WSLR Peace and Justice Report

08/30/2024

New program for high school students. Applications due September 22nd. Visit https://boxserdiversityinitiative.org/bending-the-arc/ for complete details.

Are you ready for an unforgettable adventure? Bending the Arc (BTA) is an exciting and immersive program just for high school students in Sarasota and Manate...

03/08/2024

Still space available for Monday's workshop.

10/09/2023

This Wednesday October 11 at 9am, on the Peace & Justice Report 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 and Legacy from Today’s Civil Rights Movement. The first Black mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, he will “share his story of making his way in a world that wasn’t built for him, drawing on his rich heritage as the son of a civil rights leader.”

09/26/2023

This Wednesday at 9am 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, the activist who was the Green Party presidential nominee in the 2004 election.

09/20/2023

This Wednesday, September 20, the Peace & Justice Report will first talk 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, September 30th at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota. Through the generosity of The Patterson Foundation, this event is offered free.

Then we'll talk to the good people from Legal Aid of Manasota, Linda Harradine and Larry Eger. This begins their third year of presenting on P&J on the third Wednesday of the month. We'll talk about the free civil legal services they offer.

09/11/2023

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 listen later by going to our archives.

09/04/2023

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 journalist David Zweig. He’ll talk about his research on Covid masking and origins.

08/28/2023

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 ten books and dozens of reports about inequality, climate disruption, philanthropy, the wealth divides, affordable housing, and billionaire wealth dynasties.
His newest book is a novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun is a near-future story of one community facing climate disruption in the critical decade ahead. See much more at www.chuckcollinswrites.com.

08/28/2023

This Wednesday, August 30, at 9am we'll 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 ten books and dozens of reports about inequality, climate disruption, philanthropy, the wealth divides, affordable housing, and billionaire wealth dynasties.
His newest book is a novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun is a near-future story of one community facing climate disruption in the critical decade ahead. See much more at www.chuckcollinswrites.com.