By KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press The Road to Change Tour focuses on voter registration for 18 year olds and other young voters. PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A day after graduating, a group of Florida high school shooting survivors announced they’ll spend their summer crisscrossing the country, expanding their grass-roots activism from rallies and schools walkouts to… Read more »
MidPoint Thursday - Talking about ranked choice voting & the 2019 Tampa mayoral election
Read MoreFelon voting rights fix deadline is tomorrow: Scott meets with clemency board tonight (UPDATED)
Read MoreACORN Founder Wade Rathke Subject of New Film The Organizer Talks About Community Organizing
Read MoreInvestigative Reporter Greg Palast Says There's No Proof Widespread Illegal Voting in US Exists
Read MoreMidPoint for Thursday, March 29 - Former Senator Bob Graham, graphic designer Bonnie Siegler, and digital political strategis...
Read MoreFederal court strikes down Florida's ex-felons voting ban
Read MoreWhy hasn't there been a rush of Puerto Rico voter registrations in Florida?
Read MoreSigns from The Women's Rally 2018 in St. Pete
Read MoreMidPoint for Thursday, Jan 4 - State Sen. Darryl Rouson and Marijuana Policy Project's Morgan Fox
Read MoreState Attorney calls Florida's ex-felon rights process a "poll tax"
Read MoreRestorative Justice Coalition of Tampa to meet Saturday
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MidPoint for Thursday, Aug.3 – Desmond Meade & St. Pete City Council & mayoral candidates
Desmond Meade is the head of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, the organization involved with trying to get a measure on the 2018 ballot that would repeal the ban on felons automatically getting their voting rights restored. He joined us for the first part of the program to discuss the news that the ACLU will invest… Read more »
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Greg Palast Has the Scoop on the President’s Election Integrity Commission
Human rights workers arrested for investigating labor conditions in Ivanka Trump’s factories Three labor rights investigators were arrested in China in May while they were looking into working conditions at factories that make shoes for Ivanka trump — the president’s daughter. After a month in custody they have been released, but now they face trial… Read more »
Ex-felon rights restoration clinic in Tampa Saturday
After an ex-felon has served his time in Florida, his civil rights are not automatically restored; unlike most states, Florida keeps thousands of ex-felons from voting and a from number of other basic citizenship rights. But many people, including Tampa-area state Representative Sean Shaw, want to change that. The Democrat is co-hosting an ex-felon rights… Read more »
MidPoint for Thursday, March 16 -Florida voting ban, media on Trump and Aramis Ayala
We had three different guests on today’s program. Jon Sherman, Senior Counsel for the Fair Elections Legal Network, spoke about his organization’s lawsuit against Rick Scott and other states officials on attempting to automatically restore former felons’ voting rights and eliminate Florida’s “arbitrary and opaque process for re-enfranchisement.” Also, Penn State University professor Sophia McClennan on why the media isn’t doing… Read more »
Pasco elections supervisor disputes Trump claims of voting fraud
President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday morning that he is ordering a Department of Justice investigation into voting fraud; the new president alleges that he lost the popular vote because millions of people voted illegally in November’s election. But a local Supervisor of Elections says that’s very unlikely. WMNF News spoke with Brian Corley, Pasco County’s… Read more »
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From a Woman’s POV- 12/15 “Irregularities in the recent Election”
On December 15th we spoke with guest Jeanne Mirer. She practices labor and employment law in New York, and is the president of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. She talke about irregularities in the recent presidential election and the recount. Steven Rosenfeld, attorney, a senior fellow at AlterNet covering democracy issues, updated us on election fraud…. Read more »
Radioactivity Thursday: Orlando attorney wants a presidential recount in Florida
http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_161208_110618_radioactivityR1_191.MP3 BY Rob Lorei There is a move here in Florida to try to get a recount of the Presidential election.Three Central Florida voters are mounting a bid to overturn the presidential election here in Florida.A lawsuit was filed Monday in Leon Circuit Court, saying that Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump, actually won Florida. The plaintiffs,… Read more »
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Tampa Bay area Green Party activists talk about the future of their party
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/radioactivity/~3/arlhw-ukTZg/wmnf_161130_110618_radioactivityW1_189.MP3 By Rob Lorei On Radioactivity we spoke with with local Green Party members about their efforts to build the party in the Tampa bay area. Our guests were Rich Carpenter, Joanne Santiago and Joe Walters. They talked about how they came to join the Green Party, their party’s platform on some key issues facing… Read more »
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Women’s Show 12/1 – Medicare and Election Irregularities
The era of Trump begins…….. The ink wasn’t even dry on the headlines before Paul Ryan touted his plans to reform Medicare and Social Security. Nothing new – he has been after these areas ever since he was elected to congress. Says a lot that two of the most successful programs that have helped people… Read more »
Florida man wrongly told he couldn’t vote knew his rights
A man in East Tampa almost gave up before voting this morning after being told he wasn’t on the rolls; after more than an hour, Virgil Campbell was able to update his address and vote at the Fair Oaks Park Community Center in East Tampa. Listen: “I went in there the first time and they were… Read more »
New film follows one of Florida’s 1.7 million disenfranchised voters; Political ads get fact-checked by Politifact deputy editor
http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_161104_110617_radioactivityF1_337.MP3 By Rob Lorei The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting this week released a new web documentary called Unforgiven — in partnership with TIME, The Atlantic, the Miami Herald and other news media — about voter disenfranchisement in Florida. There are 6.1 million disenfranchised Americans; 1.7 million live in Florida. The web documentary focuses on one… Read more »
Enthusiastic greeting for Green presidential nominee in Tampa
The Green Party’s presidential nominee told a raucous crowd of about 300 people packed into the Cuban Club ballroom in Ybor City Wednesday night that she hopes to be the choice of the millions of voters who are turned off by the two major party nominees; Jill Stein appealed for the youth vote and compared progressives… Read more »
Pastors call for early voting site in black neighborhood; Pinellas says no
Pastors of predominantly black churches are asking for an early voting location in South St. Pete; but the supervisor of elections in Pinellas County is rejecting that request. In a press conference Friday morning at the Lake Vista Recreation Center in South St. Petersburg, Bethel Community Baptist Church Pastor Manuel Sykes said the rec center… Read more »
