How do we treat undocumented immigrants?

What do laws affecting undocumented immigrants reveal about how they are treated in our society? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about what these laws tell us about how our systems are structured. In California, Governor Jerry Brown passed the Dream Act, which allows undocumented students to apply for financial aid. Alabama recently passed one of the country's harshest sets of anti-immigrant laws. What are implications of these policies? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do the struggles of undocumented immigrants affect all of us? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Julianne Hing, reporter for Colorlines Magazine

Jose Arreola, outreach manager for Educators for Fair Consideration

Victor Palafox, student activist with Alabama Dreamers for the Future

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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 the Occupy movements as cities begin to crack down on demonstrators and dismantle camps. Occupy Oakland has received international attention after it was raided by the Oakland Police. How are protests in the US covered in other parts of the word? We'll be joined by the New York Review of Books' Jeff Madrick and Alternet's Josh Holland and Guardian's Zoe Williams. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jeff Madrick, a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Joshua Holland, an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.

Zoe Williams, a columnist for the Guardian of London

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Where are the limits on our rights to assemble and protest?

Where are the limits on our rights to assemble and protest in a democracy? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about what we need to know about our rights to protest. The recent crackdown on the Occupy Oakland demonstration leaves us with many questions--namely, what are the limits on our rights to dissent? What do we expect or hope from our cities in response to mass protests? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's your reaction to the recent Occupy crackdowns? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

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Guests:
Linda Lye, staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California

John Avalos, San Francisco city supervisor and mayoral candidate

Jesse Palmer, 25-year Oakland resident, housing rights lawyer, and Occupy Oakland participant

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How will measures C and D change S.F. pensions?

How will measures C and D change the pension system in San Francisco? On the next Your Call, we'll have a debate about two competing pension measures on the upcoming ballot. What happens in San Francisco will most likely affect what happens across the state and the country? What do you think about the existing pension and health-care package for city workers? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do you think the pension system needs to be reformed? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Gabriel Haaland is an organizer with SEIU 1021 and a supporter of Proposition C

Jeff Adachi is the Public Defender of San Francisco, and a candidate for Mayor. Jeff Adachi has spearheaded Proposition D.

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What's in store for the future of solar energy?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about California's plans to require utility companies to get 33 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by the end of 2020. With California leading solar installations in the US, how promising is the future of solar energy? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How many people are employed in the solar industry? What's next for this industry? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Michael Clifton, Operation Engineering Manager at Sprig Electric

David Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Energy Reporter

Bernadette Del Chiaro, Clean Energy Program Director at Environment California

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How is California preparing for climate change?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the impacts of climate change on California. How do we need to adapt our natural and built environments and our policies? The California Air Resources Board just adopted the nation's first cap-and-trade regulations. Will these air pollution controls work? What other policies are needed to adapt to climate change effects such as rising sea level? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is climate change affecting your area? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Healy Hamilton, former director of the Center for Applied Biodiversity Informatics at the California Academy of Sciences

Steve Goldbeck, chief deputy director of the SF Bay Conservation and Development Commission

Charlie Knox, public works and community development director for the City of Benicia

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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 Wall Street and banking crisis. We'll also talk about the massive protests and general strike in Greece. We'll be joined by Propublica's Jake Bernstein, McClatchy's Kevin Hall and Globe and Mail's Eric Reguly joins us from Athens. 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.

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Guests:
Jake Bernstein, a business and financial reporter for ProPublica

Kevin Hall, economic national correspondent with McClatchy

Eric Reguly, Globe and Mail European Business Correspondent

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Are you prepared for the next earthquake?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about disaster preparedness and how communities are organizing for the next Big One. KALW is partnering with Mobile Commons to create a digital interactive map of the greater Bay Area to highlight how communities are preparing. And Thursday is a state-wide earthquake drill. How earthquake ready are you? Do you have a plan? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Is your community ready? What about the local government? What actions can we take before an earthquake hits? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

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Guests:
Jeff Terpstra, operations chief for the Aptos/La Selva Fire District; and coordinator of Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) training and disaster preparedness

Patty Peper, chair of disaster preparedness for the Red Cross of the Bay Area

Ana-Marie Jones, executive director of Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters (CARD)

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What's next for the Occupy protests?

