May 3, 2008

It's Spring and the grass is growing but something's happening at the grass roots level in America. Join us as we talk with Ellyn Crutcher and Jeffrey Scott about their experiences on the ground with US Senate hopeful Greg Fischer in KY and Presidential candidate Barack Obama respectively. Although Ellyn and Jeffrey support their respective candidates, we'll be talking with them about aspects of the New Story in America which they're witness to while campaiging.

Louisville, KY resident Ellyn Crutcher our first hour guest is passionate abou the arts, especially film, interfaith work, the environment and community building. She's also passionate about working to bring change to the status quo in Washington. Ellyn will share with us what she's witnessing as the New Story unfolds on the ground in KY.

In our 9:00 hour (CST), New Mexico resident Jeffrey Scott will talk with us from Portland, Oregon where he's part of the Obama campaign. Jeffrey got my attention recently in the e-zine "The Social Artist Companion" after arriving in Austin, TX when he wrote: "Taking in the almost overwhelming excitement and power of it all, I am possessed of the certain knowledge that I have entered a portal of transition time, a deep ever deepening shift in the collective paradigm of how we humans create together our civic life - what we call our politics and governance. I have just dived into the immense powerful currents of a deep running fast moving river. Here I am now at this time at this momentous time entering into and flowing with its currents. A participant and actor in this great shift."

Jeffrey, a writer and public educator is interesting in the relationship between healing social wounds and spiritual renewal. His journey has involved multicultural teaching in diverse universities and social acitivism in local communities. His recent writings re-imagine the birth of the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King's spiritual stuggles and explores the significance of the Barack Obama campaign as grassroots social healing. Jeffrey will talk with us about what he's experiencing as he's been on the ground in Texas, Mississppi and Oregon working on the Obama campaign.

April 19, 2008

This week Cecily Friday joins us for a discussion on the Presidential race and other political news of the week.
In the second hour Robert Shafer will join us from Dallas to discuss the early baseball season and the NHL playoffs.

April 12, 2008

Musician, songwriter Ross Falzone (www.rossfalzone.com) joins us in the studio in our first hour during which we'll try to determine whether Ross is an activist trapped in a musician's body or a musician trapped in an activist's body. To observors, Ross appears to have made creative peace with this dynamic tension as evidenced in his recent CD "Life Here on Earth" as well as his prior one "Radical Heart." Ross has gotten airplay on four continents and has been compared to Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, John Hiatt, Bruch Srpingsteen and others. Ross puts his money where his mouth is; this former army reservist, firefighter and homeless shelter worker has directed all CD proceeds to to, not for profit Youth Empowerment Programs. Ross will also talk about upcoming events in relation to Young Voices of Nashville, the program he developed with WRFN teaching high school teens about broadcasting.

Our guest at 9:00 Central time, Matthew Gilbert has many roles at Petaluma, California's Institute of Noetic Sciences (www.ions.org). Matthew is the Director of Communications as well as editor-in-chief of IONS quarterly magazine "Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness. He's authored two books as well as being featured in the anthology, "Einstein's Business: Engaging Soul, Imagination and Excellence in the Workplace" and was the statewide organizer of Green Party USA - Colorado.

IONS in it's 25th year was formed by Apollo 14 astronaut and scientist Edgar Mitchell upon returning from the moon in 1971. Dr. Mitchell was inspired by a personal epiphany as he viewed our beautiful Earth from outer space and IONS resulted. IONS has investigated the nature of consciousness through scientific research working with frontier researchers around the world. They produced a six hour television documentary "The Heart of Healing" have been involved in publishing many books as well as working with the producers of the film The Science of Peace (www.scienceofpeace.com)

We'll be talking with Matthew in particular about what IONS does and in particular about the 2007 and 2008 Shift Reports, Evidence of a World Transforming and Changing the Story of our Future amazing 80 page collections succintly describing the societal systemic breakdowns through which we're living, the multitude of factors contributing to how we've arrived here as well as the technological, spiritual, institutional transformations that are taking place often unnoticed by mainstream media. Don't miss these two hours and if you do, listen in a few days at www.seedsthestory.com/wakeup