On Monday, Tampa City Council Member Luis Viera met with a local right-wing organization known for supporting violence and attending the Jan. 6 Trump rally in Washington. Viera said he hoped meeting with the Community Patriots would “foster dialogue” and bridge too-wide political gaps. Listen: Viera represents District 7 in Tampa. And while his position… Read more »
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Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Select 07/17/19 from the drop down menu Radioactivity: Interviews & Live Call-In Intro: The Miami New Times reports the Homestead detention facility for child immigrants — 3,200-bed facility — the nation’s only for-profit child detention center — is not licensed or overseen by state child-welfare workers, and at least… Read more »
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Environmental group names multi-billion dollar firm Cargill as the ‘Worst Company in the World’
Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Select 07/16/19 from the drop down menu Radioactivity: Interviews & Live Call-In Intro: Good morning- welcome to radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up- a new study looks at what might be the worst corporations in the world. It’s a corporation that once had strong ties to the Tampa Bay… Read more »
WMNF Board Statement On The Treatment of Migrants in the US
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A Forgotten African American Cemetery Discovered and Reducing Plastic in Our Oceans
Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Select 07/02/19 from the drop down menu Radioactivity: Interviews & Live Call-In Intro: Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up—The Tampa bay times has revealed the existence of a long forgotten African American cemetery in an area a few miles north of downtown Tampa. We’ll talk… Read more »
Tampa Mayor’s Forum on the Arts
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Florida is third worst state in U.S. for sex-trafficking, two local criminology professors look at why
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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 »
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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 »
