Caregivers for 3600 migrant teens lack complete abuse checks By MARTHA MENDOZA and GARANCE BURKE, Associated Press Nearly every adult working with children in the U.S. — from nannies to teachers to coaches — has undergone state screenings to ensure they have no proven history of abusing or neglecting kids. One exception: thousands of workers at… Read more »
New Book by Veteran NYT Reporter Chronicles Some of the Major Events of Civil Rights Movement
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Update on the separation of families at the border on World Refugee Day
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Felon voting rights fix deadline is tomorrow: Scott meets with clemency board tonight (UPDATED)
Update: From the Orlando Sentinel: …the Atlanta-based U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals prevented a late-night meeting of the Florida Clemency Board, which was called by Gov. Rick Scott to comply with the lower court’s Thursday deadline to adopt new voting rights restoration rules. A felon voting rights fix will appear on Florida’s November ballot, but a court… 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 »
ESPN’s Jemele Hill’s message to some news consumers: ‘Your emotions are not facts’
ESPN’s Jemele Hill says the news business has changed dramatically since she first got into the industry in the late 1990’s, with the most significant difference being that instead of getting the news to inform themselves, many people are now doing it simply to confirm a lot of their own truths, a change that she… Read more »
Atlanta marks 50 years since King’s funeral service
By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr., Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Relatives of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led more than 1,000 people on a march Monday in downtown Atlanta, where large crowds gathered 50 years earlier for the slain civil rights leader’s funeral procession as a mule-drawn wagon pulled his casket through the streets. On Monday,… Read more »
Hearing postponed over officer’s Stand Your Ground claim for fatally shooting a black motorist
A judge has postponed a hearing to decide whether a fired police officer charged with fatally shooting a stranded black motorist should go to trial. Circuit Judge Samantha Schosberg Feuer late Tuesday postponed former Palm Beach Gardens Officer Nouman Raja’s “stand your ground” hearing until May. It had been scheduled to begin Wednesday. Raja is… 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 »
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 »
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New Film About Veteran Community Organizer Heather Booth Will Be Shown Tonight in Tampa
Radioactivity 3 22 18 Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up— We’ll meet veteran community organizer Heather Booth— who took part in the Civil Rights movement, she was an early a feminist leader and is considered to be one of the country’s most effective progressive organizers. She’s the subject of a new… 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 »
Florida leaders propose new gun laws after school shooting
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON, GARY FINEOUT and CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Less than two weeks after the Florida school shooting, Gov. Rick Scott and Republican legislators announced school safety and gun restriction proposals Friday that would ban the sale of firearms to anyone under 21, but they differed on whether some teachers should… 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 »
