WSLR 96.5 Low Power FM Sarasota Florida Surreal News 01-27-12 with hosts, Steve, Andrea and guests Jordan Buckley (Interfaith Alliance, Coalition of Immokalee Workers) and Sarah Dufendach (DC): Vice President of Legislative Affairs, Common Cause; Former Chief of Staff for Rep. David Bonier (D-MI) when he was House majority whip and House minority whip; reform legislation. Also surreal under reported news items and Media Matters Minutes.
Surreal News- your weapon of mass instruction

WSLR 96.5 Low Power FM Sarasota Florida Surreal News 01-20-12 hosts, Steve, Andrea and Joan Prof. of Ethics at Harvard Lawrence Lessig (“Republic Lost”) and Gordon Newby, Chair Religious Studies Dept. Emory University to discuss Mormonism. Also surreal under reported news items and Media Matters Minutes.
Surreal News- your weapon of mass instruction

WSLR 96.5 Low Power FM Sarasota Florida Surreal News 01-13-12 hosts, Steve, Andrea and Joan with Jordan Rosenblum (on intersection between identity construction and food regulations in early rabbinic Judaism) and Ralph Linder (Pinball Hall of Fame) Note: Dr. Lessig was rescheduled to next week. Also surreal under reported news items and Media Matters Minutes.
Surreal News- your weapon of mass instruction

WSLR 96.5 Low Power FM Sarasota Florida Surreal News 12-30- 11 hosts, Steve, Andrea and Joan with Christopher anders /senior legislative counsel in American civil liberties union Washington legislative office on
Obama signs the national defense authorization act. Indefinite detention and other civil liberty violations AND Cindy Balistreri about Perlman music program outreach consultant and surreal under reported news items.
Surreal News- your weapon of mass instruction

WSLR 96.5 Low Power Sarasota Florida Surreal News 12-30- 11 hosts, Steve, Andrea and Joan with Keith Fitzgerald former FL state rep., Prof. Political Science at New College and Candidate for Congress 2012 and Pete Tannen, President Sarasota ACLU ) and surreal under reported news items.
Surreal News- your weapon of mass instruction

Surreal News hosts, Steve, Andrea and Joan will be talking to David Cobbs this Friday,Dec. 9. David is leading a Move to Amend Tour through Florida to mobilize voters for a constitutional amendment to correct the abuses of corporate control in this country. Corporate person hood and the impact of big money on elections within the context of the democracy movement are just some of the topics David will discuss.


Later in the show at 9.40, John Bertles from' Bash the Trash Environmental Arts' will discuss his group's programs for making musical instruments from trash and the many educational performances and workshops they create for children and adults.
Also Surreal News and Media Matters Minutes.

WSLR 96.5 Low Power Sarasota Florida Surreal News with Andrea, Joan and guests 12-2-11 Casey Rae-Hunter
, Deputy Director, Future of Music Coalition on Online Piracy, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-19) on repeal of Citizens United.Hossein Alizadeh, Program Director, Middle East and North Africa,
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), plus Media Matters Mintues and Surreal News- your weapon of mass instruction.

WSLR 96.5 Low Power Sarasota Florida 11-18-11 Surreal News with Andrea, Joan and Steve and guests Kindra Muntz (SafeVote), Harriet Washington (Deadly Monopolies) and Wendy Grassi (Planned Parenthood) plus Media Matters Mintues and Surreal News- your weapon of mass instruction.

Surreal News 11-11-11 SPECIAL GUEST - Greg Palast investigative reporter about new book "Vultures Picnic" plus Suncoast Skeptics, Immokalee Workers, Media Matters Minute and under reported news on WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota also podcast thesurrealnews.com and live stream wslr.org.

Surreal News 11-04-11 Voter Suppression Pete Tannen (Pres. ACLU) Kindra Muntz (SafeVote) Marge Mansbach Democratic Party and Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger on German Jewish experience plus Tannen Weekly (live) Jordan Buckley (Immokalee workers) and Surreal News with Steve and Andrea.

Surreal News 10-28-11 with Art Caplan (Bioethecist U of Penn) on Bioethics of life plus Media Matters Minute and under reported news items with Steve Andrea and Joan.

Surreal News 10-07-11 features Keith Fitzgerald announcing his run for congress, Ann Proie on Ombudsman program and Peace and Justice Bob and John live report from protests in Wash DC. No tannen weekly or media matters.
Due to technical problems only the first 15 minutes were recorded, sorry.

Surreal News 08-19-11 with Leah Burton Author, God, Guns & Greed: A Dangerous Path for America And TheoPalinism: The Face of Failed Extremism on Dominionism: Impact on American Politics and the Military and Tim Karr (Campaign Director, FreePress) on T-Mobile / AT&T merger and Newcorp. Plus a Tannen Weekly, Media Matters Minutes and Surreal News with Andrea and Steve.

Surreal News 08-12-11 Eleanor Smeal (VA): President, Feminist Majority Foundation; Publisher, Ms. Magazine; former President, National Organization for Women; member, executive committee, National Council of Women’s organizations; women’s rights legislation, power of women’s votes, women’s reproductive freedom and Beata Lewis Life Coach on Womens opportunities and challenges plus Tannen Weekly “Blessed are the Rich” and Surreal News with Joan and Steve.

