How Does America Converse After Newspapers?

What does the demise of the newspaper tell us about the future of cities and the way we relate to the people around us? Join Sandip Roy for a wide-ranging pre-recorded conversation about human connection and our changing media with essayist Richard Rodriguez, author of Brown and Hunger of Memory.

Guest:
Richard Rodriguez

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What's Exciting on Stage Right Now?

What's exciting on stage right now? Been to the theatre lately? Have relatives in town you'd like to take out for a show? Join the conversation as we delve into the creative pulse of theatre in Northern California live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's new in live theater? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Karen McKevitt, editor of Theatre Bay Area Magazine
Jolene Change, writer of the blog Saturday Matinee
Stephanie Weisman of The Marsh Theater
Kenneth Kelleher, artistic director of the Pacific Rep in Monterey

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Do You Know Your Online Rights?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about how companies and government entities are using the personal data you post online. Can you protect yourself? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are the shortcomings of privacy regulations written before the advent of the Internet? And do you have any expectation of privacy when you search the web? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Nicole Ozer, Technology & Civil Liberties Policy Director, ACLU of Northern California

Jim Dempsey, Vice President for Public Policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology

Peter Eckersley, Staff Technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation

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What's Left of Health Care Reform?

On the next Your Call, we'll continue our Monday series Agenda for a New Economy with a conversation with T.R. Reid, author of The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health. How do we get our voices heard as the House and Senate create some kind of compromise bill? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What should we expect in the coming months? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
T.R. Reid, a reporter, documentary film correspondent, and author

Noam Levy, Los Angeles Times staff writer

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Media Roundtable

This week we'll discuss coverage of the watered down healthcare reform bill, the climate change conference in Copenhagen, and soaring profits on Wall Street. Where is the money coming from? We'll be joined by the Christian Science Monitor's Mark Trumbull, Circle of Blue WaterNews's Aubery Parker, just back from Copenhagen, and the Huffington Post's Ryan Grim. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did the media fall short?

Guests:
Mark Trumbull, staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Ryan Grim is the senior congressional correspondent for the Huffington Post.

Aubrey Parker, news reporter with Circle of Blue WaterNews and guest blogger for Detroit Free Press at the COP15, the Climate Conference in Copenhagen.

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Want to Give Nothing for the Holidays?

This Holiday season, do you feel pressure to spend more money than you have? Think the national gift giving frenzy is more wasteful than wonderful? Joel Waldfogel agrees. We'll talk with him about his new book Scroogenomics: Why you shouldn't buy presents for the Holidays. When we buy for ourselves, we shop carefully and purchase items that are worth more than they cost. Gift giving is different. We make less-informed choices, and millions are wasted. How did it get this far?

Join the conversation at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Why should you give nothing for the Holidays? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guest:
Joel Waldfogel, author of Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays

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Where are You Donating this Year?

Where are you donating this year? And how do you make sure your dollars have an impact? There are lots of new tools for tracking your charitable giving--what's most important to know before you give? If you work at a nonprofit, do you think the measures being used to judge the way you spend your money help you to be more sustainable over the long-term?

Join the conversation at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where are you donating this year? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Sandra Miniutti, vice president of Charity Navigator, America's largest charity evaluator

Carla Dartis, senior vice president of the Tides Center, a San Francisco-based organization which partners with philanthropists, foundations, activists, and organizations to amplify the efforts of donors

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What's the State of the Opposition in Iran?

On the next Your Call, we will have a conversation about the ongoing democracy actions in Iran. During recent Student Day protests, more than 200 people were arrested and many beaten. What are their demands? Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is Iran's protest movement impacting the rest of the region? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Farideh Farhi, an independent scholar and affiliate, Graduate Faculty at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Kaveh Ehsani, assistant professor of international studies at DePaul University

Sohrab Mahdavi, editor of TehranAvenue.com. He writes about art and culture for different publications.

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Are Food Stamps Enough?

Will the food stamp program be able to meet the rising demand? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about food stamps. More Americans than ever -- one in eight -- depends on food stamps to meet their basic food needs. How does the program work? And who qualifies? Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yorucallradio.org. What can (and can't) you buy with food stamps? If you've hit hard times, how do you know if you qualify? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jessica Bartholow, director of Programs at California Association of Food Banks

Mark R. Rank, Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at Washington University in St. Louis

Leo O'Farrell, food stamp program manager for the San Francisco County Department of Human Services

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss the coverage of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. What story got the most attention? We'll be joined by independent journalist Mark Hertsgaard in Copenhagen, Allan Woods of the Toronto Star's Ottawa Bureau and Daily Nation's Sammy Cheboi in Kenya. Did a story stand out for you because of its reporting? Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us your comments and questions to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are you looking for in stories about the environment? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Allan Woods, Toronto Star, Ottawa Bureau

Mark Hertsgaard, an independent journalist and author based in San Francisco

Sammy Kimutai Cheboi, correspondent with the Daily Nation in Kenya

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How does Climate Change Affect Food Security?

Is climate change threatening the world's food supply? On the next Your Call, we'll continue our weeklong series on Copenhagen by talking about global food security in the face of climate change. The UN says we need to dramatically change global agricultural policies to address hunger, poverty and climate change. How do we feed the world and become environmentally sustainable?

Join the conversation at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org? How is climate change threatening food security? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Anuradha Mittal, founder and executive director of the Oakland Institute and a food, agriculture and trade expert.

Josh Viertel, president of Slow Food USA. Josh has also worked as a shepherd, a teacher, a vegetable farmer, an activist, a fisherman, and a baker.

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What's your Biggest Worry About Climate Change?

What's your biggest worry about the effects of climate change? And what needs to come out of the meeting in Copenhagen to make you feel more hopeful? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the impact of climate change for different countries and what they are doing to reverse the trend.

