Dolores Huerta won the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her life of organizing workers, especially migrant farmworkers. With Cesar Chavez she co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Huerta will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg in Fox Hall. WMNF began our interview by asking… Read more »
SDS plans May Day and USF sanctuary campus rallies; plus, listeners react to airstrikes on Syria
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Charlottesville Terror: The Rise of the Fascist Right and Why Were Those Confederate Monuments Built?
August 15 2017 Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity…..I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up— after the terrorist attack on peaceful demonstrators last weekend in Charlottesville—- what’s next? We’ll talk with a futurist and historian about the efforts by far right groups to build a movement. Our first guest is Sara Robinson a Seattle-based futurist and veteran blogger… Read more »
Immigration Advocate Juan Escalante on Radioactivity Friday
What it’s like to be an undocumented immigrant President Trump is vowing a crackdown on illegal immigration. After some very tough talk about undocumented immigrants during the campaign, President Trump’s administration has issued some new guidelines for treating undocumented immigrants. Host Rob Lorei spoke with Juan Escalante, who is with a group called America’s Voice,… Read more »
Workers organize May Day rallies in Tampa Bay
Monday is May Day or International Workers Day; on MidPoint we speak with people helping to organize May Day rallies in the Tampa Bay area. The Tampa May Day march and rally is sponsored by 15 groups and is this evening from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. beginning at the Sociedad La Union Marti Maceo Cuban Club,… Read more »
May Day Activists on Radioactivity Friday
May Day Rally Planned in Tampa This coming Monday is May Day, which around the world is a day to celebrate workers. There will be a May Day event in Tampa on Monday, May 1 starting at 5:00 PM. Host Rob Lorei spoke about it with local labor, immigration, socialist and racial justice activists Christian… Read more »
Syrian Refugee Ammar Mohrat on Radioactivity Thursday
What should be the U.S. policy on Syrian refugees? There’s a big debate in the country about Syrian refugees. Should they be barred from the U.S., as the Trump administration wants? Host Rob Lorei spoke with Ammar Mohrat – a Syrian refugee who lives in the Tampa Bay area. He was born and raised in Homs,… Read more »
MidPoint for Thursday, April 27 – Ben Pollara from United for Care and Christian Ziegler, Sarasota County GOP Committeeman
With a little more than a week to go before the Florida Legislature calls for an end of the session, negotiations are still taking place on the final language in the Florida House regarding a medical marijuana bill. Amendment Two was overwhelmingly approved by Floridians at the ballot box last November, yet advocates for the… Read more »
USF student stuck in Iran after Trump travel ban returns to Tampa
The USF student who was stuck in Iran because of President Trump’s travel bans has returned to Tampa; in January Mehdi Zeyghami had been granted a visa to come back to the United States, but it was revoked the same week after Trump issued his first ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran…. Read more »
Immokalee farmworkers will march from Tampa Publix to Wendy’s
We hear from two farmworkers’ rights groups about a major march that’s coming to Tampa this week: the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) brings its Return to Human Rights Tour back to the bay area. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has been pushing for fair working conditions for farmworkers for about a decade and a half. Many… Read more »
Insults fly in discussion of immigration policy under Trump
The controversial topic of immigration policy under President Trump led to a fiercer-than normal debate at the typically polite Suncoast Tiger Bay Club in St. Petersburg Friday afternoon; it got off to a steamy start even by the end of introductions where one panelist, Republican Party state committeeman Christian Ziegler insisted he isn’t a racist — that… Read more »
Let Your Fingers Do the Marching – Digital Protest Apps & Sites
The 2016 election didn’t just bring a new administration into the White House or spark new energy in the building progressive protest movement. Apps and websites have been springing up to help people get their resistance on. Many of them are built by people in their late teens or early 20s, which might be an interesting… Read more »
8th grader who wants to help Syrian refugees is Crist’s guest for president’s speech
Many Democratic members of Congress are inviting immigrants as their guests to watch President Trump’s speech Tuesday night; St. Petersburg’s Charlie Crist is inviting a local 8th grader who wants to help Syrian refugees relocate to the area. Oliver Hess attends Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg. “Well, I am very honored to be Congressman… Read more »
MidPoint for Thursday, February 23 with former Congressman David Jolly
David Jolly, the former Representative in Florida’s 13th Congressional District, was our guest for the entire hour this Thursday. Charlie Crist, Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Medicare, immigration and foreign relations were all part of the conversation.
Tampa panel criticizes Trump’s “dangerous” immigration orders
In addition to new deportation rules announced Tuesday, the Trump administration is expected any day to update its ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries that a court has put on hold. It’s a combination of these policies that prompted a panel discussion Tuesday in Tampa’s Ybor City on what organizers called “President Donald Trump’s Dangerous… Read more »
