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TD Allman's New History of Florida: Finding Florida
03/14/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: T.D. Allman, Finding Florida, WMNF, Florida History, Ponce de Leon, St. Augustine, racism, Confederacy, poll taxes, Reconstruction, Walt Disney World, CIA
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up we’ll talk with the author of a new book about the 500 year history of Florida. But first two listener comments about yesterday’s open phones. For much of the hour we discussed health care, health insurance and the proposed Big Gulp ban. Here’s what several listeners had to say.
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Most history books tell us that Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida for the Europeans in April 1513—500 years ago next mon...
1 commentsTrendlines: future population and economic trends
05/20/12 MabiliRevolution Time Listen to this entire show:
Tags: fiscal policy, banks, racism, current events
Minority births in U.S. has outpaced whites, student loan debt and public banks. Updates on G8, NATO summit and protest.
Be the first to commentRoy Kaplan on The Myth of Post-Racial America & eyewitness to Occupy Tampa general assembly
10/25/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Roy Kaplan, racism, Occupy Tampa, General Assembly
oming up today we'll talk with Roy Kaplan, PhD who has written a new book called THE MYTH OF POST RACIAL AMERICA (Rowman and Littlefield). We'll look at the unequal society in the U.S. which is a legacy of slavery.
Later we'll hear an excerpt from a general assembly meeting of the group Occupy Tampa. What is their attitude toward democracy, process, community and peace? We'll hear a portion of the assembly which took place last Saturday night in downtown Tampa and we'll also take your pho...
Be the first to commentThe controversy over the firing of Shirley Sherrod from the USDA
07/22/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Shirley Sherrod, racism, USDA, Breitbart, civil rights movement
Earlier this week a long time USDA employee from Georgia was fired for remarks she made to an NAACP chapter meeting in March of this year. A few minutes of the speech were played by conservative and mainstream media outlets suggesting that Sherrod, an African American, discriminated against white farmers in carrying out her official duties as a USDA employee.
This week the NAACP issued a complete copy of Sherrod's 43 minute speech. In context and unedited, the speech indicates that, contr...
Be the first to commentPoor Peoples Campaign fights racism and Whirlpool in Michigan listen
06/17/10 Kelly BenjaminWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, racism, poverty
As WMNF reported last week, The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is in the midst of a 12-week, 24-city march. The march begins in the Mississippi Delta and ends in Detroit, where the US Social Forum begins next week. A contingent of homeless from the Tampa Bay area is with the march, which is now making its way across Michigan. WMNF's Kelly Benjamin is travelling with the group and brings us this report from Benton Harbor.
The town of Benton Harbor in South East Michigan has se...
1 commentsArrest of the Michigan militia groups a sign of growing fascism in the US?
03/31/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: militia's, fascism, tea party, armed rallies, Sara Robinson, racism
Last weekend, members of a Christian militia group in Michigan were arrested for plotting to kill some police officers as a way to start a wider civil war in the US. In recent months we've seen growing violence by some on the far right of the political spectrum.
Our next guest has been writing about authoritarian movements for several years. She is Sara Robinson of the Campaign for America's Future. Last year she wrote an influential piece called *Fascist Ameri...
2 commentsHate groups on the rise in US
09/29/09 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: hate groups, right wing activity, racism, anti-semitism
Our guest is Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. He closely monitors hate groups in the US and has documented a rise in such group activity since the inauguration of President Obama.
As director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project and editor of its award-winning, quarterly investigative journal Intelligence Report, Mark Potok leads one of the most highly-regarded operations monitoring the extreme right in the world today. In addition to editing the magazin...
Be the first to commentSami Al-Arian to go on trial on contempt charges listen
01/16/09 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Sami Al-Arian, civil liberties, Race, racism, immigration, ICE, Muslims, USF, human rights, terrorism
A federal judge in Virginia ruled today that Sami Al-Arian should stand trial in March for criminal contempt.
The ruling was a blow to the former USF professor, who was released on bail by Judge Leonie Brinkema back in September after being incarcerated in numerous prisons and jails since his arrest in February 2003 on federal terrorism charges.
Mel Underbakke is with the group Friends of Human Rights. She says she was one of nearly two dozen supporters of Al-Arian from Tampa in the ...
Be the first to commentCivil rights group reports rise in hate crimes
11/18/08 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: racism, Barack Obama, KKK, Neo Nazi'
Good afternoon, welcome to WMNF's Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei.
Since Barack Obama’s election to the presidency two weeks ago, there has been a wave of hate crimes and incidents of racial intimidation, according to our next guest, Mark Potok, director of the intelligence project at the Southern Poverty Law center in Montgomery, Alabama.
Potok says the crimes are committed by a small subset of white America, that they don't foretell a race war, but they do cause his group concern. Mark ...
5 commentsSt. 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...
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