Join the conversation at 11 am or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What needs to come of Copenhagen for you to consider it a success? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Leah Wickham, a 24-year-old environmental activist from Fiji

Kristine Holten-Andersen, a 27-year-old architect and volunteer with Klimaforum09

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Has Climate Change Met its Match in California?

Is California showing the way on reversing climate change? On the next Your Call, we'll continue our weeklong series on Copenhagen by talking about California's role in the global fight against global warming. Has California followed through on its commitments to reduce greenhouse gases any better than the nations who signed on to the Kyoto Protocol? Join the conversation at 11 am or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What does California need to do to curb CO2 emissions? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Erin Rogers, Western Region Manager, Climate and Energy Program at Union of Concerned Scientists

William Julian, public policy director for an assembly member in Sacramento. He served as Legislative Director and Commissioner Legal Advisor for the California Public Utilities Commission from 1999 through 2004, including the acute period of the California Energy Crisis.

Fran Pavley, State Senator, and author of AB 32, the "Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006"

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Can We Afford to Stop Global Warming?

What's the cost-benefit analysis for slowing climate change? On the next Your Call we'll kick off our weeklong programming on climate change, with a conversation on the economic impacts of global warming. Opponents of legislation to combat global warming point to the toll it will take on the economy, but what are the economic risks if we continue on the current path? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feeback@yourcallradio.org. Which of the proposed solutions might actually have economic benefits? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Frank Ackerman is a research fellow at Global Development and Environment Institute and a senior scientist at Stockholm Environment Institute-US Centre, both at Tufts University. He authored Can We Afford the Future?: The Economics of a Warming World.

Matthias Ruth, Roy F. Weston Chair in Natural Economics,Director, Environmental Policy Program, and Co-Director, Engineering and Public Policy Program at Center for Integrative Environmental Research at University of Maryland

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we'll discuss the coverage of U.S. military escalation in Afghanistan, the healthcare debate on Capitol Hill and the lucrative healthcare industry. We'll be joined by Market Watch's Russ Britt, McClatchy's David Lightman and independent journalist Pratap Chatterjee. Did a story stand out for you because of its reporting? Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us your comments and questions to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Russ Britt, bureau chief and consumer editor with Market Watch
David Lightman, Washington Bureau correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers
Pratap Chatterjee, independent journalist and managing editor of CorpWatch

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Do you Know Cornel West?

On the next Your Call, we'll play an interview Rose Aguilar recently did with Princeton Professor Cornel West. After several books about race and democracy, Dr. West shares his personal story in a new memoir called Brother West. He writes about how education transformed him from a "gangster with raw rage" into a civil rights activist. Dr. West will talk about moving to an all white neighborhood in Sacramento, California in 1967, meeting Ronald Reagan for the first time, and the continuing struggle for social justice. That's on the next Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Cornell West, author of Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir

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Did Obama Make his Case?

What do you make of the course Pres. Obama set out in his address on Afghanistan? On the next Your Call, we want to know what you think of the new plan, and what it says about Obama's use of American military power. Who was he talking to in his address and who had his ear as he made the decision? Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What does history tell us about the best-laid plans of occupying armies and can the people who put Obama in office still influence his foreign policy? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Nancy A. Youssef, Pentagon correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, journalists and authors of Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story

Kamran Ali, associate professor of anthropology and acting director of the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas-Austin

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Who's Talking About AIDS?

Has a new silence developed about the global HIV-AIDS epidemic? On the next Your Call, we mark World AIDS Day by having an intergenerational conversation about HIV-AIDS. What's being done to educate and help HIV positive teens and adults in the Bay Area? How much progress has been made since the 80s? Join the conversation live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What explains the continuing silence about epidemic? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Sergio Mendoza, a staff writer for Beyond the Odds. He was diagnosed with having HIV in December of 2008.

Anita Johnson, a nationally recognized, award winning broadcast journalist and producer. She is executive producer of Beyond the Odds.

Matt Sharp, director of Treatment and Prevention Advocacy at Project Inform

Lina Sheth, director of Community Development & External Affairs at Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center

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Does the State Budget Crisis Move You to Act?

Is the budget crisis in California creating a movement for fundamental change? On the next Your Call, we continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by talking about the reaction to the devastating budget cuts. Has the shock of budget cuts in the midst of a recession moved you from dissatisfaction to action? Join us at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How are the range of people activated by the state's crisis making connections? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Blondell Rice, a San Francisco home care worker
Reuben Caneda, UC Berkeley student
Ethel Long-Scott, executive director of The Women's Economic Agenda Project

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Media Roundtable

What's in store for the future of the media? On the next Your Call, we'll have a special pre-taped Friday Media Roundtable with Bob Garfield, co-host of NPR's On the Media and author of The Chaos Scenario, and Jessica Clark, author of the forthcoming book, Beyond the Echo Chamber. Can anything good come from a media industry in disarray? Is there an emerging news media we can feel thankful for? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jessica Clark, author

Bob Garfield, co-host of NPR's On the Media

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Read a Good Book Lately?

Do you have a great book to recommend? On the next Your Call, we'll ask Green Apple Books's Pete Mulvihill and the Booksmith's Rachel Meier to share their recommendations for the best books of the year. Do have friends or family members who you'd love to get a book for -- if only you had some recommendations? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or tune in live at 11. What's your book gift idea? And what are you reading? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Pete Mulvihill, co-owner, Green Apple Books and Music

Rachel Meier, manger and book buyer at Booksmith in San Francisco

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Has Your Past Determined Your Present?

Has your past determined your present? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about how the decisions of our ancestors shaped who we are or hope to be. If you've made the decision to connect with your family history, what have you learned that changed the way you see yourself? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. With many family gatherings for the holiday weekend, how can you start the intergenerational conversations that allow you to understand where you come from? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Alia Malek, an author and civil rights lawyer.

