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Greenpeace 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, ...
Be the first to commentSt. Pete resident heads to court for feeding people in an Orlando park listen
08/03/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: food not bombs, activism, peace, Orlando, St. Petersburg, Homelessness, poverty
More than 20 activists have been arrested in Orlando since the city began enforcing its ordinance making it a crime to feed people in public parks. But recently Orlando and the local Food Not Bombs chapter have come to an agreement that has, at least for the time being, stopped arrests. Instead of public feedings being in a downtown park, the activists have agreed to feed people in front of City Hall. But St. Petersburg resident Jimmy Dunson was arrested before the agreement. He has a court a...
1 commentsActor/activist Danny Glover on Haiti elections listen
03/17/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Danny Glover, activism, recession, Tampa, Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is leaving South Africa today and plans to return to Haiti tomorrow at noon.
Actor Danny Glover flew to South Africa to accompany Aristide back to Haiti.
The impoverished nation of Haiti is still feeling the pain of the earthquake that ravaged the country over a year ago, not to mention a chaotic presidential election many have deemed fraudulent. Actor Danny Glover recently made a film about a 1791 slave uprising in that country, and has m...
Be the first to commentActor/Activist Danny Glover stresses community at Tampa school listen
02/25/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Danny Glover, activism, recession, Tampa, unions, economy
As part of Black History Month, scores of students at a Tampa school heard from a famous visitor this morning. Actor and human rights activist Danny Glover told students at Just Elementary that it’s important to be community-minded – and to keep studying.
Hundreds of grade school children beamed as the actor implored them to be conscientious. The Color Purple star was there as part of Just Elementary’s Black History program. He recited the Langston Hughes poem “I, Too, sing America.”
Gl...
Be the first to commentUSF St. Pete students plant trees ahead of international climate change event listen
10/07/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, climate change, global warming, activism
The political climate in Florida may often be icy when it comes to the environment, but that’s not curbing action by green activists. An environmental group at USF-St. Pete is greening things up around campus ahead of an international observance of climate change.
Kira Barrera is a spokesperson for USF St. Pete’s Student Environmental Awareness Society, also known as “SEAS.” She says the group had a lot of red tape to cut through in order to do what it’s doing today. You can hear the shove...
Be the first to commentInternational Day of Climate Action was biggest yet listen
10/26/09 Joshua Lee HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: climate change, activism, Energy, environmental activist, s
As part of the International Day of Climate Action, local activists rallied on Saturday in Tampa. According to the website http://350.org, people in 181 countries held 5200 events for the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet’s history. They were asking national leaders from all over the globe to take a strong stance on supporting climate change legislation.
An Associated Press-commissioned statistical analysis released Monday confirms that the Earth is still h...
Be the first to commentAndrew Harvey on sacred activism
12/04/08 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: spirituality, activism, mysticism, Hinduism, Buddhism, The Bridge, Sufi mysticism
Good afternoon, welcome to WMNF's Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Our guest today is Andrew Harvey. Andrew has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the California Institute of Integral Studies, Wisdom University and in various spiritual centers throughout the United States.
He was the subject of the 1993 BBC documentary, "The Making of a Modern Mystic." He is executive director of the Center for Spiritual Democracy and the founder and director ...
Be the first to commentFisherwoman Diane Wilson discusses new book
11/29/08From A Woman's Point of View Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Diane Wilson, activism
Diane Wilson, a fourth generation fisherwoman extraordinare, peace activivist, environmentalist and all around " unreasonable woman" (as she likes to say), discusses her latest book, Holy Roller, and her early years.
Particularly fascinating is her discussion of her early childhood years as a holy roller and how it led to her years of activism. Her two books thus far are Unreasonable Woman and Holy Roller, both published by Chelsea Green.
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