Our Nov. 6 show features: WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota's Community Radio Station News and Public Affairs welcomes
James Schwartz ("In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA") and Mark Bromley (Chair, Council on Global Equality) as our guest. Plus Surreal News, TannenWeekly, Media Matters Minute with Larry and Steve.

The mystery of inheritance has captivated thinkers since antiquity, and the unlocking of this mystery—the development of classical genetics—is one of humanity’s greatest achievements. This great scientific and human drama is the story told fully and for the first time in this book.

In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA
Acclaimed science writer James Schwartz presents the history of genetics through the eyes of a dozen or so central players, beginning with Charles Darwin and ending with Nobel laureate Hermann J. Muller. In tracing the emerging idea of the gene, Schwartz deconstructs many often-told stories that were meant to reflect glory on the participants and finds that the “official” version of discovery often hides a far more complex and illuminating narrative. The discovery of the structure of DNA and the more recent advances in genome science represent the culmination of one hundred years of concentrated inquiry into the nature of the gene. Schwartz’s multifaceted training as a mathematician, geneticist, and writer enables him to provide a remarkably lucid account of the development of the central ideas about heredity, and at the same time bring to life the brilliant and often eccentric individuals who shaped these ideas.

On Obama Lifts HIV/AIDS Bar of Entry Ban

Mark Bromley (DC): Chair, Council on Global Equality; formerly with Global Rights, where he launched Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Initiative; Former Foreign Policy Fellow in the office of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold; international LBGT human rights issues

Background: Mark Bromley, Chair of Council for Global Equality, helped launch the Council to encourage a clearer and stronger American voice on international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human rights concerns http://www.globalequality.org/. Prior to that he worked at Global Rights, where his more than eleven years of service included managing programs, coordinating donor relations and helping open field offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Morocco, Nigeria and India. In 2005, he launched an organization-wide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Initiative. Mr. Bromley has also regularly monitored developments within the U.N. human rights system, conducted research on sexual violence in support of the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and for the former Yugoslavia, and reviewed international law standards in legal briefs filed by Global Rights, as amicus curiae, in human rights cases before U.S. and international courts. From 2001-02, he served as a Foreign Policy Fellow in the office of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold staffing the Senator's work on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including the Senator's Chairmanship of the Africa Subcommittee. Mr. Bromley holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and a BSFS from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has published on human rights and international law issues, and has served as an adjunct professor for the human rights clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law. He lives in Washington with his husband, David Salie. He can discuss human rights abuses to the global LGBT community, significance of President Obama lifting the HIV/AIDS immigration ban and extending hate-crime legislation to outlaw attacks based on sexual orientation.

WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota's Community Radio Station News and Public Affairs welcomes
Jame Douglass ("JFK and the Unspeakable") Dr. Robert Atkinson (President Information Technology and Innovation Foundation) as our guests.
When: Friday, Oct 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.

If you have any questions for the guests e-mail them to dj@wslr.org.

EVERY SHOW ALSO FEATURES Special Audio provided to WSLR:
A Tannen Weekly humor column (exclusively provided to WSLR by Pete Tannen) and 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.

New Book: JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters" by James W. Douglass

An astonishing new examination of the Kennedy assassination and its meaning today for the struggle for peace. James Douglass lays out the journey that led JFK in the course of three years from his position as a traditional Cold Warrior to his determination to break with the logic of the Cold War and lead the world in an entirely different direction. This sequence of steps led his adversaries in the military and intelligence establishment to view him as a virtual traitor who had to be eliminated. Douglass’s book has all the elements of a political thriller. But the stakes couldn’t be higher. Only by understanding the truth behind the murder of JFK can we grasp his vision and assume the urgent struggle for peace today.

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.

