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Husband of jailed attorney Lynne Stewart says she should be released because of cancer listen
03/22/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Lynne Stewart, Uhurus
In 2009 attorney Lynne Stewart was sentenced to a ten year federal prison sentence for material support of terrorism. She originally got 28 months, but the government appealed the sentence. Stewart’s offense was to issue a press release on behalf of her client Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.
Her advocates are asking for her release because she has stage 4 breast cancer.
Lynne Stewart spoke in St. Petersburg in April 2005.
Stewart's husband, Ralph Poynter, chair...
Be the first to commentOmali Yeshitela celebration at USF St Pete listen
01/22/10 Tom BaurWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: African American, civil rights, Uhurus, Omali Yeshitela, Joe Waller
In 1966, Joe Waller was so fed up with the City of St Petersburg’s refusal to remove a repugnant racist mural that he tore it down and fled with the police close behind. But last night, he was honored in the same city.
The mural Waller tore down depicted what many felt were grotesque images of black musicians playing for a white audience. Joe Waller, who later changed his name to Omali Yeshitela, was arrested that day and spent nearly 3 years on one of Florida’s...
6 commentsAfrican community mobilizes for Haiti listen
01/15/10 Arielle StevensonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Uhurus
This morning African community leaders spoke at the Uhuru house in St. Petersburg about how to mobilize aide for Haiti locally. Aisha Fields, Director for the all African peoples development and empowerment project spoke this morning about the need for the African community in Tampa to marshal humanitarian efforts for Haiti.
Be the first to commentThe conference was called to really call on the African community here in the Tampa Bay area to come together, to recognize our sameness with the Africans who live he...
St. Pete delegation helps community projects in Sierra Leone listen
12/18/09 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: African People's Socialist Party, African American, Sierra Leone, Uhurus
A delegation of local activists recently returned from Sierra Leone in West Africa. They helped set up community projects there, and will talk about their trip on Sunday in St. Petersburg.
Aisha Fields is the director of the All-African People’s Development and Empowerment Project and Nyabinga Dzimbahwe is the director of Uhuru Radio and Uhuru News.
On Sunday at 4 pm they will talk more about their projects in Sierra Leone at the Uhuru House, 1245 18th Avenue S...
Be the first to commentBayWalk protesters demand free speech not corporate bailouts listen
10/19/09 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Baywalk, ACLU, St. Pete for Peace, Uhurus
On Friday night, over 80 free speech activists demonstrated at BayWalk to protest the St. Pete City Council’s decision to give away the sidewalk in front of that failing entertainment complex.
Two weeks ago, after an earlier vote where the City Council refused to give the public sidewalk away, the activist group St. Pete for Peace said they would not protest there for a year as a good-faith gesture. But following Thursday’s reversal by City Council, that group, as well as others including...
Be the first to commentDeadlock kills Baywalk privatization listen
10/01/09 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Baywalk, Rick Baker, Kathleen Ford, Bill Foster, Wengay Newton, Jim Kennedy, NAACP, Uhurus, First Amendment, CW Capital, Leslie Curran, Herb Polson, Ray Arsenault
After a hearing that lasted nearly six hours, the St. Petersburg City Council voted 4-4 to reject an ordinance that would have privatized the sidewalk that lines the front portion of Baywalk.
Councilmember Herb Polson cast the final “no” vote on an ordinance that would have in effect barred protesters from demonstrating at the public entryway to the ailing shopping center. The site, once symbolic of Downtown St. Pete’s revival, has recently come to symbolize the disconnect between free sp...
Be the first to commentSt. Pete police officer cleared in Dawson killing listen
11/03/08 Seán Kinane and Lisa MarzilliWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Javon Dawson, African American, Race, civil rights, discrimination, racism, Uhurus, St. Petersburg Police
Police administrators have cleared St. Petersburg Police officer Terrance Nemeth of all wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Javon Dawson in June.
Nemeth had previously been cleared of wrongdoing by Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney Bernie McCabe. His supervisors were looking to see whether Nemeth had violated any departmental policy, while McCabe’s review focused on whether he broke any laws.
Both investigations concluded he was justified in shooting Dawson after the teen alle...
Be the first to commentUhurus to protest at World Series listen
10/21/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Javon Dawson, World Series, police violence, African American, civil rights, discrimination, racism, Uhurus, St. Petersburg Police
Several groups plan to challenge two new St. Petersburg ordinances before the first World Series game tomorrow night. One ordinance calls for a “Clean Zone” surrounding Tropicana Field, and the other forbids handing out fliers and other activities in street medians. Some groups, including the Justice for Javon Dawson Committee, said this morning that the success of their leafleting campaign to challenge what they call the cover-up of Dawson’s murder by a St. Petersburg Police officer in June ...
Be the first to commentProtestors march against Wall Street bailout listen
10/06/08 Concetta DeLucoWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Wall Street bailout, Uhurus, demonstration
Regardless of age, race, ideals and party preference, opposition to the Wall Street bailout united several progressive groups and demonstrators who gathered in St. Petersburg on Saturday for a protest and march to City Hall.
“No justice, no peace, don’t bail out Wall Street” was just one of the many chants that resonated in the streets of downtown St. Petersburg early Saturday morning as a crowd of more than 50 people gathered at Williams Park to condemn the bailout.
Omali Yeshitela i...
2 commentsGroups announce protest of bailout scheme listen
10/02/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Wall Street bailout, Uhurus
Today, a coalition of seven groups from across the ideological spectrum encouraged people to join a march on St. Petersburg City Hall on Saturday. The demonstration will protest the Wall Street bailout passed by the Senate on Wednesday night.
Omali Yeshitela is the Chair of the African People’s Socialist Party. Yeshitela was one of several people who offered alternative plans, saying that financial resources should go directly to the people.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz...
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