Radioactivity 4 12 18 Welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Yesterday President Trump suggested that an attack on Syria was imminent, after a reported chemical weapons attack on civilians in that country last week. Russia warned that a US attack on Syrian could lead to a clash between the US and Russia. Russian military forces… Read more »
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50 years ago: MLK’s controversial Beyond Vietnam speech
Tuesday is the 50th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s famous and controversial speech called “Beyond Vietnam;” we hear the full speech from MLK via Alternative Radio. It was recorded at Riverside Church in New York on April 4, 1967. By then, King had become one of the country’s most prominent opponents of the… Read more »
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A War Tax Resistor and One of the Country’s Leading Advocates for Seniors Discuss Donald Trump’s Views on Military Spending and Social Security
WMNF’s Radioactivity 2 21 17 Tuesday Good morning, welcome to radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today—President Trump wants to increase the military budget…. But what if you are religious and object to military spending and your money used for wars, and drones and instruments of killing? We’ll talk about that on the first part… Read more »
Will Marco Rubio show for Tampa town hall meeting?
Four topics on this MidPoint: 1) an activist in Tampa is organizing a town hall meeting and has invited Senator Marco Rubio, 2) Monday is Presidents’ Day, but one of our guests is helping to organize a protest in Pasco County called “No Presidents Day,” 3) [Now dis-invited] CPAC keynote speaker Milo Yiannopoulos appears to endorse… Read more »
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Trump’s Inauguration and Upcoming Veterans for Common Sense Award Dinner
WMNF 88.5FM’s Radioactivity with Rob Lorei 1 -23-17 Coming up toady we’ll hear Florida This Week from this past Friday night on WEDU-TV where we talked about the inauguration of President Donald Trump. And we’re going to talk about this Saturday’s 280th birthday celebration of Founding Father Thoma Paine the author of the influential pamphlet… Read more »
Jill Stein says cabinet could include Richard Wolff or Medea Benjamin
In a C-SPAN interview Tuesday night Green Party Presidential nominee Jill Stein was asked to name some people who might make up her cabinet if she is elected president; her answer included some names like Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin and economist Richard Wolff. “So, for example, on Secretary of State, we would certainly consider someone like… Read more »
Tuesday is Keith Moon’s birthday The Who are celebrated on the Freak Show
Keith Moon’s explosive drumming propelled The Who through their first intoxicating, and intoxicated years. His death cemented the rock’n’roll legend. We remember him on the Freak Show. What songs by the Who would you like to hear? Tune in to the Freak Show on Tuesday night 6-8pm and here the best live and studio performances… Read more »
Peace Activist Medea Benjamin Gives her thoughts about President Obama, Drone warfare, and US military spending
http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160818_110618_radioactivityR1_191.MP3 BY Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Wednesday, our guest was Peace Activist Medea Benjamin. You may have seen her as she’s disrupted hearings and speeches, trying to unfurl banners carry a message of peace. She unfurled a banner that read “Build Bridges Not Walls” last month during Donald trump’s closing speech at the Republican Convention in… Read more »
A Palestinian Promotes Peaceful Resistance to the Israeli Occupation
http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160722_110617_radioactivityF1_337.MP3 By Rob Lorei On radioactivity Friday, our first guest was Palestinian peace activist Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour (Abed). Dr. Abed is the founder and director of Al-Rowwad, a cultural center located in Aida Refugee Camp in Palestine. As the theater director, he teaches that the arts, which include music, dance, theater and sports, are tools for empowerment to… Read more »
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“I Will Be With You, Whatever” (on Life Elsewhere)
Our headline is taken from the voluminous, seven-year official investigation into how and why Britain went to war in Iraq. Britain’s investigation by the independent Iraq Inquiry was unequivocal in its findings. Britain, like the United States, used flawed intelligence to justify the invasion, that Iraq posed no immediate national security threat, that the allies… Read more »
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Code Pink – Saudi Arabia, BDS, Local Peace Economy…Women’s Show 3/17
Photo via Elaine Vigneault Feeling discouraged with all the negativity of the presidential campaign – and the state of our world today? Give yourself a treat and spend a few minutes at Code Pink to gain some hope. Tune in Thursday to hear always upbeat, yet realistic and focused on the “real” world, Medea Benjamin,… Read more »
The Dangers of Coal Ash ;Veganism as an act of nonviolence
By Rob Lorei Today we talk about pollution caused by coal-ash, which is a byproduct of coal-burning power plants. In Florida there are over 13 coal power plants and 100 coal ash pits. Many of these pits are unlined and unmonitored, posing an environmental threat to air equality and heavy metal pollution of groundwater if… Read more »
Compassionate Communication on the Sustainable Living show
Today on the Sustainable Living Program we spent the hour talking about communication skills. Our guests were Stephanie Bachmann Mattei, a certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, and Andrew Rock, a member of the Florida Center for Mindfulness. Andrew’s also the co-founder of the Tampa Bay Climate Action Network and last week had… Read more »
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Women’s Show on “Standing Up to Terrorism” 12/3
With the recent Paris attack, terrorism is in all of our minds….. Congress seems to be obsessed with the dangers from Syrian widows and orphans. Women throughout this country are in daily fear when they go to their neighborhood Planned Parenthood Clinic. Domestic terrorism has been a problem for a very long time. Anthrax? The… Read more »
