How are you planning to cast your vote for governor this November?

On the next Your Call, we'll continue our special California election programs with our second debate between third-party candidates running for governor: the Peace and Freedom Party's Carlos Alvarez and the Libertarian's Dale Ogden. What do you want to ask them? What issues matter most to you? Join us live at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you want from the next Governor of California? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Carlos Alvarez, Peace and Freedom Party candidate for governor
Dale Ogden, Libertarian Party candidate for governor

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Should marijuana be legalized in California?

On the next Your Call, we'll continue our special California election series with a debate about Proposition 19, known as the "Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010." The measure would make California the first state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Where do you stand on Prop 19? Join us live at 11 or send us and email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What would the legalization of marijuana mean for the state of California? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Joseph McNamara, retired San Jose Police Chief and spokesperson for Yes on 19
Chief Walt Tibbet, Fairfield Police Chief and spokesperson for No on 19

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How do people overcome abuse and neglect from childhood?

On the next Your Call, we'll speak with Liz Murray, author of Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, & My Journey From Homeless to Harvard. Growing up the daughter of drug addicts, Murray was often so hungry that she resorted to eating chapstick and toothpaste. She worked her way to a Harvard education and now serves undernourished children. What is it like to be a hungry child in America? Join us at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do people overcome their own abuse to help others? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Liz Murray, author of Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, & My Journey From Homeless to Harvard

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Who's your choice for Governor?

How are you planning to cast your vote for governor this November? On the next Your Call, we'll kick off our special California election programs with a debate between two third-party candidates running for governor: the Green Party's Laura Wells and the American Independent's Chelene Nightingale. What do you want to ask them? What issues matter most to you? Join us live at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you want from the next Governor of California? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Chelene Nightingale, an American Independent Party Candidate for California Governor

Laura Wells, a Green Party Candidate for California Governor

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the 7 U.S. soldiers charged with killing Afghan civilians for sport and collecting fingers for trophies. We'll also probe California's Global Warming Solutions Act and efforts to kill it, and talk about the investigation into San Bruno's gas pipeline explosion. Joininh us arethe San Francisco Chronicle's David Baker, California Watch's Environmental Reporter Susanne Rust, and Aunohita Mojumdar from Kabul. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
David Baker, staff writer with San Francisco Chronicle
Susanne Rust, environmental reporter with California Watch
Aunohita Mojumdar, freelance journalist based in Kabul

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What will it take to get healthcare for all at the state level?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with the "Mad As Hell Doctors." They're on a road trip in California hoping to rally public support for high quality health care for all. Single payer legislation has passed at the state level several times, but was vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger. Join us at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Is healthcare for all possible in California? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. Paul Hochfield, emergency physician and a "Mad As Hell Doctor"
Dr. Carol Paris, psychiatrist and a "Mad As Hell Doctor"

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What are the root causes of our current economic crisis?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk to journalist Robert Scheer, author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street. Robert says we are too eager to blame the Bush administration, because the collapse happened on his watch. But how did free markets and deregulation from earlier administrations set the stage for the crisis? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's needed to fix the economy now? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Robert Scheer, author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street

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What are the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk to Dr. Sandra Steingraber, a cancer survivor and author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, which is now adapted into a feature-length documentary film. The President's Cancer Panel published their report about environmental cancer this year. How have chemicals from industry and agriculture affected public health? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can we protect ourselves from environmental carcinogens? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Sandra Steingraber, author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

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Do you know America's underclass?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Joe Bageant, author of Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir. Through personal accounts, he argues that after WWII millions of rural Americans moved into the cities, where they became the foundation of a permanent white underclass. Who are the underclass in today's America? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. And what role do they play in U.S. political landscape? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you?

Guest:
Joe Bageant, author and political commentator. Bageant spends much of each year in Belize, Central America, and in Jalisco, Mexico, where he writes, and in which he sponsors small health-and-shelter development projects.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll have a conversation with the Washington Independent's Annie Lowrey, and Gary Rivlin, author of Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. -- How the Working Poor Became Big Business. According to the Census, 44 million people in the U.S., or one in seven, lived in poverty last year. With so many people struggling to make ends meet and businesses making huge profits off low-income communities, why is there such marginal media coverage of the poor? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Annie Lowrey, economic reporter with Washington Independent

Gary Rivlin, a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, GQ, Wired and Newsweek

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Are cell phones making us sick?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk to epidemiologist Devra Davis, author of Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family. Many countries have issued warnings against cell phone use by children. Why has the U.S. refused to participate in cell phone health studies? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Should we advocate for safer technology or can we tailor our cell phone use to be safer? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Devra Davis, author of Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family.

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What is the future of wild seafood?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food. A few decades ago, most of the seafood we ate was wild. But we may be the last generation to enjoy wild fish, if we don't change our practices. How can we help restore fish populations through our food choices? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What factors do you consider when you buy fish? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

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What is the state of the Christian Right in the U.S.?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Jeff Sharlet, author of the bestseller, The Family, about his new book, C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. While The Family focused on the history of C Street, Sharlet's new book brings the story into the present with new documents and interviews. He says C Street is more dangerous than ever. Who's living on C Street now and what are they working on? It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Jeff Sharlet, author of C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy

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Will Main Street Replace Wall Street?

