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This Wednesday at 9am on Peace & Justice, Tom will interview two leaders of the Sarasota chapter of Friendship Force, a worldwide network of over 250 clubs who believe that a more peaceful world comes from connecting people and visiting across borders and cultures.

In September of 2025 Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a national divorce arguing that Red and Blue states had so little in common it was time for them to part company. She isn’t alone. There are secession movements on both the right and the left as polarization in the country is on the rise. But […]

This Wednesday, May 6 at 9am, Tom will talk to Gal Beckerman, the author of How to Be a Dissident, “An invigorating guide to fighting back—part philosophy, part history, and part manual for living with integrity in an age of conformity and authoritarian drift.”

This Wednesday, April 29 at 9am, Tom’s guests will be Gene Jones of the Florida Veterans for Common Sense, and David Kotok of the Kotok Report. We’ll discuss the Iran war. Please join us!

There is an epidemic of loneliness in the United States. Alone, we watch the country slide away from democracy and toward dictatorship. We need to band together to fight for what had already been won. Staying in it for the long run means learning how to get along with others. In his book Love in […]

On Wednesday, 4/15 on Peace & Justice, Tom’s guests were Arlene Sweeting and Dave Beaton, the founders of WSLR and Fogartyville! Listen in the archives for the full hour and learn about our history.

What if we have it all wrong? We accept unemployment, inflation, low wages, lack of access to healthcare and education, periodic recessions, ecological collapse, food insecurity and endless wars as inevitable. The underlying belief in a market driven system is the bedrock of our economy. We’ve handed our lives and resources over to a mechanism […]

Tomorrow morning, April 1 at 9am, Tom will talk to Miles Toder about the Sister Cities Association of Sarasota. One upcoming event is “Bridges Across the Seas – A Global Learning Celebration” on April 27 at 3pm at Selby Library in downtown Sarasota.

The cost to our nation from militarized borders goes beyond the cost of enforcement. Both legal and undocumented migrants pay into our tax system. They boost the economy by spending money on the basics like food and rent. Many of our skilled workers in tech and medicine are immigrants. They also are the backbone of […]

Public invited to attend the meeting at 5:30 p.m.; agenda and board materials available online.