Your Call 040108 How did Barbara Seaman launch the women's health movement?

How did Barbara Seaman's groundbreaking work affect the women's health movement? On the next Your Call, we'll pay tribute to writer and health activist Barbara Seaman. Her 1969 book that warned against the dangers of the birth control pill is credited with launching the modern women's health movement. According to National Women's Health Network Executive Director Cynthia Pearson, "the kind of journalism that Barbara started doing back in the 1960s affected most of the women in this country." Barbara Seaman died of lung cancer earlier this month. She was 72. Who's continuing Seaman's work? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Barbara Brenner, Executive Director of Breast Cancer Research

Norma Swenson, one of the founders of Our Bodies Our Selves. She has been teaching women's health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Your Call Archive: Women's Health Pioneer Barbara Seaman

Tomorrow's show pays tribute to writer and health activist Barbara Seaman whose groundbreaking work launched the women's health movement. Listen to Rose Aguilar's interview of Seaman for Your Call on July 23, 2003.

Your Call 033108 Solar Rising

Why is solar rising over the Bay Area? On the next Your Call, we're rebroadcasting a conversation we recently had with a panel of stakeholders in the solar boom. Cities are making it easier to install panels on residences and offices, local companies are spearheading research into new technologies, and local contractors and non-profits are making it practical. What policies are happening in your neighborhood to make solar's present as bright as its future? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy.

Guests:
David Hochschild in San Francisco
Vice-President of Solaria, a start-up; he is a commissioner on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and a founder of the non-profit Vote Solar. He joins us in our San Francisco studio.

Johanna Partin in San Francisco
Renewable Energy Program Manager in the San Francisco Department of the Environment. She joins us from San Francisco.

Cisco Devries in Berkeley
Spokesperson for the City of Berkeley.

Click to Listen: Solar Rising (rebroadcast)

Your Call 032808 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable where we analyze the news and the way it was delivered. This week violence in Iraq returned to front pages after a months-long hiatus. As American news media awaken to the ongoing war between Sunni and Shia and the deepening split within Shia Iraqis, which reporters told it like it was and who simply sold the surge? We'll also be talking with NPR economics reporter Adam Davidson about explaining the important but dense story of the economic crisis. What was the best reported story you heard this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Gareth Porter in Arlington, VA
Investigative historian and journalist. Writes regularly for Inter Press Service and Asia Times.

Saleem Khalaf in Baghdad
Managing Editor of Aswat al Iraq, an English language newspaper written and reported from Iraq.

Adam Davidson in New York
Economics reporter for NPR.

Click to Listen: Friday Media Roundtable

Your Call 032708 How will this summer's aerial spraying impact people in the Bay Area?

How concerned should we be about this summer's aerial spraying in the Bay Area? On the next Your Call, we'll discuss the state's controversial $75 million plan to spray pesticides over 12 Bay Area counties to help destroy the light brown apple moth. The state says the moth must be eradicated to avert billions of dollars in crop losses. Critics say the chemicals haven't been tested. Four bills have been introduced in the state legislature to slow or prohibit the spraying. What do you think of the plan? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. James Carey, professor of entomology at the University of California at Davis.

Daniel Harder, executive director of UCSC's arboretum. He conducted a study in New Zealand in January focused on the country's two major agricultural regions, which haven't been treated with moth-controlling pesticides since the mid-1990s.

Caroline Cox, Research Director at Center for Environmental Health based in Oakland

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Your Call 032608 What is the state of our economy?

What is the true state of U.S. economy and how did we get here? On the next Your Call, we'll take a look at the current U.S. economic crisis. By the end of this year, 20 million Americans could have mortgages worth more than the value of their homes. 63,000 jobs were lost last month, the biggest drop since July 2003. And the U.S. dollar continues to weaken. Has the economy slipped into recession? How are you being impacted by the economic crisis? And what are the solutions? It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Rep. Barbara Lee

Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Robert Pollin, professor of economics and founding co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

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Your Call 032508 Unmarketable

What does integrity mean when everything is for sale? On the next Your Call we welcome Anne Elizabeth Moore, author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity. Moore writes that even advertisers know the Internet generation is impervious to traditional ad campaigns. So now they're out to infiltrate your friendships, invade your passions and own your love. And it's working. If all the world's an advertisement and we are merely players, how do you find space to track your own loves and interests? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Anne Elizabeth Moore in Chicago
Author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity. She is the co-editor of Punk Planet, The Best American Comics series editor and the author of Hey Kidz! Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda and Artistic Activism for Short People.