On the next Your Call, we continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by speaking with David Korten about the second edition of his book, Agenda for a New Economy. Nearly two years after the economic meltdown, joblessness and foreclosures are still endemic, Wall Street executives are once again getting massive bonuses, and each day brings scandalous new revelations of Wall Street corruption. What will it take to make the fundamental policy changes desperately needed to achieve real recovery? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. David Korten is a trained economist, chair of the board of Yes! Magazine, and a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living economies. He is out with an expanded 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll have a conversation with Will Bunch, senior fellow at Media Matters. He's out with a new book called The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama. We'll be also joined by Al Jazeera's Richard Gizbert. How has the right changed U.S. policies and our political conversation? And how have the media responded? Join us live at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do you think the media should respond to this so-called backlash? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Will Bunch, senior fellow at Media Matters and a senior writer at the Philadelphia Daily News

Richard Gizbert, host of The Listening Post, the media watch broadcast on Al Jazeera English

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How does our food system reflect our society and our history?

On the next Your Call we'll talk to the authors of Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. With climate change, population growth, genetically modified organisms, market globalization, and corporate consolidation--what is happening to our food systems? And to us? Is the modern agricultural machine that feeds the world also destroying it? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Could local food systems be a solution to global food crises? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Andrew Rimas, a journalist and the managing editor at the Improper Bostonian magazine

Evan Fraser, adjunct professor of geography at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds in the UK with a focus on farming, climate change and the environment

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What's the significance of California's upcoming election?

On the next Your Call we'll begin our series on the November elections by talking about today's political climate, its historical context, and what the elections could mean for the state. What's unique about the races and ballot measures in this election? The outcomes could bring big changes to California. Are you planning to vote? Join us live at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What matters to you on the ballot? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Jeffrey Lustig, professor of government at Sacramento State and editor of Remaking California: Reclaiming the Public Good

Robert Cruickshank, public policy director for the Courage Campaign and contributing editor at Calitics

Mark DiCamillo, director of the non-partisan California Field Poll

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What are the long-term effects of the BP oil disaster?

What are we learning about the long-term effects of the BP oil disaster? On the next Your Call we'll talk about the ongoing recovery of the Gulf Coast in the wake of the BP oil disaster. The long-term impact could be worse than the short-term -- especially for health. How are people and ecosystems of the Gulf adapting to the spill? What could be lost for good? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's really happening in the Gulf? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Anne Rolfes, founding director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade
Dr. Chris Pincetich, marine biologist with the Sea Turtle Restoration Project
Cherri Foytlin, citizen activist in Rayne, LA
Gregg Hall, citizen activist in Pensacola, FL

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What's the new economy of New Orleans?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about what has been done to rebuild the Gulf Coast economy five years after Hurricane Katrina. The region sustained $135 billion in property damage, so how has the economy recovered? Who's benefiting? Who's been excluded? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How will the BP oil disaster further transform the economy in the Gulf? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Davida Finger, professor of law at Loyola Law School Clinic. She has worked extensively on Katrina cases and policy matters to improve government accountability in rebuilding and on distribution of disaster funds.

Tracie Washington, the president of The Louisiana Justice Institute

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of President Obama's speech on Iraq. How did media look back at Iraq's past seven years? We'll also talk about economic news. Who is asking the right questions? We'll be joined by the former NY Times tax reporter David Cay Johnston, Washington Independent's Annie Lowrey and Guardian's Martin Chulov. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
David Cay Johnston, a columnist for Tax Notes and former tax reporter with NY Times

Martin Chulov, Guardian's Iraq correspondent. He has reported from the Middle East since 2005.

Annie Lowrey, economic reporter with The Washington Independent

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Are we on our way to healthy food for kids?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about school food. In a unanimous vote, the Senate approved $4.5 billion to increase the number of free meals and improve the quality of food served in schools nationwide. How significant a victory is this for the campaign to improve school food programs? What's next on that movement's agenda? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Have you seen menu changes in a school near you? It's Your Call, with Hana Baba and you.

Guests:
Janet Poppendieck, author of Free For All: Fixing School Food in America

Zenobia Barlow, cofounder and executive director of The Center for Ecoliteracy

Jennifer LeBarre, nutrition services director for Oakland Unified School District

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How do we care for people with serious or terminal illness?

On the next Your Call we'll have a conversation about palliative care and hospice care and the future of these services. In light of the federal health reform bill, what options are there for people to live through potentially fatal illness in a dignified, supported way? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do you envision being cared for as you near the end of your life? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Dr. Diane Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City

Dr. Steven Pantilat, director of the Palliative Care Program and the Palliative Care Leadership Center at UCSF

Sarah Creed, hospice nurse with Partners HealthCare

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