What makes a great protest song?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Dorian Lynskey, author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs. He details 33 songs that span seven decades and four continents, from Billie Holiday crooning Strange Fruit to Green Day raging against the Iraq war. What role does music play in social movements? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are your favorite protest songs? How have they sparked social change? It's Your call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dorian Lynskey, a music writer for the Guardian in the United Kingdom

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Will young people revolt against shrinking economic opportunity?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about how current economic circumstances are translating into activism amongst young people. Total unemployment for people between 16 and 25 is about 25%. How did lack of economic opportunity fuel the Arab uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia? Join us live at 10 or send us and email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How will we deal with youth unemployment? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Adam Hudson, a writer, long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and a human rights activist

Lucas Guilkey, a community activist and a volunteer with the Ella Baker's media department

Costas Panayotakis, an associate professor of sociology at the New York City College of Technology at City University New York

Laurie Penny, a journalist and feminist activist from London.

Mandy Cohen, a graduate student at UC Berkeley who is on the executive board of UAW2685

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Are the benefits of smartmeters worth the risks?

On the next Your Call, we’ll look at so-called “smart meters” being installed in homes and businesses around the country. Utilities and sustainable energy advocates say smartmeters help people make more informed choices about the way they use electricity, and make it possible for us to downsize our electrical grid. But critics say they’ve jacked up rates and depend on wireless technology that may be dangerous to our health. What do you want to know about smartmeters before one is installed at your house? Or has it already happened? Join the conversation on the next Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

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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 protests in DC to Stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. We'll also discuss the challenges journalists face in Libya. We'll be joined by Center for Investigative Reporting's Mark Schapiro, Mother Jones environment reporter Kate Sheppard and Guardian's Africa correspondent David Smith. Join us live at 10 or send 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:
Mark Schapiro, the senior correspondent with the Center for Investigative Reporting

Kate Sheppard, covers energy and environmental politics in Mother Jones' Washington bureau

David Smith, the Guardian's Africa correspondent

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What are the pros and cons of ballot propositions?

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How far have women come in the art world?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Lynn Hershman Leeson, director of the documentary !Women Art Revolution, which reveals how the Feminist Art Movement transformed the art and culture of our times. How have women artists changed the art scene in the United States? Join us live at 10 or send us and email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Who are your favorite women artists? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Lynn Hershman Leeson, an award-winning artist and filmmaker.

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How are domestic workers organizing for their rights?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about domestic workers' labor struggles. In California, there are around 200,000 domestic workers who serve as housekeepers, nannies, and caregivers in private homes. In June, AB 889, the Household Workers Bill of Rights passed the assembly. Join us live at 10 or send us and email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How would this bill protect undocumented domestic workers? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Ai-jen Poo, a long time organizer, founder of Domestic Workers United and director of National Domestic Workers Alliance

Grecia Lima, CA Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign Director

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Are those with jobs working too much, with too little pay?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk to Mother Jones editor Clara Jeffrey, about the flip-side of the unemployment crisis: the "Great Speedup" of the American workforce. According to Jeffrey's cover article, Americans are now working nearly 400 more hours per year than Germans. Is it because fewer people are pushed into taking on a greater number of tasks? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. If you are lucky enough to have a job, is it working you to death? It's Your Call with Holly Kernan and you.

Guests:
Clara Jeffrey, deputy editor of Mother Jones magazine and co-author of All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we'll discuss coverage of Governor Rick Perry's record in Texas. We'll also talk about the long-term impacts of unemployment and the wealth gap and the US asking Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down. We'll be joined by LA Times's Borzou Daragahi, The Atlantic's Don Peck and The Texas Independent's Mary Tuma. Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Borzou Daragahi, LA Times staff writer based in Beirut, Lebanon

Don Peck is a features editor of The Atlantic and author
of Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It.