What's next for Occupy Wall Street and the protest movement, which has spread to 150 cities across the country? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about how these protest movements are changing grassroots activism in the US. Join us live at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Have you been inspired to get involved? What will it take to keep the momentum going? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Costas Panayotakis, assistant professor of social sciences at NYC College of Technology

Harrison Shultz, an activist with Occupy Wall Street

Cat Brooks, the Co-Chair of the ONYX Organizing Committee, a long-time activist and artist and West Oakland resident

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What's happening in the foreclosure crisis in California?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about high foreclosure rates in the state. Attorney General Kamala Harris pulled out of negotiations with the nation's biggest banks, calling the proposal "inadequate for California homeowners." And California House Democrats have criticized the administration's policy on home foreclosures. So what is the best way out of the foreclosures crisis? Join us live at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Who's been hit the hardest? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Anna Georges Eshoo, the U.S. Representative for California's 14th congressional district

John Atlas, the author of Seeds of Change, The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Organizing Group

Kevin Stein, the Associate Director of the California Reinvestment Coalition

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What do you want from Your Call?

On the next Your Call, YOU, listeners, will be our guests. Your Call is celebrating our 10th anniversary. We want to know: how do you think can we be the best show possible? Call or email in with your ideas on what we do well and what we could improve on. Are there topics you'd like to hear us cover? Angles or particular voices you'd be interested in hearing? Suggestions about our format? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. This is Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:

YOU, our listeners

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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 President Obama's Jobs bill, which failed in the Senate, and the NAFTA-style Free Trade Agreements, which passed the House and Senate. We will also talk about bills signed by California Governor Jerry Brown and recent protests in Egypt that left 25 people dead. We'll be joined by the Ventura County Star's Timm Herdt, Jadalyyia's Hesham Sallam and Huffington Post's Arthur Delany. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Hesham Sallam, Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine

Arthur Delaney, reporter with Huffington Post

Timm Herdt, State Editor of the Ventura County Star

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What's the role of video in getting at the truth?

On the next Your Call, we'll discuss two films about surveillance and social control featured in the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival: Josh Wolf's Police Tape and Michael Schiller's The After Party. What does the proliferation of video in our society mean for justice, and social control? What kind of surveillance is legal? And does more documentation necessarily mean more truth? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Have you filmed or been filmed by the police? What have been the consequences? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:

Josh Wolf, journalist and director of Police Tape about the relationship between law enforcement and being chronicled on video, in light of the recent Oakland BART shooting

Michael Schiller, award-winning filmmaker and director of The After Party about domestic surveillance in the post 9-11 era

Michael Risher, staff attorney with ACLU of Northern California

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What can we learn from young environmental activists?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with three young activists who are recipients of 2011 Earth Island Institute's David Brower Youth Awards. What inspires and motivates young people to organize? Join us live at 10 or send us an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do you know a young person who has inspired you to do more for the environment? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Tania Pulido, founder of the Berryland garden in the Iron Triangle neighborhood of Richmond.

Junior Walk, an environmental activist who travels across the country educating people about the long-term environmental, health and community degradation caused by coal mining.

Madison Vorva, an environmental activist who started a campaign to get the Girl Scouts to replace palm oil.

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How could the Slow Money movement help local food economies?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the Slow Money movement, which aims to connect small farmers and food entrepreneurs with investors. How promising is this economic model? And who is benefiting? Join us live at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's in store for the future of Slow Money both on a national level and regionally? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Woody Tasch, president of the newly formed NGO Slow Money

Mason Arnold, founder and CEO of Greenling, the first and largest viable grocery delivery service in Austin and San Antonio

Marco Vangelisti, private investor, a founding member of Slow Money and an adviser to Ecocity Builders

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What does it mean to live in exile?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with novelist, playwright, and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman, about his memoir, Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile. Dorfman was forced to flee for his life during the Chilean military coup in 1973. Now he reflects on the history of politics in Latin America and his own life--with the conclusion that "we are all exiles." So what does that mean? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What can exiles teach us about our common humanity? It's Your Call with Shirin Sadeghi, and you.

