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An alternative choice for president: Honey Badger 2012 listen
08/29/12 Michelle Friedline and Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: RNC, Republican National Convention, Honey Badger, 2012 presidential election
The Republicans are in town to crown Mitt Romney as their presidential nominee. The convention began in earnest on Tuesday and will continue throughout the week at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in downtown.
But there’s also another presidential candidate in Tampa these days.
You might recognize him as the voice of the popular honey badger videos.
Well, Randall is running as a write-in as Honey Badger 2012.
1 comments“I’m Randall, voice of the honey badger! Some people call me the honey badge...
Mainstream media has it wrong about anarchists, activists say as they clean up neighborhood listen
08/29/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Republican National Convention, RNC, Event Zone, Occupy Tampa, anarchists, Food Not Bombs, police
The Occupy Tampa encampment has come under fire by some community leaders in West Tampa who think it’s an eye sore. Today, the group is cleaning it up along with some other areas in the neighborhood. But they’re not just doing it to help out their neighbors. Bailey Riley was one of the occupiers who organized the effort. She said it’s also a way to combat rising opinions that people in the movement are anarchists bent on chaos and destruction.
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Interview with CODEPINK's Alli McCracken, who interrupted the RNC listen
08/29/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: RNC, Republican National Convention, CODEPINK, Rae Abileah, Ann Wright, Condoleezza Rice
The women’s peace group CODEPINK sent a press release Wednesday afternoon saying two of their members interrupted the speech of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Tampa.
They say retired Colonel Ann Wright stood up and criticized Rice about the war on Iraq and later Rae Abileah interrupted Rice to say the “blood of Iraqi children is on your hands!” Abileah will be one of my guests this afternoon on Last Call.
CODEPINK activists also interrupted the Republican National Conven...
1 commentsA Look Back at Night Two of the RNC in Tampa
08/29/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: RNC, Judy Woodruff, PBS, Chris Christie, Jennifer Lawson, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Den LaBolt
Good morning, Welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today an interview with Judy Woodruff, the veteran reporter who is co-hosting PBS News coverage of the Republican national Convention. Later we’ll hear about a Planned Parenthood protest in Tampa later today. We’ll get the Obama campaign’s take on yesterday’s opening day speeches at the Republican national Convention…..and we’ll take your phone calls….. First up today- Judy Woodruff has covered politics and other news for mor...
Be the first to commentNational Lawyers Guild on legal issues during Republican convention
08/29/12 Seán KinaneLast Call Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: RNC, Republican National Convention, National Lawyers Guild, law, civil liberties, CODEPINK
The Republican National Convention is going on this week amid a flood of security and a relative trickle of protesters. Wednesday we looked at the legal issues protesters are encountering.
Our first guests today in the studio was National Lawyers Guild’s mass defense coordinator Abi Hassen and joining us on the phone was their executive director Heidi Boghosian. Abi is on the ground here in Tampa, there were very few arrests. We asked him how this compares with previous large security even...
Be the first to commentSenator Marco Rubio interrupted by protesters during a pre-Republican convention speech listen
08/28/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: RNC, Marco Rubio, Republican National Convention, Stand Up Florida
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Several protesters interrupted a speech by Senator Marco Rubio this morning. During a Florida delegation to the Republican convention breakfast at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, activists associated with the group Stand Up Florida yelled out during Senator Rubio’s speech. Toni Rosenberg from Boca Raton was one.
Be the first to comment"I was sitting at a table along with the rest of the people in the room. He was talking about how he wanted to change the way ...
Poor People Economic Human Rights Campaign blocked by police during Monday's second major march on the RNC listen
08/28/12 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: RNC, Cheri Honkala, Green Party, protests, arrests, Republican National Convention, Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign
Despite a tropical storm warning, school closures, and the postponed Republican convention activities in Tampa, the second major protest of Monday kicked off in the afternoon in the city’s downtown financial district. The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign organized a large non-permitted march starting in “Romneyville.”
Khaki clothed police officers on bicycles escorted the southbound march for half a mile down Tampa Street, which leads to the RNC venue. Several children led the ...
Be the first to commentFood Not Bombs hosts a Really Really Free Market with free stuff listen
08/28/12 Liz McKibbonWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Food Not Bombs, RNC, Republican National Convention, Occupy Tampa, Voice of Freedom Park, Really Really Free Market, Keith McHenry, Kelsy O'Morrow, Joe Lemieux
Food Not Bombs held an event today to protest the Republican pro-business agenda. The Really Really Free Market was held in Voice of Freedom Park in West Tampa. That’s where Occupy Tampa has been since December and the location of this month’s Food Not Bombs World Gathering. Books, games and even nutritional supplements were up for grabs.
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Be the first to commentLabor activist neutral on Charlie Crist's endorsement of Barack Obama listen
08/28/12 Michelle FriedlineWMNF Drive-Time News Monday
Tags: RNC, Republican National Convention, Coalition to March on the RNC, Graduate Assistants United, labor
Over the weekend former Governor Charlie Crist endorsed Barack Obama for re-election to President.
Crist switched to an independent after a long political career as a Republican.
For reaction, with Jose Soto, co-president of the Graduate Assistants United and is also with the North Central Florida central labor council.
He was part of yesterday’s Coalition to March on the RNC.
Be the first to commentMiddle Class (ice sculpture) melts before Republican convention listen
08/28/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: RNC, Republican National Convention, middle class
On Sunday morning, downtown’s Gaslight Park was alive with protesters.
That’s where a march of the 99% began.
But there was also an ice sculpture with the words “Middle Class” that melted through the afternoon.
Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese are the two artists who created the melting ice sculpture.
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