Mary Tumma, a reporter with Texas Independent

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How can we cut military spending?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the proposed military spending cuts in the deficit debate. The US spends more on the military than at any time since World War II and almost as much as the rest of the world combined. Hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts are handed out every day. So what should be cut and where is the waste? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. What will it take to cut the bloated military budget? What would you cut? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Chris Hellman, Senior Research Analyst for the National Priorities Project

William Hartung, Director of Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy

Carolyn Lochhead, Washington correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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What explains the increase in women prisoners in the US?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about why there are so many women behind bars today. A documentary film now in theaters, called Crime After Crime, shows one woman--Deborah Peagler--in her journey through a broken criminal justice system. Women today are incarcerated at 11 times the rate they were in 1977. What kind of policy reform could change this trend? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do poverty, abuse, and drugs factor into the imprisonment of women? Is it time to reform sentencing laws? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Joshua Safran, attorney for Deborah Peagler, featured in film, Crime After Crime

Deirdre Wilson, program director for the California Coalition of Women Prisoners

Bea Smith, former prisoner and friend of Deborah Peagler

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How is the economic downturn affecting the business of recycling?

How is the economic downturn affecting the business of recycling? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about economics of recycling. California pays five cents for every glass, plastic, or aluminum beverage container. Last year, 82 percent of bottles and cans in California were recycled. So how well is the recycling system working? Where do the materials go? Join us at 10 or send an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What explains the rise of recycling? It's Your Call, with Hana Baba and you.

Guests:
Eric Lombardi, the Executive Director of Eco-Cycle

Jack Macy, Commercial Zero Waste Coordinator for SF Environment

Jerry Powell, editor of Resource Recycling Magazine

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What's happening to the food chain in the ocean?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about why we should be concerned about our ocean's food supply. How are issues like the health of top predators and overfishing affecting the ocean? A bill that would ban the practice of shark-finning is being considered in Sacramento. How will we be affected by changes to the ecosystem? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you want to know about threats to life in the ocean? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Salvador Jorgensen, marine ecologist with the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Captain Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

David McGuire, director of Sea Stewards

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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 unrest in London and the S&P's decision to lower the US credit rating. We'll also talk about Texas Governor Rick Perry's prayer rally. More people attended a back to school event for the poor down the street. We'll be joined by the Houston Chronicle's Carol Christian and the New York Review of Books contributor Jeff Madrick and Guardian's Zoe Williams. Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jeff Madrick, a regulator contributor to The New York Review of Books. His latest book is Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present.

Zoe Williams, a Guardian columnist

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How can teachers take back the education debate?

How can teachers take back the education debate from corporate reformers and politicians? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about what's next for public education in the US. 8,000 teachers rallied for the fist time in DC last Saturday to oppose Obama's corporate reforms. Some said it was a success; others said protests don't work. What strategy do you think is needed to move public education in a healthy direction? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are teachers, parents, and students saying about the future of public schools? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Kristy Morrison, teacher at Galileo High School in San Francisco and organizer with Against Cuts

Kelly Clark, 5th grade teacher at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy in San Francisco

Alan Singer, social studies educator in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York

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What is the working class people's history of California?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Laurence H. Shoup, author of Rulers & Rebels: A People's History of Early California, 1769-1901. What is the history of California's Indians, the working poor, unions, and immigrants? He tells stories of chilling brutality and tales of solidarity and determination. What are the differences and similarities to what we're facing today? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. What lessons can we learn from our history? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Laurence H. Shoup, a labor historian and author of Rulers & Rebels: A People's History of Early California, 1769-1901.

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Is Wall Street's crisis our crisis?

Standard & Poor's downgrading of the US debt rating has everyone watching the global financial markets. On the next Your Call, we'll ask if that's the right place to look for signs about the health of the American economy. Will the current instability matter to the unemployed? Or have an impact on the widening wealth gap between black and Hispanic families and their white counterparts? And why is big finance still setting the terms of our economic discussion? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Bill Black, an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC).

