Author: Tom Walker

This Wednesday our guest will be John Noltner, creator of A Peace of My MInd,  a multimedia arts project that uses portraits and personal stories to bridge divides and encourage dialogue around important issues. “Through exhibits, workshops, lectures, on-site studios, and distance learning, A Peace of My Mind leads transformative experiences that help a polarized world […]

This Wednesday, February 8 at 9am, we’ll talk about Ukraine and Russia. Our guests will be former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and Russian expert Dr. Angela Stent. They will have just appeared at the Sarasota World Affairs Council event at New College the previous evening, February 7 at 6:30 pm at the Marie Seiner Pavillion. Ambassador Yovanovitch’s […]

Tomorrow our first guest will be Doug Rawlings, President of the Maine chapter of Veterans for Peace. Then we’ll talk to music teacher Carlos Silva about BookerFest, a celebration of Sarasota’s Booker schools, coming up this Saturday, February 4, from 4-8pm.

This week we’ll hear Florida news from Jim Saunders of the News Service of Florida. Then we’ll talk to Dawn Sakes of More Too Life about the group’s efforts to stop human trafficking. Finally, we’ll talk to WSLR’s Music of the World host, Marco Ciceron.

Our guest this week is Dr. Jeffrey R. Orenstein, an author and political scientist. We’ll talk about his 2020 book Saving American Democracy: How We the People Can Be Truly Represented in Our Own Government  We’ll also talk about his new organization promoting civic literacy, First Responders for Democracy. At 9:30 we’ll hear from the good people at Legal […]

This Wednesday we’ll interview Dr. Laila Abdullah of the Roskamp Institute about her research into Gulf War Illness. GWI is a multi-symptom disorder affecting one fourth of military veterans of the First Persian Gulf War (1990-91). GWI veterans have an extended spectrum of complaints including fatigue, cognitive impairments, diffuse musculoskeletal pain, gastrointestinal dysfunction and sleep abnormalities. […]

This Wednesday, January 4 at 9am, join us for a review of recent Florida events and court rulings from Jim Saunders, Executive Editor of the News Service of Florida. Then we’ll talk to Ben Wilcox, Research Director and Co-founder of Integrity Florida about “ghost candidates” and how they manipulate and sometimes steal Florida Elections.

This Wednesday, December 28 at 9am, we’ll talk to Gene Jones, President of Florida Veterans for Common Sense. He’ll tell us about their new Common Sense News and about the attempts of Mosaic to move their phosphate mining into DeSoto county. On the second half of the show we’ll be talking with Professor Michael Butler […]

Our guest on Peace & Justice Wednesday morning December 21 will be Rabbi Barry Silver of congregation L’Dor Va-Dor of Boynton Beach. Rabbi Silver and his co-plaintiffs are suing Florida over the state’s new ban on most abortions after 15 weeks, saying it violates their religious principles. Religious resistance against anti-abortion laws is an unusual […]

“The most important case for American democracy” in the nation’s history — that’s how the former appeals court judge J. Michael Luttig described Moore v. Harper, an extraordinary lawsuit that the Supreme Court considered in oral arguments Wednesday morning. Judge Luttig, a conservative and a widely respected legal thinker, is not one for overstatement. Yet […]