February 3, 2007

This week Mike, Dawn and Bongo Boy are all recharging their batteries at various locations around the state so Tony will hold the fort down with a very special guest and friend of the show, Tom Shinness. Join Tom and Tony for an entertaining hour of awesome live in-studio music.

January 27, 2007

This week we hit the road.....well sort of. The regulars will all be present but we will have live interviews from Eric Schechter, who will call us from a van heading to Washington DC for the March on Washington to protest the Iraq War. Then we will have Mark Dalhouse, Director of the Office of Active Citizenship and Service at Vanderbilt, who is part of the reenactment of the famous Freedom Rides give us a call from one of four buses heading to Birmingham.

Finally Cecily Friday will join the gang for a discussion about what this Administration may just have in mind regarding Iran. In between we will have some live music and more than likely a surprise from Dawn.......at least if history is a guide. Join us at 8am!

January 20, 2007

This week Wake Up & Live welcomes Eric Schechter to our show. Eric is an associate professor of mathematics at Vanderbilt University. Eric was among the "great sleeping masses" of our country -- powerless, confused, and uninvolved about politics until April 2006 when he "woke up". As the situation of our country continued to deteriorate, he felt an increasing need to get involved; and after reading some of George Lakoff's writings he began to feel less confused. He has become active in a few local political organizations, and is the editor of some of their web pages. The work he is proudest of is the Middle Tennessee Progressives Calendar, which attempts to list all the meetings, rallies, and other events going on in the local progressive community. http://plus.calendars.net/midtnprogressive

He says the goal of the calendar is "to bring progressives together." Eric is concerned with many issues, particularly the war and global warming. He believes that mass murder is being committed in our name and that our ecosystem is barreling toward destruction, both for no reason other than the greed of a few powerful people. Lately Eric has realized that all the other issues are subordinate to the issue of media reform, because the public can't be convinced of anything if they never hear the complete story which isn't being told by the main stream media.

As usual we will have some live music provided by Tony and Bongo Boy with Dawn accompanying them on some mystery instrument.

January 13, 2007

This week we welcome back Larry DeRousse to the show. LD was a long time Moderate Republican who voted for George Bush in 2000 but was so appalled by the Iraq war and the attitude of President Bush that he voted for John Kerry in 2004. LD will discuss why he and other Republicans and former Republicans are fed up with the party, and what it would take for those like him to return to the GOP.

Bongo Boy and Tony will provide live in studio music and Dawn and Mike will spring a surprise or two.

January 6,2007

This week we have an interview with Pam Davee of the Harpeth River Watershed Association.


Later in the show Cecily Friday joins us for a discussion of the possible surge that President Bush may announce next week regarding his new Iraq strategy.

Deceember 30, 2006

Join Mike, Dawn and Bongo Boy for the last show of the year.