David Barsamian To Speak In Tampa

Hear David Barsamian speak live at the Musicale in a benefit for WMNF! Before David speaks we'll have the Tampa Bay area premiere of the film Meeting Resistance.

Friday Jan 18 07:00PM -- Friday Morning Musicale
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Florida's Natural To Save Energy With Solar Panels

The power of the sun is now helping the operation of the visitor center of Florida's Natural in Lake Wales. Solar panels were installed a little more than a week ago on the roof of the Grove House which will save an estimated 30 percent of energy usage.......here

Stop Eating At Burger King

Burger King is telling suppliers it may stop buying tomatoes from southwestern Florida, where farmworkers have fought to get the second-largest hamburger chain to pay more for its produce and help boost field-worker wages. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has tried for more than a year to get Burger King Corp. to join deals signed by rivals McDonald's Corp. and Taco Bell owner Yum Brands Inc........here

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Kevin Beckner Volunteer Round-Up

At the party, you'll have a chance make new friends and see old ones! Hear Kevin speak about his platform! Find out what specific jobs the campaign has for volunteers and learn what each job entails! There will be food, beverages, and interesting conversation!

January 20, 1:00pm to 3:pm

Jerk Hut - 2101 Fowler Ave, Tampa

RSVP to Mark@KevinBeckner.com

Bob Johnson: "Something in the Neighborhood"

Florida's GOP Anti-Gay Amendment In Trouble

Backers of a proposed amendment to bar same-sex marriage in Florida are scrambling to find 20,000 signatures to get the measure on November's ballot after the Secretary of State announced Monday that a counting mistake put them well short of the required 611,000 signatures needed........more

Last year it was discovered that the state GOP was bankrolling Florida4Marriage......here

The John F. Kennedy Maritime Museum In Miami

Right now, the beloved JFK is sitting in Virginia waiting for a new home, and a group with First Coast ties has a plan for a new life as a museum in Florida. Retired Navy Captain Rick Hoffman, who lives on the First Coast, is working with a group called the JFK CV-67 Memorial Foundation that wants to turn the former JFK into the John F. Kennedy Maritime Museum........here

Don't Let Them Bully You From Signing Petition

You still haven't signed the Florida Hometown Democracy petition? If you are a Florida voter, and you haven't signed it yet, please do so today and mail it in. Time is running out for us to make the 2008 ballot........here

http://www.floridahometowndemocracy.com

Spiritual Progressives Mix Politics And Religion

Thomas N. Tift isn't sure he's ready for this — a major conference sponsored by his tiny organization, which hasn't yet seen its second birthday. But the Methodist layman isn't backing off. He said South Florida needs an alternative voice — i.e., a more liberal one......more

Havana Blogger Writes Freely About Life In Cuba

From the 14th-floor balcony of a hulking Soviet-era high-rise, Yoani Sánchez enjoys a spectacular view of the city where she was born 32 years ago. There is Revolution Square, with its image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara and towering monument to José Martí, surrounded by the sprawling capital......here

www.desdecuba.com/generaciony

Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride

To help a new generation of combat-wounded veterans make the transition to an active civilian life with the extra challenges that come with a physical disability, a pair of local Iraq veterans will pedal across south Florida next week......here
Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride

Dean Hopes For Civil Fight

While Howard Dean acknowledged the potential convention fight in Denver over who wins the Democratic nomination would generate huge public interest, he said it would actually be "a nightmare" for him........here

Ned Lamont for Obama

The Meatrix

Sustainable Table celebrates the sustainable food movement, educates consumers on food-related issues and works to build community through food. The program is home to the critically-acclaimed, award-winning Meatrix movies - The Meatrix, The Meatrix II: Revolting and The Meatrix II½.

Seffner Mango Volunteer Fire Department

A Hillsborough county volunteer fire department, that lost its certification because of a scandal, is still benefiting from tax payer dollars. Initially they received hundreds of thousands of dollars to run the place, now they are profiting from the sale of the property. Community Activist Terry Flott says everybody should be outraged at this........more

Howard Dean Goes To School

The Democratic National Committee chairman showed up in a T-shirt, faded jeans with worn- out knees and a pair of beat-up New Balance running shoes for a DNC service project at Manual High School. This is a very gutsy, risky thing to do, and I think it’s a great way to save a school,” Dean said. “That’s what makes education work — when a community cares enough to do this. This could actually be a model for the rest of the nation — if it works.”.........here

“I’m learning from the Republicans how to whitewash everything.”

Florida Losing Its Sunny Magnetism

The vast flow of people into Florida from elsewhere in the United States has been the defining feature of the Sunshine State's 20th-century history, draining swamps and spurring development, swelling the economy and shaping politics......here

Hispanic Pride - Hispanic Shame

Manatees' Family Tree Recorded In Florida

A thick herd of manatees greeted Blue Spring State Park specialist Wayne Hartley as he started his manatee count during a recent Florida cold snap. Among them swam Lunatic, Law, Liege and Lili — manatees he named when each was a newborn calf and all of whom descended from Luna, a matriarch whose family tree of 35 sea cows spans five generations. "Luna was one of those who had a calf every two years," said Hartley, sighing in his reminiscence. "I can remember when she died. They picked her up in Lake Monroe Fla.". But Luna's legacy — and those of a dozen other matriarchs — lives on among the more than 260 manatees that take refuge at the Orange City, Fla., park every winter. Their family trees — recorded throughout Hartley's 27 years of tracking the manatees — serve a vital purpose for scientists, too.........here

Blue Hampshire

The Republican Party in New England's only "red state" may be going the way of the Old Man of the Mountain, the craggy icon of independence that crumbled a few years back in a rock slide. In the last election, Democrats took both seats in Congress for the first time in nearly a century and both houses of the legislature for the first time since 1874. Democratic Gov. John Lynch won a second term with a record 74 percent of the vote, and lawmakers recently authorized same-sex civil unions and a smoking ban in bars and restaurants........more

Most independents say they'll vote Democratic.

Absentee Ballot Requests Pour In From Palm Beach Democrats

Though they've been snubbed by their party's presidential candidates, Palm Beach County Democrats seem to be more fired up about Florida's Jan. 29 primary than local Republicans. One indicator: Democratic absentee ballot requests outnumber Republican requests by more than a 2-to-1 margin in the county.......more

Atheists Are Moral, Too

The role of religion in politics and government has been a major point of contention between social conservatives who prefer more religion in public policy, and liberals who want to maintain church-state separation. This issue was addressed in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel's "Dueling Columnists: Religion in Government". Here's an atheist's perspective........here

"I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.".......John F. Kennedy

Florida ACLU For Impeachment

The Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida urges the National ACLU Board of Directors to call for the convening of hearings by the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives to determine whether to recommend Articles of Impeachment against President George Bush, and Vice President Richard Cheney to the House.......here

Dr. Maya Angelou At USF

Monday, January 14, 2008 7:00 PM, As Part Of MLK Celebration
Tickets on sale now at Sun Dome Ticket Office or by calling (813) 974-3002