Your Call 083109 Hurricane Katrina Four Years Later--What's Changed?

What has changed since Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of Louisiana and Mississippi four years ago? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with two women whose lives have been forever altered by the tragedy. Katrina was the largest hurricane of its strength to reach the United States in recorded history. More than 1800 people were killed and 700,000 displaced. Who's returned since the hurricane? And how are people surviving both the aftermath of the storm and the economic crisis? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Colette Pichon Battle, president of the board of Moving Forward and program director of the Gulf Coast Fellowship for Community Transformation

Sharon Hanshaw, executive director of Coastal Women for Change

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Your Call 082809 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable where we bring in reporters from the mainstream, alternative and international press to discuss the week in American media. We'll talk about the coverage of Teddy Kennedy's death, the release of a less redacted torture memo and Binyamin Netanyahu's visit trip to Europe. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Peter Waldman in San Francisco
Former editor at the Wall Street Journal and the Conde Nast Business magazine, Portfolio.

Danny Schechter in NY
Independent author, producer and media critic. He is executive editor of MediaChannel.org, and his writing is collected at the News Dissector blog. He is the producer and director of many films including In Debt We Trust and WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception.

Mort Rosenblum in Paris
Long time AP foreign correspondent, he reported from 200 countries in his career, several of which no longer exist. He is the author of Escaping Plato's Cave: How America's Blindness to the Rest of the World Threatens Our Survival. He is editor of the news, commentary and photography quarterly Dispatches.

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Your Call 082709 What is the right response to hate speech in the media?

On the next Your Call we'll try to define the line between appropriate and inappropriate statements on the airwaves. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has called on the FCC to investigate hate speech in the media. What effect will that have? Email us at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What exactly qualifies as hate speech? And when hateful words go viral online, do broadcast regulations still matter? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Rory O'Connor in New York
Journalist, blogger, filmmaker and media critic. He's the author of Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio and is a contributing columnist to Alternet and MediaChannel. Rory's also the president of the media firm Globalvision Inc. and the author of the blog Media is a Plural.

James Rucker in Berkeley
Co-founder and executive director of Color of Change, an online activist organization that strives to strengthen the voices of African Americans. James has also served as director of Grassroots Mobilization for MoveOn.org.

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Your Call 082609 Is there a new colonial rush on in Africa?

Is there a new colonial rush on in Africa? On the next Your Call we will speak with Serge Michel, author of China Safari and scholar Nii Akuettah about increasing Chinese efforts to exploit - and develop - Africa. How is the Chinese approach different from the way the American government has operated on the Continent? Is either a good deal? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can African nations make it without being a client of a major power? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Serge Michel in Geneva
Author of China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa. Michel was the West Africa Correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde after stints in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. He won the Albert Londres Prize, France's most prestigious journalistic award, for his work in Iran and is the founder of the Bondy Blog, a citizen journalism project in the suburbs of Paris.

Nii Akuetteh in Washington DC
Independent Africa policy analyst and researcher. He is the former executive director of the Washington, DC-based group Africa Action.

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Your Call 082509 How is the insurance industry spinning the health care debate?

How is the insurance industry spinning the health care debate? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with former health insurance insider Wendell Potter. For 20 years, he was the head of Public Relations for CIGNA. Today he's revealing what he calls the industry's obsession with profits and greed and he's speaking out for a public option. What advice does he have for healthcare reform proponents? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Does reform have a chance? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Wendell Potter, former health insurance industry executive

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Your Call 082409 When the recovery comes, where will the jobs be?

When the recovery comes, where will the jobs be? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the jobs of the future. 15 million people are without jobs right now, so which parts of the economy are creating new jobs? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What kind of investments and incentives can government make that would create long-term employment opportunities? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. Paul Fassinger, director of Economic and Demographic Research and economist with Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG)

Cathy Calfo, executive director of Apollo Alliance

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Your Call 082109 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable. This week Afghans went to the polls amidst heavy violence, California legislators started filling in details of the budget, and the media finally started reported the facts about health care, but has the damage already been done? We'll be joined by the Wall Street Journal's Anand Gopal in Kabul, the Center for Public Integrity's Bill Buzenberg, and NPR national correspondent Laura Sullivan. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Laura Sullivan, NPR crime and punishment correspondent
Anand Gopal, Wall Street Journal Afghanistan correspondent
Bill Buzenberg, Center for Public Integrity executive director

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Your Call 082009 What's the state of student loans?

Is the home mortgage crisis over? As everyone looks for signs of recovery from the economic collapse, what's the state of home mortgages? On the next Your Call, we'll talk to the creators of American Casino, a documentary that investigated the home mortgage crisis as it was happening. What risk is left in this issue? And has the government response dealt with the major, fundamental problems? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m.

