Your Call 100107 Burma 101

What is in store for the future of Burma? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a discussion about the ongoing uprising in Burma, which began after the government doubled the price of fuel last month. Four hundred pro-democracy activists led the initial demonstration. Tens of thousands then responded to create a massive protest. A number of people have been killed and wounded. What is the modern political history of Burma? Will the current uprising end the military-Junta rule in that country? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Michael Aung-Thwin, a professor of Southeast Asian history at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawaii-Honolulu

Kyi May Kaung, a Washington, DC-based writer and analyst, a contributor to Foreign Policy in Focus, and a close observer of the Burmese scene since the 1960s.
 
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Your Call 092807 Friday Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it’s our Friday Media Roundtable. This week tens of thousands of Buddhist monks upturned the bowl and took to the streets of Rangoon; President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran visited Columbia University, and the AFL-CIO walked out on GM for the first time in nearly four decades. That’s what happened, but where did you find the context and insight that explained why it was happening and why it was important? What was your story of the week? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Nathan Guttman in Washington DC, Washington bureau chief for the Jewish Forward and reporter for Channel 1 TV in Israel

Lane Greene in New York, International Correspondent for the Economist
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Your Call 092707 Happy Birthday CIA!

It was 60 years ago that the National Security Act was passed. On the next Your Call we talk with former analysts at the CIA and outsider experts on the intelligence community about what we have learned from those 60 years living with the CIA and NSA. What do they do well? And where do they regularly fail? Do overestimations of the CIA’s capabilities lead to wild overreach and civil liberties violations? What should intelligence agencies actually do? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Sue McCloud, former CIA operations officer
Mel Goodman, former CIA analyst
John Prados, National Security Archive, and author of Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War

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Your Call 092607 Shock Doctrine

What happens when societies are hit with massive collective shocks -- wars, terror attacks, and natural disasters? Journalist Naomi Klein says they are used to push through highly unpopular shock therapy. On the next Your Call, we talk with Klein about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. In it, Klein reveals the cunning way opportunists use disasters to remake societies as free market wonderlands. How can the system free itself from what Klein calls the shock doctrine? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Naomi Klein, author of the The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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Your Call 092507 The Real Wealth of Nations

What's wrong with traditional economic theories? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with Riane Eisler, author of The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics. Here in the U.S., the top one percent of the population own 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. We’re the richest nation in the world, but we have the most expensive healthcare and our children are more likely to die than those in countries with a lower GPD. How can we create an equitable and sustainable society? It’s Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Riane Eisler, author of The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics.

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Your Call 092407 A Show About You!

Why do you listen to Your Call? On the next Your Call, we will have a conversation with you. Your Call has been on the air for five years now and thanks to your generous support, we just completed a successful fund drive, so we’ve decided to dedicate our next show to you. We’d love to hear from our regular callers and those of you who've never called. Call in and tell us about yourself and what you like about Your Call. What are your favorite topics of conversation? And where do you want to see the shows go in the future? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Our listeners

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Your Call 092107 Friday Media Roundtable

Thanks to your generous support during our Fall membership drive, we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming. On today’s Your Call, it’s our Friday Media Roundtable – the day we speak to reporters about coverage of the week’s news. The San Francisco Chronicle’s Heather Knight will join us to discuss healthcare coverage at the local and federal level. The Christian Science Monitor’s Linda Feldmann will join us to discuss the presidential race and DC politics. And later in the show, we’ll be joined by Link TV’s Jamal Dajani to find out how the conversation about Iraq in DC is being covered in the Middle East. What was your story of the week? I’m Rose Aguilar and it’s Your Call after this news.

Guest:
Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle
Linda Feldmann, Christian Science Monitor
Jamal Dajani, Link TV

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Your Call 092007 Dream Politik

When was the last time a progressive political campaign swept you away? If you’re the average American, it's been a while. On the next Your Call we talk with Professor Stephen Duncombe, author of Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy.  Professor Duncombe says the left leaves behind many potential supporters by disdaining the tools and forms of pop culture. By relying too much on appeals to reason, do progressives cede political turf to the right? What would ethical spectacles look like? Can ending poverty be as moving as an SUV commercial? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Stephen Duncombe, author of Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy

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Your Call 091907 End of America?

On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with Naomi Wolf, author of End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. For the past six years, the Bush administration’s so-called 'Global War on Terror' has led to rampant violations of civil rights, abuse of executive power and trampling of U.S. Constitution. What will it take to bring back checks and balances? What role do citizens play in guarding the American liberal democracy? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot

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Your Call 091807 Supercapitalism

Would you trade affordable gadgets for higher wages in China? Would you pay more for cheap goods if we had nationalized health care? On the next Your Call, we talk with former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich about his new book, Supercapitalism. He argues that most people would answer "no" to those questions. Over the past twenty years, Reich says, corporate control has plummeted in the face of consumer and investor power, but citizens have fared the worst. Why are Americans so schizophrenically divided between their consumer and citizen selves? How do we get the social good back in the heart of the political process in the Supercapitalist 21st century? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Robert B. Reich, author of Supercapitalism.

