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Global Warming
Castor and Nelson on what if a Hurricane Harvey hits Tampa Bay?
On Thursday WMNF News asked U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) and U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Tampa) how the Tampa Bay area should be preparing for the type of storm that has devastated Houston. Here is Nelson’s...
Women’s Show 8/31– Hurricane Harvey – Desperate Havoc and Beyond Nuclear
Words simply cannot convey the desperate havoc that is besieging the people of Houston and the surrounding areas… Climate Change – regardless of your belief in the causation – is very real and simply cannot...
Tampa mosque organizes Hurricane Harvey relief drive
A Tampa mosque and allied organizations are gathering supplies to bring to Hurricane Harvey survivors in Texas Thursday. Here’s the Facebook event page for the supply drive organized by the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay,...
Is Tampa Bay prepared for sea-level rise?
On MidPoint we continue our ongoing discussion of the climate crisis, including sea-level rise, and how Tampa Bay is preparing; or maybe it’s more accurate to say how it’s not doing enough preparing. Listen: In...
Score one for the little people… all your protests and Indivisible groups demanding to be heard by your senators has paid off… but we have to KEEP UP THE PRESSURE…. I don’t know about you,...
Scientist Warns of Danger of Storm Surge During Hurricanes
Leading local expert on hurricane storm surge flooding risks The hurricane season began on June 1st and it lasts until November 1st. The potential for a catastrophe is huge here in the Bay area if a...
King Tide Photo Contest in Sarasota-Bradenton
Photo Contest to Document Changing Sea Levels Next weekend, the West Coast of Florida will experience several king tides — the highest tides of the year — which will happen May 26th and 27th in Sarasota and...
On Saturday: Hands Across the Sand & March Against Monsanto
We look at two events coming up this weekend; our guests talk about several local actions for March Against Monsanto and for Hands Across the Sand. Christine Wall, is helping to organize March Against Monsanto in Tampa. Here’s...
From a Woman’s POV 5/11-Assaults on Democracy and Net Neutrality
Trump…Trump…Trump…the Trumps are Marching… The assaults on our democracy are coming like machine gun fire – the separation of church and state. Last week on National Prayer Day, the president signed a “religious freedom” executive...
Climate Change with Medea Benjamin + Social Security in Jeopardy on the Women’s Show
Climate Change is Real – no matter who is in office, no matter who gets or has nuclear weapons, no matter the deniers and the obfuscators… Its effects are accelerating and it is the single...
People’s Climate March in Tampa Saturday
On Saturday there are at least three local marches in the Tampa Bay area in solidarity with the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C. In Sarasota, St. Petersburg and Tampa people will gather to draw attention...
Women’s Show 4/20 – Connie May Fowler and Deepwater Horizon Blowout
Thursday, April 20th is the 7th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout… What is the status of the gulf, particularly the health of all the living occupants? The dead can’t tell their stories, can they?...
