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A year after George Floyd’s murder, Tampa activists navigate task forces and slow moving review board changes
A vote on the CRB is set for today, May 20.
By Kelly Benjamin
Tags: Tampa Bay News
Joe Haskins, Tampa champion of working class bicycle riders, has died at age 79
He’ll be remembered with a memorial ride to his wake on Sunday.
Some participants skeptical after Tampa Mayor Jane Castor’s policing task force opens on Saturday
The next meeting is on July 18.
By Kelly Benjamin and Ray Roa
Tampa Police Chief says 'George Floyd had to get murdered' for people to come to Citizen Review Board meetings
Board member Rev. Bartholomew Banks later chastised Dugan’s behavior.
Tampa's police community review board is a sham, and it was built to fail
For one, the CRB can only review closed internal affairs files given to it by the police.
When it comes to enacting climate change initiatives, Tampa is struggling to catch up
“We have a lot of work to do. We’re the smoggiest city in the state.”
Tags: Florida News, Environment
Cuba Now: Why Trump's restrictions suck
His political pandering is quite likely not about human rights at all.
Dispatches from Paris: the stakes are high as climate talks open
Tags: News Feature, Politics, Environment, Paris Climate Talks, COP 21, Barack Obama, Ban Ki-moon, Video
Letters to the Future: Kelly Benjamin
Tags: News Feature, Politics, Environment, Paris, Letters to the Future, Kelly Benjamin, Climate Change
Growth market: The rush to make a buck in Florida’s still-hypothetical medical marijuana industry
Tags: News Feature, Politics, pot, medical marijuana, Marijuana, legalizing marijuana in florida, florida pot, florida cannabis laws, cannabis
The Green Rush: The Business of Marijuana 101
Tags: News Feature, Rude Awakening, medical marijuana, dispensaries, Cannabis Career Institute, Bob Calkin, amendment 2
The curious case of Bishop Chuck Leigh
Are police targeting a clergyman who ministers to Tampa’s poor?
Tags: News Feature, The Poor, Tampa Police Department, Tampa, Sulphur Springs, Reverend Bruce Wright, news, Mayor Bob Buckhorn, Kelly Benjamin, Jon Dengler, Florida Council of Churches, Bishop Chuck Leigh, Apostolic Catholic Church of Christ the Servant, ABC Action News
What would MLK do?
The Clean Zone, Mayor Buckhorn and a questionable analogy.
Tags: Local Music, Elections, Tampa, RNC, Republican National Convention, protests, Occupy, MLK, Martin Luther King, Kelly Benjamin, clean zone, bob buckhorn
Why the UN Climate Summit was a flop
How a shrewd propaganda campaign has stymied progress on global warming.
Tags: Tampa Bay News, wmnf, United Nations Climate Change Summit, the united nations, South Africa, Kyoto Treaty, inconvenient truth, environmentalism, Durban, Climate Change, carbon footprint, Al Gore, kelly benjamin, International Convention Centre
VIDEO: Thousands march at UN Climate Talks in South Africa
Tags: Columns, Politics, Environment, protest, kyoto protocol, Greenpeace, COP 17, Climate Change, Africa, Video
Mayor Buckhorn on Occupy Tampa
Tags: News Feature, Occupy Tampa, Kelly Benjamin, bob buckhorn, Video
Strategy, Discipline, the Right to Assemble, and Occupy Tampa
Tags: News Feature, Tampa Police, sidewalks, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Tampa, non-violent resistance, Kelly Benjamin, James Lawson, Gandhi, freedom of assembly
Occupy Tampa: we're gonna stay right here
Tags: News Feature, Occupy Tampa, money and politics, Kelly Benjamin, capitalism, 99%, Video
Occupy Wall Street: Getting to the point
A local reporter and activist says the media's demand for soundbites is at odds with the protests' larger vision.
Tags: Tampa Bay News, Zuccotti Park, Tampa, protest movement, politics, police, Occupy Wall Street, Manhattan, liberty park, Kelly Benjamin, end the fed, cigar city
In Copenhagen, activists fight COP and cops
Tags: News Feature, Politics, Uncategorized, politics, news, naomi klein cop15 climate change copenhagen protesters activism police kelly benjamin, Video
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Tijuana Flats closes four Tampa Bay locations following bankruptcy filing
By Suzanne Townsend
Gator removed from runway at Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base
By Colin Wolf
Five Tampa restaurants earn Michelin stars in 2024 guide
By Kyla Fields
Tampa Pig Jig brings Dierks Bentley to downtown this fall
By Ray Roa
The annual 98ROCKFEST really ran for over nine hours at Tampa's Amalie Arena last Friday. The day started with the likes of…
By Josh Bradley
In Transit has a new EP, Illusionary, out, and last Saturday, the Bradenton band celebrated it with a release show that featured…
It’s starting to get hot in Tampa, but Nation Of Language and Beach Fossils kept it cool last Friday when the former…
Last Thursday, about a dozen students at Tampa’s University of South Florida continued to voice support for a movement that, in part,…
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