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“Shut up. Cops lie. Get a lawyer.” National Lawyer's Guild advice to Republican convention protesters on police interaction listen
08/13/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: RNC, National Lawer's Guild, protesters, Republican convention, Republican National Convention
“Shut up. Cops lie. Get a lawyer.” That’s the advice for Republican convention protesters if they’re stopped by police. The succinct and bold summary came from an attorney during a National Lawyer’s Guild “know your rights” training Saturday at the downtown Tampa library. Twenty-three activists, including Roger Butterfield, learned strategies for how to interact with law enforcement during National Special Security Events like the convention.
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Activists demand release of NATO protesters charged under anti-terrorism laws listen
07/02/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Jared Hamil, Coalition to March on the RNC, RNC, NATO, protesters
In response to the three NATO protesters who today plead not guilty to charges that they were planning an attack on President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters, groups nationwide are asking Cook County State’s attorney Anita Alvarez to drop the charges.
Be the first to comment“Hi, my name is Jared Hamil. I’m calling to demand that all charges be dropped against anti-NATO protesters. As a fellow activist, I was at the anti-NATO protest in Chicago. We were all there together to say no more killings, no mor...
Videos: 29 Occupy Tampa members arrested while camping in Riverfront Park listen
12/02/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Tampa, Occupy Movement, Tampa, Tampa Police, law enforcement, arrests, protests, protesters, camping, parks, parks and recreation
Tampa Police say overnight they arrested 29 members of Occupy Tampa in a riverside park west of downtown. Before the arrests about 40 people attempted to camp on a hill inside the park, but many people complied with police orders to leave.
The hilltop encampment in Julian Lane Riverfront Park was in plain view for police helicopters. More than a dozen...
2 commentsOccupy Tampa complies with police order to remove their shade, but vows to stay listen
10/14/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy Tampa, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy DC, Occupy St. Pete, occupation, protests, protesters, protest, Tampa Police, ACLU of Florida, ACLU, First Amendment
Friday morning police told Occupy Tampa to take down parts of their sidewalk camp outside Curtis-Hixon Park. Tables and canopies have been removed, but the protesters are still allowed to stay and sleep.
Last Sunday night a police officer told Occupy Tampa that they could stay on the sidewalk. But two nights later [police told protesters they had to leave the sidewalk](http://www...
Be the first to commentOccupy Tampa holds first protest in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street listen
09/26/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Tampa, protests, protesters, economy, economic justice, corruption, Campaign finance, Citizen's United v FEC, Occupy Tampa
Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement for democracy that began on September 17 with an encampment in the financial district of New York City. A Tampa group began similar protests against financial institutions at downtown’s Gaslight Park on Saturday.
Scott Shepard drove from Lakeland to attend the protest after seeing the newly...
22 commentsRNC chair says protests of 2012 convention in Tampa will be handled the same as in the past listen
02/02/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: RNC, Republican National Chair, Reince Priebus, Rick Scott, Republican National Convention, 2012 Election, protesters, first amendment
Along with massive political conventions come massive political demonstrations, and Tampa’s 2012 RNC will likely be no different. How Tampa will handle protests – some of which may get violent – isn’t yet known. Today, RNC Chair Reince Priebus said he hopes law enforcement will handle demonstrations in the same way they have during past conventions.
Lawsuits stemming from police brutality alleged to have occurred during the St. Paul and New York Republican Conventions plagued those cities’...
6 comments"Seize BP" holds rally in St. Petersburg, and across the US listen
05/13/10 Joshua Lee HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP oil spill, BP, Gulf Oil Spill, St. Pete for Peace, protest, protesters
Yesterday, activists in St. Petersburg protested BP’s response to the oil spill in the Gulf. The protest was one of a score of demonstrations that took place across the country that insist that BP use its billions of dollars in profits to clean up the spill and pay for economic damages associated with the 4 million gallon leak.
Passing drivers honked their horns in support,...
Be the first to commentVeterans for Peace protests the 7th Anniversary of the Iraq War listen
03/22/10 Joshua Lee HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Iraq war, protesters, veterans, peace activist, Afghanistan War
Military supporters flocked to see the Blue Angels fighter jets swoop and soar around MacDill Air Force Base for the annual air show. But dozens of people gathered near the base to protest the war in Iraq, a country that the US invaded seven years ago.
With traffic to the air show backed up for miles, the anti-war protesters took the opportunity to display their message to hundreds of passing cars.
Sonic booms, honking horn...
Be the first to commentFormer President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush speak at Southeastern University listen
03/15/10 Alexis ChamberlainWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: George W. Bush, President Bush, protests, protesters
Security was tight at Lakeland’s Southeastern University Friday night as former president George W. Bush spoke, along with wife, Laura, at the fourth annual National Leadership Forum.
The media were prohibited from entering Southeastern University’s Bush Chapel—named after the university’s former president and Assemblies of God official—as the former president and first lady spoke to a sold-out crowd of more than 700 ...
Be the first to commentPublix refuses to negotiate with farmworker coalition listen
03/01/10 Joshua Lee HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Coalition of Immokalee Workers, fair wages, farm workers, Publix, protesters
Tomato pickers are still lobbying for better wages for farm workers in operations they call modern-day slavery. Last Saturday Tampa residents including University of South Florida students and people of faith protested in front of a Publix supermarket because it has not agreed to work with Florida tomato pickers to end a range of alleged exploitations in its supply chain.
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