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A conversation With Steven Wise, Founder of The Nonhuman Rights Project
02/06/13 Duncan StraussTalking Animals Listen to this entire show:
Steven Wise–the founder and president of The Nonhuman Rights Project; he’s also an attorney, author, legal scholar and professor who’s taught at Harvard Law School–discusses how the law he was practicing (personal injury) shifted focus 30-plus years ago upon reading Peter Singer’s “Animal Liberation.” His new focus became animal protection law. He traces his career path from there, including serving a decade-long stint as president of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and founding the The Nonhu...
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 commentAmerica's best defense attorney: Clarence Darrow
06/29/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Clarence Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trail, Leopold and Loeb, John Farrell, Haymarket Square, law, labor
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. There’s a new biography of legendary attorney Clarence Darrow… the attorney who had a long career defending the downtrodden in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. He was far ahead of his time. We’ll talk with his biographer in a moment. But first one listener comment about yesterday’s interview with a USF researcher who is part of a team studying red-light cameras. Their conclusion is that red light cameras actually do more harm than good. Here’s what one...
Be the first to commentHelp available for retirees targeted in scams listen
01/26/11 Andrea LypkaRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: financial scam, elder care law, Stetson, Gulfport, fraud, law
Senior citizens are often the target financial fraud. But, there are organizations that can help by warning about common scams and assisting after a fraud has occurred.
Stephen Lintner’s mother was a victim of a financial scam.
“Mom used a company for some kind of credit card consolidation that had some problems and it disappeared and things fell apart. I don’t even know the details. She has had some problems with phone calls that turned out to be a scam and she lost a measure of money ...
Be the first to commentLaw professors maintain the new health care reform law is Constitutional listen
01/18/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: health care reform, health care, Constitution, law, Congress
House Republicans took up their effort to repeal the health care reform law this afternoon. They plan to vote on repeal tomorrow. Even if it passes, it is likely to die in the Senate. An AP/GfK poll released yesterday found that only about a quarter of Americans support repeal of the law.
In addition to the attempt by conservatives in Congress to repeal the law, many states are challenging its constitutionality in court.
In a conference call with reporters today, The Center for American...
Be the first to commentCluck and Backyard Chickens
01/10/11 Jon ButtsRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: farming, organic, organic farming, chickens, law, environment
On today’s program our special guest was Jono Miller a teacher at New College and resident of Sarasota. Jono’s heading up an effort to get an ordinance adopted by the city of Sarasota to allow backyard chickens on January 18. His initiative is called CLUCK (Citizen’s Lobbying for Urban Chicken Keeping) and you can check out the blog at sarasotacluck.blogspot.com.
Plus founder and executive director of Tampa Premier Community Supported Agriculture proj...
Be the first to commentLongtime civil rights activist John Seigenthaler receives award listen
12/20/10 Andrea LypkaWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Seigenthaler, Stetson, Law, Gulfport, First Amendment Center, Marque Debnam, Abigail Pressler, Amnesty International, Black Law Students Association
Civil rights leader and journalist John Seigenthaler Sr. spoke about racial, gender, religious and sexual orientation injustices that groups of people faced in history and continue to face.
Be the first to comment“I want to ask you to think with me on times, on times when we suffered defeat, times when we forgot our way, some times when our values escaped us. There is, I think if we are honest, a dark side to our national character that has periodically taken hold in our history and threatened at times to under...
Earth Jurisprudence symposium in Orlando
02/29/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Winona LaDuke, environment, law, Earth Jurisprudence, Patricia Siemen
A cutting-edge legal field known as Earth Jurisprudence seeks to fortify legal rights for the natural world. Today in Orlando, the Barry University School of Law hosted the country’s first symposium on the topic.
The Center for Earth Jurisprudence is a collaborative initiative of the Miami area’s Barry and St. Thomas Universities. That center, along with the Barry Law Review, sponsored the symposium, "Framing an Earth Jurisprudence for a Planet in Peril."
Sister Patricia Siemen, execut...
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