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“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of guns” –Thomas Jefferson To excerpt the end of Gary Wills essay after the Orlando Pulse Mass Killing, “Everyone knows we are not going to do a...
How the Parkland students are pulling off a worldwide movement
And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They’re quite aware of what they’re going through* By KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) —...
Women’s Show 3/22 March for Our Lives Tampa Bay & “The Union Maid”
#NeverAgain….. #Marchforourlives…. When you went to school, were your biggest concerns grades, tests, friends, the prom? Did you ever worry that you might not go home again? After Sandy Hook didn’t you think, “Never...
Women’s Show 3/15: Tanja Vidovic, Medea Benjamin & Linda Gunter Discuss Necessary Changes
#Never again….. It has been inspiring today to see the number of school children that walked out in honor of the 17 murdered in Parkland. I only hope that the compassion, commitment and articulate expression...
Women’s Show 3/1 The NRA Battles On
The NRA battles on, taking on all comers including Business SEO – articulate grieving students, parents, doctors, educators, probably even the family dogs. And the NRA has spoken – let there be school marshals, arm...
Florida Legislature debates school safety bill, rejects assault weapon ban
By KELLI KENNEDY, BRENDAN FARRINGTON and CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press “…The entire country is watching.” PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Family members of people killed in a South Florida school shooting gave emotional testimony Tuesday during a...
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...
Teens Vs Politicians in Tallahassee over gun control
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON, GARY FINEOUT and TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A week after a shooter slaughtered 17 people in a Florida high school, thousands of protesters, including many angry teenagers, swarmed into...
Women’s Show 2/22- Who Protects the Children?
The harder I run, the more I seem to barely stay in place…….. The Olympics are going on. We see the pomp and circumstance and the extraordinary achievements of these young world class athletes. If...
Shootings + politicians + the NRA’s money
Seventeen people were murdered at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida yesterday. It was the 18th school shooting in the US in 2018. It was the first in Florida of the year....
Women’s Show-TBT Festival of Reading – Gretchen Carlson, Doris Weatherford and more…..
We have another legislator accused of sexual harassment – Florida, Texas, Rhode Island… take your pick… Another mass shooting in which the perpetrator had been court marshalled out of the service for Domestic Abuse (really...
Women’s Show-“Quiet before the Storm”-10/12
The chaos we live in…… The president winks at us and tells us “it is the calm before the storm.” Hurricanes, floods, people dying in Puerto Rico… People dying in the west with the explosive...