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Your Call 032408 Sandip Roy hosts a special show from India

On the next Your Call, we continue our series connecting with our neighbors across the Pacific. Sandip Roy hosts a special show from his hometown of Calcutta, India to discuss the Indian and American workforces. This global drama stars American companies outsourcing jobs to Bangalore and beyond, American workers competing with Indian workers, and a new generation of well educated Indians who stay or move back to their country. How are these issues playing out today and what can we expect in the near future? It’s a special edition of Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

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Your Call 032108 The Iraq War Five Years On- Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we're focusing on the disappearing coverage of Iraq. In 2002, when most mainstream newspaper reporters failed to question the Bush administration's claims about weapons of mass destruction, Knight Ridder proclaimed "Troubling questions over justification for war in Iraq." Knight Ridder reporter Jonathan Landay joins us to discuss the methods he used to get the story right the first time. We'll also be joined by the Boston Globe's Anna Badkhen. Some of the few major newspaper reporters to cover Winter Soldier, she's also reported from Iraq. Why has Iraq disappeared? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Anna Badkhen, correspondent for the Boston Globe

Jonathan S. Landay, National Security and Intelligence correspondent with McClatchy

Zuhair Jezairy, editor in chief of the independent news agency Aswat al-Iraq

Click to Listen: The Iraq War Five Years On- Media Roundtable

Your Call 032008 The Iraq War Five Years On– Justice and Healing

On the next Your Call, we continue our Iraq series by focusing on justice and healing. What needs to be done to help a country devastated by two wars and years of international isolation move forward? What would be just? Beyond saying "troops out" or "end the occupation," what else needs to happen next? And what can we, as Americans, do to make it happen? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Raed Jarrar, Iraq consultant with the American Friends Service Committee.

Dahlia Wasfi, Iraqi American activist.

Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence

Sara Rich, the mother of Suzana Swift who went AWOL after charges of sexual harassment and assault went un-addressed by the military

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Your Call 031908 The Iraq War Five Years On– Rebuilding

On the next Your Call, we continue our Iraq series by focusing on justice and healing. What needs to be done to help a country devastated by two wars and years of international isolation move forward? What would be just? Beyond saying "troops out" or "end the occupation," what else needs to happen next? And what can we, as Americans, do to make it happen? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. Faleh Jaber - on phone from Beirut
*Iraqi historian and Director of the Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies.

Yahia Said - on phone from London
*Middle East Director of the Revenue Watch Institute.
*Left Iraq with his family in 1979, but now returns to Iraq 3-4 times a year.

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Your Call 031808 Coming Home

The Iraq war has had a transformative and sometimes devastating effect on communities. In Iraq, entire neighborhoods have been destroyed by bombing and street fighting; and even when the houses remain standing, in many places, a whole new group of people now lives in them. In the U.S., soldiers with serious wounds - physical and mental - have returned to their families and communities, but often had a hell of a time putting the pieces back together. Are there similarities in what they need to heal and move forward? Who should be held accountable for what's happened to them?

Guests:
Laura Gomez
Operation Iraqi Freedom Returning Veterans Coordinator for the Veterans Administration hospital in Palo Alto.

Dana Graber in Amman, Jordan
From the International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Ramon Leal
Served two tours of duty in Iraq

Harb al Mukhtar
Journalist in Baghdad

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Your Call 031708 How have women been affected by war in Iraq?

How have women been affected by war in Iraq? On the next Your Call, we begin a weeklong series to commemorate the 5-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion. Women in Iraq have endured decades of war and sanctions and on the American side, women now make up 15 percent of active duty forces, four times more than the number of women serving in the Gulf War. So what impact has the war had on both Iraqi and American women? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Basma AlKhateeb, Iraqi AlAmal Association, Baghdad

An Iraqi professor living in the Bay Area: anonymous

A veteran with Iraq Veterans Against the War: Name to be confirmed

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Your Call 031408 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable where we discuss how the news of the week was covered. With every lead story focusing on New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's sex life, what stories are we missing? This week, Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News joins us as the national media prepares to cover the Pennsylvania primary. Donna Ladd, editor of Mississippi's only alternative, The Jackson Free Press, just watched the media fly in and fly out and she wasn't impressed. Where did you see solid reporting this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Donna Ladd in Jackson, Mississippi
Donna is one of the founders and the editor of the Jackson Free Press, the sole alternative weekly in Mississippi. She used to write for the Village Voice and also helped start the Colorado Springs Independent.

Will Bunch in Philadelphia
Will is the Pulitzer Prize winning senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, its former political writer and the author of Daily News' blog, Attytood.

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Your Call 031308 The Commons Series; Seeds

How do we care for the things we share? On the next Your Call, we continue our series on the global commons. This week we’ll discuss the nuts, grains and seeds that form the nutritional basis of human civilization. Our seed stock is at risk because of a growing imbalance between private and public imperatives. Last week, Norwegian scientists built a seed vault deep within an Arctic mountain. Is this enough to guarantee that the food we eat today will be available in the future? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Brewster Kneen in Ottawa, Canada
Is the publisher of the Ram’s Horn, a monthly journal of food systems analysis. He is a farmer, scholar and the founder of The Forum on Privatization and the Public Domain.  

