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This Wednesday we’ll talk to Uriel Zelaya-Perez of the Alliance for Fair Food about their events this week with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and their boycott Wendy’s campaign. The second guests this Wednesday on the Peace & Justice Report will be Billy Wetherington interviewing in studio Will Rauschenberger of the Ordinary Zen Sangha Practice Center of Sarasota and […]

“It is said that, if you lined up all those who have ever been to a Grateful Dead concert head-to-toe, the line would stretch around the moon, and about halfway back. And nobody would complain!” Grateful Dead – Civic Center, Providence, R.I. September 9, 1987 UltraMatrix SBD > PCM All Transfers and Matering by Charlie […]

Buried under a pile of hurricane updates, debate news, and the President using a Sharpie to justify his latest ( but not last) flight of fantasy was a story that should concern all Americans. Republican Matthew Petersen resigned from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) leaving that regulatory body one short of the quorum. The lack […]

“It is said that, if you lined up all those who have ever been to a Grateful Dead concert head-to-toe, the line would stretch around the moon, and about halfway back. And nobody would complain!” Grateful Dead Zoo Amphitheatre, Oklahoma City, OK September 2, 1985 SBD > MC > C > DAT > CD > […]

Wage and wealth inequity are perhaps the fundamental issue of our time and no single thing is clearer evidence of it’s impact than the affordable housing crisis. Finding rents that are 30 percent or less of net wages is getting more and more difficult all over the country and in Sarasota. Jon Thaxton (above), life-long […]

“It is said that, if you lined up all those who have ever been to a Grateful Dead concert head-to-toe, the line would stretch around the moon, and about halfway back. And nobody would complain!” Grateful Dead Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon August 26th, 1983 2 Sennheiser 421 microphones > Sony TC-D5M – AUDMC Recorded by […]

The Florida chapter of the NOW is working hard to make Florida the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Monday there will be demonstrations all over the state including one in Bradenton at Senate President Bill Galvano’s office to perhaps persuade him to support the effort. Joining Steve and Lew will be Kim […]