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The Republican Presidential candidates meet opposition at USF debate listen
01/24/12 Atecia RobinsonWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: GOP, USF Tampa, Students for a Democratic Society, Occupy Tampa, PUSH, Student Labor Action Project, Awake Pinellas, Fight Back Florida, Barack Obama, protests, SDS, Florida primary election, 2012 Election
The Republican Presidential debate at the University of South Florida was crucial for those four candidates, but many groups oppose their agenda. Hundreds flooded the campus to fight back against the positions of candidates on immigration, LGBT issues and tuition hikes.
Outside USF’s administration building more than 200 people held up signs. Some shouted speeches through bullhorns before marching to the site of the debate. The groups were greeted and riled up by Dus...
Be the first to commentAs Tampa GOP debate nears, Republicans and protesters weigh in listen
01/20/12 Kelly BenjaminWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Republican debate, Republican Party, GOP, Mark Sharpe, Tony DeSisto, protests, LGBT, LGBT rights, Jennifer Lopez, Mark Fernandez
After tomorrow's South Carolina presidential primary election, national attention will turn to Florida, where the next primary will be held on Tuesday, January 31. This coming Monday, Tampa's University of South Florida will host a Presidential primary debate in a state that has been recently been penalized by the National Republican party for moving the date of it's primary election forward.
Florida is a political battleground state that typically sees a lot of action during national elec...
Be the first to commentJournalist Arun Gupta has travelled 10,000 miles across the US covering the Occupy movement
01/02/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday)
Tags: Arun Gupta, Occupy Movement, Tim Martin, service economy, manufacturing, protests, non-violence
The Occupy movement in this country is in its 5th month. The movement which says it represents the 99% of Americans against the extraordinary power wielded by the 1% has seen mass marches, confrontations with police, arrests, serious injuries and has changed the public debate over what national issues are most important.
Journalist Arun Gupta has covered the Occupy movement since it began in September in New York City. Since then he’s traveled to occupy sites around the country. He’s a fou...
Be the first to commentSome protesters think Tampa police are handing out too many trespass warnings listen
12/28/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Pam Bondi, EPA, mercury, Occupy Tampa, tresspass, Tampa Police, protests
Occupy Tampa activists and some advocacy groups are wondering why the City of Tampa is giving trespass warnings to so many protesters. This month two groups of people were trespassed from areas where they thought it was safe to assemble.
Cari Welsh thought she was going to be arrested based on the actions of police officers during an Occupy Tampa meeting last week. Instead, about 30 people were given trespass warnings from a parki...
3 commentsVideos: 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 commentTampa Police Department considers several tools for 2012 RNC protesters listen
10/12/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: RNC, law enforcement, protests, weapons, pepper spray, drones, Tampa Police
Last week the St. Petersburg Times reported the Tampa Police Department was considering a range of security measures for next year’s Republican National Convention. But the [police have backed away from one part of that inventory, unmanned aerial surveillance aircraft](http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/baybuzz/content/no-drones-after-all-tampas-republican-national-con...
9 commentsDemonstrators meet to "Occupy Tampa" listen
10/03/11 Jean Henry TelcyWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: protests, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Tampa, Anonymous
The growing “Occupy” movement began on Wall Street in New York and has resulted in several hundred arrests thus far. The Tampa event was coordinated by Chris Dorsey, a graduate student at the University of South Florida.
The crowd is eclectic. Among those in attendance are teachers, parents, local business owners, and members of the online activist ...
3 commentsMayor Buckhorn: Tampa will have 4,000 police for 2012 RNC listen
09/28/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bob Buckhorn, RNC, convention, Tampa, Republican National Convention, protests, 2012 GOP Convention
Today Tampa’s Mayor took a trip across the bay to build connections with members of the Suncoast Tiger Bay Club. The Mayor has seems bent on having a heavy police presence during next year’s RNC.
Mayor Bob Buckhorn has lost many elections in the past, but many of his opponents had consistently won every one of their races. He said that moving past his losses has given him courage.
But some folks...
2 commentsOccupy 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...
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