Your Call 110408 Election Day Reports

What is happening at polling stations across the country? On the next Your Call, we'll check in with voters nationwide and we want to hear from you. Voter turnout has already surpassed the expectations. On Election Day, we expect long lines, electronic voting machine malfunctions and ballot shortages in several swing states. So what was your experience like at the polling booth? And how did it feel to finally vote? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Suzanne Gravette Acker, Communications and Development Director of Coalition on
Homeless and Housing in Ohio

Bob Hall, Executive Director of Democracy North Carolina.

Tomas Garduno, the statewide organizer for the SouthWest Organizing Project, a
non-partisan, non-profit group in New Mexico

Bob Schaeffer, with Florida's Center for Civic Participation

Joe Szakos, Executive Director of Virginia voting project

Carmen Rhodes, executive director of Front Range Economic Strategy Center
(FRESC) in Colorado

Click to Listen: Election Day Reports

Your Call 090908 Will Your Vote Count?

Do you believe your vote will be counted in November? On the Next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Dorothy Fadiman about her new film Stealing America: Vote by Vote, and Richard Hayes Phillips about his new book, Witness to a Crime. Nearly 30 percent of voters will use touch-screen machines in November. Last year, an independent review panel found that California's electronic voting systems were vulnerable to attacks. How are you voting in November? And how can we be sure our votes will be counted? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Richard Hayes Phillips, author of Witness to a Crime: A Citizen's Audit of an American Election

Dorothy Fadiman, producer and director of the documentry film Stealing America: Vote by Vote

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Your Call 040208 Matt Gonzalez

Why is Matt Gonzalez running for vice president? On the next Your Call we speak with the former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and current Independent Party running mate of Ralph Nader. Since leaving the Democratic Party in the middle of an election in 2000, Gonzalez has charted his own path through electoral politics. Why has he come back now, and what does he hope to accomplish? Is this a model for how you make peace with your idealism and your practicality? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Matt Gonzalez in San Francisco
Ralph Nader's running mate on the Independent Party presidential ticket. Former President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Click to Listen: Matt Gonzalez [04.02.08]

Your Call 021508 Friday Media Roundtable

On the Next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we'll speak with Anand Naidoo from Al Jazeera English about global coverage of the American primary and American coverage, or lack of coverage, of the attacks and counterattacks in walled in Gaza. We'll also speak to Aamer Madhani of the Chicago Tribune about coverage of Guantanamo and torturer's justice and Becky O'Malley, publisher of the Berkeley Daily Planet about being the life cycle of an online and on-air media firestorm. What was the best reporting you saw this week? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Anand Naidoo in Washington DC
Anchor and correspondent for Al-Jazeera English

Aamer Madhani
Staff writer in Washington DC where he covers national security and defense issues

Becky O'Malley in San Francisco
Publisher of the Berkeley Daily Planet.

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