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August 15th, 2019 || Health care, Human Rights, National Politics, News and Public Affairs.

Senior Policy Analyst for National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare Answers Questions From The Public

Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Select 08/15/19 from the drop down menu Radioactivity: Interviews & Live Call-In Intro: Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up—we’ll answer your questions about Social Security. When is the best age to retire? Will Social Security be here in twenty years? What if I am paid… Read more »

Do we really have free speech in the US?

August 14th, 2019 || Human Rights

Food bank Spokesperson Says in Some Parts Of Tampa Bay, 25% of the Population May Be Food Insecure

August 2nd, 2019 || Health

Clearwater Rep. Legislator Explains Why He Criticized the "Send Her Back" Chants at the Trump Rally; Professor Points to Simi...

July 23rd, 2019 || Human Rights

"Celebrating Our Freedoms" on Morning Energy

July 19th, 2019 || blog

Congressman Charlie Crist Visits Homestead Migrant Detention Camp; Questions Why For Profit Operator Charges $750/Day

July 17th, 2019 || Ethics

Environmental group names multi-billion dollar firm Cargill as the 'Worst Company in the World'

July 16th, 2019 || Agriculture

WMNF Board Statement On The Treatment of Migrants in the US

July 11th, 2019 || blog

A Forgotten African American Cemetery Discovered and Reducing Plastic in Our Oceans

July 3rd, 2019 || African American

Tampa Mayor’s Forum on the Arts

June 13th, 2019 || Art

Florida is third worst state in U.S. for sex-trafficking, two local criminology professors look at why

June 13th, 2019 || Health

State of Florida sued over its solitary confinement policy

May 8th, 2019 || Civil Liberties

March 12th, 2019

Senator, seeking its closure, visits migrant youth detention camp in Homestead

Senator tours Florida teen detention camp he wants shut down By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A Democratic senator from Oregon advocating against migrant youth detention camps says he toured a Florida facility and found children are being held there for too long in a restrictive environment. U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley said… Read more »

January 31st, 2019

Judge stops parts of Tampa’s same-sex ‘conversion therapy’ ban

Free speech or harmful action? TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A federal magistrate is stopping the enforcement of a portion of Tampa’s ordinance prohibiting same-sex conversion therapy for minors. The U.S. magistrate judge issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday. Magistrate Judge Amanda Arnold Sansone’s recommendation then goes to the US District Court, which then decides whether… Read more »

January 20th, 2019

Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday ~ things you may not know

WMNF always marches in the Tampa Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade. We hope you will join us this year-more information on that is here. We are position #107, and are meeting at Gate #1, Columbus & 14th St (Republica de Cuba). You can view the route map from last year here. How did having a… Read more »

January 2nd, 2019

Activists Protest Killing of Civilians by Border Patrol

Last Wednesday in Tampa’s Ybor City a group of about a dozen people protested the killing of people in Mexico by US Border Patrol agents. The Associated Press is reporting this morning that: “U.S. authorities fired tear gas into Mexico during the first hours of the new year to repel about 150 migrants who tried… Read more »

December 21st, 2018

Refugee children in America, at Christmastime

‘A moral disaster’: AP reveals scope of migrant kids program. By GARANCE BURKE and MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press Decades after the U.S. stopped institutionalizing kids because large and crowded orphanages were causing lasting trauma, it is happening again. The federal government has placed most of the 14,300 migrant toddlers, children and teens in its care in… Read more »

November 27th, 2018

Feds waive FBI background checks for migrant children camp staff

US waived FBI checks on staff at growing teen migrant camp By GARANCE BURKE AND MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press TORNILLO, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration has put the safety of thousands of teens at a migrant detention camp at risk by waiving FBI fingerprint checks for their caregivers and short-staffing mental health workers, according to… Read more »

September 27th, 2018

Puerto Rico’s Slow Recovery Tied to Lack of Statehood

A year ago hurricane Maria struck the island of Puerto Rico and the recovery has been slow. Our next guest blames the slow recovery on the lack of political representation in Washington DC that comes with statehood. At least 3,000 people were killed by the hurricane and its aftermath. (Although President Trump denies the death… Read more »

June 21st, 2018

St. Pete Pride expects 200,000 for Saturday’s 2018 LGBTQ+ parade

This week is St. Pete Pride, one of the South’s largest LGBTQ+ celebrations; the Tampa Bay Times reports that police are investigating threats against the Pride weekend posted on social media. To find out what to expect in events tonight through Sunday, WMNF News spoke with Luke Blankenship, executive director with St. Pete Pride about… Read more »

June 19th, 2018

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 »

May 31st, 2018

Why Puerto Rico’s death toll from Hurricane Maria is so much higher than officials thought

By Alexis R. Santos-Lozada, Pennsylvania State University “If you don’t get away from those areas, you are going to die.” That statement concluded Puerto Rico Secretary of Public Safety Héctor Pesquera’s press conference before Hurricane Maria. As of Dec. 29, the Department of Public Safety had certified 64 deaths due to Hurricane Maria. Pesquera was one… 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 »

April 9th, 2018

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 »

February 7th, 2018

Health Care Activists Planning Summit in South Florida on Medicare for All

Radioactivity 2 7 18 I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up— For the first time people interested in health care reform will be gathering here in Florida for a conference on how to fix our nation’s health care problems basing from the article on neuropathyreliefguide.com. The focus of the summit will be “Medicare for All”. The conference… Read more »

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