Lawrence Korb is Senior Fellow for the Center for American Progress and served as assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1985. He is the author of 20 books and more than 100 articles on national security issues, including “Obama’s Nuclear Policy Enhances America’s Moral Position, Security.”
Surreal News Web Site
Surreal News is on every Friday morning from 9 to 10 am ET with co-hosts Larry and Steve. Surreal News features local, state, national and international news and public affairs with items not reported in the corporate media and influential guests. The Surreal News is broadcast live on WSLR 96.5 LP FM in Sarasota Florida, Webcast live (wslr.org) and also podcast on iTunes, Podomatic and Pacifica Broadcasting Network.
OUR CURRENT SHOW FEATURES:
Click here for MoveToAmend & Oceana Surreal News 264
WSLR Surreal News Friday Aug 20 features: MoveToAmend- David Cobb (former Green Party Candidate for President in 2004) on Citizen’s United Supreme Court Ruling & Oceana's marine scientist Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb on Oil in the Gulf and issues concerning our Oceans.
Also a TannenWeekly and Media Matters MInute plus lots of Surreal News.
Other Shows:
Click here for Pickering and Ramey Surreal News 263
Wslr surreal news Friday Aug 13 features:
Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering. He will discuss "Countdown to Zero" a new film about the atomic bomb which debuts friday aug 13-19 in Sarasota. &
Ibrahim Ramey, Director of Human and Civil Rights, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation on: Civilian Death Toll Up in Afghanistan
Taliban Makes Up for the Decrease in Casualties by Coalition Forces, with Interest
Click Here for New Blood & FreePress & Sustainable Space Surreal News 262
Surreal News on Friday August 6 from 9 to 10 am this week features: Chris Bobel (Author of New Blood) & Ben Baseley-Walker (Secure World Foundation) & FreePress ( Google-Verizon deal - end of Net Neutrality) & Kindra Muntz (Charter Ammendment and local voting issues). Also featured- Media Matters Minute. (TannenWeekly is on vacation).
Chris Bobel:
Her book New Blood offers a fresh interdisciplinary look at feminism-in-flux. For over three decades, menstrual activists have questioned the safety and necessity of feminine care products while contesting menstruation as a deeply entrenched taboo.
Ben Basley-Walker
The Secure World Foundation (SWF) is a private operating foundation dedicated to maintaining the secure and sustainable use of space for the benefit of Earth and all its peoples. SWF engages with academics, policy makers, industry, scientists and advocates in the space and international affairs communities to support steps that strengthen space security. www.secureworldfoundation.org
FreePress:
For years, Internet advocates have warned of the doomsday scenario that will play out on Monday: Google and Verizon will announce a deal that the New York Times reports
"could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content's creators are willing to pay for the privilege."
Click here for Yusko Surreal News 261
Surreal News July 30 features Albert Yusko a Tea Party candidate for Manatee County School Board.
Click here for Aranabar and Coal Mining Surreal News 260
Surreal News July 23 features Julie Aranabar (Candidate for Manatee County School Board) and Katie Huszcza (Ativist against Mountain Top Coal Mining).
Katie was born and raised in Littleton, Co. and is currently 21 years old and a rising senior at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. She is majoring in Biology with a concentration in ecology and environment and a minor in Spanish. JMU is where she started to learn about MTR through friends and through the very active environmental club that she is part of called E.A.R.T.H. She has spent the past two months living in Rock Creek, WV learning more about the environment and culture of the Appalachians and the absolute destruction of both through MTR which motivated me to act.
Also featured TannenWeekly and MediaMatters Minute.
Click here for MIchael Ratner on Surreal News 259
Michael Ratner is the president of the Center for Constitutional Rights and author of Guantanamo: What the World Should Know. Michael has worked for decades, as a crusader for human rights both at home and abroad litigating many cases against international human rights violators resulting in millions of dollars in judgments for abuse victims and expanding the possibilities of international law. He acted as a principal counsel in the successful suit to close the camp for HIV-positive Haitian refugees on Guantanamo Base, Cuba. Over the years, he has litigated a dozen cases challenging a President’s authority to go to war, without congressional approval. In the wake of the September 11 attacks, the Center has focused its efforts on the constitutionality of indefinite detention and the restrictions on civil liberties as defined by the unfolding terms of a permanent war. Among his many honors are: Trial Lawyer of the Year from the Trial lawyers for Public Justice, The Columbia Law School Public Interest Law Foundation Award, and the North Star Community Frederick Douglass Award. He is also a host on “Law and Disorder”
Click here for Carpenter and Clear Language Surreal News 258
Surreal News on Friday July features:
Caren Karpenter (candidate for Manatee County School Board) & Pete Tannen (Clear Language Institute)
Karen Carpenter Manatee County School Board District 5 (running for re-election).