Bonnie Tsui, a freelance writer and a frequent contributor to The New York Times.

Connie Alvarez, director of Volunteer Services at KCRW; producer, KCRW's Good Food and part of Story Corps Historias

Nancy Loughridge, an 81-year-old mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She was interviewed by her daughter for StoryCorps.

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Agenda for a New Economy -- Who Wins the Credit Card Game?

How has the credit card industry remained so profitable during the downturn? Join us for a short course on the industry that lives in all of our wallets, with the Frontline team that created The Card Game: An investigation of the consumer loan industry. Who's regulating the big credit card companies? What shows up on your monthly bill? And what are the basic reforms that could make a big difference?

Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's the credit card business getting away with? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Oriana Zill de Granados, co-producer of Frontline's The Card Game and award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker.

Dan Hirst, journalist with Frontline, and associate producer of The Card Game.

Gail Hillebrand, Financial Services Campaign Manager at the Consumers Union, nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine.

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Friday Media Roundtable

This week, we'll discuss coverage of President Obama's visit to China, protests on UC campuses, and the state of media in Mexico. We'll be joined by The Daily Planet's Riya Bhattacharjee, Mexico City based journalist Franc Contreras and New America Media's Vivian Po. Did a story stand out for you because of its reporting?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us your comments and questions to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Riya Bhattacharjee, staff writer at The Berkeley Daily Planet
Vivian Po, staff writer at New America Media
Franc Contreras, journalist based in Mexico City

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What's your Wish List for China?

President Obama just left China, after negotiating a relationship that will define our economic and political reality in the coming decades. Yet most progressives are hazy about what they wanted Obama to tell Hu Jintao. Is it all about the economy? Should environmental degradation and global warming be the top priority? Or do democratic reform and freedom to dissent come before for everything else?

Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's the progressive agenda for China? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Ling-Chi Wang, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and a US-China relations expert.

David Gordon, executive director of Pacific Environment.

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Does our Economy Need to Crash?

Why is our capitalism so prone to crash? On the next Your Call we talk with author John Cassidy about how markets crash. Is it about greed and groupthink? Or something more fundamental to our economic system? And what does the way we answer these questions mean for financial regulation? A conversation with New Yorker economics and finance reporter John Cassidy, author of How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities.

Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do markets fail? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
John Cassidy, an economics and finance reporter for the New Yorker and author of How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities.

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What Do Young People Say about the Richmond High Rape?

How are young people around Northern California responding to the gang rape of a Richmond High student outside the homecoming dance? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with a panel of students about how they can they help us understand about how it happened. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How we can stop it from happening again? It's Your call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Renee Caridan, senior at De Anza High School in Richmond

Timothy Jackson, executive director of the Bay Area Stop Hating Movement

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Can Capitalism Redeem Itself?

Is a better capitalism possible? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with John Perkins, author of Hoodwinked. He argues that the global financial system needs to be remade from the ground up. But where do we start in building a more just and sustainable system?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. In a globalized economy, are the incentives for gluttony and graft simply too great? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
John Perkins, an economist and author. His best-known book is Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of Afghanistan, the Fort Hood Shooting and veterans, and the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. We'll be joined by The Nation's Betsy Reed and journalist and author Mark Danner. Did a story stand out for you because of its reporting?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us your comments and questions to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Matt Martin and you.

Guests:
Mark Danner, a writer and reporter who for twenty-five years has written on politics and foreign affairs, focusing on war and conflict.

Betsy Reed, the executive editor of The Nation.

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Update: Mark Danner is speaking TODAY
3:00pm "Now That We Know: Obama, Terror and the Politics of Dirty Hands"
University of California, Berkeley
Wheeler Auditorium, Maude Fife Room 315
Free and open to the public
Book signing to follow

7:30pm Book signing, The Booksmith
1644 Haight Street San Francisco, CA 94117

Are Cars Going Extinct?

What's the future of personal transportation? A big chunk of the federal stimulus plan supports the building, repair and expansion of roads at the same time climate scientists tell us fossil-fueled cars are pushing us more quickly toward catastrophe. Are we at a point where personal transportation might come into question? What does your car mean to you? And what would it take for you to pull it off the road for good?

Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's the future of the car? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Patricia Monahan, director of the California office of the Union of Concerned Scientists and deputy director for the Clean Vehicles program.

Carli Paine, transportation director for Transform

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Are U.S.-Israel Relations at a Turning Point?

On the next Your Call we'll be joined by Joel Schalit, author of Israel Versus Utopia, to discuss the future of Israel. Israel is the number one recipient of U.S. economic and military aid, but its right-wing Likud government has bristled at Obama Administration calls for an end to illegal settlements. Meanwhile, the J Street Project is setting a new course for the Jewish-American relationship with Israel. Could a new U.S.-Israeli relationship emerge? And will any of it make real change for the Palestinians?

Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's the future of US-Israel relations? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Joel Schalit, author of Israel Vs. Utopia

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Can an Official Apology Right an Historic Wrong?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about what Native Americans say about the Senate's passage of a resolution apologizing to Native Americans for the federal government's record of "violence, mistreatment, and neglect." Is it a meaningful step for Native Americans?

Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. If President Obama followed the Senate's lead, could it help this country confront its past -- and appreciate the continuing importance of Native Americans? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Michael Smith, founder and director of the American Indian Film Festival

Nataani Graycloud Guthrie, student and healthcare volunteer at the Native American Health Center

Kateri Walker, actress in Kissed By Lightning and panelist for "Native Women vs. Hollywood Stereotypes" at the American Indian Film Festival

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Where is Health Care Reform in Washington Headed?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the health care reform proposals – from House and Senate Democrats, as well as the Republicans, what's in them? How far do they go in tackling issues of access and cost?

