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Civil Rights
Women’s Show – 20th Anniversary of Welfare Reform and “The Cruelest Prosecutor in America”
20th Anniversary of Welfare Reform This week marks the 20th anniversary of former President Bill Clinton’s welfare reform…when open-ended assistance to the needy changed to a time-limited performance based assistance. Bill Clinton said “It ended...
Women’s Show – “Rewriting the Rules” and Clean Water
Photo by Brian Simms We are happy to be back after a two-week break….thanks to those who let us know you missed us….. We hope you enjoyed the convention coverage by Democracy Now! Less than...
New film sheds light on voter suppression in 2016 primary elections
By Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Wednesday we spoke with investigative reporter Greg Palast about his upcoming film on voter suppression. Palast broke the story of how African Americans with similar names to ex felons were...
Women’s Show resuming in August
Photo via Flickr by DonkeyHotey/CC 2.0 license There will be no show July 21st or July 28th due to”Democracy Now” covering the Republican and Democratic conventions from 9-11 am. From a Woman’s POV will resume programing...
By Rob Lorei First on Radioactivity Tuesday we discussed the Republican platform on Social Security and medicare with Max Richtman, president and CEO of The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. The current GOP...
Women’s Show – So Many Shootings?
After last week, do you feel you are on a powder keg that is just about ready to explode?…. …or have we been on an active volcano for a long time and just haven’t paid...
Images from St. Pete’s #BlackLivesMatter Protest by Khalid Hameed
On Sunday, July 10, about 70 people marched from the Uhuru house in South St. Pete to the St. Petersburg Police station. Khalid Hameed is a St....
By Rob Lorei Public outrage once again flared over the shooting deaths of two black men at the hands of police. A video uploaded to social media on Tuesday show Alton Sterling, 37, being shot...
MidPoint for Thursday, July 7- Harold Meyerson and Michelle Williams
On today’s program we spoke with the American Prospect’s Harold Meyerson about the impact that Bernie Sanders still has on the Democratic Party, and in particular where the platform committee of the DNC is moving...
Women’s Show – Platforms…Who reads? We do
We are coming down to crunch time….. This has gone beyond mud fights and something tells me the game hasn’t even begun. The conventions are coming up in just a few weeks. Do the platforms...
Women’s Show Discusses Victory in the Supreme Court
Women’s Show Discusses Victory in the Supreme Court and GMOs Finally a Victory! Whole Women’s Health v Hellerstedt On Monday the Supreme Court struck down Texas HB 2 , finding it imposed an undue burden on...
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 –...