Guests:
Leslie Cockburn in San Francisco
Director of American Casino. Cockburn, a San Francisco native, has been producing television news for nearly thirty years, for 60 minutes, PBS Frontline and ABC. She's won Polk, Columbia Dupont, Overseas Press Club and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism awards. She is a Vanity Fair contributing editor.

Andrew Cockburn in San Francisco
Co-producer of American Casino. Cockburn is regular contributing author for National Geographic and CounterPunch, and has written several books, most recently Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy.

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Your Call 081909 What's the state of student loans?

What's the state of student loans? On the next Your Call we'll examine the politics behind the billions of dollars college students borrow every year. We'll be joined by Serge Bakalian, filmmaker of the forthcoming documentary Default, Tamara Draut of Demos, and Alan Collinge of Student Loan Justice. The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act would have students borrow directly from the federal government - is that a good thing?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What's wrong with the student loan industry? And how should we fix it? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Serge Bakalian, writer/producer Default: The Student Loan Documentary

Tamara Draut, Vice-President of Policy and Programs at Demos, author of Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead.

Alan Collinge, founder of Student Loan Justice, author of The Student Loan Scam.

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Your Call 081809 What is on your summer reading list?

What is on your summer reading list? On the next Your Call, we'll open the phone lines and share what we're reading. Investigative reporter John Pilger is out with his summer political reading list. And Bay Area activist Todd Chretien recently compiled a summer list for President Obama. What would you add to that list?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What are you reading? What non-fiction and fiction books do you suggest? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Pete Mulvihill, co-owner of Green Apple Books

Neal Sofman, founder and owner Bookshop West Portal

Casey Coonerty Protti, owner of Bookshop Santa Cruz

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Your Call 081709 What fills the hole where the abandoned Wal-Mart was?

What fills the hole where the abandoned Wal-Mart was? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Julia Christensen, author of Big Box Reuse. Communities across the country are transforming their vacant big box stores into libraries, indoor racetracks, museums, and more. Could the collapse of big box retail in your town have a silver lining?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What would you transform your city's Big Box store into? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Julia Christensen, author of Big Box Reuse

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Your Call 081409 Friday Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable where we hold American media accountable for getting us the news we need. This week the Secretary of State traveled to seven African countries, the Congressional Budget Office said the deficit would be four times higher than it had ever been before and Sarah Palin said if health reform passed, the government could decide to kill the old and disabled. We'll be joined by John Wasik from Bloomberg and Franc Contreras, freelance reporter in Mexico City.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
John Wasik
Personal finance columnist for Bloomberg News, the world's third-largest news service. He is the author of 13 books, most recently The Audacity of Help: Obama's Economic Plan and the Remaking of America and Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream.

Franc Contreras in Mexico City
Independent reporter and producer from Mexico City. His reports are regularly heard on BBC, NPR and he is the former Mexico Bureau chief for Al Jazeera English.

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Your Call 081309 How are we going to educate our kids?

How are we going to educate our kids? On the next Your Call we will be talking with teachers from around the Bay Area. With the latest budget cuts, California now ranks last in per-student school funding in the country. So who will be standing in front of the six and a quarter million students trying to do more with not very much? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can teachers still thrive when budgets are tight? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jeremiah Jeffries in San Francisco
Teacher for the last 2 years in pre-, middle-, and summer school. He is beginning his second year teaching 1st grade at Redding Elementary in the Tenderloin, with a mostly low-income student population. Jeffries is a Coordinator for Teachers for Social Justice in San Francisco.

Dahlia Blair in San Francisco
San Francisco substitute teacher since 2005

Andy Lisbon in San Francisco
Teaches 9th grade integrated science at Mission High

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Your Call 081209 Would you vote for the Health Care Reform Bill?

Would you vote for the House's Health Care Reform Bill? On the next Your Call we'll discuss the plan that the House will vote on when they get back from the August recess. What's in it? What's left out? Do you think it goes far enough? If not, could you support it as a step in the right direction? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. How are you willing to compromise on health care reform? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Stan Brock in Los Angeles
Founder of Remote Access Medical, a traveling medical camp that offers healthcare to anyone who can't afford it. RAM is offering services in Los Angeles starting today through next Tuesday.

Manoj Jain in Memphis
An infectious disease physician, writer, and national leader in healthcare quality improvement.

Ken Jacobs in Berkeley
Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center. He provided consultation to the City and County of San Francisco on the development of the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance and was a member of the Mayor's Universal Health Care Council.

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Your Call 081109 Can personal change save the planet?

