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St. Pete conservative activist wants city to limit surveillance drones listen

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Tags: David McKalip, drones, St. Pete, surveillance

A conservative St. Petersburg activist and blogger wants the city to ban the use of drones except in certain situations. David McKalip, a St. Pete neurosurgeon wants to limit the use of surveillance drones.

Tampa City Council to workshop pros and cons of Republican convention surveillance cameras in August 2013 listen

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Tags: RNC, CCTV, RNCCTV, surveillance, Tampa Police, Tampa, Republican National Convention, Republican convention, Tampa City Council, Mary Mulhern, Jane Castor

Thursday Tampa City Council approved changes to an ordinance reinforcing that it would be a crime for Tampa Police to use surveillance cameras purchased for the Republican convention for unauthorized peeping on residents inside their homes. But they put off a decision about whether the cameras will be a permanent part of the city’s landscape. There’s been ongoing friction between council and the mayor’s administration about who has the authority to authorize deployment of the cameras. To help...

Peace Activist Medea Benjamin on Drone Warfare

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Tags: Medea Benjamin, drones, assassinations, remote control killing, surveillance, RNC, St. Pete for Peace, WMNF, Rob Lorei

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up on the first part of today’s program we’ll talk with Medea Benjamin, founder of Code Pink and author of the new book DRONE WARFARE.

But first three listener comments about last Friday’s program. Most of the comments were about the open phone segment on which our listeners wanted to discuss the upcoming presidential election.

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Our guest today is Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange and Codepink (the women’s ...

New app shows you where Tampa's surveillance cameras are during Republican convention

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Tags: RNC, CCTV, RNCCTV, Jon Gales, surveillance, Tampa Police, Tampa, Republican National Convention, Republican convention

In less than two weeks the Republican National Convention kicks off in Tampa, and Big Brother will be watching.

Today on Last Call we talked with Jon Gales about the new closed-circuit surveillance cameras installed in Tampa for the convention. He has a new website called RNCCTV.com. It has a map of the location of dozens of the cameras.

We talked about why they are there and whether they might come down after the convention.

I invited the Tampa Police Departmen...