Guests:

Ariel Dorfman, novelist, playwright, and human rights activist who is out with a new memoir, Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile

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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 the Republican primary race, the continuing protests on Wall Street, the debt crisis in Europe, and the ten year anniversary of U.S. military presence in Afghanistan. We'll be joined by independent journalist Mark Hertsgaard, Guardian columnist Jonathan Steele--whose latest book Ghosts of Afghanistan was published earlier this month--and Anand Gopal, who covers Afghanistan and Egypt. Join us live at 10 or send us an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Matt Martin and you.

Guests:

Mark Hertsgaard, an independent journalist whose most recent story for Salon.com details how Mitt Romney helped Rick Perry break the law by channelling illicit campaign contributions.

Jonathan Steele, Guardian columnist and foreign correspondent, whose latest book Ghosts of Afghanistan was published earlier this month.

Anand Gopal, a writer and journalist who covers Afghanistan and Egypt for a number of newspapers and magazines

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How are whistleblowers faring under Obama?

How are government whistleblowers faring in the Obama Adminsitration? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about what it's like to be a whistleblower today. As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama said, "Government whistleblowers are part of a healthy democracy and must be protected from reprisal," but his administration is establishing a record as an aggressive prosecutor of government leakers. So who's blowing the whistle now? And what kind of protections should they have? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Shirin Sadeghi, and you.

Guests:

Daniel Ellsberg, former US military analyst who leaked The Pentagon Papers; subject of The Most Dangerous Man in America

Jesselyn Radack, national security and human rights director at the Government Accountability Project

Thomas Drake, whistleblower; formerly employed by the National Security Agency; currently facing criminal prosecution

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What makes a protest powerful?

On the next Your Call, as the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations gain momentum and organizers prepare for a nationwide day of action on the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, we'll ask what makes a protest matter. Is it about a focused message or a broad coalition? What's the role of leadership? And how do you know when a protest has worked? Whether you're involved in the current protest movement or following it with interest, join the conversation on the next Your Call with Matt Martin and you.

Guests:

Janet Weil from Code Pink, an antiwar activist since beginning of Afghanistan War, one of the first protestors of the invasion as well as the embassy bombing shortly after September 11.

Morgan Fitzgibbons is the co-founder of the Wigg Party, a neighborhood group working to make the community that lives around San Francisco's Wiggle bicycle route a leader in the transformation to sustainability and resiilience.

Brent Schulkin, founder of the Carrotmob movement. In a Carrotmob campaign, a business agrees to take a socially-beneficial action and, in exchange, a network of consumers spends money to reward the business.

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What's it like for children growing up poor?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about increasing number of children who are living in poverty. According to US Census Bureau 16.4 million children live in poverty. So what is the day-to-day reality of young people living below the poverty line? Join us live at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are the long term effects of poverty on children? And how they could be fixed? It's Your Call, with Shirin Sadeghi, and you.

Guests:

Alice O'Connor, Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History

Donny Lumpkin, youth reporter with New America Media

Valerie Klinker, a content producer at New America Media

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How can we incorporate more nature into our lives?

How can we incorporate more nature into our lives? And what's at stake if we don't? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and The Nature Principle. Louv, who coined the term, "nature-deficit disorder," says, "The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need." Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. So how can we integrate what Louv calls "vitamin N" into our lives? It's Your Call with Shirin Sadeghi, and you.

Guest:

Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and The Nature Principle

Dr. Stephen Kellert, professor emeritus of social ecology and senior research scholar at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; author of Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection.

Rue Mapp, founder of Outdoor Afro, a community that reconnects African-Americans with natural spaces and one another through outdoor recreational activities

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