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August 27th, 2019 || Health, Immigration, Latino, News and Public Affairs.

Immigration Expert Dispels Myths About Public Benefits

Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Select 08/27/19 from the drop down menu Radioactivity: Interviews & Live Call-In Intro: Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up– we’ll look at immigration, why people come here- sometimes risking their lives. And how they are treated once they get here. BOSTON (AP) — The Trump… Read more »

Study: Census under-count of Hispanics could cost Florida a half billion dollars

August 15th, 2019 || Latino

FL Senator Nelson & Rep. Wasserman Schultz barred from migrant children detention center

June 19th, 2018 || Civil Liberties

Bob Gualtieri takes the heat in sometimes contentious immigration debate

April 10th, 2018 || Criminal Justice

MidPoint for Thursday, October 12 - Political analyst Barry Edwards

October 13th, 2017 || Elections

How you can help Coalition of Immokalee Workers after Hurricane Irma

September 18th, 2017 || Hurricane

Renowned Mexican painter Frida Kahlo at the Dali Museum

December 23rd, 2016 || Art

Since Trump's election, Tampa-area immigrants are on edge

November 18th, 2016 || Hate Crimes

Key to winning Florida: new Puerto Rican voters

November 4th, 2016 || Elections

MidPoint for Thursday, October 27 - Cesar Hernandez

October 27th, 2016 || Elections

MidPoint for Thursday, August 11 with Steve Schale

August 11th, 2016 || Latino

Will new Latino voters in Florida impact the presidential election?

August 9th, 2016 || Cuba/Cuban-Americans

June 22nd, 2016

Women’s Show Discusses Recovery in Orlando and TPP

By Arlene Engelhardt How are the people in Orlando doing? With the funerals, the memorials and the press conferences, the broken threads of life need to be restored to the fabric of the living – all in all, a very difficult time. Ida Eskamani, Equality Florida’s North and Central Florida Development Officer,will talk about the… Read more »

June 12th, 2016

Trump pulls out all the stops at Tampa rally

Donald Trump’s Tampa visit was full of rhetoric and low on details. The Trump Train made a whistle stop at The Tampa Convention Center, last Saturday. The media savvy, GOP firebrand, berated his critics to the delight of his Florida supporters. Trump took to the podium after about 70 minutes of strategic and high profile… Read more »

May 2nd, 2016

New documentary looks at the legacy of murdered Chilean folk singer Victor Jara

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160429_110618_radioactivityF1_337.MP3 BY Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Friday we look at the life and legacy of Chilean folk singer Victor Jara. Jara was a well known musician, theater director, teacher and advocate for social justice in his home country, considered by many to be the Bob Dylan of Chile. During the US-backed Chilean coup of 1973, Jara… Read more »

March 31st, 2016

MidPoint for Thursday, March 31 with “Brown is the new White” author Steve Phillips

Out guest for the entire hour today was Steve Phillips, the author of the new book, Brown is the New White: How the demographic revolution has created a new American Majority. A civil rights attorney and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, Phillips draws won his extensive political experience to unveil exactly how… Read more »

March 23rd, 2016

Women’s Show …Cuba and Immigration to the Forefront

Did you know how big of an economic contribution undocumented immigrants make to this country each year?- Let’s try $11.7 billion. In Florida alone its about $547 million. Their economic contributions are so great that we can no longer do without them. This week we will have Michelle Chen, writer for The Nation and editor… Read more »

January 28th, 2016

Women’s Show discusses birth, death and taxes… 1/28

Roe vs Wade was a hot topic on From a Woman’s POV this week. The war on a woman’s right to choose continues. The Florida House Criminal Justice Subcommittee voted 8-3 on the “Florida for Life Act” or HB865. If made law, it will ban all abortions with the exception of the health and… Read more »

farmworkers; Florida agriculture; farmworkers, coalition of Immokalee workers, ciw

January 4th, 2016

EPA considering pesticide protections for farmworkers

A 23-year-old law, the Agriculture Worker Protection Standard (WPS), is being updated to enhance protections for people exposed to toxic agricultural pesticides; the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is also proposing a ban on the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos for use in agricultural fields. On MidPoint we talked about pesticides and these protections that could benefit farmworkers with guest Lisa Garcia. She’s Vice President… Read more »

November 28th, 2015

Human rights activist speaks out against Columbian paramilitary training in the US

On Midpoint Wednesday, Host Rob Lorei speaks with Deborah Barros Fince, a Columbian Attorney, artist and human rights advocate for the Wayuu , an indigenous ethnic group in Columbia and Venezeula. In 2004, Fince witnessed a massacre of 12 Wayuu people by paramilitary forces in Bahía Portete, Columbia. She is a critic of the School of the Americas,… Read more »

July 20th, 2015

Cuban flag now flies over embassy in Washington

The Cuban flag was raised inside the Cuban embassy in Washington, D.C. Monday morning for the first time in 54 years; our guests in the studio who took calls about this issue were Rayshawna Black with Black Girls Survive Cancer and Noel Smith, curator of Latin American and Caribbean Art at USF’s Institute for Research… Read more »

March 20th, 2014

Licenses For All Undocumented Immigrants

One of the main reasons that undocumented immigrants are deported is because they do not have drivers licenses. Last night supporters of immigration reform, rallied outside of Tampas City Hall calling for drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants

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