Author: Tom Walker

This Wednesday, March 25, at 9am, our first guest will be Sandra Frank, CEO of All Faiths Food Bank. All Faiths Food Bank is the only food bank and largest hunger relief organization in Sarasota and DeSoto counties. A member of Feeding America and Feeding Florida, they provide millions of meals each year through programs […]

Cassandra Manz, our WSLR news intern, will have a special report on Tuesday’s Presidential Preference Primary this Wednesday on Peace & Justice at 9am. Her regular Critical Times broadcasts are Fridays at 6pm for half an hour and are repeated Monday mornings at 9:30am. Host Bob Connors will have other reports of interest. I’ll stay […]

This Wednesday our guest in the studio will be Larry Cohen, Board Chair of Our Revolution. OR grew out of the Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign and continues that work. “We are organizing a political revolution to challenge the power of the plutocrats and prioritize the needs of people and our planet. With your support, we […]

This coming Wednesday, March 4 at 9am, the Peace & Justice Report will talk to Harvey J Kaye, Professor of Democracy & Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay about his book Take Hold of Our History – Make America Radical Again. The eighteen essays and speeches in Take Hold of Our History render […]

This Wednesday, February 26th at 9am, our first guests will be Andrea ‘Andy’ Blanch of the Center for Religious Tolerance and Father Paul Abernathy, CEO of the Neighborhood Resilience Project. Father Abernathy leads Trauma-Informed Community Development in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, PA. He is giving a talk “Building A Community of Hope and Healing” […]

This Wednesday at 9am our guests in the studio will be Carol Rescigno, President, and Patrick McLain of the Sarasota chapter of the Brady (formerly the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence). The Sarasota Brady chapter is in its seventh year of fighting for gun violence prevention. We’ll talk about progress made and pending legislation. […]

This Wednesday, February 12th at 9am, Bob and I will have as a guest in the studio the Honorable Erika Quartermaine, County Court Judge of the 12th. Judicial Circuit Court. An impressive array of “specialty courts” — Mental Health Court, Comprehensive Treatment Court, Drug Court, DUI Court, Veterans Court and TYLA Court (for victims of […]

This Wednesday, February 5 at 9am our guest will be Florida Studio Theatre’s Literary Associate Meg Gilbert who is helping with the year-long Suffragist Project, an artistic celebration of the upcoming 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment (August 20, 2020), the woman’s right to vote. Bringing together over 55 organizations, this bi-county artistic commemoration will […]

This Wednesday, January 29 at 9am, we’ll have as our guest Peter Georgescu, author of the book Capitalists, Arise!: End Economic Inequality, Grow the Middle Class, Heal the Nation. Peter will be speaking at Sarasota Institute for Lifetime Learning the same morning. For tickets go to www.sillsarasota.org. Peter Georgescu arrived in this country as a […]

Our first guest this Wednesday will be Erik Gustafson, Executive Director of EPIC: Enabling Peace in Iraq Center. EPIC was founded by veterans of the Gulf War in 1998. We’ll also be joined by Gene Jones and John Feagan from the Florida Veterans for Common Sense. Erik writes: “One timely topic worth discussing will be […]