Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Or follow this link and select 12/10/19 from the drop down menu: Radioactivity: Interviews & Live Call-In The first part of this program was videotaped and put on our WMNF News Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/WMNFNews/ Intro: Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. Congress first approved the Equal Rights Amendment in… Read more »
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Florida Veterans for Common Sense Call for Ban on Assault Weapons
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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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 »
July 12 was the Net Neutrality Day of Action {UPDATED}
FCC Commissioners are set to vote on Net Neutrality this Thursday. The Commission will likely vote along party lines – 3 yes repeal votes from the Rs and 2 no repeal votes from the Ds. It would then be up to Congress, or the courts, to halt, delay, or repeal the repeal. One of the… Read more »
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The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
Radioactivity 12 5 17 Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up- During last year’s presidential campaign and now in the 13 months since the election—right wing speakers and groups have become more emboldened in America. From the violence in Charlottesville, to white nationalist Richard Spencer’s speech in Gainesville in October, to the… Read more »
