Author: Tom Walker

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 […]

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 […]