Claire Hope Cummings in Santa Rosa
Author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds.

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Your Call 031208 Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East

How are dissidents working to create democracies in the Middle East? On the next Your Call, we welcome veteran Washington Post Middle East reporter Robin Wright, author of Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East. Wright tells the story of dissidents from Morocco to Syria to Iran. What are they fighting for? Have they been successful? What should be the West’s attitude toward Islamic reformers who might not mirror western values? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Robin Wright in San Francisco
Writes about U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post. She has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents as a foreign correspondent. She is the author of Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East.

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Your Call 031108 California Budget Cuts and the Future of our Parks

What can we do to keep our parks open? On the next Your Call, we'll have a discussion about Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed plan to close 48 state parks, including Candlestick Point and Armstrong Woods. Under the plan, the parks would be off-limits until the state's financial situation improves. Since the announcement, dozens of organizations from around the state have launched the "Save Our Parks" campaigns. Do the closures make fiscal sense? Are you willing to pay a fee to keep the parks open? If not, what's the alternative? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Joseph H. Engbeck, an environmental historian and on the board of directors of Regional Park Association.

Elizabeth Goldstein, president of The California State Parks Foundation. CSP along with dozens of organizations from around the state have launched the "Save Our Parks" campaigns.

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Your Call 031008 How are young girls learning about sex?

How are young girls learning about sex and what should we teach them? On the next Your Call, we'll take a look at sex education for young girls. The United States continues to have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the industrialized world--almost twice as high as those of England and Canada, and eight times as high as that of the Netherlands. With a decline in sex education and rise in abstinence-only programs, where do girls go to learn about their bodies? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Ivy Chen, a sexuality health educator at San Francisco State University

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Your Call 030708 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week the Gaza Strip descended again into violence with more than a hundred dead; where does the Israel-Palestine conflict fit on the priorities list of America's editors? We'll talk with Jamal Dajani of Mosaic. We'll also speak with Suzanne Goldenberg who's been covering Hillary Clinton for the Guardian and take your calls about the best reporting this week. On the next Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Tim Redmond in San Francisco
Executive Editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian

Suzanne Goldenberg
political reporter for the The Guardian (UK)

Jamal Dajani in Berkeley
Director of Middle Eastern Programming at Link TV.

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Your Call 030608 Girls Rock

How is pop culture defining girlhood? On the next Your Call, we'll have a discussion about challenges facing young girls today. From celebrity magazines to reality TV to teen idols, girls are faced with a bewildering array of challenges that affect their self-image. How is pop culture influencing the way we think about the evolution of girls to motherhood? And what does it mean to be a girl in today's society? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Courtney Macavinta, journalist, author of Respect: A Girl's Guide to Getting Respect & Dealing When Your Line Is Crossed

Shane King, Co-Director/Cinematographer of Girls Rock

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Your Call 030508 Solar Rising

Why is Solar rising over the Bay Area? On the next Your Call we talk to different stakeholders in the solar boom taking place around the Bay Area. Cities are making it easier to install panels on residences and offices, even subsidizing it; local companies are spearheading research into new technologies and local contractors and non-profits are making it practical. What policies are happening in your town to make solar's present as bright as its future? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
David Hochschild in San Francisco
Vice-President of Solaria, a start-up; he is a commissioner on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and a founder of the non-profit Vote Solar. He joins us in our San Francisco studio.

Johanna Partin in San Francisco
Renewable Energy Program Manager in the San Francisco Department of the Environment. She joins us from San Francisco.

Cisco Devries in Berkeley
Spokesperson for the City of Berkeley.

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Your Call 030408 Putting Deregulation Back on the Table

Is it time to revisit regulation? On the next Your Call we host a debate about the ideology of deregulation, the theory that putting rule making power in the hands of corporations is good for everybody. After thirty years, what evidence is there that this idea has worked in transportation, energy, financial services and municipal utilities? On election day in Texas and Ohio, the economy was front and center, but why were the rules that run the economy so hidden? It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Ross Eisenbrey in San Diego
Vice president at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington DC. Ross is a former commissioner of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review and he joins us from the AFL-CIO national meeting in San Diego.

Tom Firey in Washington
Managing editor of the Cato Institute's magazine Regulation. Cato is a libertarian think tank also based in Washington.

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Your Call 030308 First-time voter shout-out

What is exciting first time voters in November? On the next Your Call, we'll have a discussion about efforts to mobilize first time voters. People under the age of 30 will cast about 20 percent of all votes in November. As of today, approximately 15 percent of the primary voters have all been first time voters. What will be the impact of first time voters on the presidential election? And what would it take to engage them in the future? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Andre Evans, Prairie View Student Government Association President.

Lydia Camarillo, Vice President of Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP)

Click to Listen: First-time voter shout-out