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Meeting This Weekend To Combat Genocide
02/08/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Cameron Hudson, genocide, US Holocaust museum, Sudan, Rwanda, Bosnia, Syria, Libya
Good morning,
Welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up on the first part of the program we’ll talk with Cameron Hudson who is a senior advisor to the Committee of Conscience of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Formerly he was chief of staff to the President’s special envy for Sudan. He’ll be speaking This Sunday at 2PM in Sarasota at the 6th annual Take A Stand Against Genocide Conference at Incarnation Catholic Church in Sarasota. The event is sponsored by Humanity Workin...
Be the first to commentThe Plight and Promise of Africa
12/27/10 Produced by Dawn Morgan ElliottWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Africa, Eckerd College, Darfur, Sudan
The Plight and Promise of Africa was an educational and global awareness initiative of Eckerd College in 2010.
Throughout the year WMNF reported on various lectures and community events that were a part of the college’s initiative.
Alizza Punzalan-Hall is the director of Community and media relations and co-chair of The Plight and Promise of Africa.
Be the first to comment"Throughout the year we will be talking about Darfur in Sudan, the crisis and genocide, child soldiers in Uganda, sexual violence u...
Tampa Pension board to divest from Iran, Sudan listen
09/21/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Iran, Sudan, Seth Nelson, City of Tampa
Following the lead of numerous city and state governments, Tampa’s General Employee Pension Board decided today to do away with indirect investments in Iran and Sudan. Lawyer and city council candidate Seth Nelson says he applauds the board.
The state passed the Protecting Florida’s Investment Act in 2007. The Tampa Police and Fire Pension Board voted to follow state guidelines last month. Nelson says the sectors affected are petroleum, military, and energy production. The Obama Administr...
Be the first to commentAt Eckerd, Lost Boy chronicles his escape from war in Sudan listen
09/16/10 By Dawn Morgan ElliottWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: dave eggers, valentino achak deng, gabriel bol deng, sudan
In the 1980’s and 90’s, violence in Southern Sudan made orphans of over 20,000 children, mostly male, who walked hundreds of miles in search of safety. These children came to be called the Lost Boys.
Many of these Lost Boys, now grown men, found refuge in American education, and at least two have returned to their native country to build schools for the next generation.
Lost Boy Gabriel Bol Deng and American author Dave Eggers recently visited Eckerd College as part of its series, Th...
Be the first to commentGenocide in Africa
03/03/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: John Prendergast, Darfur, Sudan, Congo, rape, precious mineral mining
Coming up today we’ll hear about the Conflict in the Congo-- in which more than 5 million people have been killed. It’s one of the world’s most under-reported stories. Later we’ll talk with some parenting experts on raising children in a peaceful and productive way.
But first some listener comments about yesterday’s program. All five of the comments were about the last few callers who were urging low income people to go to college and who were defending controversial talk show host Alex Jo...
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