LIBERADIO(!)

Monday, 7/31/06: Larry Woods, senior partner of Woods & Woods, columnist, and top level advisor of political campaigns at the Presidential, Gubernatorial, U.S. Senate, Congressional and local levels. Also, Tyson Slocum, Director for Public Citizen’s Energy Program
will join us to discuss Big Oil: Record Prices and Record Profits.

Monday, 7/17/06: Greg Palast, author of Armed Madhouse: Who’s Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal ‘08,No Child’s Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of Class Combat in a Dying Regime

Monday, 6/26/06 – Bill Mason, Executive Director of Tennessee Citizen Action and Alex Wiesendanger, Associate Director of Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing (TCASK).

Friday, 6/23/06 – Eleanor Smeal, Publisher, Ms. Magazine, and President, Feminist Majority Foundation and Iraqi American singer-songwriter and political activist, Stephan Smith-Said.

Monday, 6/19/06 – Monica Benderman,who is the wife of Sgt. Kevin Benderman, a conscientious objector who was convicted of desertion and sentenced to 15 months in the brig for refusing to deploy to Iraq for his second tour. Their websites are www.bendermandefense.org, where you will find three direct ways you can support Kevin, and www.bendermantimeline.com, which is a chronology of facts surrounding his CO case. Listen.

Monday, 6/13/06 – London-based writer Milan Rai, co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness UK and Justice Not Vengeance, and Randy Tarkington, Campaign Director for Vote No on 1, the organization opposing the the Tennessee constitutional amendment on marriage.

Monday, 6/05/06 – Matt Besser, a founding member of the sketch comedy group Upright Citizens Brigade and co-creator of Crossballs. Listen.

Monday, 5/22/06 – Paul Waldman, senior fellow at Media Matters for America and the author of must-read, Being Right is Not Enough: What Progressives must Learn from Conservative Success. Listen.

Monday, 5/01/06 – John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants, and Jim Derych, author of Confessions of a Former Dittohead.

Monday, 4/24/06 – Jerome Armstrong, (MyDD.com), author, along with Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of DailyKos.com, of Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics, and Jim Hightower, America’s #1 populist.

Monday, 4/17/06 – Donnie Safer, Chairman of the Board of Tennessee Environmental Council. Goals for TEC include continuing the efforts to build a stronger, better organized voice for the living planet here in Tennessee while encouraging sustainable, successful lifestyles for the people who live here.

Monday, 3/27/06 – Francie Hunt, State Director of the Tennessee chapter of STAND – a citizen voice for children. Founded in 1999, Tennessee Stand for Children brings together people from all walks of life – parents, grandparents, people who work with children, and others who care about the next generation – in order to make children a top political priority.

Monday, 3/20/06 – Randy Alexander, Organizer, Tennessee ADAPT and Diane Coleman, Executive Director Progress Center for Independent Living in Chicago

Monday, 3/13/06
Mark Huffman, Vice President of Education and Training for Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee.

Monday, 3/06/06
Rev. Dr. Welton Gaddy, President of The Interfaith Alliance and The Interfaith Alliance Foundation. He also serves as the Pastor for Preaching and Worship at Northminster (Baptist) Church in Monroe, Louisiana and is the host of State of Belief, a weekly radio show by The Interfaith Alliance that is carried on AirAmerica Radio.

Monday, 1/30/06
Gene Policinski, Executive Director of the First Amendment Center
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am

Monday, 1/16/06
Kelvin D. Jones, III, Executive Director of the Metro Human Relations Commission

Monday, 12/19/05
Stephen Fotopulos, Policy Director Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am

TIRRC is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration whose mission is to empower immigrants and refugees throughout Tennessee to develop a unified voice, defend their rights, and create an atmosphere in which they are viewed as positive contributors to the state.

Monday, 12/12/05
Jeff Barrie
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am

Jeff Barrie – Project Director — Graduated from UCLA in 1993 with a bachelors of arts degree in Environmental Studies and Geography and has spent the last 12 years producing award-winning environmental documentaries for television and classroom use, coordinating successful and highly visible grassroots environmental campaigns, coordinating multimedia educational tours, and building coalitions as a consultant for organizations such as Alaska Wilderness League, Sierra Club, and Tree People. His video productions include “Generation Earth: A Look at Environmental Education,” “Summit of Hope,” and “Arctic Quest: A Search for Truth.” In 2000, Barrie coordinated and pedaled a 4,600 mile bike trek across America to raise awareness about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The tour featured a hybrid Toyota Prius support vehicle, and promoted fuel efficiency on one of the first cross-country drives made by a hybrid car. Barrie founded Citizens for TDOT Reform in 2002 and led a successful effort to reform public involvement policies and advocate a more balanced transportation system in Tennessee. He wrote, filmed and edited “Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America” (2005) and founded the Southern Energy Conservation Initiative.

