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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

In South Florida

Down in Miami poking around the capital of Latin America, catching up with a couple of local promoters of technocumbia, just possibly the world's worst music. It's a phenomenon that mixes many of the things I'm interested in right now: how immigrants bring their past and homes with them across countries, why they like to stay in touch with what they knew before, and how new technologies change the way they do that.
If you've never seen technocumbia, click below, but consider yourself warned.



Also hoping to catch up with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, 100 miles due West. Lately, they've been asking Burger King to raise the price of their products by one penny, to cover unfair wages for the migrant tomato pickers. Want to guess what BK has said?

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