Do you know who makes your electronic gadgets?

On the next Your Call, we'll look at where our technological gadgets are made and the labor abuses that go into their manufacturing. Ten workers at the Foxconn factory in China--where Apple iPhones are assembled--have committed suicide this year. How do labor practices affect your purchasing decisions? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do you know where your smart phone is made? Who will be first to offer "fair trade" electronics? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Greg Fay--program coordinator with China Labor Watch
Richard Jones--Freelance journalist and photojournalist

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Your Call 051109 What's next for the anti-globalization movement?

What is the next step for the anti-globalization movement? On the next Your Call we continue our series Agenda for a New Economy and search for the common interests between workers in the U.S. and those in poor countries. We'll speak with John Jeter, one-time foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, now author of Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Do bad times give us an opportunity to rethink economic development? It's Your Call with Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Jon Jeter in Los Angeles
From 1999 to 2003 he was the Washington Post's Southern Africa bureau chief before running the Post's bureau in South America from 2003 to 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer twice, in 2000 for a series he did about AIDS in Africa and for a series on race published by the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 1991. He is the author of the forthcoming Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People.

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