Author: Tom Walker

Sebastian Martinez will be our guest on Peace & Justice this Wednesday October 18 at 9am. He’s a 2021 graduate of Booker High School, has been involved in youth organizing since he was 15 years old. He founded a local youth organization, the Sarasota Youth Association (SYA), but after attending college, he decided to grow […]

First, we’ll talk to Sarah McNamara, author of Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South. Sarah McNamara’s book traces the politics of Cuban immigrants and their descendants, the central role of women, and histories of labor organizing in a Tampa area cigar making community. Then we’ll talk to Mayor Stephen Reed. He wrote First, Best: Lessons in Leadership […]

This Wednesday we’ll talk to Brenda Downing-Wiggins, MBA Director of Operations The Salvation Army of Sarasota County. We’ll find out what they do and how they support the community. Then we’ll talk to Kel Roth, Education and Engagement Coordinator for the Florida Maritime Museum in Cortez. We’ll also ask our listeners to become WSLR members […]

This Wednesday we’ll talk to author Tanya Golash-Boza, author of Before Gentrification: The creation of DC’S Racial Wealth Gap which shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. Then we’ll hear Bob’s interview with David Keith Cobb, […]

On Wednesday, September 20 at 9am, the Peace & Justice Report first talked to Beth Duda, Cedric Hameed, and Ben Tollefson about the upcoming film presentation of “A Walk to Respect,” a powerful staged reading of an exchange between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass about overcoming division. It’s at 6:20pm a week from this Saturday, […]

This Wednesday, September 13 at 9am, we’ll hear from five fighters seeking to preserve Democracy in Florida: Jim Nathan and Jeff Cull from Floridians for Democracy, Jill Lewis-Spector of the League of Women Voters Florida, Gene Jones of the Florida Veterans for Common Sense, and Dale Anderson of Choose Democracy. Please join us Wednesday or […]

This Wednesday, September 6 at 9am, the Peace & Justice Report will interview Amber Whittle, Ph.D., of Southface Sarasota. Amber will talk about the work of Southface Sarasota and the upcoming EcoSummit and Expo hosted by the Science and Environment Council in Sarasota December 2-6. On the second  half of  the show Bob has invited […]

This Wednesday, August 30, at 9am the WSLR Peace & Justice Report will interview Chuck Collins. Chuck is the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-edits Inequality.org. He is an expert on U.S. inequality and the racial wealth divide and author of over […]

Wednesday, August 23 at 9am, our guest on Peace & Justice will be Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Palestinian scientist and author. He’s the founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History and also the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability of Bethlehem University where he teaches. He’s touring the U.S. now and will […]