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Message to St. Pete motorists: Free Bradley Manning listen
02/25/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bradley Manning, Overpass Light Brigade, Tampa Light Brigade, activism, WikiLeaks
If you were driving south on I-275 Saturday night in St. Petersburg, you may have passed by a pedestrian overpass with this message in lights: "Free Bradley Manning."
Events were planned Saturday on at least five continents to mark the 1,000th day Manning had been in detention, charged with leaking tens of thousands of g...
Be the first to commentDiscussion with filmmakers James LaVeck & Jenny Stein
01/16/13 Duncan StraussTalking Animals Listen to this entire show:
A conversation with Tribe of Heart founders, James LaVeck & Jenny Stein, about their award-winning documentary films, film functioning as activism, and more. We also incorporated some listener calls.
Be the first to commentThree protesters arrested in Texas after barricading themselves inside Keystone XL pipeline
12/03/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: tar sands, Keystone XL pipeline, activism
Three people who barricaded themselves in the Keystone XL pipeline were arrested in Winona, Texas Monday.
Before workers arrived this morning, activists Matt Almonte (from Tampa) and Glen Collins locked themselves inside a pipe segment waiting to be laid in the ground to halt construction of the oil pipeline.
According to the website Tar Sands Blockade, a third activist, Isabel Indigo Brooks who was also in the pipe was also arrested Monday afternoon.
Be the first to commentIn St. Pete, Mitt Romney protesters say he's not the guy for the job listen
05/16/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy St. Pete, Florida Consumer Action Network, Fight Back Florida, activism, protests, Mitt Romney, RNC
At an early morning rally in downtown St. Petersburg this morning, Mitt Romney told supporters he wants to cut government spending. More than 25 demonstrators lined the street in front of the Mirror Lake Lyceum to protest the presidential hopeful’s policies.
"I’m so disillusioned that I don’t’ even know if I’m going to vote.”
Maria Agosto spent a half an hour shouting messages from the sidewalk across the brick road in front of where the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was...
6 commentsSuspicion of fraud by activists fuels Tampa Bank of America protest listen
05/09/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bank of America, activism, Occupy Tampa, Move On, Corporate Greed, foreclosure
Two progressive-leaning activist groups protested Bank of America in downtown Tampa today. The group Move On is calling on the bank to begin helping homeowners who are facing foreclosure and pay their fair share of taxes. That is something protesters say the corporation is not doing. The protest was held in solidarity with a larger demonstration in Charlotte, North Carolina where Bank of America is conducting its annual share holder meeting. Several demonstrators have already been arreste...
Be the first to commentOccupy Tampa remembers 6 months of continuous outdoor occupation listen
04/06/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy Tampa, Days of Rage, activism
This weekend, Occupy Tampa is celebrating their six-month anniversary by holding what they are calling Day of Rage 2.0. In addition to holding marches today and tomorrow, members of Occupy Tampa are also remembering the good times they’ve had along the way.
A half of a year later, Occupy Tampa is continuing to plan actions to voice their opposition of corporate greed and a local political process they see as flawed. But the group wants to do more. Nathan Schwartz joined the movement a m...
Be the first to commentSt. Pete group calls on community involvement in the city's budget listen
03/19/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg City Council, budget, activism, People's Budget Review
Political activists launched a non-partisan initiative this morning that aims at giving citizens of St. Petersburg a louder voice in the budgeting process. On the steps of City Hall, 40 supporters of the People’s Budget Review learned details of the process that reaches out to residents to gather their ideas on how tax dollars should be spent at the city level. Christian Haas spoke about the process at a press conference.
Be the first to comment“Essentially we want to have aggregate data of the citizen’s view...
Dogs Against Romney protests in Tampa listen
03/12/12 Samuel JohnsonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: animal rights, Mitt Romney, activism, dogs, social media
Animal rights activists have found a creative way of protesting GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney. On Saturday ten people calling themselves, “Dogs against Romney” converged on Al Lopez Park in Tampa.
Mitt is mean! Mitt is mean!
The founder and chief architect of “Dogs Against Romney”, Scott Crider, was shocked in 2007 when he read about the news of how Mitt Romney treated his dog on a family vacation to Canada. He started a blog that year, bu...
Be the first to commentUSF students protest budget cuts on both sides of the Bay listen
03/01/12 Janelle Irwin & Samuel JohnsonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, USF St. Petersburg, education, education funding, education cuts, activism, protests, JD Alexander, Occupy Movement, Occupy Tampa, SDS
Occupy Education, an off-shoot of the Occupy Movement, called for a national day of action today demanding legislation that would increase educational spending instead of cutting budgets. At the University of California, Santa Cruz, student protesters shut down most of the campus. Students at USF campuses in Tampa and St. Pete held events today in solidarity with that effort. Students at both campu...
Be the first to commentGreenpeace holds direct action training camp in Manatee County listen
02/28/12 Kelly BenjaminWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Greenpeace, direct action, training, activism, environmental justice
The environmental activist organization Greenpeace is in the Tampa Bay area this week holding a direct action training camp for young activists interested in using non-violent civil disobedience to call attention to environmental problems.
Over 70 activists from around the country are in the woods of rural Manatee County this week to learn how to more effectively commit non-violent direct action. That's actions that are meant to raise awareness and effectively achieve political, economic, ...
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