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An economist analyzes the European economic crisis
06/15/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: recession, debt crisis, government spending, tax cuts, Reagan, Greece, Potugal, Spain, Italy
The so-called PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain) countries are undergoing economic hard times. Is the solution to cut government spending? Our next guest says no- it's dangerous to cut government spending during a recession. Our Guest is Mark Weisbrot, PhD. He's co-director of the Center for Economic and policy Research in Washington, DC.
Be the first to commentUpdate on the BP Oil Disaster
06/15/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP oil disaster
On the first part of today's program- three segments on the BP disaster. First we'll hear from Linda Young who is the director of the Clean Water Network of Florida. She's in the Florida panhandle where she's been an eyewitness to oil washing up on the beaches in the panhandle.
We'll also hear a portion of the audio from a KHOU-TV report which features a BP call-center worker who says that she fielded calls from concerned citizens that were never tran...
Be the first to commentRepower & Oil Spill
06/14/10 Jon ButtsRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
The Gulf oil spill is on everyone’s mind, and a group started by Al Gore, Repower America, is helping to organize a public meeting about it at the USF St. Pete College starting at 6 PM Tuesday evening. Blake Williams and Lance Orchid, with Repower, joined us to talk about the Gulf disaster, and the solutions Repower is working on. Also, a member of the board of directors of the Florida Wildlife Federation, Ann Vanek Dasovich, joined the program to talk about the Federation’s effort to underst...
Be the first to commentFlorida Tech researchers: no oil in the Keys listen
06/14/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, Florida Institute of Technology, Gulf Oil Spill
Bad news in the Gulf may be gushing every day. But researchers on a vessel that returned today from the Keys had some not-so-bad news.
The Florida Panhandle may be reeling from the oil that’s been washing up on its shores for more than a week, but researchers from the Florida Institute of Technology say the Keys are a different story – for now. Here is what Dr. Stephen Wood, a professor of ocean engineering at Florida Tech, says he saw there.
Wood said the research team, which has gone...
Be the first to comment40 supporters of Gaza Freedom Flotilla rally in Temple Terrace listen
06/14/10 Kelly BenjaminWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Palestine, Gaza, Freedom Flotilla, Israel, Temple Terrace
Two weeks ago, at least nine activists were killed when Israeli Commandos boarded an aid flotilla that was en route to Gaza last month. Since then, protests and vigils have been taking place all over the world. Around 40 people gathered holding signs and banners during rush hour traffic on Friday in Temple Terrace. WMNF’s Kelly Benjamin was there and spoke with Ramsey Kilic, director of the Tampa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Remah Ahmad, a Palestinian woman who...
Be the first to commentDistrurbing the Universe
06/12/10 Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View
Emily Kunstler talks about her father, William Kunstler, and the making of the documentary she made with her sister Sarah Kunstler: William Kuntsler: Disturbing the Universe.
She gives a historical perspective of her father through his cases and activism which is just as pertinent to the conditions of our time now as then.
The documentary kicks off the POV (Point of View) series on PBS. The series using documentary films examines the myriad experiences of life t...
Be the first to commentGulf Oil Tragedy
06/12/10 Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View
"Mac" McClleland, who is the Mother Jones' human rights reporter, covered Hurricane Katrina and is now back in the Louisiana territory covering the BP Gulf disaster.
"Mac", through her twittering and blogging, was one of the first reporters to show and note the arrival of the oil in the marsh lands. She reported vividly about the efforts of BP to keep any coverage and pictures of the Gulf from getting out. Mac is the author of *For Us Surrender is Out of th...
Be the first to commentSafe Chemicals Act
06/12/10 Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View
Dr. Anila Jacob, MD, MPH, who is a senior scientist with The Environmental Working Group talks about the Safe Chemicals Act which is being worked on in Congress now.
Introduced by Senator Frank Lautenberg in the Senate and Rep. Waxman in the House, the Safe Chemicals act will be an update and revision of the 1976 Toxic Substances Act which has been so dfficult to interpret and enforce.
Of the 83,000 chemcials we deal with today only 200 have been studied, and of that ...
Be the first to commentPlanned Parenthood pleased Crist vetos ultrasound and abortion bill listen
06/11/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: abortion, abortion rights, Planned Parenthood, pro-choice, Women's rights
Today, Governor Charlie Crist vetoed a controversial bill that would have required women seeking an abortion to pay for an ultrasound.
On Twitter, the state’s Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink said “I commend the veto of 1143, the ultrasound bill - Governor Crist did the right thing.” U.S. Representative Kendrick Meek, State Senator Dan Gelber, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida also applauded Crist’s veto.
Barbara Zdravecky is the CEO and President of Planned Parenthood ...
Be the first to commentInterfaith rally in support of Gaza Freedom Flotilla listen
06/11/10 Kelly Benjamn & Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Gaza, Freedom Flotilla, Palestine, Israel
WMNF reports from an interfaith rally in North Tampa / Temple Terrace in support of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. It's from a mobile phone so the sound is not optimal.
Be the first to commentBill Nelson criticizes BP disaster response, research funding listen
06/11/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP Oil spill, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, William Hogarth
In St. Petersburg today Senator Bill Nelson criticized BP for the way it’s been handling the oil disaster response.
Weeks ago, the oil giant had pledged $500 million to fund research on the impacts of the Gulf oil disaster. Nelson says what they’re now promising is a little different than half a billion.
William Hogarth, Dean of University of South Florida’s College of Marine Sciences, said the ten million will help, but that having institutions from across the globe compete to researc...
Be the first to commentLawton "Bud" Chiles does some old-fashioned politickin' Ybor listen
06/11/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bud Chiles, governor's race, 2010 election
Last week, the Florida governor’s race got a little more interesting when Lawton “Bud” Chiles III entered the race without party affiliation. Though he’s the son of former governor Lawton Chiles, he’s still somewhat unknown. Today the gubernatorial hopeful was in Ybor City talking about the changes he’d like to see in Tallahassee.
In 1970, then-State Senator Lawton Chiles II walked from the panhandle to the Keys. His son, Lawton “Bud” Chiles III, was sixteen at the time. On a walk of his o...
Be the first to commentSocial critic Derrick Jensen on BP oil disaster listen
06/10/10 Kelly BenjaminWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP, BP oil spill, Gulf Oil Spill
Derrick Jensen is an award winning author, activist, and social critic who has written extensively on the unsustainability of industrial civilization in regards to the natural world. WMNF spoke to him today about the systemic problem of industrialization and the BP oil spill.
8 commentsSink on the oil crisis listen
06/10/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, Alex Sink, Charlie Crist, Barack Obama
State CFO and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Alex Sink spoke today about how she's played a key role in handling the Gulf oil disaster.
Be the first to commentSink not fazed by polls showing Scott ahead listen
06/10/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Alex Sink, Rick Scott, Bill McCollum, gubernatorial race, governor's race
In November, Floridians will choose their next governor. In a year many say is defined by anti-incumbent sentiment, the polls are now showing voters favoring wealthy yet controversial newcomer Rick Scott, a Republican. But Democratic front runner Alex Sink wants to give whoever else is on November’s ballot a run for their money.
The latest poll shows millionaire medical executive Rick Scott leading his GOP opponent, Attorney General Bill McCollum, 44 to 31 percent. Another poll shows Sink,...
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