Qualified: A life working to improve the lives of children and families, as a volunteer, nonprofit director and business leader
Current: Volunteer – Americorps VISTA; Mentor – Take Stock in Children Scholarship Program; Education Chair – League of Women Voters of Manatee County; Volunteer – Mothers Helping Mothers
Past: Executive Director – Women’s Resource Center of Manatee County, Manatee Bankers for Affordable Housing, Foundation for Dreams; Consultant – Homeless Coalition, New College; Board Member – Crosley Estate Foundation
Clear Language Institute: OUR MISSION
The mission of the Clear Language Institute is to make sure that all amendments, referenda or other propositions that Americans vote on are written in simple, clear language that is easily understood by voters.
To accomplish this, we will use consumer testing, public education, and any available legal means to remove badly written, vague, or confusing propositions from the ballot.
We see absolutely no reason why voters should be asked to cast their votes on propositions they do not understand.
We see absolutely no reason why legislators cannot present their ideas in language that is easily understood.
Click here for Ammendment 4 & Afganistan Surreal News 257
Surreal News on Friday June 2 features Lesley Blackner (Hometown Democracy) on Ammendment 4 & Carl Conetta (Project on Defense Alternatives) on Afganistan.
Click here for Hand/Sand and Immigration LGBT Surreal News 256
Surreal News on Friday June 25 from 9 to 10 am this week features:
Steve Ralls (Director of Communications for Immigration Equality) and Frank Jackalone (Senior Field Organizing Manager of the Sierra Club in the southeastern United States) and Gini Hyman (Hands across the Sand) as our guests.
Steve Ralls (Director of Communications for Immigration Equality) can discuss issues of immigration reform and LGBT rights including: if LGBT rights will be included in immigration reform, content and politics of The Reuniting Families Act (HR 2709), if families should be separated due to sexual orientation, the Obama administration’s position, and other related issues.
Frank Jackalone is Senior Field Organizing Manager of the Sierra Club in the southeastern United States. He supervises the Sierra Club's field staff in Florida and Puerto Rico on campaigns to restore the Everglades; to preserve beaches, forests and wetlands; to reduce red tide and other harmful algal blooms in coastal waters; to protect endangered fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico; and to move beyond oil and coal to clean, renewable energy that will reduce the impacts of global climate change.
Gini Hyman is with the loscal Sierra Club and BeyondOil.org.
Click here for Alzheimer's Surreal News 255
Surreal News on Friday June 18 this week features:
Susan Fox (Alzheimer's Assoc.) and Ellen Clegg (Alzheimer's Solutions) as our guests.
Sue Fox is the Manatee County Program Specialist for the Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. She holds a Master's Degree in Human Services and a bachelor's Degree in Psychology. She has over 15 years experience in Community Mental Health including Vocational Rehabilitation, Psychosocial Rehabilitation Sheltered Workshop experience. Sue is a Qualified Mental Heath/retardation Professional. Sue also has Social Services experience in Long Term Care. She is a transplant from the Chicago area.
The Alzheimer's solution
A provocative proposal for how America's health-care system can better address dementia, Alzheimer's and cognitive disorders
Click here for Medical Society and Panned Parenthood Surreal News 254
Surreal News on Friday June 11 features:
Dr. Michael Patete (Past President Sarasota Medical Society) and Wengy Grassi (Planned Parenthood) as our guests.
Dr. Patete will discuss impletation of the Health Care Bill and health care issues for Sarasota and Florida.
Wendy Grassi will discuss the Bill on Christ's desk forcing women to get ultrasounds before an abortion.
Click here for Progressive Adjenda & Isreal Flotilla Surreal News 253
Surreal News on Friday June 4 from 9 to 10 am this week features:
David Pakman (Host "Midweek Politics") & Patricia DeGennaro (Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYU's Center for Global Affairs) Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute) as our guests. Listen live on radio, webcast or listen later to the podcast at thesurrealnews.com.
The Campaign for America’s Future is the strategy center for the progressive movement. Our goal is to forge the enduring progressive majority needed to realize the America of shared prosperity and equal opportunity that our country was meant to be.
To attain our ultimate goal, we spearhead a compelling progressive agenda that addresses the kitchen-table issues working families face. We regularly convene and educate progressive thinkers, organizers and community activists so our voices will be coordinated, cogent and potent. And we incubate national campaigns on the critical issues that will define America for generations to come.