Listen live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can we assert our interests as the deals are cut on Capitol Hill? It's Your Call, with Matt Martin and you.

Guests:
Henry Abrons, retired physician who is on the Board of Physicians for a National Health Program and its CA chapter, California Physicians Alliance.

Ezra Klein covers domestic and economic policy for the Washington Post.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of midterm elections, the investigation into Goldman Sachs's secret bets against the housing market and the anti-government protests in Iran on the 30th anniversary of the siege of the U.S. embassy. We'll be joined by The Nation's John Nichols, McClatchy's Greg Gordon, and The Wall Street Journal's Farnaz Fassihi. Did a story stand out for you because of its reporting? You can join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
John Nichols, the Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine
Farnaz Fassihi, the deputy bureau chief of Middle East and Africa for The Wall Street Journal
Greg Gordon, an investigative reporter with McClatchy Newspapers

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Does Breast Cancer Awareness Month Work?

Does breast cancer awareness month work? Every October, millions of Americans take part in events to raise money and consciousness about breast cancer. But how much do we know about where the money goes, and is it bringing us closer to a cure? If you wear a pink ribbon or take part in a breast cancer walk, what change do you hope to make?

Join us live at 11:00 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What the best way to promote breast cancer awareness? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Barbara Brenner, director of the Breast Cancer watchdog group, Breast Cancer Action.

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Can the U.S. Lead the Climate Conference in Copenhagen?

Can the U.S. lead at the climate conference in Copenhagen? On the next Your Call, we'll discuss the key commitments the U.S. must make to slow global warming. If there's no bill from Congress, will President Obama even show up? How can concerned citizens make their voices heard in the next month?

Join us live at 11:00 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Can the U.S. lead on climate change? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Jim Ayers, vice-president of Oceana Pacific, who will be attending the Copenhagen summit next month.

Mark Hertsgaard, a journalist who covers climate change for Vanity Fair, The Nation, Time and others.

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What's Obama's Grade in Foreign Policy?

How would you grade Obama's foreign policy record so far? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about changes in U.S. foreign policy since Obama took office. Middle East expert Juan Cole says the president deserves good marks for his work on Iran, Pakistan and Iraq -- do you agree?

You can join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are the criteria we should use to judge Obama's foreign policy as he moves toward his sophomore year? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Harry Kreisler is executive director of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and executive producer and host of "Conversations with History."

Juan R. I. Cole, professor of modern Middle East and South Asian history at the University of Michigan

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How Does Unemployment Insurance Work?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about Unemployment Insurance benefits. With unemployment in California at its highest rate since 1940, lots more people are learning how the system works and where it falls short. What can we learn from the way other states and countries handle unemployment insurance?

You can join us live at 11 or email us at feedback@yourcallradio.org. If you're grappling with the current system, what do you think needs to change? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Maurice Emsellem, the National Employment Law Project's (NELP) Policy Director

Olga Pierce, a Fellow at ProPublica

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss the coverage of the violence in Iraq, the House and Senate health care bill and the future of newspapers. We'll be joined by David Baker of the S.F. Chronicle, The Huffington Post's Danielle Ivory, and The Guardian's Martin Chulov in Iraq. Did a story stand out for you because of its reporting?

You can join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
David Baker, San Francisco Chronicle staff writer
Danielle Ivory, Huffington Post Investigative Fund staff reporter
Martin Chulov, Iraq correspondent for The Guardian and The Observer

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What Makes Women Prisoners Different?

What makes women prisoners different? California is home to the world's largest women's prison, and the women are the fastest growing segment of the prison population. Why are so many more women going to prison? What is the impact of women's imprisonment on our communities? And are the strategies for cutting women's prison populations different, too?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What makes women prisoners different? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Beverly Henry, longtime member of the California Coalition for Women Prisons and Justice Now, an advocacy organization for women prisoners, who was recently released from prison.

Hafsa Al-amin, development director for the California Coalition for Women Prisoners.

Victoria Law, author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women.

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What's the Best Path to Gay Rights?

Now that the LGBT movement has an ally in the White House, how are activists gearing up to push for real change rather than feel-good rhetoric? What's the best strategy for advancing gay rights today? The state LGBT marriage equality movement seems bitterly divided on whether to challenge Proposition 8 in 2010 or 2012. Are we ready for that fight again? Is there enough money to be raised in a recession? And how would this battle in California affect the push for equality in Washington DC?

Join us live at 11 or email us at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's the best strategy for advancing gay rights today? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Rick Jacobs, founder and chair of the Courage Campaign, an online organizing network pushing for progressive change in California.

Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, which works to achieve equality and secure legal protections for LGBT people.

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Has Obama Repaired our International Image?

How is it different to be an American abroad now that President Obama is in the White House? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the experiences Americans have when traveling overseas. The Bush Administration's policies severely tarnished the U.S. image globally. That has changed with President Obama in office and the House has passed a bill to launch a campaign promoting travel to the U.S. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What travel experiences stand out for you? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Mike Barish, a freelance writer specializing in travel

Robert Reid, Lonely Planet's U.S. Travel Editor and spokesperson

John Vlahides, travel writer, co-founder of 71Miles.com, & TV host of National Geographic Adventure

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Manufactured in America?

Can you have a healthy economy without manufacturing? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about how recession has accelerated the departure of manufacturing jobs from the U.S. How does that change our economy? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Should restoring manufacturing jobs to the U.S. be a priority? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
David Bacon, San Francisco labor journalist

Harley Shaiken, professor of labor and global economics at UC Berkeley

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it is our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss the FCC's Ruling on Network Neutrality and the Goldstone report regarding the assault in Gaza. As CNN is airing "Latinos in America," a number of groups are asking CNN to dump Lou Dobbs. Do these campaigns affect coverage? Did a story stand out for you because of its reporting? Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Matt Smith, SF Weekly Writer

Tim Karr, Campaign Director for Free Press and coordinator of the
SaveTheInternet.com Coalition

Jordan Flaherty, an editor of Left Turn Magazine

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Spreading the Atheist Gospel?

