Author: Tom Walker

At the beginning of our show this Wednesday, January 16 at 9am, we’ll remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and tell you about all of the activities next week surrounding the celebration of his life, starting with the MLK Memorial Breakfast and Service Awards at 7:30 a.m. January 21 at the Robert L. Taylor Community […]

This Wednesday, January 9, at 9 a.m. we’ll have in the studio Demetrius Jifunza, paralegal, speaker, social activist, NAACP VP & Florida Rights Restoration Coalition​ Chapter President, Sarasota. He’s also Pastor at the Mt. Olive CME Church in Arcadia, FL. He’ll talk about the press conference being held on Amendment 4 implementation at 8:30 a.m. […]

This Wednesday January 2 our first guest was Kirk Baily, Political Director of the ACLU of Florida. Kirk talked about the implementation of  Amendment 4 which restores the right to vote to over 1.4 million Floridians. Tuesday, January 8 at 9 a.m. is the first opportunity for former felons to register. Just go to registertovoteflorida.gov or […]

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This Wednesday December 12, our guest in the studio was be Andy Mele with Suncoast Waterkeeper.  Andy is the former Executive Director of a major Hudson River environmental group that was instrumental in forcing General Electric to remove 300,000 pounds of toxic PCBs from the Hudson. He is author of Polluting for Pleasure (W.W. Norton), the book that […]

Carol Lerner, the leader of Protect Our Public Schools Manasota (POPS Manasota) will join us again on Wednesday. We’ll talk about their event coming up next Tuesday, December 11 at Fogartyville: POPS, Manasota, along with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Florida and the Peace Education and Action Center, is sponsoring a forum, ‘Community Partnership […]

As violence, racism and fascism grow in the world and in our country, we need more than ever to find ways to live together peacefully.  Please join Bob Connors, Tom Walker and John Dickman for the Peace & Justice Report this Wednesday and every Wednesday from 9-10 a.m. Tom is traveling in November, but Bob […]

This Wednesday, October 24, we’ll get a report from Ron Turner, our Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections, about the unprecedented number of Vote By Mail ballots being sent and counted in this election. We’ll update this post as other guests confirm for our Wednesday show. ___________ See the positions of  ten different organizations on the […]

We’ll help kick off the WSLR FALL MEMBERSHIP DRIVE this Wednesday morning October 17 at 9 a.m.. When you call 941-954-8636  – and we hope  you will – be sure to mention Peace & Justice on your pledge! Our first guest will be Christopher Wilson, PhD, Chairman of the Sarasota Architectural Foundation. He’ll be talking […]