Patricia DeGennaro:
A “Freedom Flotilla” - led by the pro-Palestinian Free Gaza Movement and a Turkish organization called the Insani Yardim Vakfi - intent on breaking Israel’s three year blockade of Gaza, was attacked by the Israeli Navy in international waters shortly before midnight on Sunday.
Tricia DeGennaro is Adjunct Assistant Professor in New York University's Center for Global Affairs where she teaches courses on US Foreign Policy, International Military Interventions, Civil-Military Affairs, National Security Policy, and the War on Terrorism. She is a Senior Fellow for the World Policy Institute http://www.worldpolicy.org/ and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Queens University in Kingston, Ontario.
Friday May 28: Free Press, Nuclear Weapons and Local Green Business Surreal News 252
Congress just sold you out to Comcast, Verizon and AT&T. Seventy-four House Democrats and 37 Senate Republicans signed industry-written letters telling the FCC to abandon efforts to protect Internet users and stop big companies from blocking Internet traffic. This is another example of dirty politics destroying democracy and it has to stop.
Chris Riley advises Free Press on legal matters related
to our policy, research and campaign work and represents Free Press on
our issues before the FCC and Congress. Friday morning Chris will
discuss the efforts to block, limit or control Internet access.
Local business owner Mo Eppley will report on green initiatives in our area.
Each episode of The Surreal News features a Tannen Weekly, a Media Matters Minute and plenty of under-reported surreal news.
If you miss this episode of The Surreal News, it will be podcast later at www.thesurrealnews.com.
Click here for Alter and Pfeilsticker Surreal News 251 05-21-10
Surreal News on Friday May
21 from 9 to 10 am this week features:
Jonathan Alter (“Promise”) & Jane Pfeilsticker (Manatee School
Board) as our guests.
or listen to the podcast at thesurrealnews.com.
Description
Barack Obama’s inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. But the great promise of “Change We Can Believe In” was immediately tested by the threat of another Great Depression, a worsening war in Afghanistan, and an entrenched and deeply partisan system of business as usual in Washington. Despite all the coverage, the backstory of Obama’s historic first year in office has until now remained a mystery.
In The Promise: President Obama, Year One, Jonathan Alter, one of the country’s most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama’s difficult debut.
Ms. Pfeilsticker is currently an Associate Professor of Biology at
Manatee Community College and was elected to the Manatee County School
Board in 2006. She has served on community and college wide committees
to develop curriculum and policy changes to enhance student success. She
has received three Outstanding Educator awards from the University of
Florida. She is an advisor for MCC´s Earth Club, and has sponsored
several student research programs and internship programs for MCC
students and local high school students. She is running for re-election
to Manatee School Board.
Patricia Friedberg and MaryAnn Amato (21 Aldgate) & Wendy Grassi (Planned Parenthood) as our guests.
When: Friday, May 14 from 9 am to 10 am EST
Where: The Surreal News on WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota, or at the web site thesurrealnews.com.
PATRICIA FRIEDBERG, author of the new historical novel, “61 Aldgate” describing events in London leading up to WWII; and MARYANN AMATO, media producer discussing the process of turning the story into a first-run international film. Also WENDY GRASSI reviews the Florida legislation that imposes state control over women’ health and pregnancy, and the local rallies to encourage Governor Crist to veto the bills.
Deborah Notkin (Past President Amer. Immigration Lawyers Assoc.) & Russ Baker (“Family of Secrets”) & Hannah Ackerman and Andrew Swain (New College ACLU) as our guest.
Click here to listen to Immigration, Bush & ACLU Surreal News 249
On Surreal News on WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota or at the web site thesurrealnews.com.
ACLU CameraHead Project
Features: Andrew Swain is a student at New College who is concentrating in political science with a particular interest in constitutional law/civil liberties. He’s been volunteering with the ACLU since November, and loved being involved with such a principled and necessary organisation.
How do we fix our broken Immigration System?
Featuring: Deborah J. Notkin is a partner in the firm of Barst Mukamal & Kleiner LLP and maintains a large immigration and nationality practice. She is a past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), 2005-2006 and serves on its Board of Governors. She is the current Chair of AILA's Media Advocacy Committee.
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Russ Baker on the Forces Hurting Obama
Shocking in its disclosures, elegantly crafted, and faultlessly measured in its judgments, Family of Secrets is nothing less than a first historic portrait in full of the Bush dynasty and the era it shaped.
WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota's Community Radio Station News and Public Affairs welcomes
Marcie Keever (Friends of the Earth) & Danielle Cohen (Schneider Children's Med. Cntr of Israel) as our guests, Friday, April 30 from 9 am to 10 am EST
On The Surreal News on WSLR 96.5 LP FM If you cannot get it then hear the show live then hear it at the web site thesurrealnews.com.
