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.