Who are the players in the global arms trade?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Andrew Feinstein, author of The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade. Last year, global military expenditure totaled 1.6 trillion dollars; that amounts to 235 dollars for every person on the planet. What is the human and financial cost of arms trade to societies? Join us live at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does the global arms trade operate? And who is benefiting from it? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Andrew Feinstein, an Open Society Fellow and former ANC Member of Parliament

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How can we heal the legacy of Indian Boarding Schools?

How can we facilitate healing from the legacy of the US Government's Indian Boarding Schools? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with the filmmaker of "The Thick Dark Fog" about one Lakota man's trauma and recovery. The Canadian Government has set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help people tell their stories and heal. There's also a commission in the state of Maine. What do you think the U.S. government should do to help native people heal from the abuses that they suffered in boarding schools? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Randy Vasquez, director of The Thick Dark Fog, part of the 36th Annual American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco

Marilyn St. Germaine, a member of the Blackfeet/ Cree Tribe from Montana who was sent to government boarding school as a child

Denise Alvater, lead organizer of the Maine Tribal-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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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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What does it take to prove rape?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about what happens to women when they report rape. According to the Department of Justice, 300,000 women are raped every year in the US, but less than one percent of rapes result in incarceration. So what does justice mean for rape survivors? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does the criminal system treat the accusers and the accused? It's your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Julie Baltzley, a case manager for San Francisco Women Against Rape

Julie Posadas-Guzman, an advocate with Bay Area Women Against Rape and President of JPG Consultants

Wendi Deetz, a teacher at Alive & Kicking Self Defense, a non-profit women's self-defense teaching cooperative based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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What do you think of Bradley Manning's detention?

What do you think of the way the US is treating Bradley Manning? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the 23-year-old US army officer accused of leaking classified information to Wikileaks. Manning faces 22 charges, including "aiding the enemy." His lawyer says he's being held in solitary confinement in a tiny cell at a Navy brig in Quantico, Virginia. Why has his treatment and confinement been so extreme? And what do you think of the charges against Bradley Manning? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Ann Wright, former United States Army colonel and retired official of the U.S. State Department, outspoken opposer of the Iraq War

David MacMichael, former CIA analyst and current member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

Greg Mitchell, journalist with The Nation and author of Bradley Manning: Truth and Consequences

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What's the state of Iran's democracy movement?

What's the state of Iran's democracy movement? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about what's happening in Iran one year after the disputed presidential election and massive street protests. According to Amnesty International, a widening crackdown on dissent has left many journalists and activists in prisons. Some have been executed. What's left of the democracy movement?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What is the appropriate role of the international community and foreign activists in supporting democratic change in Iran? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Mansour Farhang, professor of International relations at Bennigton College
Kaveh Ehsani, assistant professor of international studies at DePaul
Sahar Sajadi, a women's right activist
Ali Abdollahi, a Hip Hop artist with the revolution of mind

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Your Call 040209 What's the state of civil liberties in the U.S.?

What's the state of civil liberties in the U.S.? On the next Your Call we talk with Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot and Bruce Fein, author of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy. Fein was one of the most prominent conservative critics of the former Bush administration and Wolf's book makes a chilling comparison between the rise of the Third Reich and America today. What do we mean when we say "civil liberties"? How are they distinct from human rights? How do democracies weaken over time, and how are they brought back from the brink? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Bruce Fein in Virginia
Fein was one of the most prominent conservative critics of the former Bush administration. He was appointed by President Reagan to be an associate deputy attorney general from 1981 to 1982. He was the general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission and minority research director for the Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran. He recently served on the American Bar Association's Task Force on Presidential signing statements. Fein called for the impeachment of former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney and writes regular columns for The Washington Times and Slate devoted to legal and international affairs. He is author, most recently of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy.

Naomi Wolf in NYC
Wolf, an essayist and provocateur, was born in San Francisco. The Beauty Myth, her first book, was an international bestseller and each of her books since then has maintained her place as one of the premier feminist critics of American political culture. She is author most recently of The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot and its sequel, Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries. The End of America was adapted into a documentary by the same name. Ms. Wolf joins us from New York.

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Your Call 121008 60th Anniversary of the International Declaration of Human Rights

What difference does a treaty make? On the next Your Call we mark the 60th Anniversary of the International Declaration of Human Rights. Are human rights better respected after a country signs on to the Declaration? Does internal change for the better come from within and lead to signing, or do these agreements change the country? And as we leave the dark days of the Bush Administration behind us, what international human rights treaties are waiting for a willing president? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests: Connie De La Vega in Oakland
Professor at University San Francisco Law School. Worked at the UN for more than three decades representing human rights advocates and written extensively on national and international human rights law. Each year Professor De La Vega takes a student delegation to watch the commission on the status of women and the human rights council in Geneva, Swizerland.
 
Jamil Dakwar in New York
Director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program. He has more than 10 years experience in human rights litigation and advocacy in the U.S. and abroad.

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Your Call 080708 The Dark Side of the War on Terror

Who should be held accountable for violations of international and domestic laws against torture? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with investigative journalist Jane Mayer about her new book, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals. In the name of the "war on terror," the United States has become a country where people are detained indefinitely without charge, and subjected to abuse and humiliation. Will the Bush administration ever be held responsible? How do we pull back from a culture of impunity? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest:
Jane Mayer, investigative journalist

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Your Call 051308 Guantanamo's Future

The major candidates running for president say if elected, they will close down Guantanamo. Then what? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the future of U.S. counter terrorism policies with Human Rights Watch's Stacy Sullivan. She recently sat in on a trial in Guantanamo. We'll also talk with Ivan Eland, The Independent Institute senior fellow. What will happen to Guantanamo's 280 prisoners if it shuts down? And what can we expect from the conversation about counter terrorism in the lead up to the Nov. election? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. Ivan Eland is a Fellow with the Independent Institute and the author of The Empire: Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed.

Stacy Sullivan is a counterterrorism advisor with Human Rights Watch. She is just back from Guantanamo where she was a court observer.

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Your Call 042808 Controlling Contractors

After years of shocking revelations about their actions in war zones, what roles are contractors playing in America's diplomatic and military efforts? On the next Your Call we'll speak with contractors-turned-whistleblowers and a representative of what they are calling Peace Operation Companies about the laws that have changed, and which still don't apply. Did the bad press about murders, rapes and hefty bills cause a governmental rethink about contractors, or has business returned to normal in the fog of war? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Kevin Lanigan in Washington, DC
Director of the Law & Security Program at Human Rights First. He leads Human Rights First's efforts to ensure a greater understanding of and respect for human rights in U.S. national security policy.

Tara Lee in Reston, VA
Former Navy JAG and former Resident Fellow at the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at the United States Naval Academy. She currently practices law in the National Security Practice Group of a major U.S. law firm.

Jamie Leigh in Texas
Former contractor for KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary, in Iraq who sued KBR after she was allegedly raped by co-workers and imprisoned by her superiors. After two years of investigation, neither the Pentagon nor the Justice Department have filed charges.

Todd Kelley in Texas
Jamie Leigh's Lawyer

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Your Call 040708 Freeing Tibet

Will the actions around the Olympic torch have any impact on the issue of Tibet? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the recent protests taking place in Tibet and around the world. The Olympic torch's odyssey has been met by large actions against China's recent crack down in Tibet and its wider human rights records. The torch will reach San Francisco on Wednesday, April 9. Where do you stand on this issue? What does it mean to free Tibet? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:

John Ackerley, director of the International Campaign for Tibet.

Josh Kurlantzick, the author of Charm Offensive.

Pico Iyer, a longtime essayist and author of The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.

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