Programming

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, […]

  Tuesday 09-19-23 – WSLR 96.5 Sarasota, and WBPV 100.1 West Bradenton from 11:00 am until 1:00 p.m. (EST). Also available on our App (Android and IOS); and for two weeks on WSLR Archives: https://archive.wslr.org/ The United Nations designated September 21 as International Day of Peace. In Nuestra Musica, we are celebrating it with Latinx […]

Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15-Oct. 15, and WSLR is celebrating with “Hispanic Heritage Month Minutes,” which feature the voices of our Sarasota community. Activists, educators, musicians and WSLR programmers will highlight contributions that Americans whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America have made to history, society and culture. […]

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 […]

  Tuesday 09-05-23 – WSLR 96.5 Sarasota, and WBPV 100.1 West Bradenton from 11:00 am until 1:00 p.m. (EST). Also available on our App (Android and IOS); and for two weeks on WSLR Archives: https://archive.wslr.org/ We are presenting a show titled Rhythms and styles. With the beats and patterns of music from Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, […]

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 […]

  Tuesday 08-22-23 – WSLR 96.5 Sarasota, and WBPV 100.1 West Bradenton from 11:00 am until 1:00 p.m. (EST). Also available on our App (Android and IOS); and for two weeks on WSLR Archives: https://archive.wslr.org/   With Nuestra Musica we present the rhythms, folklore, native instruments languages and traditions of Latin America, Spain, Portugal and […]