Author: Tom Walker

This Wednesday, March 14, our first guest will be Bill Waddill, the Executive Director of the Sarasota Bay Planning Organization – www.thebaysarasota.org. Check out their website. This is the organization which raised enough money to hire the design group Sasaki to propose, by this July, a plan for the 42 publicly owned acres on the bay centered around the […]

Growing and preparing food is life’s highest priority in Africa’s rural villages. Unfortunately, food is produced in ways that exacerbate the damages already wrought by climate change to the rapidly deteriorating lands south of the Sahara. How do we reform food production to help the villages adapt to climate change and combat the ravages of […]

This coming Wednesday, February 28, at 9:00 a.m. we’ll have in the studio Will Newton, Executive Director of SURE – Sarasota United for Responsibility and Equity – and Steve Scott, community activist for affordable housing and voter rights. We’ll talk about SURE’s goals and upcoming assembly. SURE is an association of nineteen Sarasota churches whose mission […]

This Wednesday, February 21 at 9:00 a.m. we’ll have in the studio Brad Weinstock, Co-Founder and Director of Neurology of Cannabis, a local medical practice that provides medical marijuana cards for residents of Florida who seek alternative holistic treatments. He’ll talk about which conditions qualify for medical marijuana treatment, how the card is obtained, what costs are […]

This Wednesday we’ll talk to Libby Devlin about the upcoming Florida Healthcare Summit. It’s February 16 and 17 in West Palm Beach. Libby  is the Southern Region Director for National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United. She has been a union organizer for over 30 years, engaging workers in the struggle for social and economic justice, […]

Our main feature this Wednesday, February 1 on the Peace & Justice Report will be an interview Bob did with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (USA Ret.). Wilkerson is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William & Mary. He previously taught for six years in the University Honors Program at the […]

This Wednesday at 9 a.m. we’ll air an interview Bob did with Krishna Das. He’ll be performing Wednesday night at the Riverview Performing Arts Center, at 1 Ram Way in Sarasota – a Trust in the Heart Kirtan Concert, put on by Ocean of Sound. Call (941) 356-1989 for more information. We’ll play some of his […]

This Wednesday, January 17, at 9 a.m. we’ll have as guests Diane Desenberg of Manasota Move to Amend and Jenni Casale of Action Together Suncoast talking about the upcoming Saturday, January 20 March for Democracy. Meet at noon at Unconditional Surrender statue on Sarasota’s bayfront near Marina Jack. In the second half of our program […]

This Wednesday we’ll talk to activist Andy Worthington about his work and the demonstration this Thursday in Lafayette Square in Washington, DC, to close Guantanamo and stop torture. Andy is a British historian, investigative journalist, and film director.[1][2][3] He has published three books, and been published in numerous publications. In 2009 Worthington was the co-director of […]