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Your Call 091707 Responsible Travel

What does responsible travel mean? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a discussion with Lonely Planet writers and editors about tips for traveling responsibly. Tourism is the world's largest and fastest growing industry. It provides 10 percent of the world's income and employs almost one-tenth of the world's workforce. The more than 500 million people traveling for leisure each year has wide range effects on the environment, culture, and economies of local communities. How can we make our vacations more eco-friendly? How do you plan for your vacation? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests
Editors of Lonely Planet

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Your Call 091407 Takeover

How ambitious is President Bush's plan to consolidate federal power in the Oval Office? On the next Your Call, we discuss the president's unprecedented power grab with Pulitzer Prize winning Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage. In his new book, Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy, Savage traces the strategies adopted by President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to release the president from congressional constraint and oversight. It is one of the most complete indictments of this president and practically a legal brief for impeachment. Call in with your questions about presidential power on the next Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest
Charlie Savage, author of Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy

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Your Call 091307 There's Not Enough Time

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What do we mean when we say, "There’s not enough time in the day?" On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about our perception of time with Edward M. Hallowell, author of Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap. The Internet, cell phones, and other technologies have not slowed down the pace of our lives. Has technology made us busier? How do we relate to time? And what explains our rushed culture? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest
Edward M. Hallowell, author of Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap

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Your Call 091207 Frankenfood

Do you know what's in your food? On the next Your Call, we'll talk with Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of The Center for Food Safety, and author of Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food. Nearly three quarters of processed foods in your grocery store have genetically modified ingredients. What impact do these products have on our health and our environment? What affect are GMO foods having on organic farming, and most importantly, how do you find them and keep them out of your shopping cart? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest
Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of The Center for Food Safety and author of Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food

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Your Call 091107 NY Times Columnist Paul Krugman

Is it possible for the U.S. to pass a “New Deal”? On
the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with
Paul Krugman, the award winning NY Times columnist and
the author of a new book, “The Conscience of a
Liberal.” Krugman argues that in today’s America, the
gap between the rich and poor is at the levels of the
post civil war "Gilded Age" era, and for the past
thirty years, the conservative movement has dominated
American politics. What will it take to close the
income gap? Will liberal values become relevant again?
It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Paul Krugman, NY Times columnist and professor of
economics and international affairs at Princeton
University

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Your Call Pre-empted by Petraeus Report

Your Call is being preempted to bring you Gen. David Petraeus' testimony to Congress. We decided to cut into our Fall pledge drive to bring you the latest from Washington DC and Iraq. KALW still has a goal we need to make, and it is our belief and our hope that you will help us meet that goal. Over 75 percent of KALW's budget comes from you and 100 percent of Your Call's budget comes from KALW. Your support gives us the freedom to break our format and bring you the news and information you've asked for. If you'd like to support us online, click here. Thank you for your ongoing support.

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Your Call 090707 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable. This week is a special pledge edition with two Friday favorites. Norman Solomon, author and director of War Made Easy, a documentary that exposes the complicity between a government eager to sell us foreign adventures and a media that caters to power. We’ll also be joined by Danny Schechter, the news dissector, out with a documentary about debt, mortgages and the companies that profit from indenturing American citizens. Norman Solomon, Danny Schechter, and your stories of the week, on the next Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Danny Schechter, director of In Debt We Trust
Norman Solomon, director of War Made Easy

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Your Call 090607 Exposed

Do you know what’s in your shampoo? The soap you use in your kitchen or on your children? The European Union does and they’re banning hundreds of chemicals that are still legal in the U.S. On the next Your Call we’re talking with Mark Schapiro, author of Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power. Would a European see Carboxymethylcellulose in their laundry detergent, or is that carcinogen reserved just for us? On Thursday’s Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Mark Schapiro, author of Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power

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Your Call 090507 Whither the State Parks?

What is happening with our national parks? On the next Your Call we’ll discuss the state of parks in year seven of the Bush Administration. The National Park Service says it has an $8 billion backlog of maintenance projects and a further $100 million was cut this year. With final plans in place now for the centennial celebration of the parks in 2017, what projects do you want at your favorite national park? And if you visited a national park this summer, what did you see? It’s Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Bill Wade, National Association of Park Service Retirees
Gerry Gaumer, National Park Service
 
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Your Call 090407 Is Labor Day your day?

Is Labor Day your day? On the next Your Call we'll be talking about the composition of American work force in the 21st century. The percentage of employed people in manufacturing jobs is the lowest it has ever been. Almost 37 million Americans live below the poverty line and only 12 percent of the work force is represented by the labor unions. Do the growing legions of the self-employed, consultants and contract workers as well as so few in manufacturing jobs identify themselves with the working class? What does Labor Day mean to you? And is Labor Day your day? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

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