Click Here to listen to Oil Spill and Children's Hosptial Surreal News 248
Approximately 42,000 gallons or 1,000 barrels of crude oil are pouring into the ocean every day since a British Petroleum (BP) oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. The spill covers over 1800 square miles and will eventually reach the shores of the Gulf States. Authorities are still unclear as to what caused the April 22 explosion.
Marcie Keever (DC): Director, Friends of the Earth; Former Program Director, San Francisco Beautiful; Former Staff Attorney, Our Children's Earth Foundation; combating air and water pollution from ships and other ocean vessels, including oil rigs and offshore drilling platforms
Danielle Cohen is the Assist. Director of Medical Development for Israel on behalf of Schneider Children's Med. Cntr. of Israel.
Roger Lowenstein (Journalist) and Gin Kohl Liberman (Exec. Director Humanists of Fl Assoc.) & Venessa Kritzer (Program Assit., Latin America Working Group) as our guests.
When: Friday, April 23 from 9 am to 10 am EST
Click Here to listen to Lowenstein, Liberman and Kirtzer Surreal News 247
Roger Lowenstein, an American financial journalist, reported for the Wall Street Journal for more than a decade, including two years writing its "Heard on the Street" column, 1989 to 1991. Before becoming a full time journalist, Lowenstein was an attorney with various New Jersey law firms.
His newest book is "End of Wall Street". Forum Truth is pleased to announce. Financial journalist Roger Lowenstein will be appearing on Tuesday, April 27
Gin Kohl Liberman PhD.
The Humanists of Florida Association had its beginnings in 1986, when Humanists across the state applied to the American Humanist Association for a state charter. At that time, HFA’s purpose was to publish a newsletter and plan annual conferences to keep members connected with one another. Since 2000 when the Humanists of Florida became the Humanists of Florida Association, its primary purpose is to support the growth of Humanism and Humanist principles.
Vanessa Kritzer (DC): Program Assistant, Latin America Working Group, coordinates coalition work to promote peace and human rights in U.S. policy toward Colombia and other parts of Latin America through grassroots advocacy; communicates with a national activist network about new developments in DC and Colombia and organizes actions for policy change.
Each week last year more than 5,500 Colombians were violently displaced from their homes, property, or ancestral lands, bringing the total number of internally displaced persons in that country to over 4.9 million, 75% of whom are women and children and a disproportionate number of whom are indigenous or Afro-Colombian.
Aviva Weintraub (Director NY Jewish Film Museum) & Benn Tannenbaum (Assoc. Program Director Center for Science, Tech. and Security Policy) & Andria Ortiz (Coalition of Immokalee Workers) & Hannah Ackerman (President New College ACLU) as our guests!!!!! A Packed show!!!
Where: The Surreal News on WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota, Florida. If you cannot get it then hear the show live via INTERNET STREAMING (on WSLR.org "Live Broadcasting"), or hear us podcast on demand on iTunes, on Pacifica Broadcast Network, or at the web site thesurrealnews.com.
Our April 16 Show:
Click here to listen to Holocaust & Nuclear Summit & Camerahead Surreal News 246
Aviva Weintraub will discuss her film on the Holocaust:
Aviva Weintraub is Associate Curator at The Jewish Museum and Director of the New York Jewish Film Festival, a collaborative project of The Jewish Museum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center. She has published and spoken widely on Yiddish and Jewish culture, film, photography, and performance.
Her most recent exhibition projects at The Jewish Museum include They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust (2009) and Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Photographs by Bruce Davidson (2007/08).
In 2009-10, she has served as a member of the jury for the Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art and Design in Jerusalem. She has been a member of the Working Group on Jews, Media and Religion at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University since its inception in 2003. She holds an M.A. in Yiddish Studies from Columbia University.
Benn Tannenbaum: Associate Program Director, Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy; former Senior Research Analyst, Federation of American Scientists; securing materials, nuclear forensics, radiation monitoring
He will discuss:
Global Nuclear Security Summit
World leaders convene to discuss controlling nuclear materials
More than 40 heads of state will meet for a global nuclear security summit in Washington, DC on April 12-13, 2010. Attendees will develop a plan of action to secure vulnerable nuclear materials, prevent nuclear material smuggling, and deter, detect and disrupt attempts at nuclear terrorism. The summit aims to encourage individual nations to work together to strengthen global national security.
Andria Ortiz will discuss:
2-MILE MARCH & RALLY/CONCeRT FARMWORKER FREEDOM MARCH
Join farmworkers and their allies from around the
state and country as we call on Publix to end the
human rights crisis in the Felds!
