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September 11th, 2020 || African American, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Ethnic Tension, News and Public Affairs.

Pasco Black Lives Matter leader to plead not guilty on police battery charge, activists say he’s being targeted

A Black Lives Matter activist in Pasco was arraigned Friday on charges he battered a New Port Richey police officer in July and obstructed the officer without violence. Marlowe Jones will plead not guilty to the charges and maintains he, and other activists, are being targeted by New Port Richey police. Listen: Despite facing a… Read more »

Black Lives Matter, other activists, respond to beating of Jae Passmore with Rally in Tampa park

August 15th, 2020 || African American

The local leaders of the effort to pass the ERA; A new documentary explores the Taser related death of a South Florida teen

December 10th, 2019 || Civil Liberties

"Celebrating Our Freedoms" on Morning Energy

July 19th, 2019 || blog

Activists Protest Killing of Civilians by Border Patrol

January 2nd, 2019 || American History

Second Amendment Scholar Says Gun Regulations Were Part of Original Intent of Founders

November 28th, 2018 || American History

Update: Lara Alqasem is appealing her Israeli deportation order

October 5th, 2018 || Civil Liberties

Mother of Lara Alqasem, Floridian detained by Israel, wants answers

October 4th, 2018 || Civil Liberties

Social media anonymity may not be guaranteed as free speech

August 6th, 2018 || Civil Liberties

Voter registration in Florida ahead of the primaries

July 30th, 2018 || Civil Liberties

FL Senator Nelson & Rep. Wasserman Schultz barred from migrant children detention center

June 19th, 2018 || Civil Liberties

Privacy concerns over police using dead man's finger to unlock phone?

May 4th, 2018 || Civil Liberties

April 25th, 2018

Florida Veterans for Common Sense Call for Ban on Assault Weapons

Radioactivity 4 25 18 Welcome to Radioactivity, I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up— a local veterans group is calling for a ban on assault weapons. the NRA is on the offensive – having a record month of fundraising last month. They are also trying to sign up 100,000 new members in the next 100 days. It’s… Read more »

April 23rd, 2018

Investigative Reporter Greg Palast Says There’s No Proof Widespread Illegal Voting in US Exists

Radioactivity 4 20 18 Today on WMNF’s Radioactivity investigative reporter Greg Palast (The Guardian, The BBC, Rolling Stone Magazine) says that while FOX News and President Trump say that millions of people voted illegally in the last election there is no evidence that is true. In fact he says a trial on the matter currently… Read more »

March 26th, 2018

March For Our Lives ~ St. Pete ~ signs

The March(es) For Our Lives captured attention all over the country, and all over the world, on Saturday, March 24. Estimates of the turnout in the US range from 1,200,000 to 2,000,000 attendees, occuring in 90% of the voting districts across the United States. People were encouraged to wear orange, the color associated with gun… Read more »

March 22nd, 2018

How the Parkland students are pulling off a worldwide movement

And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They’re quite aware of what they’re going through* By KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — They can’t buy a beer or rent a car and most aren’t even old enough to vote, yet the students… Read more »

March 22nd, 2018

MidPoint for Thursday, March 22 – Joe Redner and Tampa Pride director Carrie West

Adult club entrepreneur and progressive activist Joe Redner is awaiting a decision by a Leon County Circuit Judge regarding his lawsuit claiming that the Florida Dept. of Health has unconstitutionally denied him the right to grow his own marijuana plants. Redner and Adam Elend, the head of Redner’s marijuana business called Florigrown, appeared as guests on… Read more »

March 20th, 2018

Jewish Survivor of Nazi Germany Discusses His Neighbor Adolph Hitler

Radioactivity 3 20 18 Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up—we’ll meet a 94 year old Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Germany…. And we’ll talk with one of the Democrats who is running to challenge Congressman Vern Buchanan. But first two listener comments about yesterday’s program. Yesterday, among other topics, we heard from… Read more »

March 15th, 2018

MidPoint for Thursday, March 15 – John Judis and Tampa mayoral candidate Topher Morrison

Journalist and author John B. Judis was our guest for the first part of this edition of MidPoint. Judis is an editor at large at Talking Points Memo and the author of The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics. His piece, “The Two Sides of Immigration Policy,” was published in last… Read more »

March 9th, 2018

Women Didn’t Count At All on Life Elsewhere

“When the founders wrote, ‘We the People’ they really meant ‘We the White, Wealthy Men.’ Despite much lofty rhetoric, all men were not created equal and women didn’t count at all” You are just four pages in and Elaine Weiss makes clear her superb new book The Woman’s Hour has an unabashed bias, and, deservedly… Read more »

February 22nd, 2018

Blake High School Students Plan Walkout Tomorrow to Protest Gun Violence

Radioactivity 2 22 18 Good morning, Welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. After last week’s massacre at the high school in Parkland, high school students from around the country have been organizing walkouts, meetings, protests- calling for laws to protect students from gun violence. This week the Parkland students took part in massive protests and… Read more »

January 16th, 2018

Democratic freedoms are waning in US, according to watchdog group

Watchdog says democratic freedoms waning in US under Trump By JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Basic rights and political freedoms in the United States are deteriorating at a faster pace under President Donald Trump, exacerbated by attacks on key institutions like the press and the courts, according to a new report released Tuesday by… Read more »

January 11th, 2018

Anti Killer Drone Activist Says Tiny Robot Assassins Might Be Built Within Next 18 Months

Radioactivity 1 11 18 Welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Imagine a tiny killer drone—smaller than a butterfly— able to fly almost anywhere to assassinate human beings. Either one by one- or in the thousands. Our first guest today says such drones could be built in the next few years–—if countries don’t ban the research… Read more »

January 4th, 2018

MidPoint for Thursday, Jan 4 – State Sen. Darryl Rouson and Marijuana Policy Project’s Morgan Fox

With the announcement by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he is rescinding an Obama-era policy that had discouraged federal prosecutors from bringing charges of marijuana-related crimes in states that have legalized sales of the drug, MidPoint spoke with Morgan Fox from the Marijuana Policy Project. We followed that up with a discussion with St. Petersburg… Read more »

December 13th, 2017

Women’s Show 12/14: The Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America & Tax Reform Update

Hurrah! Joy to the World! Doug Jones wins in Alabama. Pedophile loses. Let there be light. I wonder how many men, not only the most powerful ones, are hoping the light won’t shine on them! I hope they never feel comfortable. Truly let the light shine on the draconian tax reform bill that the Republicans… Read more »

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