Evangelizing for atheism? You've seen the ads on the Muni buses: "Imagine no religion" and other quotes from famous non-believers promoting the Freedom From Religion Foundation. It's part of a small wave of pro-atheist media that's risen over the past few years. Is the campaign a sign of a broadening public discourse about faith and the lack of it? Or does it insult religious people and widen the divide between people of faith and their non-believing neighbors?

Join us live at 11 or email us at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you think of the rise of Athiesm? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Reverend Scotty McLennan, dean of Religious Life at Stanford.

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Will Young People Save the Earth?

What can we learn from the next generation of environmental activists? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with winners of this year's David Brower Youth Awards, which honors young people for their achievements in the fields of environmental and social justice advocacy. Do you know a young person who's inspired you to do more to protect the environment?

Join us live at 11 or email us at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Is there a heightened environmental consciousness in the next generation? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Sharon Smith, program director for the Brower Youth Awards & New Leaders Initiative

Robin Bryan, a 21-year-old student from Canada whose project protects 1 million acres of forest in Canada from industrial logging.

Alec Loorz, a 15-year-old student from Southern California, who initiated Kids vs. Global Warming and is the youngest presenter of Al Gore's "The Climate Project."

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What's the State of the Arts in the Arab World?

What's the state of artistic expression in the Arab world? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with three filmmakers at this year's Arab Film Festival. What are the boundaries of free expression in the Arab world and how do they differ from one country to the next? What can we learn about the Middle East through cinematic narratives? Join us live at 11 or email us at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What impacts have political and economic change had on what artists can put into the public realm? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Michel Shehadeh, executive director of the Arab Film Festival

Ibrahim El-Batout, an Egyptian filmmaker based in Cairo and director of Ein Shams (or Eye of the Sun)

Kalthoum Bornaz, Tunisian filmmaker and director of The Other Half of the Sky

Najwa Najjar, Palestinian filmmaker and director of Pomegranates and Myrrh

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Agenda for a New Economy: Does public housing have a future?

The federal government has destroyed tens of thousands of public housing units in the last decade and is considering a plan that would push more people into the private housing market with vouchers. Why have even liberals turned their back on building housing for the poor? And what are the results for the people who depend on the government for a place to live? You can join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's future of public housing? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Tiffany Gardner, the director of the Human Right to Housing Program at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative

Ethel Long-Scott, executive director of the Women's Economic Agenda Project

Robbie Clark, organizer with Just Cause Oakland

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it is our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss the coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the healthcare bill and whether California is a failed state. We'll be joined by Gail Chaddock of Christian Science Monitor, McClatchy's Nancy Youssef and Calitics' Brian Leubitz. Did a story stand out for you because of its reporting? You can join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Gail Russell Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor staff writer

Nancy Youssef, McClatchy's chief Pentagon correspondent

Brian Leubitz, publisher & editor of Calitics.com, a news and commentary site about California politics from a progressive perspective

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What does our food media say about who we are?

What does our food media say about who we are? Is it about great recipes, or something more? Iron Chef, Rachel Ray, The Minimalist, Hells Kitchen, Martha Stewart and Julie and Julia, the Food Network--what do they all mean about our relationship to food, and who we are? Can learning about food take us somewhere beyond the kitchen? If you subscribe to a cooking magazine or watch food shows on TV, what are you looking for? Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What does our food media say about us? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Jane Goldman, editor in chief of Chow.com

Lisa Jervis, founder of Bitch Magazine and author of Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Local, Healthy Eating

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What's the best way to break the cycle of gang violence?

What's the best way to break the cycle of gang violence? The U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of Ed recently called for a national conversation on youth violence. We'll look at the "Ceasefire" project that's been implemented in Boston, Salinas, Stockton and Oakland. Can the threat of swift punishment, coupled with promise of job training and social services stop gang violence? And does it get at the root problems that drive young people to gangs?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's the best way to stop the cycle of gang violence? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Julie Reynolds of the Monterey Country Herald.

Victor Rios, professor of Sociology at UC Santa Barbara.

Jose Gomez and Ralph Womack, Stockton Operation Peacekeepers.

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What Do You Want to Know About the Swine Flu Vaccine?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the controversial vaccination. The United States has ordered 195 million doses, and public health officials have to make tough choices about who should be vaccinated. Some states are mandating the vaccine for health workers. Are you planning to take the vaccine?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How should we balance the risks of an epidemic versus individual choice? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Art Reingold, professor and head of the Division of Epidemiology at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Christian Sandrock, assistant professor of clinical medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC Davis School of Medicine

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Your Call 101209 Agenda for a New Economy--Income Gap Widens

How are you coping with the financial crisis? On the next Your Call, we continue our Monday series Agenda for a New Economy by focusing on the widening income gap. Last year, median income fell. How are people managing? Spending less? Moving to cheaper cities? Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. If you make less than the median income, what changes have you made to cope with the crisis? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Arloc Sherman, a senior researcher at Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He is a specialist in the impact of poverty and public policy on child development.

Alissa Anderson, the deputy director of the California Budget Project

Catherine Goerz, a filmmaker and director and producer of the documentary, RE:Invention.

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Your Call 100909 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it is our Friday Media Roundtable. This week marked the 8th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan. The Senate passed a $636 billion military spending bill, and as the debate on healthcare continues, more Americans are putting off doctors' visits, to save money. We will be joined from Kabul by freelance journalist Aunohita Mojumdar, McClatchy's David Lightman and freelance journalist Eric Stoner. Where did you see the best reporting this week?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feeback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
David Lightman, Washington Bureau correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers.

