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Seán Kinane

supporter of Noor Salman

Activists say Noor Salman is innocent in Pulse shooting

The wife of the man who killed 49 people in 2016 at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando goes on trial next week. Noor Salman is charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization and...

Tampa Bay area students getting active on gun control

In Polk County, Florida, one student activist who is taking on the issue of gun control is Kala Tedder; she is a senior at George Jenkins High School. She’s also dual enrolled at Polk State...
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Pasco teachers rally to protest Florida education bill

A major education bill unanimously passed the Florida Senate Education Committee Tuesday, after a few changes from the version that passed the state House; about  125 teachers and their supporters from Pasco, Hernando Pinellas and...
Jeff Sessions protest

Tampa protesters mock Jeff Sessions with signs & chants

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was in Tampa Wednesday for a meeting of leaders trying to deal with the opioid addiction crisis; but outside the building where Sessions was meeting, forty protesters criticized his positions...
teachers

Hillsborough teachers & supporters rally outside school board meeting

Teachers and their supporters rallied at Tuesday afternoon’s meeting of the Hillsborough County School Board. They’ve demonstrated outside the last several meetings. The executive director of HCTA — the Hillsborough teachers’ union — Stephanie Baxter-Jenkins,...
Leonard Peltier

Supporters of Leonard Peltier will rally Tuesday in Tampa

Here’s an update the situation of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who has been in jail for decades — he’s now in the U.S. Penitentiary, Coleman, north of Tampa; two events are planned for Peltier...

MLK speech used in truck ad railed against consumerism and ads

During Sunday night’s Super Bowl, you may have seen an ad for Dodge Ram trucks encouraging people to do community service — along with the video were audio clips from a Martin Luther King, Jr....
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Why hasn’t there been a rush of Puerto Rico voter registrations in Florida?

Since Hurricane Maria devastated parts of Puerto Rico, there has been an exodus of people moving from the island to Florida. NBC News reported that by the end of November the number was more than...
Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria

Castor & Nelson criticize FEMA & Trump for cutting off Puerto Rico aid

Congress member Kathy Castor is slamming the Trump administration for cutting off emergency supplies like food and water to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. “There’s a very disturbing report out today that the Trump administration is cutting...
Kathy Castor at USF

Who are Tampa-area Congress members bringing to State of the Union?

When members of Congress attend the State of the Union they bring a guest; often it’s a symbolic way to advocate for a cause. Here is who Tampa Democrat Kathy Castor told WMNF News her...
University of South Florida

USF grad student union decries Florida “union busting” bill

Last week the Florida House passed a bill that critics call the “union busting bill;” our guest says it will hurt members in graduate assistants unions like the one she is co-president of at the...
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Oak trees are torn down during construction of Publix at USF

Construction has begun on a Publix supermarket along the north edge of the University South Florida campus in Tampa; but an environmental advocate is concerned about how many old-growth oak trees have been destroyed. Louise...

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