Author: Tom Walker

Wednesday morning at 9am we had as our guest the amazing activist Adrien Lucas. We discussed both the upcoming decisions for the land adjacent to the Celery Fields and also the ongoing attempt by county commissioners to change the boundaries of the Sarasota County Commission districts. Listen to it on the archives! Good information about […]

This Wednesday we’ll talk to Jenni Casale, a founding member of Action Together Suncoast, one of the many Indivisible groups in our area. But she’s also the author of the popular blog Democracy Alive, a fact-based discussion of current and controversial issues. We’ll talk about her writing and the concerns all of us have for […]

This Wednesday we’ll talk in the studio to Bruce Rodgers, Executive Director of the Hermitage Artist Retreat. The Hermitage hosts artists on their Gulf-front Manasota Key campus for “escape-to-create” residencies. Some come to explore and experiment, some are on deadline or working on a commission. The idea is that artists require focused time to produce quality […]

This Wednesday, October 16 at 9am we’ll talk to Billy Cox, a reporter for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and a union member. We’ll talk about how our daily newspapers are under siege by their corporate owners which continue to lay off or not replace news gatherers across the country. A proposed merger between Sarasota Herald-Tribune owner […]

WSLR and Peace & Justice supporter Roland Levy is celebrating riding 100,000 miles on the Legacy Trail! Roland supports WSLR and three other local nonprofit groups. We’ll talk about them this Wednesday. Roland leads a local group of SOS – Secular Organizations for Sobriety each Wednesday from 6-7 PM at Prospect House at 240 S. Tuttle Avenue […]

This Wednesday we’ll first be talking to John Bonifaz, President and Co-Founder of Free Speech for People. We’ll talk about his work and about the upcoming impeachment inquiry. John appeared on Democracy Now on October 1 talking about impeachment. Watch, listen or read HERE. Then we’ll play a recent interview I did with Daron Acemoglu. […]

This Wednesday we’ll have in the studio Manatee School District’s Deb Estes, Director of ESOL, Migrant and Dual Language Programs; Susanne Peña, University of Central Florida Director for the Dual Language STEPS program and a doctoral candidate focusing on Teaching English to Students of Other Languages; and Geri Chaffee, Education Advocate and Founder of Dreamers […]

This Wednesday we’ll talk to Uriel Zelaya-Perez of the Alliance for Fair Food about their events this week with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and their boycott Wendy’s campaign. The second guests this Wednesday on the Peace & Justice Report will be Billy Wetherington interviewing in studio Will Rauschenberger of the Ordinary Zen Sangha Practice Center of Sarasota and […]

Encouraging Critical Media Literacy and Civic Engagement  These FREE ONLINE RESOURCES are from the book The United States of Distraction by Nolan Higdon and Micky Huff. We interviewed Nolan August 7, and these are from his appendix, with his permission. Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME) is an independently funded critical media literacy education network that […]

This Wednesday 8/7/19 we’ll talk to Dr. Nolan Higdon, the author of the new book United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It). Dr. Higdon is a lecturer of history and media studies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Higdon is the co-host of the podcast Along The Line and […]