Aunohita Mojumdar, a freelance journalist based in Kabul. She has reported on the South Asian region for the past 18 years.

Eric Stoner is a freelance journalist based in New York, and an adjunct professor at St. Peter's College.

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Your Call 100809 What's a Blue-Dog Democrat anyway?

What's a Blue-Dog Democrat anyway? Democrats call them the biggest impediment to Obama's agenda, but many might support a public healthcare option. So who are the Blue Dogs? How much influence do they have? Are they responding to their constituents or is it about reelection alone? And why are they Democrats?

We'll be joined by Josh Israel and Aaron Metha, political reporters for the Center for Public Integrity, and U.C. Berkeley political science professor David Karol, author of the forthcoming book Party Position Change in American Politics: Coalition Management.

Guests:
Aaron Metha, Political Reporter, Center for Public Integrity.

Josh Israel, Political Reporter, Center for Public Integrity.

David Karol, Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley and author of the forthcoming book Party Position Change in American Politics: Coalition Management.

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Your Call 100709 The Commons: California's Water Crisis

California is running out of water. After three years of drought, is it the day of reckoning for California's water system? How do we get water to California's farms, businesses and houses, and still leave enough for the fish? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. How can we share California's limited water with everyone, and still save enough for the future? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dave Runston in Davis
Policy director with the Community Alliance with Family Farms and the California Agricultural Water Stewardship Initiative.

John Cain in the studio
Director of conservation for flood management at American Rivers. He previously served as the Director of Restoration Programs at the Natural Heritage Institute in San Francisco.

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Your Call 100609 What's on the docket for the Supreme Court?

What's on the docket for the Supreme Court? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the new Supreme Court session and its upcoming cases. The court is scheduled to hear 55 cases in the new term. What are the high-profile cases and which ones could change our lives while we're not paying attention? You can join us live at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feeback@yourcallradio.org. What are the early signs about the role Sonia Sotomayor will play on the Court? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Vikram Amar, associate dean for Academic Affairs and professor of law at the University of California, Davis School of Law

David Savage, Los Angeles Times Supreme Court reporter

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Your Call 100509 Is cheaper always better?

Is living more cheaply part of the solution to our economic crisis or part of the problem? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Laura Weber, author of In Cheap We Trust. During economic hard times, questions about consumption and frugality become more urgent. Does an emphasis on thrift lead us to a more simple way to live or to Sam's Club? Join us live at 11:00 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Was there ever a time when thrift was the norm in America? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Lauren Weber, journalist and author of the new book In Cheap We Trust.

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Your Call 100209 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week the Senate Finance Committee voted down plans for a public option in health care. The White House announced it might not be able to close Guantanamo prison by January, and there's a renewed focus on the Iranian nuclear program. We'll be joined by Andreas Zumach, who covers the UN for the German daily Die Tagezeitung, Huffington Post's Ryan Grim, and ProPublica's Dafna Linzer. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did journalists fall short? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Ryan Grim, senior congressional correspondent for the Huffington Post

Dafna Linzer, senior reporter with ProPublica

Andreas Zumach, a journalist reporting on the United Nations in Geneva, for the German newspaper "Die tageszeitung" (taz)

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Your Call 100109 What's ahead for the U.S. in the world?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Noam Chomsky, celebrated linguist and leading critic of American foreign policy. As the U.S. sits down for direct talks with Iran, does Chomsky see a less confrontational foreign policy under Obama? What does the coup in Honduras mean for Latin America?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does a self-avowed anarchist like Chomsky find common ground with one-time coup leader Hugo Chavez? It's Your Call, with Matt Martin and you.

Guest:
Noam Chomsky, noted linguist and a leading public intellectual.

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Your Call 093009 What are we going to do with Afghanistan?

On the next Your Call we will be looking at alternatives to the plan in General McChrystal's report to President Obama. McChrystal says that without a significant increase in U.S. troops, failure is likely for the international mission in Afghanistan. What is America's national interest in Afghanistan? What would success look like and are we willing to provide the resources we need to bring that success to fruition? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

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Your Call 092909 What comes next for California's state parks?

What comes next for California's state parks? On the next Your Call we'll talk about the deal that averted a state park closure in California. Locked gates at hundreds of parks across the state has been delayed for at least one more year, but what comes next? How will the parks cut an additional $22 million from their budget? In his new PBS series, Ken Burns calls the National Parks America's Best Idea, but across the country fees are rising and hours are shrinking. What are you willing to do to keep state parks public? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Dan Jacobson in Sacramento
Legislative Director for Environment California, a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization. Mr. Jacobson has been with Environment California for 22 years and played a leading role in the passage of the California Clean Energy Act - the strongest renewable energy law in the country, the 2003 ban on PBDE's and the phthalate ban in 2006.

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Your Call 092809 Can global regulation create a more sane financial system?

Can global regulation create a more sane financial system? On the next Your Call, we continue our Monday series Agenda for a New Economy with a pre-taped show about regulation around the globe. The G20 just finished its meeting in Pittsburgh, and financial regulation was high on the agenda, but most countries have been slow to act. Some have done nothing at all. How does the US regulatory response to the financial crisis compare to what's happening in other countries? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

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Your Call 092509 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 hold our media accountable for getting us the news we need. This week President Obama addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations and convened a meeting of the G20 in Pittsburgh and the FCC gave its strongest endorsement yet of an Open Internet, formerly called Net Neutrality. We'll be joined by Barbara Crosette, UN correspondent for The Nation Magazine. 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:
Barbara Crosette in Pennsylvania
UN correspondent for the Nation Magazine. Croseette is a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times and their bureau chief at the United Nations from 1994 to 2001. She is the author of several books on Asia, including The Great Hill Stations of Asia, a New York Times notable book of the year in 1998.

