Join Surreal News hosts, Steve, Joan and Andrea 05-11-12 with Donna Cubit-Swoyer about local elections and voting procedure.  During the second half of the show Robin Draper, creator of the ' Authentic Florida' website will fill us in on old Florida lore. Also Kym Elder discusses the Island Village Montessori Opens New Campus in Sarasota.
Plus Surreal News and Media Matters Minutes.

Surreal News 5-4-12
Co-hosts Andrea & Steve with Adam Tebrugge candidate for District 71 Florida House and President of Common Cause, former congressman Bob Edgar on ALEC and illegal lobbying plus Media Matters minutes.
Surreal News- Your weapon of mass instruction.

04-27-12 join Surreal News hosts Steve, Joan and Andrea this Friday for a discussion of the Supreme Court's review of the issues raised by Arizona's repressive immigration law & will discuss what effect the Court's decision will have on other states and the laws impact on all of our civil liberties. With Luz Santiago, Church Pastor in Mesa, Arizona, and plaintiff in Friendly House et. al. v. Whiting et. al., the civil rights coalition’s challenge to SB 1070. Then
 Dana Bakich  from Take Stock in Children of Sarasota will then join us in the studio to announce the 'Sets in the City' tennis tournament to raise scholarship money for at risk and low income children in our community.
plus media matters minute and Surreal news.

Surreal News 4-20-12 with Britten Cleveland Sierra Club Health Air Campaign (in studio)
Vanessa Kritzer, communications director, Latin American Working Group
plus media matters minutes and Surreal News items with Joan and Steve.
Surreal News- Your weapon of mass instruction.

Surreal News 4-13-12 with Josh Levy, Freepress Internet Campaign Director on Internet Security Bill CISPA & David A. Levine, former Chief Economist at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., a millionaire on United for a Fair Economy & Kindra Muntz on new film Koch Brothers Exposed plus media matters minutes and Surreal News items with Joan and Steve.
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Surreal News 3-30-12 with Eddy Reinger (Clinical Pscychologist) on preventing violence in the black community) & Paul Walker (Program Director Green Cross and Global Green) on Nuclear Security Summit & David Lyle (David Lyle/mediamatters/Director and senior counsel) to review supreme court on health care law plus
media matters minutes and Surreal News items and Andrea and Steve.

Surreal News This week March 23 Dr. Goldfield on Obamacare and Shortclosure Sabrina on foreclosures With media matters minutes and Surreal News items and Andrea and Steve.

Surreal News March 1 with former Mayor Kelly Kirschner on UNIDOS NOW, latino issues, budget local and national politics, Chief of Police Paul Sutton on Occupy arrests plus Media Matters minutes and Surreal News items and Andrea and Steve.

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Surreal News This week Feb 24 with Dr. Mark Magenheim on Public Health in FL and US, Ari Rabin-Havt Executive VP for Media Matters on new book on FOX NEWS and Media Matters minutes and Surreal News items and Andrea Joan and Steve.

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.
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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.
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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 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 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 04-01-11 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Just Greg Palast author of Armed Madhouse.

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.