Join us for music and conversation with Banjo Dan and the Midnight Plowboys, purveyors of some of Vermont's finest original acoustic music. Tune in for music and conversation with the Plowboys, including conversation about their new CD "Fire In The Sugarhouse." Is bluegrass music simply "three guys sharing a nasal passage"? Are the Plowboys secessionists? And who was Phineas Gage, anyway? All these questions and more are answered in our 1 hour conversation.

Join us as we discuss the nonviolent secession effort here in Vermont and globally. What does an Obama presidency mean for the North American secession effort, and for the Vermont independence movement?

Join us for a special election day 2008 conversation with former Vermont governor Madeleine Kunin about her new book Pearls, Politics and Power: How Women Can Win And Lead (Chelsea Green, 2008).

Recorded live in the WDEV radio studio in Waterbury.

Join Middlebury Institute executive director Kirkpatrick Sale for a conversation about nonviolent secession and the 3rd North American Secession Convention, and find out why Progressive Vermont Attorney General candidate Charlotte Dennett thinks Vermont is the best state in the U.S. Empire to prosecute George W. Bush for murder. Recorded live in WDEV's Waterbury studio.

Join puppeteer Ben T. Matchstick and Second Vermont Republic co-founder Thomas Naylor for a conversation about the upcoming Vermont Independence Convention, to be held Friday, November 7 at Montpelier's Statehouse. Recorded live at the WDEV studio in Waterbury.

Join us as we talk with award-winning documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, producer of "Why We Fight," about his new book The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men and a Republic in Peril (Simon and Schuster, 2008). Recorded live in WDEV's Waterbury studio. Read a review of Jarecki's new book at our web site, as well.

Join  us as we talk with energy expert Greg Pahl, author of Chelsea Green's The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook, about "Energizing Vermont's Energy Future." We consider redesigning Vermont's electrical grid, how to tackle the home heating dilemma, and options for reconsidering our transportation networks. Recorded live at WDEV's Waterbury Studio.

Join Vermont attorney Ben Scotch, legal counsel for the current "Bring the Guard Home" national initiative, as we discuss the Wall Street meltdown, the War Powers Act, and a new, unprecedented and under-reported initiative to turn over exclusive power for war-making to the Executive Branch. Recorded live at WDEV Studio in Waterbury.

Thanks to musician Bill Oliver and his band, the Anti Moose-Burger Defamation League, of Austin, Texas, for throwing down this truly Beatles-esque version of "Nowhere Ma'am." We have his permission to forward this far and wide. Let the secession revolution begin with good music...

Join author and environmentalist Bill McKibben for a one hour conversation about climate change and the "350" campaign, the Wall Street meltdown, and what "functional independence" might look like in an independent Vermont republic. Recorded live at the WDEV studio in Waterbury.