Surreal News 04-22-11 features Josip Novakovich, an award-winning author and fellow at the Hermitage Artist Retreat on writing in a foreign language & Jess Hunter-Bowman Associate Director, Witness for Peace on Crisis in Columbia plus a Media Matters Minute and Surreal News stories.

Surreal News 04-01-11 w/ Skip Parish on Breaking News from Japan (Neutron rays now detectable) & “Complete Idiots Guide to Zombies” Nathan Robert Brown a Tannen Weekly and Media Matters Minute.

Surreal News on Friday November 26th will feature Robert Putnam, author of American Grace, and the co-hosts will be David Rossini, Organizing Director for Green Corps, as well as Molly Chavetz from the Public Interest Research Group. Molly will be reporting on grass roots work for social and political change. Also a Tannen Weekly, Media Matters Minute and plenty of Surreal News Items.

You can also hear the Surreal News podcast at thesurrealnews.com. Surreal News features local, state, National and International under reported news items and is on every Friday from 9 to 10 am.

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.
Plus a TannenWeekly and Media Matters Minute.

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

WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota's Community Radio Station News and Public Affairs welcomes
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
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.

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.

Surreal News Presents A PULITZER PRIZE WINNER and A NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZER
March 19 on WSLR 96.5 LPFM Sarasota Florida

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 from 9 am to 10 am.

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.

Listen to the show live, use our internet streaming, or join our podcast on demand on iTunes, on Pacifica Broadcast Network, or on the web site www.thesurrealnews.com

WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota’s Community Radio Station News and Public Affairs welcomes Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and Emmy-winning correspondent Hendrick Smith and Wendy Grassi, director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood.

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.

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.

The Surreal News is streamed live at WSLR.org and is one of many WSLR programs available 24/7 via podcast at www.thesurrealnews.com, which can be accessed from the WSLR podcast links found elsewhere on the WSLR home page.

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.

EVERY SHOW FEATURES:
A 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.

Media Matters Minute: Media Matters is a non-profit Convservative Media Misinformation watchdog organization out of Wash. DC which provides WSLR with audio for every show.

Plus plenty of Surreal News with Larry and Steve

Our Latest Show: A “SURREAL” look at the Neurology of Spirituality

THE SURREAL NEWS:
Friday, Nov. 27

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.

EVERY SHOW FEATURES:
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.

Media Matters Minute: Media Matters is a non-profit Convservative Media Misinformation watchdog organization out of Wash. DC which provides WSLR with audio for every show.

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.

This Show features David Rossini (Green Corps) & Marianne Cufone (Director of FISHCampaign) as our guests. Plus under reported Surreal News items with Larry and David.

DAVID ROSSINI will co-host the Surreal News and discuss Green Corps, and the status of the Climate Bill that is working its way through Congress. In his role as Organizing Director of Green Corps. David oversees its trainees and field programs. He has led teams of organizers to pass an open space ballot measure in Maryland; to turn out more that 5000 citizens for Arctic Refuge Action Day in Washington DC, and to convince Bowater, the largest paper company operating in the Cumberland Plateau to stop destroying native forests. He has provided field assistance to the Sierra Club, Environment America, Alaska Coalition, ForestEthics, Dogwood Alliance, Minnesota Environmental Partnership and the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters. David joined Green Corps after graduating from Vassar College in 2003. The mission of Green Corps is to train organizers, provide field support for critical environmental campaigns, and develop activists with the skills, temperament, and commitment to win environmental protections and public health initiatives.

Marianne Cufone is Food & Water Watch's FishCampaign Director. She has been involved in natural resources management, and specifically fisheries management for the past 15 years. Before coming to Food & Water Watch, she was the Managing Partner of Environment Matters, a private environmental consulting firm in Tampa, Florida. Previously, Ms. Cufone was a Program Manager for a national conservation organization. She has worked with law firms, educational facilities, government entities and organizations throughout the United States on a wide range of issues including: fisheries, pollution, impacts mitigation, stewardship and outreach. She also teaches courses and guest lectures at assorted academic institutions. She currently maintains positions on assorted natural resource advisory boards for Hillsborough County, the State of Florida and the federal government and sits on several non-profit Boards of Directors. Ms. Cufone received her J.D., Cum Laude from the University of Miami School of Law through a joint Masters program in Marine Science and Policy at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami. She received her BA, from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Matt Rothschild (Editor Progressive Magazine) discusses new book "Democracy in Print" The Best of The Progressive Magazine 1909-2009, then Leah Durant (Executive Director Progressives for Immigration Reform on overpopulation with Larry and Steve.

What is Cryogenics, is it legal, ethical, will it work? The show features Evelyn Tenenbaum, William Meachum and Brian Reese from Albany Law School with Larry and Steve.

Mary Anne Servian and PJ Brooks from First step on impact of drug abuse on Families.

Just Greg Palast author of Armed Madhouse.

Just Aidan Delgado consciencious objector

Ian is a student and poet. He shares his views on current surreal news items and reads great original poetry.

Dick Smothers from the Smothers Brothers joins the Surreal News Show to discuss "Smothered: A tale of Censorship" a DVD describing how he got kicked off the air.
Poet Linda Ohlsen Graham also joins Dick in the Studio with wonderful insights and poetry.