Marcelo Ballve in New York
Staff writer for New America Media

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Your Call 092409 Can the 30% tuition increases at UC be stopped?

Can the 30% tuition increases at UC be stopped? On the next Your Call we speak with the organizers of the faculty and staff walk-outs on the 10 University of California campuses. The legislature cut $813 million from UC budgets this year alone, and last Wednesday the regents approved layoffs, program cuts and tuition hikes. Is UC President Mark Yudof right that the highway to higher education is closed in California?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What is at stake with these cuts, and what can be done to stop them? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Shannon Steen in UC Berkeley
Associate Professor of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. Professor Steen is a specialist in critical race and performance theory, and writes on the intersection of Asian and African American racial determinations. She is also one of the organizers of today's walk out and a member of the coordinating committee of Save UC, 170 professors working to preserve access to education, excellence in teaching and transparency of administrative decisions.

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Your Call 092309 Is the best health care system in America the VA?

Is the best health care system in America the VA? On the next Your Call we speak with Phillip Longman, author of Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours, about the results produced by the most government controlled healthcare system maybe on the planet. Doctors for the VA are government employees, working in government owned hospitals, and proponents of a single payer say the VA is a shining example of what socialized medicine can do. Are they right?


Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What lessons can we learn from the successes and failures of the VA system? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Phillip Longman in DC
Author of Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours

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Your Call 092209 What's in store for the future of biofuels?

What's in store for the future of biofuels? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about biofuel technology. Most ethanol-based biofuels are produced in Brazil and the U.S. More than 30 million acres of agricultural land has already been turned over for biofuel production. What are the consequences of this technology on the environment and food production?

Drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Will biofuels help us become energy independent? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Erik Nelson, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior and the Department of Applied Economics at University of Minnesota.

Patricia Monahan, director of the California office and deputy director for Clean Vehicles at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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Your Call 092109 Is GDP a good method to measure economic progress?

Is GDP a good method to measure economic progress? On the next Your Call we'll have a conversation about gross national product or GDP, which a number of economists, psychologists and sociologists have argued to be an imprecise measurement of economic performance. Is it time to go beyond GPD? Join us live at 11:00 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What would the alternative to GDP look like? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Sarah Burd-Sharps, co-director of American Human Development Project.

Richard Wilkinson, an economic historian and social epidemiologist. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School and Honorary Professor at University College London.

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Your Call 091809 Why has the religious right remained so strong?

Why has the religious right remained so powerful despite a string of political losses and embarrassing scandals? On the next Your Call we speak with Max Blumenthal, author of the NY Times best seller, Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party. Blumenthal traces the roots of the American religious right, the people who laid the philosophical groundwork, and the obscure people at its helm today. How much power do they actually wield?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can the religious right really stop the progressive agenda a majority of American voters chose a year ago? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Max Blumenthal in New York
NY Times best selling author of Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party. Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast, writing fellow at The Nation Institute and won the USC Annenberg Online Journalism Award for his investigative print journalism.

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Your Call 091709 Two Hour Special: David Kessler, then Ralph Nader

First Hour: Can the obesity crisis be solved by changing individual behavior?
Can the obesity crisis be solved by changing individual behavior? On the next Your Call we speak with David Kessler, former FDA commissioner under Presidents Bush and Clinton, about his new book The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. Kessler brings together the disparate scientific studies that lay out a devastating case that the obesity epidemic in the United States is the result of food companies hooking us on food that makes us momentarily happy, very unhealthy and coming back for more. He has a plan to get us out of our addiction to hypereating.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can individual choices to resist compete against the food advertising juggernaut?

Guest:
David Kessler in San Francisco
Former FDA commissioner under Presidents Bush and Clinton. Author of The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite.

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Second Hour: Consumer advocate Ralph Nader
What if some of America's most powerful individuals decided it was time to fix our government and return the power to the people? On a special noon hour of Your Call, we'll have a conversation with consumer advocate Ralph Nader; he is out with a new book Only the Super-rich Can Save Us! In his new book of fiction, Ralph Nader explores the idea of what would happen if a cadre of "superrich" individuals focused on unionizing Wal-Mart, advancing clean elections, and improving the environment with alternative forms of energy. Join us live at 12 noon or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Ralph Nader, attorney, author, lecturer, political activist, and former candidate for President of the United States.

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Your Call 091609 Why do disasters bring out the best in us?

Why do disasters so often bring out the best in people? On the next Your Call we speak with writer, critic and activist Rebecca Solnit about her new book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster. She tells the story of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, Halifax Nova Scotia after a devastating munitions explosion that shattered windows 50 miles away, 9-11 and New Orleans after the levies failed among other disasters. In that time of shock and dislocation, when everything familiar has been leveled, Solnit found generosity, altruism, heroism and joy.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What is it about catastrophe that frees people to be good? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Rebecca Solnit in San Francisco
Writes about the environment, politics, place, and art from her home here in San Francisco. Solnit has received many awards for her writing: a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship for Literature and the 2004 Wired Rave Award for writing. Her latest book is called A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster.

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Your Call 091509 What do American fundamentalists want?

What do American fundamentalists want? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. The Family, a powerful, secretive evangelical organization is best known for leading the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. each year. Who are they?

Join us live at 11:00 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Why are they so powerful? And who are the members? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Jeff Sharlet is a contributing editor for Harper's and Rolling Stone, and a visiting research scholar at New York University's Center for Religion and Media, where he has taught journalism and religious studies.

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Your Call 091409 How does the military invade our everyday life?

How does the military invade our everyday life? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with award-winning journalist and essayist Nick Turse. He is out with a new book entitled The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives. In 1961, in his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned us of "acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." Where are we now four and half decades after he made his historic speech?

