How is the Occupy movement encouraging creative activism?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Occupiers who are staging foreclosed home demonstrations, pushing for the creation of state banks and bringing attention to inequality. What other ways are you seeing the Occupy movement galvanize people to support innovative strategies for turning the economy around? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can the Occupy movement continue to spread its message and reach more people? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Max Rameau, founder of Take Can the Land

Blithe Riley, a member of The Arts and Labor Committee for OWS in NY

Brian McKeoun, the initiator of the credit union project and a long time camper with OccupySF

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What is responsible wealth?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with the one percent who are publicly supporting the 99%. Several groups comprised of the 1% are calling for more equality and higher taxes. Who are the 1%? Millionaire households now have at least $45.9 trillion in wealth. What are their obligations to the rest of us? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. If you're in the 1% -- how do you see your role in society? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Burke Stansbury is a communications specialist for nonprofit groups, and has been loosely involved with the protests in Washington, D.C. (known as Occupy K St), donating homemade food, tarps and money.

Christian Weller is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and an associate professor in the Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs at University of Massachusetts.

Garrett Gruener is the founder of Ask.com and the co-founder and director of the venture capital firm Alta Partners and he is the member of Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength which wants President Obama to raise the taxes paid by the rich -- including themselves.

John Harrington is President of Harrington Investments, which since 1982 has been a leader in socially responsible investing and shareholder advocacy.

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How has greed contributed to economic ills over the last forty years?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Jeff Madrick, author of Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present. He argues greed undermines the way markets should work. So what could government have done to stop greed? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Is greed responsible for our economic outlook? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jeff Madrick, a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and director of policy research at Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School

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Are you in the working class?

On the next Your Call, we'll mark International Workers Day and we want to hear from you. Economic discussions mainly focus on the middle class and we spend less time talking about workers. So who is the working class in America today? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallaradio.org. Do you think of yourself as working class? In a time of economic upheaval, what do you want the world to know about your experience? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
The listeners

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Do we need to re-think our safety net strategies?

As more americans experience poverty, do we need to re-think our safety net strategies? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the anti-poverty movement and innovative strategies for building wealth. Our guests say our current policies penalize people who get jobs and make economic gains, keeping families locked in poverty. As the wealth gap continues to widen, have we pathologized poverty? Would a new framing change the way we think? Join us live at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What does it take to create class mobility? It's Your Call with Holly Kernan, and you.

Guests:
Maurice Lim Miller, founder of the Family Independence Initiative

Carla Javits, executive director of The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund

Anne Stuhldreher, senior fellow at New America Foundation

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For corporations, how much power is too much?

At what point do you know that a corporation has too much power? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Barry Lynn author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction. He says if America is to survive economically and politically, the modern day monopolists should be broken up. Are there ways to counter economic concentration? Join us at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What tools do we have as citizens to fight back? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:

Barry Lynn is director of the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative, and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation

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How is growing economic inequality transforming American politics?

Why is income inequality on the rise in the U.S.? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with UC Berkeley political scientist Professor Paul Pierson. He is co-author of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class. The income gap in the U.S. has widened over the past 30 years, more than most other developed countries. What's behind the widening income gap? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar.

Guest:
Paul Pierson, Professor of Political Science and holder of the Avice Saint Chair of Public Policy at UC Berkeley

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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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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 033009 What is wealth and who should own it?

What is wealth and who should own it? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Gar Alperovitz, co-author of Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance. The top 1% of people in the United State own half of wealth of the nation, and 5% own 70%. Do these people who own so much wealth actually deserve it? You can join the conversation by phone or by sending us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is wealth generated? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland

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