Hannah Ackerman (President New College ACLU) will discuss:
This coming Saturday, April 17th, the ACLU Student Club at New College will have students dressed as surveillance cameras (!) going around town snooping on average citizens.
The idea is to make people aware of the enormous number of surveillance cameras all around us -- most of which we don't notice any more -- and the fact that Big Brother is watching our every move, even right here in Sarasota. Is this an intrusion on our privacy? Do cameras actually make us safer? Good discussion points...
April 09, 2010
WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota's Community Radio Station News and Public Affairs welcomes
Craig Aaron (FreePress) and Kindra Muntz (Save Vote) as our guests.
Click here listen to FCC Fund Drive & Fair Elections Surreal News 245
When: Friday, April 9 from 9 am to 10 am EST
Where: The Surreal News on WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota, Florida. If
you cannot get it then hear the show live via INTERNET STREAMING (on
WSLR.org "Live Broadcasting"), or hear us podcast on demand on iTunes,
on Pacifica Broadcast Network, or at the web site thesurrealnews.com.
If you have any questions for the guests e-mail them to dj@wslr.org.
Kindra Munta (Safe Vote) discusses the court battle over Sarosota’s Election Referrendum mandating auditing and papter trails.
Media Matters Minute provided by Media Matters, a conservative media
misinformation watchdog non- profit organization based in Wash. DC.
Every show also features plenty of Surreal News with under reported news items.
Craig…He leads all Free Press program, campaign and advocacy work.
Before joining Free Press, he was an investigative reporter for Public
Citizen's Congress Watch, where he helped create and launch the
WhiteHouseForSale.org Web site. Craig previously worked as the managing
editor of In These Times magazine and is the editor of the book Appeal
to Reason: 25 Years In These Times. His reporting, commentary and
criticism have appeared in numerous national publications.
Surreal
News Presents School of Amercia Watch (Liz Albanese) and Lance Orchid
(Repower America) and Mo Epply (business owner) on Clean Energy
Click here for SOAW and Clean Energy Surreal News 244
The
SOA Watch is providing Liz Albanese for our first segment. Check for any
changes in the school since the Obama administration has taken over;
and there is a conference they are sponsoring in DC in April. Their
web site is soaw.org. SOA Watch Spring Event: April 17-19, 2010. Join
SOA Watch activists from around the world for three days of educating,
organizing, and lobbying in Washington DC!
Lance
Orchid, state director of RePower America (founded by Al Gore) and Mo
Eppley, a small business owner who runs a web design company
(mitymo.com), in the studio with us. They have just returned from
Washington where they met with Florida Senators Nelson and LeMieux to
encourage their support for the clean energy bill and its process
through the Senate.
Click here for Loose Nukes & 2045 Surreal News 243Surreal News Welcomes Jim Walsh (MIT) and Author Peter Seidel And Dan Rick Hughes from Rotary Club of Sarasota
Jim Walsh (MA): Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program; testified before the US Senate on the issue of nuclear terrorism and on Iran’s nuclear program; International Security, weapons, terrorism
Peter Siedel
By projecting what is happening today 35 years into the future and by turning this into a good story, 2045 brings to life the world we are now making for ourselves. Fiction can give us a better picture of this world than straight facts can, by putting us in it. 2045 depicts where environmental degradation, globalization, the concentration of power and wealth, corporate control of the press, and the ascent of ignorance and superstition are taking us.
Feed the Hungry
The problem of hunger in our community is far greater than most people realize. All Faiths Food Bank gathers and, in co-operation with our more than 160 partner agencies, distributes food to more than 32,500 people in Sarasota and DeSoto counties every day.
The majority of those they help to feed are hard-working families who simply cannot make ends meet. They are parents in minimum-wage jobs, the elderly on fixed incomes, and children who not only face the prospect of going to school on an empty stomach, but of going to bed empty as well.
Jim Walsh from MIT discusses the problem with too many nukes in the world.
WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota's Community Radio Station News and Public Affairs welcomes Marcie Keever (Friends of the Earth) & Danielle Cohen (Schneider Children's Med. Cntr of Israel) as our guests, Friday, April 30 from 9 am to 10 am EST
On The Surreal News on WSLR 96.5 LP FM If you cannot get it then hear the show live then hear it at the web site thesurrealnews.com.
Click Here to listen to Oil Spill and Children's Hosptial Surreal News 248
Approximately 42,000 gallons or 1,000 barrels of crude oil are pouring into the ocean every day since a British Petroleum (BP) oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. The spill covers over 1800 square miles and will eventually reach the shores of the Gulf States. Authorities are still unclear as to what caused the April 22 explosion.