Send us an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11:00. What role is the military playing in our lives? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Nick Turse, an award-winning journalist, historian, and essayist, and the associate editor of The Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com

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Second Hour: Novella Carpenter

Can a city feed itself? On a special 2nd airing of Your Call on Monday we'll speak with Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. Carpenter bought a dilapidated house next to a vacant lot in West Oakland and converted the open space into an urban homestead with chickens, goats, rabbits, pigs, 2 turkeys named Harold and Maude, and a vegetable garden all growing in a neighborhood without a supermarket.

We'll take your emails at feedback@yourcallradio.org and your questions live. Can urban food production feed more than fantasies of rural life? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Novella Carpenter in San Francisco
Author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and proprietor of Ghost Town Farm, an urban farm in West Oakland

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Your Call 091109 What can the world teach us about healthcare?

What can we learn from the rest of the world about how healthcare can work? On the next Your Call we'll speak with T.R. Reid, author of The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, about his round the world trip comparing health care systems. Why do Americans spend so much more on staying healthy, but get sicker, go bankrupt more often and regularly die from diseases the rest of the world handles easily?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can good health care be part of the American way? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
T.R. Reid in San Francisco
Veteran foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, a commentator for National Public Radio and the author of 10 books, including three in Japanese. His latest is called The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.

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Your Call 091009 Do you know where your money is?

A year after the collapse of Fannie Mae and Lehman Brothers, do you know where your money is? On the next Your Call we'll speak with Nomi Prins, author of It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street, about the death and rebirth of the financial industry on your dime. Why did the bankers get a bail-out and not foreclosed homeowners? Where did all that TARP money end up?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. How do we get rid of the banking system we have and get one that works for us? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Nomi Prins in Los Angeles
Former managing director at Goldman Sachs, author of several books on corruption in Washington and on Wall Street, including her latest It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street. Prins writes for Mother Jones, Fortune, Alternet, the Nation, and is a senior fellow at Demos, the New York-based think tank.

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Your Call 090909 What's the way out of poverty?

With the economy getting worse, how do we build a pathway out of poverty? On the next Your Call we speak with Wade Rathke, founder of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) a nationwide activist network engaged in community organizing and author of the new book Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Is owning a home still the best way out of poverty and into the middle class? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Wade Rathke, in San Francisco
Founder of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), a nationwide activist network engaged in community organizing, and currently chief organizer of ACORN International. He is also a founding board member of the Tides Foundation, chief organizer of SEIU Local 100 in New Orleans, and chair of the Organizers' Forum. He authored the new book Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families.

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Your Call 090809 Does health care define the Democrats?

What does the healthcare debate tell us about the future of the Democratic and Republican parties? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew. He says what is at stake in the debate over healthcare is the identity of the Democratic Party. How do you rate the Democrats' performance in the healthcare debate as well as in other critical issues facing us today?

Send us an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Thomas Frank is the author of What's the Matter with Kansas? and One Market Under God. The founding editor of The Baffler and a contributing editor at Harper's, he is also The Wall Street Journal's newest weekly columnist.

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Your Call 090409 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week in Japan, voters gave power to a new party for only the second time in a half-century. Meanwhile in Afghanistan, results from a presidential election are in limbo pending a fraud investigation. Here at home, two perennial California stories are dominating the headlines: Wildfires and child abductions. We'll be joined by James Korben of the San Bernardino Sun, independent journalist Reese Erlich, who's just back from Kabul, and Jerry Roberts of Calbuzz.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Where have you seen the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Jerry Roberts, former managing editor for the San Francisco Chronicle and co-founder of Calbuzz.com

James Rufus Koren, staff writer with San Bernardino County Sun

Reese Erlich, veteran independent journalist

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090309 Why do some schools thrive?

Why do some schools thrive when similar schools fail? On today’s Your Call, we rebroadcast our conversation with a range of educators and policy makers about what we're learning about how to teach. How do successful principals and school systems shift resources, motivate teachers and students and increase parent involvement? Can passion and best practices make up for low education funding? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Kimi Kean in Oakland
Principal of ACORN Woodland Elementary in Oakland, one of the state's five highest-improving schools. They raised their API, or Academic Performance Index, 120 points in one year and nearly 300 in five. Kean, a former Skyline High School dropout, taught at Acorn Woodland before talking over as principal in 2006.

Robert Manwaring in Washington, DC
Senior policy analyst for Education Sector, a left-leaning but independent national education policy think tank. Before joining EdSector, Mr. Manwaring was the director of policy for the Governor's Committee on Education Excellence, a committee California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed to develop a comprehensive long-term reform strategy for improving K-12 education in the state. Manwaring served as the K-12 education director of the California Legislative Analyst's Office.

Merril Vargo in Santa Rosa
Executive Director of Pivot Learning Partners, a nonprofit organization that works in nearly 50 school districts statewide, nearly all low income or low performing. Pivot trains and coaches teachers and administrators to transform broken school systems.

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Your Call 090209 How does gay marriage change society?

How does gay marriage change society? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with professor Lee Bagdett, author of "When Gay People Get Married." She argues that marriage changes gay people more than gay people change marriage. How has concept of marriage changed over time? Send us an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m.

Are there ways you're hoping gay marriage will change our society? It's Your Call with Ben Temchine and you.

Guest:
M.V. Lee Badgett, an economist at the University of Massachusetts and the Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies

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Your Call 090109 What can we learn from the passage of Medicare?

What can we learn from the passage of Medicare? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about President Lyndon Johnson's successful push for Medicare in 1965. The political climate at the time was just as divisive and fierce as it is today. So how did it pass? We'll be joined by James Morone, co-author of The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office, and Bay Area Dr. Henry Abrons.

Shoot an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What can health care proponents learn from the strategies used in the 60s? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
James A. Morone, Chair and Professor of Political Science, Brown University, co-author of The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office

Dr. Henry Abrons, Physicians for a National Health Program

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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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