Women’s March 2021 – thousands rally in Tampa and St. Petersburg for reproductive rights and against a Texas-style abortion ban.
As specter of HB1 looms, St. Pete protestors return to streets demanding justice for Daunte Wright
Read MoreRadioactivity Friday: Florida House takes up controversial bill that would criminalize protest
Read MoreDeath threats and rule changes cause some to fear for the First Amendment in New Port Richey
Read More"Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Social Justice" on Morning Energy
Read MorePasco Black Lives Matter leader to plead not guilty on police battery charge, activists say he’s being targeted
Read MoreBlack Lives Matter, other activists, respond to beating of Jae Passmore with Rally in Tampa park
Read MoreThe local leaders of the effort to pass the ERA; A new documentary explores the Taser related death of a South Florida teen
Read More"Celebrating Our Freedoms" on Morning Energy
Read MoreActivists Protest Killing of Civilians by Border Patrol
Read MoreSecond Amendment Scholar Says Gun Regulations Were Part of Original Intent of Founders
Read MoreUpdate: Lara Alqasem is appealing her Israeli deportation order
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Mother of Lara Alqasem, Floridian detained by Israel, wants answers
An American graduate student from South Florida has been detained in Israel and risks deportation; her mother is asking for answers. Lara Alqasem is in Israel to attend graduate School at Hebrew University in human rights and international law. But this week she was detained. WMNF News spoke with her mother, Pembrokes Pines resident Karen… Read more »
Social media anonymity may not be guaranteed as free speech
Judge: Social media user isn’t entitled to anonymity By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press A social media platform can be compelled to divulge account information belonging to a woman who anonymously chatted online about plans for last summer’s deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a federal magistrate judge ruled Monday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero’s 28-page… Read more »
Voter registration in Florida ahead of the primaries
Today was the last day to register to vote/change registration, to be able to vote in the August 28th primary. The deadline for voter registration for the November election is October 9, 2018. There are 12,927,318 people registered to vote in Florida as of June 30, 2018, according to Florida’s Division of Elections: 4,562,533 registered… Read more »
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FL Senator Nelson & Rep. Wasserman Schultz barred from migrant children detention center
Lawmakers barred from child migrant facility in Florida By JOSHUA REPLOGLE and BEN FOX, Associated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson accused the Trump administration of a “cover-up” after officials denied him entry Tuesday to a detention center for migrant children in South Florida where he had hoped to survey living conditions. Nelson… Read more »
Privacy concerns over police using dead man’s finger to unlock phone?
On WMNF’s MidPoint Monday we discussed privacy concerns that arise from police trying to use a dead man’s finger to unlock his phone; we also heard part of President Donald Trump’s speech at the National Rifle Association. In March, Linus Phillip was shot and killed by police at a gas station in Pinellas County. Officers say… Read more »
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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 »
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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 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 »