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

Dr. Robert D. Atkinson, President Robert Atkinson is the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington, DC-based technology policy think tank. He is also author of the State New Economy Index series and the book, The Past And Future Of America’s Economy: Long Waves Of Innovation That Power Cycles Of Growth (Edward Elgar, 2005). He has an extensive background in technology policy, he has conducted ground-breaking research projects on technology and innovation, is a valued adviser to state and national policy makers, and a popular speaker on innovation policy nationally and internationally. Before coming to ITIF, Dr. Atkinson was Vice President of the Progressive Policy Institute and Director of PPI’s Technology & New Economy Project. While at PPI he wrote numerous research reports on technology and innovation policy, including on issues such as broadband telecommunications, Internet telephony, universal service, e-commerce, e-government, middleman opposition to e-commerce, privacy, copyright, RFID and smart cards, the role of IT in homeland security, the R&D tax credit, offshoring, and growth economics. President Clinton appointed him to the Commission on Workers, Communities, and Economic Change in the New Economy. He chairs the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission and served on the Markle Foundation’s Task Force on National Security in the Information Age. He was awarded the Wharton-Infosys Business Transformation Award Silver Medal. Government Technology Magazine named him one of 25 “Doers, Dreamers and Drivers of Information Technology.” He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989.

Our Oct 16 show features Inge Fryklund, Establishing Democracy in the World’s Trouble Spots, Paul Hochfeld "Mad As Hell Doctors" and Jordan Buckley (Coalition of Immokealee Workers) Plus a TannenWeekly and Media Matters Minute and Surreal News items with Larry and Steve.

Inge Fryklund ‘64
Rule of Law Advisor
International Foundation for Electoral Systems
New College alumna Inge Fryklund has spent the past nine years in some of the world's most troubled countries, working with USAID, UNDP, the American military and various contractors to improve legal and governance systems and establish fair elections in Kosovo, Tajikistan, Iraq and Afghanistan. Recently returned from investigating election fraud in the Afghan presidential election, Fryklund will speak to the challenges and opportunities of establishing democratic processes in these countries and offer her own analysis and prognosis on U. S. policies there. The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) is an independent, non-governmental organization providing professional support to electoral democracy.

Dr. Paul Hochfeld, Emergency Room Physician, Good Samaritan Hospital, Corvallis, Oregon

Three years ago I decided to channel my frustrations with our really dumb health care system to produce a video about why it is so sick. Through that exploration, I have concluded that the only way we are going to control costs and accomplish the moral imperative of true universal access without bankrupting our government, is with a single risk pool, aka Single Payer.
My website is www.ourailinghealthcare.com, where "Health, Money and Fear" can be viewed.
Our Health Care System is beyond sick. It's dumb. It costs too much and our results are not good. Let me be clear, unless we find immediate savings in the current chaos (that we call a "system") we will never accomplish the moral imperative of true Universal Access without breaking the bank.
"Health, Money and Fear" is an educational tool that is being used by health reform advocates around the county who want the same thing: a health care system that delivers the most health we can get for the unbelievable amount of precious resources we are spending on it.
Sadly, I believe I was "a little " naive to think that education was the trick. Surely, It's necessary, but it's not sufficient. In the last couple of years, I've learned that fixing health care is less about health care than the political process that is broken for the same reason. They are both mostly about money.

Jordan Buckley
CIW:
Interfaith Action of Southwest Florida (IA) is a network of people of faith and religious institutions that works in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to improve sub-poverty wages and end modern-day slavery and human rights abuses in the fields. IA brings the spiritual resources of diverse faith traditions and the moral weight of faith-based voices in society to our work in collaboration with farmworkers for justice in the fields.

IA facilitates education for faith communities, including dialogue between farmworkers and non-farmworker people of faith, and animates people of faith to take action for justice in the agricultural industry. IA coordinates faith-based participation in the CIW’s Campaign for Fair Food, leveraging the moral, consumer, shareholder, and social power of faith communities to effectively call on major tomato purchasers to ensure fair wages and human rights for farmworkers. IA played a crucial role in bringing about the historic agreements between the CIW and Yum Brands and McDonald’s, leading to real changes for the farmworkers who pick tomatoes for these companies.

IA also provides a wide range of logistical and technical assistance to the farmworkers of the CIW, both in Immokalee and in planning national tours and actions. IA is an affiliate of Interfaith Worker Justice and a founding member of the Alliance for Fair Food.

Our Oct 9 show features Space junk with Craig Eisendrath (Senior Fellow Center for International Policy) and Stewart Ogilby (Webmaster of BigEye.com, NewsWatch.org)  as our guests. Plus a TannenWeekly and Media Matters Minute and Surreal News items with Larry and Steve.

Surreal News Oct 2 features David Swanson, the author of the new book "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union" Swanson holds a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including press secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, media coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as communications coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Swanson is Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, creator of ConvictBushCheney.org and Washington Director of Democrats.com, a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, the Backbone Campaign, and Voters for Peace. Also featured a TannenWeekly and Media Matters Minute with Larry and Steve.

