsh sentence and criticized me for having blogged about my case.
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By Carlos Miller
There are conservatives and there are neocons. There are republicans and there are repugs.
My dad was a fiscally conservative republican who was socially liberal. He was a Goldwater republican. Before he passed away in 2003, he told me that Bush had stolen the election and was sending our country to hell by starting […]

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Update: The Society of Professional Journalists is protesting Judge Jose L. Fernandez’s harsh sentence against me.
By Carlos Miller
How can one resist an unlawful arrest?
That is the question I asked the judge when I was informed of the jury’s verdict, which came in at 11:45 p.m. , after almost two-and-a-half hours of deliberations:

Not guilty of disobeying […]

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