Marcie Keever (DC): Director, Friends of the Earth; Former Program Director, San Francisco Beautiful; Former Staff Attorney, Our Children's Earth Foundation; combating air and water pollution from ships and other ocean vessels, including oil rigs and offshore drilling platforms
Danielle Cohen is the Assist. Director of Medical Development for Israel on behalf of Schneider Children's Med. Cntr. of Israel.
Roger Lowenstein (Journalist) and Gin Kohl Liberman (Exec. Director Humanists of Fl Assoc.) & Venessa Kritzer (Program Assit., Latin America Working Group) as our guests.
When: Friday, April 23 from 9 am to 10 am EST
Click Here to listen to Lowenstein, Liberman and Kirtzer Surreal News 247
Roger Lowenstein, an American financial journalist, reported for the Wall Street Journal for more than a decade, including two years writing its "Heard on the Street" column, 1989 to 1991. Before becoming a full time journalist, Lowenstein was an attorney with various New Jersey law firms.
His newest book is "End of Wall Street". Forum Truth is pleased to announce. Financial journalist Roger Lowenstein will be appearing on Tuesday, April 27
Gin Kohl Liberman PhD.
The Humanists of Florida Association had its beginnings in 1986, when Humanists across the state applied to the American Humanist Association for a state charter. At that time, HFA’s purpose was to publish a newsletter and plan annual conferences to keep members connected with one another. Since 2000 when the Humanists of Florida became the Humanists of Florida Association, its primary purpose is to support the growth of Humanism and Humanist principles.
Vanessa Kritzer (DC): Program Assistant, Latin America Working Group, coordinates coalition work to promote peace and human rights in U.S. policy toward Colombia and other parts of Latin America through grassroots advocacy; communicates with a national activist network about new developments in DC and Colombia and organizes actions for policy change.
Each week last year more than 5,500 Colombians were violently displaced from their homes, property, or ancestral lands, bringing the total number of internally displaced persons in that country to over 4.9 million, 75% of whom are women and children and a disproportionate number of whom are indigenous or Afro-Colombian.
Aviva Weintraub (Director NY Jewish Film Museum) & Benn Tannenbaum (Assoc. Program Director Center for Science, Tech. and Security Policy) & Andria Ortiz (Coalition of Immokalee Workers) & Hannah Ackerman (President New College ACLU) as our guests!!!!! A Packed show!!!
Where: The Surreal News on WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota, Florida. If you cannot get it then hear the show live via INTERNET STREAMING (on WSLR.org "Live Broadcasting"), or hear us podcast on demand on iTunes, on Pacifica Broadcast Network, or at the web site thesurrealnews.com.
Our April 16 Show:
Click here to listen to Holocaust & Nuclear Summit & Camerahead Surreal News 246
Aviva Weintraub will discuss her film on the Holocaust:
Aviva Weintraub is Associate Curator at The Jewish Museum and Director of the New York Jewish Film Festival, a collaborative project of The Jewish Museum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center. She has published and spoken widely on Yiddish and Jewish culture, film, photography, and performance.
Her most recent exhibition projects at The Jewish Museum include They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust (2009) and Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Photographs by Bruce Davidson (2007/08).
In 2009-10, she has served as a member of the jury for the Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art and Design in Jerusalem. She has been a member of the Working Group on Jews, Media and Religion at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University since its inception in 2003. She holds an M.A. in Yiddish Studies from Columbia University.
Benn Tannenbaum: Associate Program Director, Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy; former Senior Research Analyst, Federation of American Scientists; securing materials, nuclear forensics, radiation monitoring
He will discuss:
Global Nuclear Security Summit
World leaders convene to discuss controlling nuclear materials
More than 40 heads of state will meet for a global nuclear security summit in Washington, DC on April 12-13, 2010. Attendees will develop a plan of action to secure vulnerable nuclear materials, prevent nuclear material smuggling, and deter, detect and disrupt attempts at nuclear terrorism. The summit aims to encourage individual nations to work together to strengthen global national security.
Andria Ortiz will discuss:
2-MILE MARCH & RALLY/CONCeRT FARMWORKER FREEDOM MARCH
Join farmworkers and their allies from around the
state and country as we call on Publix to end the
human rights crisis in the Felds!
Hannah Ackerman (President New College ACLU) will discuss:
This coming Saturday, April 17th, the ACLU Student Club at New College will have students dressed as surveillance cameras (!) going around town snooping on average citizens.
The idea is to make people aware of the enormous number of surveillance cameras all around us -- most of which we don't notice any more -- and the fact that Big Brother is watching our every move, even right here in Sarasota. Is this an intrusion on our privacy? Do cameras actually make us safer? Good discussion points...