This weeks Surreal News features the Family Partnership Center - Family counseling for the prevention of child abuse with Director Dave Potter, Educator Terry and Client Michelle. Also a Tannen Weekly and Media Matters Minute with hosts Larry and Steve.

Learn about the politics of Florida offshore drilling with Florida State Representitive Keith Fitzgerald and Sarasota Democratic Pary Chair Rita Ferrandino plus a TannenWeekly and Media Matters Minute. Surreal News with Steve and Larry.

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.

Friday Aug 28 Population issues with Robert Walker Executive Vice-President for the Population Institute & Kelvin Lumpkin about his new WSLR show "Perspectives"
Also: Tannen Weekly w/ Pete Tannen
Media Matters Minute
Surreal News w/Larry and Steve
features:

Background: Robert Walker is Executive Vice-President for the Population Institute, an international, educational, non-profit organization that seeks to voluntarily reduce excessive population growth, through universal access to family planning information, education and services, striving to achieve a world population in balance with a healthy global environment and resource base. Established in 1969, the Institute, with members in 172 countries, is headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. http://populationinstitute.org. Previously, Mr. Walker served as President of the Population Resource Center and Executive Director of the Common Cause Education Fund, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to promote open, honest and accountable government. Robert has appeared on more than three dozen televised interviews and appearances on ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC & Fox News - including network evening news, and talk shows like Hardball and Crossfire. He has also worked at the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence and Handgun Control, Inc. where he led the lobbying campaigns that led to the successful passage of the Brady Law and the federal assault weapons ban. Prior to that, Mr. Walker worked for a total of 14 years on Capitol Hill, including five years as a legislative aide to Rep. John B. Anderson and six years as Legislative Director to Rep. Mo Udall, the Chairman of the House Interior Committee. He also served for two years as Legislative Counsel for the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). He received his B.A. in Economics from Rockford College and his J.D. from the University of Illinois School of Law. He attended the University of Sydney in Australia under a Rotary graduate fellowship. He can discuss overpopulation and its impact on climate change and other environmental issues, policies for stable population growth, and why the rapidly growing US population needs to be included in all debates about the future of social services and curbing climate change.

Our Surreal News Show from Friday Aug 21 Afganistan Elections and U of Texas Holistic Admissions features:
Malou Innocent (Foreign Policy Analyst at Cato Institute) and Holly Thomas (Liman Fellow NAACP Legal Defese & Education Fund) as our guests. Plus Surreal News with Larry and Ed.

Bill Smith Vice President for Public Policy, Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) discusses teen pregnancy and HIV prevention also Alain and Xavier Menard on Ozone and Colonic therapy plus a Tannen Weekly with all the Rebublican ideas on Health Care Reform, a Media Matters Minute plus Surreal News items with Larry and Steve.

Our first guest is former CIA analyst Mel Goodman. Then Tim Karr (FreePress Campaign Director) discusses the internet. And as always a Tannen Weekly and Media Matters Minute with Larry and Steve.

The ideological partnership between the Washington Post and the Central Intelligence Agency is becoming despicable. For the past several weeks, the Post has carried a series of editorial and op-eds that were designed to prevent the release of the Justice Department memoranda that permitted the use of CIA torture and abuse and to prevent any rigorous examination of these practices that went beyond the permitted guidelines.

Melvin A. Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University, is The Public Record’s National Security and Intelligence columnist. He spent 42 years with the CIA, the National War College, and the U.S. Army. His latest book is Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA.

A new Net Neutrality bill was just introduced in Congress.
President Obama has repeatedly called for Net Neutrality. A pro-Net Neutrality chairman is now heading the FCC. Public support has never been greater.
The time has come to make Net Neutrality the law once and for all. Congress introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009 (H.R. 3458) to give you control over the future of the Internet.

Campaign Director Timothy Karr oversees all Free Press campaigns and online outreach efforts, including SavetheInternet.com and our work on public broadcasting, propaganda, and journalism. Before joining Free Press, Tim served as executive director of MediaChannel.org and vice president of Globalvision New Media and the Globalvision News Network. He has also worked extensively as an editor, reporter and photojournalist for the Associated Press, Time Inc., New York Times and Australia Consolidated Press. Tim critiques, analyzes and reports on media and media policy for the Huffington Post and on his personal blog, MediaCitizen.

