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Tax Resistance and A Call for Corporations and the Wealthy to Pay Their Fair Share
04/15/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: tax fairness, peace activist, Ed Hedemenn, tax protestor, NWTRCC, PICO, Kevin King, corporate tax breaks, hiding profits offshore
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei.
Today is the deadline for individuals to file their federal income tax returns…. We’ll talk with a tax protestor in a moment.
Later—there are several protests around the bay area today—and hundreds more around the country- calling on corporations to pay their fair share of taxes—we’ll talk with someone who is taking part in a protest against corporate tax avoidance…
Our first guest is peace activist Ed Hedemann who on moral g...
Be the first to commentTax Day protests in Tampa and St. Pete blast wealthy corporations that evade taxes listen
04/15/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Progress Energy Florida, Progress Energy, Duke Energy, BP, Bank of America, Exxon, Verizon, tax dodgers, tax evaders, taxes, Tax Day
Wealthy corporations have access to tax loopholes that many individuals and small businesses can’t get. Tax Day protests on both sides of the bay this morning had activists lashing out at what they call tax evaders.
About a dozen activists in Tampa were up before the sun to light up the U.S. 301 overpass over I-4. Back-lit posters spelled out the words ‘U paid more taxe$ than Verizon’.
“You and I are paying taxes and all these huge corporations are not paying taxes.”
That’s a Tam...
Be the first to commentRecycling & rare fruit
04/15/13 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: gardening, fruit, recycling
We started today’s show with Phil Hughes, Account Manager for Creative Recycling. They recycle all kinds of electronic equipment and small appliances—excluding large white goods such as refrigerators and stoves. The WMNF Radio Station, located at 1210 E Martin Luther King Blvd., is temporarily a drop-off point for Creative to pick up your used electronic devices. This ends April 22, Earth Day.
We spent the rest of the hour with Paul Zamoda with the [Tampa...
Be the first to commentUSF students demand no more tuition hikes, they sit in for the 4th Friday in a row listen
04/12/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, tuition, budget cuts, education, Indiana University, strike, Judy Genshaft, SDS
Some USF students have been staging sit-ins at the University of South Florida in Tampa for four Fridays in a row. Even though the group today was small, they were still demanding that the USF president start working with them to meet their list of demands.
The group piles into the Patel Center lobby every Friday at lunchtime. They stay until the building is about to close and the last employees are going home. But Students like Matthew Hastings most want to talk to is president Judy Ge...
Be the first to commentFormer Pentagon official defends U.S. use of drones listen
04/11/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Michael James Barton, Brian Moore, drones, Stetson University College of Law, war on terror, Pentagon
A former Pentagon official is defending the United States’ use of drones. During a lecture Thursday at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Michael James Barton blamed criticism of the unmanned aircraft on media that sensationalize perceived future threats associated with using new technology.
Be the first to comment“The Spartans were really, really upset that the Athenians used arrows because how dare they, we can’t even see the enemy, they’re coming from afar. You don’t face your enemy with courage...
Fanni Green, Jamison Hudson and Tia Strachen discuss "In the Next Room"
04/11/13 Mary Glenney & Arlene EngelhardtFrom A Woman's Point of View Listen to this entire show:
Tags: theatre, arts, women's issues
Fanni Green, a professor of theatre and culture at the University of South Florida Tampa campus, discusses the play "In the Next Room by Sarah Ruhl. Sarah Ruhl the author has said that In the N ext Room "is not a sex farce about vibrators. It's about wet nurses; it's about the body. It's misleading to say it is purely about the object." Fanni says that to her, "In The Next room" is about discovery, longing, breastfeeding, "electric" connections, love, inventions and the human touch. Luckily...
Be the first to commentDirectors Lana Wilson and Martha Shane discuss the documentary After Tiller
04/11/13 Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View Listen to this entire show:
Tags: women's issues, abortion, choice, film, art
Lana Wilson and Martha Shane, the directors of After Tiller, discuss their film. After the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, four American physicians-Dr. Leroy Carhart, Dr. Warren Hern, Dr. Shelley Sella and Dr. Susan Robinson were the only remaining providers of late-term abortions in the United States. Living under constant threat of violence, they continue to do their work. With unprecedented access into the lives of these doctors and the patients who seek their help...
Be the first to commentHomeless recount in Hillsborough aims to find more people than January listen
04/10/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: homeless, homeless coalition, poverty, Hillsborough County
Volunteers combed the county Tuesday night to find out if there are still more than 7,000 people living on the streets Hillsborough County. Many fewer than that were counted in January, prompting this recount.
A woman named Kimberly sat alone on a curb in downtown Tampa saying she hoped the effort would help people like her.
Be the first to comment“I just try to, you know, get shelter when I can, fill out applications. I’m trying to go back to rehab. I eat lunch at Trinity where they feed the homeless fo...
Labor activists want local control over wage theft ordinances, ask state to stay out of it listen
04/10/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Aaron Carmella, AFL-CIO, labor, worker's rights, Florida Senate, Florida House of Representatives, Kevin Beckner, 2013 legislative session
Labor activists are protesting two bills working their way through Tallahassee they fear would hurt workers. The protest in front of the County Center in downtown Tuesday Tampa was led by AFL-CIO regional coordinator Aaron Carmella who said the so-called “wage theft” bills would rob local governments of their abilities to protect workers from unfair employers.
Be the first to comment“They say that they’re trying to streamline a process to keep it the same across the state, but basically what they’re doing is t...
Military Spending: Making the US Less Secure?
04/10/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: National Insecurity, Mel Goodman, military spending, government waste, 700 military bases abroad
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up we’ll talk about the military budget with a 24 year veteran of the CIA who will be speaking in Sarasota tomorrow.
Mel Goodman was a Soviet analyst for the CIA and state department for 24 years. He is an Army veteran and was a professor at the National War College. He’s written a new book in which he says that the US spends far more on the military than necessary. And that the projection of US military power abroad can actual...
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