Monday, 12/05/05
Denver Schimming
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
Born in Hammond, Indiana and a resident of Nashville, Tennessee since 1985, Denver Schimming is a voting rights advocate and the driving force behind HB 1722 to unify the process for ex-felons to register to vote. He frequently speaks at political conferences and associations about the disenfranchisement of ex-felons in Tennessee, is a proud member of the ACLU, a facilitator of a monthly bipolar support group, an active volunteer for Project Return, a member of the United Methodist Church, and a liberal Democrat.

Mr. Schimming, a sales executive in Middle Tennesee for the last ten years, is also an ex-felon with aspirations of public service. He has been married to the beautiful Sheila Hobson since 1997 and resides in Goodlettsville, Tennessee.

No Show on Monday, 11/28/05
Happy Thanksgiving!

Monday, 11/21/05
Music retailer extraordinnaire, Doyle Davis
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
Doyle Davis has over 20 years’ experience in music retailing and is co-owner of Grimey’s New & Preloved Music in Nashville. Doyle is a founding board member of national retail coalition AIMS (Alliance of Independent Media Stores) and serves on the board of the Americana Music Association. In addition, Davis hosts “D-Funk”, a weekly radio program focusing on deep funk & soul, on WRVU/Nashville.

Monday, 11/14/05
Radio and TV icon and author, Teddy Bart
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
For over thirty years, radio and television audiences in the Mid-South tune in to Teddy Bart. Known for his probing yet non-confrontational interviewing style, his questions search for information and meaning from guests from all walks of life. He is most well-known for hosting, along with Karlen Evins, what has become a Nashville tradition, Teddy Bart’s Round Table.

Released in mid-October 2005, “The Hooligan” is Bart’s third published book. Previously, he has authored “Inside Music City USA” and “The Mensch.”

Monday, 11/07/05
Stefanie A. Lindquist, Associate Professor of Political Science; Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
Vanderbilt University law professor, Stefanie A. Lindquist, has written extensively about the U.S. courts system, including the Supreme Court. Her writings include Judging on a Collegial Court: Influences on Appellate Court Decision aking (with Virginia Hettinger, Wendy Martinek) University of Virginia Press, forthcoming 2006, “The Influence of Jurisprudential Considerations on Supreme Court Decision Making: A Study of Conflict Cases,” forthcoming, Law and Society Review, (with David Klein), “Comparing Attitudinal and Strategic Accounts of Dissenting Behavior on the United States Courts of Appeals.” 2004 (with Virginia Hettinger and Wendy Martinek), and “Separate Opinion Writing on the United States Courts of Appeals,” 2003. American Politics Research, (with Virginia Hettinger and Wendy Martinek).

Monday, 10/31/05
David Briley
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
David Briley has served as an at-large councilperson for the past four years and has served on the following: Budget and Finance Committee (1999- present; 2001-2003, Vice Chair), Public Works Committee (1999-2003), Personnel-Public Information-Human Relations-Housing Committee (1999-present), Traffic & Parking Committee (2003-present), Charter Revision Committee (1999-present, 2001-2002 & 2003-2004, Chair), Ad Hoc Committee on Solid Waste (1999-2003, 2002-2003, Chair), Water Rate Oversight Committee (2000-2003, 2001-2003, Chair) and the Greenways Commission (2001-present).

He was named the Best Metro Council Member by the Nashville Scene, 2001-2002 and has been endorsed by the Metro Nashville Education Association, the Nashville Business Coalition, the Central Labor Council, the Home Builders Association of Middle Tennessee, and the Nashville Firefighters. Business Nashville magazine named David one of the top “40 under 40” in its June 2000 issue.

A licensed attorney with the Nashville branch of the Law Offices of J. Houston Gordon, Davild currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Hands on Nashville, Sister Cities of Nashville, and ReDiscover East.

Monday, 10/17/05
Alan Coverstone
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
Alan Coverstone is a teacher of Government and Economics, as well as Academic Dean at Montgomery Bell Academy. He is the father of two children who attend Hull-Jackson Montessori Magnet School, a part of the Metro Nashville Public Schools. He helped found and served as president of the PTO at Hull-Jackson. He also served as a Parents Advisory Council representative on the Mayor’s School Funding Task Force and currently serves on the Magnet Cluster board of the Parents Advisory Council.

