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Peace activists deliver varied anti-war messages at USF Tampa listen

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Tags: USF, peace, anti-war, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, Students for a Democratic Society, licenses for all, Legalization for All, Food Not Bombs, Bradley Manning

As part of a national anti-war initiative called April Days of Action Against Drones and Occupation, some USF students and community activists are reaching out for peace. During a rally today representatives from different groups passed out literature to students on the Tampa campus. Tampa Bay Bradley Manning Support Network’s Bill Livsey defended whistle-blowing by drawing attention to Manning’s prosecution.

“What we can do to honor his sacrifice and bravery by releasing this informati...

Peace activists implore feds to call off "witch hunt" domestic terrorism investigations listen

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Tags: NDAA, Holder v Humanitarian, Barry Jonas, Committee to Stop FBI Oppression, Jared Hamil, peace, anti-war, terrorism, domestic terrorism, FBI

Peace activists nationwide are speaking out Monday against what they see as FBI oppression against protesters. In downtown Tampa, ten people protested anti-terrorism tactics and legislation in front of the Sam Gibbons Federal Courthouse. Jared Hamil heads the Tampa Committee to Stop FBI Oppression which is participating in a national call-in day to ask a U.S. attorney to call off investigations of 22 anti-war activists.

“Hi, my name is Jared Hamil. I’m from Tampa Bay. I’m a fellow acti...

Medea Benjamin talks about Code Pink at the Democratic National Convention

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Tags: CODEPINK, Code Pink, DNC, anti-war, Democratic National Convention, drones

Medea Benjamin talks about her and CodePink's involvement at the Democratic National Convention. Last week at the RNC in Tampa, CodePink emphasized the issues involving the curtailment of women's reproductive rights and thus their slogan "bring your vagina to the RNC". At the Democratic Convention, CodePink's emphasis has been on the economic crisis in the country and they have been focusing on ending the wars and getting the money out of politics."pink banners have been unfurled all over C...

CODEPINK holds activist training ahead of several RNC demonstrations listen

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Tags: CODEPINK, Code Pink, RNC, anti-war, anti war, Lisa Brown, Vagina, Republican National Convention, Tampa

CODEPINK, the women’s peace group, is in Tampa this week -taking part in protester against the Republican convention.

About a dozen women singing protest tunes only blocks away from the Republican Convention in downtown Tampa Sunday.

The organization’s founder Medea Benjamin has been working to keep budding protesters on their toes.

”We actually started two days ago, we protested and we’ve been making a lot of our props and now we’re here teaching people chants, trying out some of...

Rae Abeleah, co-director of Code Pink previews their RNC schedule

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Tags: CODEPINK, Code Pink, RNC, anti-war, Republican National Convention, Tampa

Rae Abeleah the co-direcvtor of Code Pink talked about Code Pink and their plans for the Republican Convention schedule for next week in Tampa, Fl. For more information go to the code pink websight and the wmnf web sights- events too numerous to mention.