April 09, 2010
WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota's Community Radio Station News and Public Affairs welcomes
Craig Aaron (FreePress) and Kindra Muntz (Save Vote) as our guests.
Click here listen to FCC Fund Drive & Fair Elections Surreal News 245
When: Friday, April 9 from 9 am to 10 am EST
Where: The Surreal News on WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota, Florida. If
you cannot get it then hear the show live via INTERNET STREAMING (on
WSLR.org "Live Broadcasting"), or hear us podcast on demand on iTunes,
on Pacifica Broadcast Network, or at the web site thesurrealnews.com.
If you have any questions for the guests e-mail them to dj@wslr.org.
Kindra Munta (Safe Vote) discusses the court battle over Sarosota’s Election Referrendum mandating auditing and papter trails.
Media Matters Minute provided by Media Matters, a conservative media
misinformation watchdog non- profit organization based in Wash. DC.
Every show also features plenty of Surreal News with under reported news items.
Surreal News Presents School of Amercia Watch (Liz Albanese) and Lance Orchid (Repower America) and Mo Epply (business owner) on Clean Energy
Click here for SOAW and Clean Energy Surreal News 244The
SOA Watch is providing Liz Albanese for our first segment. Check for any
changes in the school since the Obama administration has taken over;
and there is a conference they are sponsoring in DC in April. Their
web site is soaw.org. SOA Watch Spring Event: April 17-19, 2010. Join
SOA Watch activists from around the world for three days of educating,
organizing, and lobbying in Washington DC!
Lance
Orchid, state director of RePower America (founded by Al Gore) and Mo
Eppley, a small business owner who runs a web design company
(mitymo.com), in the studio with us. They have just returned from
Washington where they met with Florida Senators Nelson and LeMieux to
encourage their support for the clean energy bill and its process
through the Senate.
Surreal News Welcomes Jim Walsh (MIT) and Author Peter Seidel And Dan Rick Hughes from Rotary Club of Sarasota
Jim Walsh (MA): Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program; testified before the US Senate on the issue of nuclear terrorism and on Iran’s nuclear program; International Security, weapons, terrorism
Peter Siedel
By projecting what is happening today 35 years into the future and by turning this into a good story, 2045 brings to life the world we are now making for ourselves. Fiction can give us a better picture of this world than straight facts can, by putting us in it. 2045 depicts where environmental degradation, globalization, the concentration of power and wealth, corporate control of the press, and the ascent of ignorance and superstition are taking us.
Feed the Hungry
The problem of hunger in our community is far greater than most people realize. All Faiths Food Bank gathers and, in co-operation with our more than 160 partner agencies, distributes food to more than 32,500 people in Sarasota and DeSoto counties every day.
The majority of those they help to feed are hard-working families who simply cannot make ends meet. They are parents in minimum-wage jobs, the elderly on fixed incomes, and children who not only face the prospect of going to school on an empty stomach, but of going to bed empty as well.
Jim Walsh from MIT discusses the problem with too many nukes in the world.
Surreal News Presents A PULITZER PRIZE WINNER and A NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZER
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WSLR News and Public Affairs welcomes Cynthia Tucker (Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist) and Mary Mack (Newtown
Front Porch Chair, Amaryllis Park Neighborhood Association President)
as guests, on THE SURREAL NEWS – Friday, March 19
Cynthia Tucker was born 1955 in Monroeville, Alabama, and is a syndicated columnist. After being nominated two previous years, Cynthia was recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2007, “for her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community”. She currently works out of Washington D.C. for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
Mary Alice Simmons-Mack is a native of Sarasota, and will be discussing the Census and Newtown event scheduled for March 20th. Mary is active in community affairs, currently serving as the president of the Amaryllis Park Neighborhood Association, Inc. , Chairman of the Newtown Front Porch Neighborhood Revitalization Council, Inc. and secretary of Friends of the Newtown Estates Facility in addition to other committees as the need arises. She received the Mayor’s Citation as Volunteer Extraordinaire in 2008, as well as the Drum Major for Justice Outstanding Good Neighbor Volunteer and the Governor’s Front Porch Florida Volunteer Award in 2003.
WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota's Community Radio Station News and Public Affairs welcomes
Dr. Cynthia MagGuire (PTSD and Military) & Kay Jackson (Brain Genetics) & Dr. Stuart Levy Stuart Levy (Director of the Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance at Tufts University School of Medicine ) as our guests.