Roderick Harrison, Associate Professor of Urban Sociology, Stratification, Social Inequality at Howard University and the founding director of DataBank, an online clearinghouse of data on African Americans and other ethnic populations.

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How can teachers take back the education debate?

How can teachers take back the education debate from corporate reformers and politicians? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about what's next for public education in the U.S. 8,000 teachers rallied for the first time in DC last Saturday to oppose Obama's corporate reforms. Some said it was a success; others said protests don't work. What strategy do you think is needed to move public education in a healthy direction? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are teachers, parents, and students saying about the future of public schools? It's Your Call with Hana Baba and you.

Guests:
Anthony Cody, veteran teacher in the Oakland Unified School District and organizer of the Save Our Schools March

Alan Singer, social studies educator in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York

Kelly Clark, 5th grade teacher at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy in San Francisco

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media coverage of ALEC's annual meeting in New Orleans. That's the American Legislative Exchange Council. We'll also talk about the brutal government crackdown in Syria. We'll be joined by Propublica's Lois Beckett, investigative journalist Will Potter, and Borzou Daragahi of the LA Times joins us from Beirut. Tune in live at 10 or send 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:
Borzou Daragahi, LA Times staff writer based in Beirut, Lebanon

Lois Beckett, a reporter with Propublica an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Will Potter, an investigative journalist and author

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How is computer use affecting our health?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about how our minds and bodies are affected by our increasing use of computers and digital devices. 70% of the U.S. workforce now sits on the job, many in front of computers. From repetitive stress to eye strain to depression, scientific studies show that we need to take better care of ourselves. How is your body and well-being affected by computer use? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Could this be a public health issue? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Andrew Lui, ergonomic specialist and associate clinical professor at UCSF in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation

Dr. James Sheedy, professor of optometry and head of the Vision Performance Institute at the Pacific University College of Optometry in Forest Grove, Oregon

Dr. Joanne Cantor, professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of Conquer CyberOverload: Get More Done, Boost Your Creativity, and Reduce Stress and president of Your Mind on Media

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Why is the U.S. government embracing destructive energy sources?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about U.S. energy policies. The Canadian oil and gas company Trans Canada plans to build a $13 billion pipeline that would carry polluting tar sands from Canada to oil refineries in Texas. And the U.S. government is planning 10,000 fracking wells over the next two years. Who's making these decisions? How would you grade the administration's energy policies? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Kassie Siegel, as director of the Climate, Air, and Energy Program at the Center for Biological Diversity

Joe Romm, a Senior Fellow at American Progress and the editor of Climate Progress

Brant Olson, a strategist on national corporate campaigns in the retail, finance, energy and forest sectors with the Rainforest Action Network Blog.

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How will budget cuts determine the U.S. economic future?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the debt limit deal, which will raise the debt ceiling by at least 2.1 trillion dollars and entail cuts of 2.5 trillion dollars in two rounds, and no tax hikes for the rich. Where will these cuts come from? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How are you making sense of the budget and what we're facing? And what is it going to take to fix the U.S. economy? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Andrew Fieldhouse, Federal Budget Policy Analyst at Economic Policy Institute

James Galbraith, an economist and the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. chair in government and business relations at the University of Texas at Austin

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What's next for the world's newest nation?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the Republic of South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan earlier this month after 50 years of war, and millions of lives lost. But many are saying the tensions between north and south are far from over, especially with an oil-rich region on the border. How will Sudan and South Sudan relate with one another now? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Since Sudan was a country created by colonization, is this split only natural? It's Your Call with Hana Baba and you.

Guests:
Dr. Abdelmagid Ali Bob, Sudanese history scholar and author of The Dynamics of Separation and Unity in South Sudan

Theresa Samuel, board member of Mercy Beyond Borders, a nonprofit organization based in Santa Clara, California that works with displaced women and girls in South Sudan

Hashim Salih, a member of the Sudanese Association of Northern California

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