Author: Tom Walker

This Wednesday at 9am we’ll interview Amy Weintraub from Progress Florida and Floridians for Reproductive Freedom. Amy will give us an update on the Florida bills pending to restrict abortion and also information about such things as the many fake clinics, the abortion pill available by mail, and where to find help. And since it’s the third […]

This Wednesday the Peace & Justice Report we’ll first host members of the Sarasota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee. Patricia Allen will speak about their history, how they advocate for issues and about the various issues they have advocated for since their start in 2019. She’ll also speak to their interest in Newtown. Jessica Traiger will speak about the […]

On the Peace & Justice Report this Wednesday January 5 at 9am we’ll first hear from David Wallis. He’s the Managing Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. We’ll talk about that and about their new podcast Going for Broke. Then we’ll talk to our old friend, UK activist Andy Worthington, an investigative journalist, author, campaigner, commentator […]

This Wednesday on the Peace & Justice Report at 9am Bob and I will air our interview with Tim Nevius, an attorney and former college NCAA athlete who now represents the players. He’ll review the new rights that athletes have to profit from their name, image and likeness. On the second half of our show we’ll talk […]

This Wednesday, December 22 at 9am, tune into the Peace & Justice Report for an interview with Stephanie Savell, co-director of Costs of War. In the post-911 wars, we have spent eight trillion dollars and over 929,000 people have died in over 85 countries. In addition, 38 million people have been displaced in Afghanstan, Pakistan, Iraq, […]

On Wednesday, December 15 at 9am, our guest will be Carolina Franco, the President of CreArte Latino. Carolina was unable to make our November 24 show. CreArte Latino was founded in 2012 as a creative hub for the Latino community in Sarasota and Manatee Counties. It now produces and performs an average of nine plays annually and collaborates […]

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 […]