Author: Tom Walker

This Wednesday, December 8 at 9am, we’ll play an interview Bob and I did last Friday with Andy Fisher of Big Hunger.  Andy is an activist, NGO consultant, and has worked as an adjunct professor at various universities in Oregon. His 2017 book, Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups is a new vision […]

This Wednesday, December 1 at 9am, we’ll talk to Benjamin Stevenson of the Florida ACLU. He’s one of the attorneys who filed the ACLU class-action lawsuit recently on behalf of eleven people being held in Manatee and Sarasota jails. The suite seeks appeals court action on the bail amounts that the lawsuit says violates their due […]

This Wednesday, November 24 at 9am on the Peace & Justice Report, we’ll interview Carolina Franco, the President of CreArte Latino. CreArte Latino was founded in 2012 as a creative hub for the Latino community in Sarasota and Manatee Counties. In 2016, CreArte Latino became a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and increased its performance schedule to […]

This Wednesday, November 17 at 9am, we talked to Scott Osborne, head of the Gulf Coast Chapter of UN Women about their upcoming actions, gender violence and about the fight for women’s and girls’ rights in a changing Afghanistan. Check out the Global Gender Gap Report from the World Economic Forum. Missed the show? Hear it […]

Tomorrow, November 10 at 9am, we’ll first talk to Professor Stephen Zunes. Professor Zunes is a prominent specialist on the politics of the Middle East and other regions, nonviolence, conflict resolution, U.S. foreign policy, and globalization. He served as the founder and first director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program. Several of his web articles […]

This Wednesday, November 3 at 9am, our guest will be Richard Jacobs, author of Democracy of Dollars: Where Natural and Constitutional Rights Go to the Highest Bidder. America’s Democracy of Dollars is about a “legal” problem we have today in America. But it is not a law book written for lawyers. Nor is it a […]

Tomorrow, October 27 at 9am, we’ll hear the latest Florida news from Jim Saunders of the News Service of Florida. Then we’ll talk to Kevin Chapman, Chief of Staff of the School District of Manatee County, and Ernie Withers, co-chair of ForwardManatee. They’ll describe the importance of voting to renew the 1-Mill Referendum, first passed […]

Missed the show? Listen on or archives! On Wednesday October 20 at 9am Bob and Tom on the Peace & Justice Report interviewed Alia Garrett. Alia is the Sustainability Outreach Coordinator for Sarasota County University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. There will be a Sustainability Communities Workshop November 10 with dozens of speakers. WSLR […]

This Wednesday, October 6 at 9am, our first guest will be Jen Senko. Jen made the film The Brainwashing of My Dad, and has now written a book by the same title. Later in the program we’ll talk to Mary Anne Bowie about the FL5, the campaign to put five conservation amendments on the 2022 […]

This Wednesday, September 29 at 9am, after our state news from News Service of Florida, our guest will be Dr. Dave Tomasko, Executive Director of the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program. Dave will talk about the health of Sarasota Bay, both now an in the past. He’ll also talk about their Water Quality Restoration Workshop coming up […]