Author: Tom Walker

This Wednesday, March 17 at 9am, we’ll visit with Bob Koehler. Bob contributes to his own website Common Wonders and to PeaceVoice. PeaceVoice is “dedicated to changing U.S. national conversation about the possibilities of peace and justice and the inadvisability of war and injustice. We believe that nonviolent conflict transformation from destructive to constructive —peace and […]

Our guest on the Peace & Justice Report this Wednesday, March 10 at 9am will be Bob Lord. Bob is a tax lawyer and former Congressional candidate, now an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Bob’s work focuses on the relationship of tax law to inequality. He contributes to both the Inequality.org website […]

This Wednesday, March 3 at 9am, the Peace & Justice Report will start with a review of the opening sessions of the Florida Legislature by Jim Saunders, Executive Editor of the News Service of Florida. Then we’ll talk to Roy Eidelson, author of Political Mind Games – How the 1% Manipulate Our Understanding of What’s […]

On Wednesday, February 24 at 9am, our first guest on the Peace & Justice Report was Andy Worthington, an investigative journalist, author, campaigner, commentator and public speaker. Missed it? You can listen to it in the WSLR archives! Andy is recognized as an authority on Guantánamo and the “war on terror.”  He’s the co-founder websites Close Guantánamo and […]

This Wednesday, February 17 at 9am, our first guest will be scientist Marc Zimmer from the University of Connecticut who will talk about a book he’s writing for teens on how to tell good science from fake science. Last year he published a book The State of Science: What the Future Holds and the Scientists Making it […]

This Wednesday, February 10 at 9am, our first guest was Jim Saunders, the Executive Editor of the News Service of Florida. Jim has agreed to give us a weekly five-minute overview of the latest activity in the Florida Legislature – new bills, upcoming hearings, and so forth. But this week Jim will be with us for […]

This Wednesday, February 3 at 9am, the Peace & Justice Report will have three guests. First we had a short report from Jim Saunders, the Executive Editor of the News Service of Florida. Jim has agreed to give us a weekly five-minute overview of the latest activity in the Florida Legislature – new bills, upcoming hearings, […]

This Wednesday, January 27 at 9am, our first guests on Peace and Justice will be Patricia Allen and Marie Keeney from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota’s Social Justice Committee. We’ll talk about Sarasota policing and the reforms advocated on the websites Campaign Zero and #8cantwait. In the second half of the show we’ll talk […]

This Wednesday, January 20th at 9am, our first guest will be Jenna Stevens, State Director of Environment Florida. She’ll talk about their new report A Path to Cleaner Water. “America’s waterways are a national asset. They are the places we swim on hot summer days, kayak with friends and family, spend a relaxing day fishing, […]

This Wednesday, January 13th at 9am, our guest was New College professor Brendan Goff. He talked about his soon to be published  book, Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism. It’s a new history showing how the organization reinforced capitalist values and cultural practices at home and tried to remake the world in the […]