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Tampa activist helps refugees in Europe
A Tampa activist is helping refugees in Europe; Dezeray Lyn works with several activist groups including Food Not Bombs Tampa and Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. She’s assisting refugees now in Western Europe through her group...
MidPoint for Thursday, August 17 – Joan C. Williams, author of “White Working Class”
On the program today we spoke with Joan C. Williams, professor and director of the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings in San Francisco, and the author of “White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness...
August 15 2017 Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity…..I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up— after the terrorist attack on peaceful demonstrators last weekend in Charlottesville—- what’s next? We’ll talk with a futurist and historian about the efforts...
Immigration Advocate Juan Escalante on Radioactivity Friday
What it’s like to be an undocumented immigrant President Trump is vowing a crackdown on illegal immigration. After some very tough talk about undocumented immigrants during the campaign, President Trump’s administration has issued some new...
Workers organize May Day rallies in Tampa Bay
Monday is May Day or International Workers Day; on MidPoint we speak with people helping to organize May Day rallies in the Tampa Bay area. The Tampa May Day march and rally is sponsored by 15 groups...
May Day Activists on Radioactivity Friday
May Day Rally Planned in Tampa This coming Monday is May Day, which around the world is a day to celebrate workers. There will be a May Day event in Tampa on Monday, May 1...
Syrian Refugee Ammar Mohrat on Radioactivity Thursday
What should be the U.S. policy on Syrian refugees? There’s a big debate in the country about Syrian refugees. Should they be barred from the U.S., as the Trump administration wants? Host Rob Lorei spoke...
With a little more than a week to go before the Florida Legislature calls for an end of the session, negotiations are still taking place on the final language in the Florida House regarding a...
USF student stuck in Iran after Trump travel ban returns to Tampa
The USF student who was stuck in Iran because of President Trump’s travel bans has returned to Tampa; in January Mehdi Zeyghami had been granted a visa to come back to the United States, but...
Immokalee farmworkers will march from Tampa Publix to Wendy’s
We hear from two farmworkers’ rights groups about a major march that’s coming to Tampa this week: the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) brings its Return to Human Rights Tour back to the bay area. The Coalition...
Insults fly in discussion of immigration policy under Trump
The controversial topic of immigration policy under President Trump led to a fiercer-than normal debate at the typically polite Suncoast Tiger Bay Club in St. Petersburg Friday afternoon; it got off to a steamy start even by...
Let Your Fingers Do the Marching – Digital Protest Apps & Sites
The 2016 election didn’t just bring a new administration into the White House or spark new energy in the building progressive protest movement. Apps and websites have been springing up to help people get their resistance...