When: Friday, Feb 19 from 9 am to 10 am EST
Where: The Surreal News on WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota, Florida. If you cannot get it then hear the show live via INTERNET STREAMING (on WSLR.org "Live Broadcasting"), or hear us podcast on demand on iTunes, on Pacifica Broadcast Network, or at the web site thesurrealnews.com.
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A packed show this week!!
Dr. Cynthia MagGuire will discuss her experiences treating PTSD in the Military.
Dr. Levy will discuss:
The routine use of antibiotics in industrial farming contributes to an increase in dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can spread to humans. As a result of this practice, the antibiotics we depend on to keep us healthy are at risk of becoming less effective.
Consumers are exposed to antibiotic-resistant bacteria through many ways, including the consumption and handling of inadequately cooked meat, drinking surface or ground water and eating crops that have been contaminated by manure or even breathing air that is vented from concentrated animal housing or released during animal transport.
Kathryn Jackson will discuss THE HORIZON SEMINAR re: Brain, Genetics, and Physics on 2/27 at Manatee UUF Bradenton.
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Hedrick Smith will be participating in the February 4 Forum Truth speaker series, sharing his experiences with the New York Times and as the award-winning creator of many prime-time specials and mini-series for PBS.
Wendy Grassi will be among those honoring the 37th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that gave women the right to abortion. Anti-choice legislators are now using the ongoing health care reform debate as an opportunity to restrict women’s access to abortion as anti-choice organizations and lawmakers continue their efforts to overturn Roe.
Click Here to listen to our Jan 8 Surreal News Pilgrimage to West Bank Show
When: Friday, Jan 8
Where: The Surreal News on WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota, Florida.
Terry Binder, Carol Papa and Bob Forbes report on their recent trip to the West Bank in the eastern section of the Palestinian territories as part of a peace making pilgrimage to the Holy Land – a trip organized by the First Presbyterian Church of Oak Street. During their visit, the group met with local peacemakers and witnessed the Olive Harvest festival taking place in the West Bank.
Jan 1 Living Beyond War:
FRIDAY Dec 4: The Surreal News at the “Altar Of The Bottom Line” with singer-author Tom Juravich & David Swanson from AfterDowningStreet.org, Daybreak on Obama Afgan Surge
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The
Surreal News welcomes singer-songwriter, author and labor activist Tom
Juravich, who recently released a new roots-rocking musical CD and a
book sharing the same name: “Altar of the Bottom Line.”
Using two different media mediums, Juravich paints intimate portraits of the everyday struggles and dreams of workers.
Tom
Juravich began singing professionally about work and labor back in late
early 1980s, in the middle of the first wave of plant closings in the
U.S. His first album, “Rising Again” was sponsored by the United Auto
Workers in 1981.
He went on to record “A World to Win,” of which Edward Clark,
from the clothing workers’ union wrote: “Your songs smell to me like
thread, cloth, factory machine oil, social justice and creative
genius.”
His album “Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers Story,” became the soundtrack for a film about the coal-miners’ union.
Surreal News hosts Steve and Larry along with Author David Swanson (Author of "Daybreak") will also take a look President Obama’s plans to escalate the war efforts in Afghanistan.
Each episode of The Surreal News features “A Tannen Weekly” by humorist Pete Tannen, a Media Matters Minute and plenty of under reported news items.
Our Latest Show: A “SURREAL” look at the Neurology of Spirituality
Click here to listen to the Neurology of Spirituality Surreal News ShowTHE SURREAL NEWS:
Friday, Nov. 27 at from 9-10 a.m. (eastern standard time)
Guest hosts Ed Laake and Joe Hendricks team up with Surreal News host Steve Norris to discuss with the “Neurology of Spirituality” with Dr. Alan Grindal.
Is there a connection between one’s brainwaves, one’s soul and one’s capacity for spirituality?
Friday morning Dr. Grindal will share his expertise on this subject and other matters of a neurologic manner.
Dr. Grindal graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. and received his M.D. .from the University of Illinois. His neurology training was completed at the Medical College of Virginia where he later served as a faculty member. Dr.Grindal has been in private practice specializing in neurology in Sarasota Florida since 1978. He has been chosen by his peers to be among The Best Doctors in America and currently serves as a neurological consultant to the Memory Disorder Clinic at Sarasota Memorial Hospital and as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Florida State University.
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TANNEN WEEKLY Pete Tannen is a writer whose humor columns have won awards from the National Press Club in Washington, the Florida Press Association, and the Long Island Press Club. You can get his columns, on the web, at www.TannenWeekly.com. He lives in Saraosta.
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Late Breaking Surreal News: Featured every show at the top of the hour with Local, State, National and International news items which are underreported in the main stream media.
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