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Remembering American Rachel Corrie who was killed by Israeli military ten years ago listen
03/15/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Rachel Corrie, Israel, Palestine
Saturday is the ten year anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie; the American college student was killed in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip on March 16, 2003 while trying to prevent a family’s home from being destroyed.
Last April I interviewed Rachel’s parents, Cindy and Craig Corrie when they were in Tampa attending the United Methodist Church General Conference. They were trying to get the church to divest from companies supplying the Israeli occupation: Caterpillar, Motorola and He...
Be the first to commentPalestinian activist Iyad Burnat speaks to USF students about nonviolent resistance listen
02/01/13 Ella WindWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Israel, Palestine, Five Broken Cameras, USF, Iyad Burnat
Palestinian activist Iyad Burnat is profiled in the Oscar-nominated film Five Broken Cameras. He’s touring the United States to spread awareness about the non-violent resistance in his West Bank village of Bil’in. On Thursday at University of South Florida, he spoke about life under Israeli occupation and showed footage of protests from his village.
The village of Bil’in lies just two and a half miles east of the ...
Be the first to commentTampa activists stand with Palestinians at USF, Temple Terrace and downtown listen
11/19/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Palestine, Israel, Gaza, peace, USF, Occupy Tampa
The death toll in Gaza has reached at least 100 after a weekend of continued violence. More than 20 USF students protested the conflict in Palestine silently today at the Marshall Center on the school's Tampa campus following a weekend of other demonstrations across the city.
The Israeli military, or IDF, has increased bombing in Gaza claiming they are defending themselves against rocket fire from the Gaza strip and targeting Hamas militants. One reason is rocket fire into Israel has tak...
Be the first to commentTampa peace activists honor lost lives in Israeli attack on Gaza listen
11/17/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday
Tags: Palestine, Israel, peace, Hamas
The death toll in Gaza has reached more than 20 after three days of continued violence. A group of peace activists held a candlelight vigil Friday in solidarity with Palestinians struggling through the conflict with Israel at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in downtown Tampa.
Israel began firing missiles into the Gaza Strip Wednesday and Hamas immediately retaliated with rocket fire. Israel, the U.S.’s biggest ally in the region, has launched strikes from the air and from the sea in heavily...
Be the first to commentViolence in Gaza and Israel escalates despite calls for peace listen
11/16/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Palestine, Israel, Gaza, Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, peace
The death toll has risen to 23 Palestinians as Israeli military continues attacks on the Gaza Strip. Among the dead are at least 6 children and a pregnant woman. Peace activists sympathetic to both sides want officials to find a non-violent end to the conflict.
Rockets fired from Gaza targeted the city of Jerusalem Friday for the first time. The increased offensive by Hamas may pave the way for Israeli forces to unleash a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military has alr...
Be the first to commentElectronic Intifada founder Ali Abunimah criticizes Israeli assassination of Ahmad Jabari listen
11/14/12 Seán KinaneLast Call Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Israel, Palestine, Gaza, Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada
Wednesday Israel launched air strikes against targets in the Gaza strip, killing Hamas' Ahmad Jabari. Our guest is Ali Abunimah, the founder of the Electronic Intifada website.
Israel struck the Gaza strip by air and sea. Gaza's health minister said 10 people were killed; two of them young children, but that number appears to be climbing.
It’s the worst barrage on the Palestinian territory in about four years. That’s despite a truce that ended a weekend of violence in which seven Palest...
Be the first to commentHoly Land Five awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court decision to see if their appeal will be heard listen
10/26/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: SCOTUS, Palestine, Israel, war on terror, terrorists, NDAA, CAIR, Hassan Shibly
Update: 29 October 2012 - The Supreme Court will not hear arguments in this case.
Today, the United States Supreme Court will decide whether to hear arguments in a case against five people from the Holy Land Foundation jailed for giving humanitarian aid to a group alleged to have ties to terrorism. Yesterday a small contingent of local activists waved signs on a street corner near USF Tampa to protest the conviction of the Holy Land Five.
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Be the first to commentListeners react to controversial changes to Democratic Party platform listen
09/05/12 Seán KinaneLast Call Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: DNC, Israel, Palestine, God, Democratic National Convention
The Democratic National Convention is going on this week in Charlotte. We’d spoke about listener's thoughts about the speeches, the protests, or their experiences in Tampa during last week’s Republican convention.
Just before going to air, the Democrats passes two amendments to their party platform in a controversial voice vote.
The amendments put two provisions back into the platform that had been r...
Be the first to commentAnyone can be targeted because of Yemen; Olives
05/25/12 Samar JarrahTrue Talk Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Yemen, fiction, Palestine
True Talk spoke to IBRAHAM QATABI who is a Yemeni-American human rights activist and a legal worker with Center for Constitutional Rights specializing in Yemen. He spoke about President Obama’s executive order giving the Treasury Department authority to freeze the U.S.-based assets of anyone who ‘obstructs’ implementation of the administration-backed political transition in Yemen. Qatabi insisted that The USG isn’t naming groups or people who it’s illegal to work with, so any sensible person...
Be the first to commentIn Tampa gathering United Methodist Church rejects divestment from Israel listen
05/03/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Kairos, United Methodist Church, Divestment, Divest, BDS, Israel, Palestine, Caterpillar
Late yesterday in Tampa the general conference of the United Methodist Church rejected a measure to divest from three companies that aid in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Supporters of divestment said it failed because delegates did not have all of the information.
After holding out hope for a week and a half, some supporters of the Kairos Response that called on divestment from Israel cried. But most of them marched through the Tampa Convention Center chanting their ...
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