Monday, 10/10/05
Reverend Tim Simpson, Christian Alliance for Progress
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
Rev. Timothy F. Simpson is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church USA. He is currently Director of Religious Affairs for the Christian Alliance for Progress, a grassroots organization created to help progressive Christians return their values to the public sphere, and the editor of the Journal of Poltical Theology. He is graduated from Liberty University, the University of Florida, Columbia Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. He has taught at Florida Community College at Jacksonville, the University of North Florida and Florida State University and his work has appeared in such publications as Christian Century, Lectionary Homiletics, the Journal for Preachers and Koinonia. He and his wife, Sherri Patray, live with their three children in Jacksonville, FL.

Monday, 10/03/05
Tony Garr, Executive Director Tennessee Health Care Campaign
WRVU-FM, 91.1, 7am to 9am
Tony Garr is the Executive Director Tennessee Health Care Campaign, a statewide, nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, working for affordable, accessible and quality health care for ALL Tennesseans. The Tennessee Health Care Campaign believes that the TennCare cuts enacted by Governor Bredesen are wrong and not necessary. They have a plan and a petition.

Monday, 9/26/05
Tim Wise
WRVU-FM, 91.1, 7am to 9am
Tim Wise is the author of the recent essay titled, “A God with Whom I am not Familiar,” that has been circulating throughout the internet. This particular essay begins, “This is an open letter to the man sitting behind me at La Paz today, in Nashville, at lunchtime, with the Brooks Brothers shirt: You don’t know me. But I know you.” Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the U.S., having spoken in 48 states, and on over 350 college campuses, including Harvard, Stanford, and the Law Schools at Yale, Columbia, and Vanderbilt. From 1999 to 2003, Wise served as an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute and in the early ’90s was Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism: the largest of the many groups responsible for the political defeat of neo-Nazi, David Duke. Wise serves as the Race and Ethnicity Editor for LiP Magazine, and his bi-monthly columns are distributed as part of the ZNet Commentary program: a web service that disseminates essays by prominent progressive and radical activists and educators. He is the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, NY: Soft Skull Press; and Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White, NY: Routledge.

Monday, 9/19/05
Lee Drutman
7am to 9am
WRVU-FM, 91.1, 7am to 9am
To kick off our new 2 hour Monday time slot, our guest will be Lee Drutman, co-author of The People’s Business: Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy.

Monday, 9/12/05
Clay Risen
WRVU-FM, 91.1
Clay Risen, Assistant Editor, The New Republic.

Thursday, 7/14/05
Bob Tuke, Chairman, Tennessee Democratic Party
WRVU-FM, 91.1
Bob Tuke is the Chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party. The interview with Bob was very informative. Unfortunately, because of our (Mary’s) lack of mad recording skillz, the quality of the recording isn’t good enough to post. We (Mary) apologizes to Bob and to our listeners.

Tuesday, 6/21/05
Cole Wakefield
WRFN, radiofreenashville.org

Cole rages about religious abuse and exploitation in his WRFN show “Christian Dissent” (Sundays and 11:30am). Link to Cole’s blog.

Thursday, 6/23/05
Seannalyn Brandmeir, President, Davidson County Young Democrats
WRVU-FM
Seannalyn Brandmeir is President of the Davidson County Young Democrats, young advocates for community and political participation through volunteerism, education and social interaction.

Liz Garrigan, Editor, Nashville Scene

Bernie Ellis (WRVU, April 18, 2005) – Gathering To Save Our Democracy – There have been too few opportunities for concerned citizens and researchers to meet to review the mounting evidence of threats to our democratic processes that the 2004 election revealed and to discuss the urgent need for election reform. Contact Bernie: tracevu@bellsouth.net

William Tyler

Jil Brassil – Jil uses a Canon EOS 20D and a Canon Powershot G5. She has a radio show on WRVU from 12noon to 2 (central time!) on Sundays. Sometimes, when she isn’t in school and Freddie is out of town, she co-hosts with Mary. Her latest project is 2005snaps.

Loney John Hutchins (11/07/04) is a second generation Nashville musician. He currently runs an independent label out of Music City known as Cleft Music. When he isn’t busy performing with friends or helping others with their craft, he indulges in a variety of news sources on the world wide web. He embraces ideas like file sharing while disapproving of similar concepts such as media deregulation.

John Spragens (11/14/04), guest and occasional co-host, was born in Kentucky, grew up in Nashville and went to Kenyon College, famous these days as the Ohio precinct where people waited in line for 10 hours to vote in the 2004 presidential election. These days he’s a staff writer at the Nashville Scene, which means he talks on the phone and brainstorms with Jim Ridley about the future of liberal politics.