Author: Tom Walker

This Wednesday, August 16, we’ll talk to Stevie Freeman-Montes, the Sustainability Manager for the City of Sarasota.  Sarasota has a progressive sustainability program with environmental issues consistently ranked as a top community priority. As the Sustainability Manager, she works to plan and implement programs and policies that reduce negative environmental impacts from city operations, community […]

This Wednesday we’ll talk about NAFTA with Melinda St. Louis,  International Campaigns Director with Public Citizen‘s Global Trade Watch. Then we’ll interview Cheryl Schroeder, Treasurer, West Central Florida Labor Council, AFL-CIO.  

This Wednesday, August 2, we’ll interview Dr. Stephen Harlin, Medical Director of the Harlin Center for Precision Medicine.  Precision medicine is an emerging field of medicine whose goal is to identify individual variations in our genes that might influence our likelihood of developing specific diseases.  Precision medicine takes an in-depth look at your DNA, the […]

On Wednesday,, July 26 we’ll first talk to Michael Blake, DNC Vice Chair, who’ll talk about voter suppression,  voter protection and also about the healthcare votes taking place this week in the Senate. Next we’ll interview Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of the Jubilee USA Network  Jubilee USA is an alliance of more than 75 US organizations […]

Lalia Abdelaziz from fightforthefuture.org will talk with us about their missions, one of which  is to ensure that the web continues to hold freedom of expression and creativity at its core. “We seek to expand the internet’s transformative power for good, to preserve and enhance its capacity to enrich and empower. We envision a world where […]

This Wednesday we’ll have local activist Juliana Musheyev on the show talking about the People’s Congress of Resistance. From their website, congressofresistance.org: In the face of the assault waged against working class and poor communities and the environment by the Trump Administration a grassroots People’s Congress of Resistance will convene in Washington, D.C. on September […]

This Wednesday Jan Schneider will be with us talking  about the Senate  healthcare bill.  She has read the draft text! Jan is a former candidate for Congress and graduate of Yale law. On the second half of the show we’ll have Sarasota resident Jeffrey Orenstein who’ll  talk about his new PAC Stand Up 4 Democracy and its goal […]

This Wednesday Sarasota resident Jeffrey Orenstein will talk about his new PAC Stand Up 4 Democracy and its goal of raising money from small member donations in order to elect  progressives to Congress and the state legislature. Jeffrey is a former political science professor and has written such books as Fixing American Government: Ending Gridlock […]

Today we had Rhonda Ryan from Sarasota Bay Watch and Jana Hoefling from Stand Up Fight Back SRQ talking about plastics and the meeting TONIGHT at 6pm at Fogartyville “Rethinking plastic – unfortunately, recycling is not enough.” Several experts, from fields including biology (Mote Marine) and nutrition (our own Eve Plews) will talk about plastic. […]