Ann Proie (Director Florida Ombudsman Program) starts us off with discussion on advocacy for elderly and call for volunteers then Stephen Lendman on mandatory Swine Flu vaccination programs. Plus lots of Surreal News, a Tannen Weekly on homeland security and Media Matters Minute all with cohosts Steve and Larry.

Our first guest is Steve Early:

His new book "Embedded With Organized Labor" describes how union members have organized successfully, on the job and in the community, in the face of employer opposition now and in the past. The author has produced a provocative series of essays—an unusual exercise in “participatory labor journalism” useful to any reader concerned about social and economic justice. As workers struggle to survive and the labor movement tries to revive during the current economic crisis, this book provides ideas and inspiration for union activists and friends of labor alike.

Next Margaret Montoya discusses the Sotomayor hearings. At the University of New Mexico Law School, Professor Margaret Montoya examines issues of race, ethnicity, gender, diversity and language. She was the Director of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute (2003-04) and Haywood Burns Chair in Civil Rights CUNY Law School (2008-09).

Our show also features a TANNEN weekly on Superheros and steroids and Media Matters minute. Cohosts are Larry and Steve.

Harvey Gochberg (Secretary Florida Veterans for Common Sense), Devon Jarrett (Jewish Family and Children's Services) and award winning film producer Len Gumley (Absence of Angels) discusses challenges for returning veterans and homeless issues. Then a Tannen Weekly (Pete Tannen, President of Sarasota ACLU) on Would Jesus Twitter?, a Media Matters Minute then Ron Burke (Director of the Union of Concerned Scientists Midwest office and Midwest climate campaign director) on Energy/ Climate Bill with Steve and returning co-host Alan.

Barry Damiano (Flight Director/ Meteorologist NOAA) discusses Hurricaines and preparation then Emily Doskow (Sharing Solutions) on her ultimate guide to sharing book plus plenty of surreal news with Ed and Steve.

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.

Kathryn Dungy (Prof History New College) w/ Cultural Arts Heritage Fesival, Author Russ Baker with "Family of Secrets", Larry and Steve

Vince Nunez on State Farm Insurance Problems then Gerald LaMelle (Executive Director of Africa Action) with Larry and Steve

Laurence Shatkin, author of "Best Jobs in the Presidents Stimulus Plan" then Dan McCrea, President and co-founder of Florida Voters with Steve and Larry.

Bob Edgar (Common Cause, 6 term congressman) on 2010 Election then Philip Howard (Life Without Lawyers) with Larry and Steve.

Bill Walker discusses his book Skywalker- Close encounters on the appalatian trail then Wendy BiddleCombe reports of homeless then David Culp (Quaker Nuclear Disarmament Program) on Aiming for Nuclear Weapons- Free World: Obama's Nuclear Policies with Larry and Steve.

David Lippman (Comedian, Songwriter) alias Singing CIA agent George Shrub joins Larry and Steve with a really surreal approach to some very serious issues.

Evelyn Tenenbaum (Albany Law School) Johnathan Cohen discuss Elderly Driving with Larry and Steve

Just Linda on Surreal News. Linda Gustitus – President. Linda is the past board chair of the River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation and lives in Washington, DC. She is the founder of the Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture and is an attorney

Pat Friedberg author and MaryAnne Amato illustrator of "Dear Jake" wrote a book describing a letter from a grandfather to a grandson of parents going through divorce. Then Media Matters Karl Frish discusses conservative media misinformation. Then Kindra Muntz discusses the Congression task force about missing votes in Sarasota.

Jan Spenser from SuburbanPermaculture then Karl Frisch from Media matters joins 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.

The Book is "Dear Zoe" It speaks to many sides of divorce that so many families face--what can a young child understand about her parents’ divorce, how does the child deal with with her feelings, and what about this increasingly central role grandmothers are asked to play as surrogate mothers to their grandchildren? Patricia Friedberg and MaryAnne Amato will describe the book and warm and inviting illustrations. Steve Steiner, a family therapist from the Jewish Family and Children’s Services of Sarasota/Manatee, and their director of counseling, Wendy Effron, will join us to offer thoughts about the effects of divorce on children and the unheralded support the extended family can offer.

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 Ohlson Graham also joins Dick in the Studio with wonderful insights and poetry.