Author: Tom Walker

As our first guest this week, we’ve invited  George McDermott, writer, poet, editor and teacher. He’ll talk about his career as an educator and author and about his book What Went Right: Lessons from Both Sides of the Teacher’s Desk which answers such questions as What makes a teacher or a class memorable? How can […]

The Wednesday December 6 show will cover three topics. Sean Sellers, Chair of the Sarasota Climate Justice Coalition talking about the city’s Ready for 100 campaign and the plans for the  Bayfront. To keep up on this topic, go to sbpo.org. Then we’ll air a short YouTube piece on Net Neutrality.Trump’s FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, […]

On Wednesday, November 29th, we’ll talk to Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK. She’ll talk about Saudi Arabia, the war in Yemen, the health crisis there, and the U.S. involvement in that war. We’ll also talk about how to  divest from the war economy and her new book about Iran. Later in the program we’ll hear […]

This Wednesday, November 15, we’ll talk to Victoria Kasdan, Executive Director of We Care Manatee about the free healthcare they offer Manatee County residents. Then we’ll talk to Ruta Jouniari about her health clinic and her organic farming. She’s also a candidate for the Florida State House of Representatives, District 72. (The primary is December […]

This Wednesday, November 8, we’ll talk with Sean Sellers of the Sarasota Climate Justice Coalition about Ready for 100 and other efforts. Then Jenni Casale of Action Together Suncoast will talk about their upcoming fundraiser November 20 featuring Harpeth Rising. Finally, we’ll talk to Roy Bourgois about School of the Americas Watch.

On November 1 we’ll have Roland Levy on the show talking about four of his favorite charities: SOS International, Friends of Gulf Gate Library, Mental Health Community Centers, and WSLR. He’s an endurance cyclist and is donating dollars for each mile he cycles in the first days of November. In a trial run last week […]

Join us for the beginning of the WSLR FALL MEMBERSHIP DRIVE! We’ll take your calls and also talk to Diane Desenberg about her experience at the People’s Congress of Resistance this September in Washington, D.C. Also tomorrow Gene Jones will talk about the work of the Florida Veterans for Common Sense. Gene writes in his […]

This week we’ll interview State College of Florida Philip Travis, PhD, about his recent books. He writes: “Less than a year ago I published an academic book with the Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group. The book is titled Reagan’s War on Terrorism in Nicaragua: The Outlaw State and it examines how the U.S.-Contra intervention in Nicaragua during the […]

This Wednesday 9/6/17 we’ll talk in the studio with Carrie Seidman, a reporter, critic and columnist for nearly forty years, and since 2010 with the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. She’ll talk about her year-long effort called FACEing Mental Illness: The Art of Acceptance,  a collaborative art project aimed at reducing discrimination against those with mental health conditions and creating […]