Can personal change save the planet? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with environmental activist Derrick Jensen. Many of us choose the alternative option of living more consciously to cause less harm to our planet and to challenge the existing corporate culture. But Jensen argues that personal change does not equal social change. What do you think? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What are you doing for the environment? And what difference is it really making? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Derrick Jensen, author and environmental activist

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Your Call 081009 Agenda for a New Economy: Depression & the Depression

On the next Your Call we continue to discuss an Agenda for a New Economy: Depression & the Depression. What's the psychological impact of the economic collapse? How do we weather a national storm of anxiety and depression? What's the effect on families and kids? And what resources are available for people whose change in economic circumstances has led to depression or worse?

We'll be joined by Dr. Harvey Brenner, professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Dr. David Spiegel, director of the Center on Stress and Health at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. How is the recession affecting us emotionally and what can we do about it? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you. Join the conversation at 866-798-TALK, that's 866-798-8255.

Guests:
Dr. Harvey Brenner, professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and at the School of Public Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of North Texas. Dr. Brenner has written extensively on the relationship between the economy and our emotional well being.

Dr. David Spiegel is the director of the Center on Stress and Health at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Your Call 080709 Friday Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable where we bring in reporters from the mainstream, alternative and international press to discuss the week in American media. This week we'll be joined by Sarah Varney from KQED's Health Dialogues, Michael Massing from the New York Review of Books, and Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig, news editor for the Public Press. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Sarah Varney in San Francisco
Health reporter for KQED Radio News and Health Dialogues, a monthly radio program produced by KQED and aired across California. Health Dialogues and Sarah's reporting about the Canadian health care system were recently given high marks by the Columbia Journalism Review.

Michael Massing in NYC
Contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is author of several books, most recently Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq which he co-authored with Orville Schell.

Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig in Tampa
News editor for the Public Press, non-commercial collaborative news service in San Francisco. Fitzhugh-Craig is the former city editor for the Oakland Tribune and won accolades for her investigative reporting for the Chauncey Bailey Project; she also won an Associated Press Managing Editors Award for column writing.

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Your Call 080609 What does "cooperating" with the Police actually look like?

What should you do when the cops come knocking on your door, pull you over or arrest you? On the next Your Call we talk about what it means to cooperate with the police. The attention paid to Henry Louis Gates' arrest in Cambridge has focused on racial profiling, but it also tells us a lot about how police operate and how private citizens are expected to respond. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What respect is due to the police and the civilian when an arrest hangs in the balance? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Jakada Imani in Oakland
Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, an Oakland based organization working for racial and environmental justice with a particular focus on the criminal justice system. The Ella Baker Center was founded 13 years ago by Van Jones as an expansion of Bay Area PoliceWatch. Imani took over at Ella Baker in 2007 after leading their Books not Bars program.

Gary P. Delagnes in San Francisco
President of the San Francisco Police Officers Association

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Your Call 080509 Can a documentary save thousands of dolphins from slaughter?

Can a documentary save thousands of dolphins from slaughter? On the next Your Call we will speak with Louie Psihoyos, director of the new documentary The Cove. The Cove reveals an annual slaughter of tens of thousands of dolphins in a small town in Japan. It won the audience award at Sundance in 2009 and followed Psihoyos' extreme efforts to film a slaughter the Japanese government wanted to keep hidden. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What are you doing to save dolphins? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Louie Psihoyos

Director of the Cove, winner of the audience award at Sundance in 2009. Psihoyos was a photographer for National Geographic for 18 years and his photography has appeared in Fortune, Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine and Rock and Ice.

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Your Call 080409 How can we best care for the ground beneath our feet?

How can we best care for the ground beneath our feet? On the next Your Call we'll continue our series looking at Commons, those things and places we all benefit from and have to nurture together. We'll be replaying Rose Aguilar's interview with Gene Rosow, producer & director of Dirt! The Movie, inspired by the book Ecstatic Skin of the Earth about the challenges and opportunities to save our soil. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What are you doing to enrich the earth? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Gene Rosow in Los Angeles
Director of Dirt! The Movie, an official selection in the Documentary Competition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Gene wrote, produced and directed more than 20 documentaries including Doctora for Channel 4 England, Routes of Rhythm with Harry Belafonte for PBS, and Knights for Canal+ France. His feature film credits include the lovable family film Zeus and Roxanne for MGM, among others. On top of a Ph.D in History, Gene relishes his year of post-graduate work in Ecology, Biochemistry, Cellular Physiology, and Parisitology.

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Your Call 080309 What role has the Federal Reserve Bank played in the financial crisis?

What role has the Federal Reserve Bank played in the financial crisis? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about the Federal Reserve Bank. Its power to raise and lower interest rates has made it more influential over economic growth than any other government entity. So why does President Obama want to give it even more power? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. How has its role in our economy changed since its establishment in 1913? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Nomi Prins, a senior fellow at Demos, a nonpartisan public policy think-tank and author of the forthcoming book It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street

Ellen Brown, an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles and author of "Web of Debt"

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