What's the power of children's art depicting trauma?

What's the power of children's art depicting trauma? And how does it affect those who see it? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the art exhibit "A Child's View from Gaza," which was cancelled two weeks before it was set to open at the Museum of Children's Art in Oakland. The Museum said the images were too graphic, but local Jewish groups boasted to media outlets that they forced the museum board to make the decision. Does the museum have a responsibility to show an exhibit like this? And what's the power of art? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:

Ziad Abbas, associate director of the Middle East Children's Alliance

Susan Greene, social art practitioner, educator and clinical psychologist

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Is this the Palestinian moment?

With the Arab Spring changing the political dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa, is this the Palestinian moment? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about how "Arab Spring" has changed the balance between Israel and the Palestinians. Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Hamas and Fatah have decided to join forces and push for UN recognition of a Palestinian state. Would UN recognition of a Palestinian state make a difference for Palestinians and their future? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Beshara Doumani, professor of history at UC Berkeley

Jeff Halper, founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we'll discuss the new documentary, Waiting for 'Superman' and coverage of education. We'll also talk about reporting on the Bush tax cuts and their impact on the economy, as well as the expansion of the Israeli settlements. We'll be joined by Mel Frykberg, an IPS reporter based in Ramallah, the Oakland Tribune's Education Reporter Katy Murphy and AlterNet's Joshua Holland. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us at 11 a.m. or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with me Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Katy Murphy, The Oakland Tribune's Education reporter
Mel Frykberg, Inter Press Service (IPS) global news agency's Ramallah correspondent
Joshua Holland, an editor and senior writer at AlterNet

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll continue with our coverage of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the targeting of immigrants involved in oil clean up. We'll also talk about coverage of the Gaza-bound Flotilla and California election results. We'll be joined by investigative journalist, Max Blumenthal in Tel Aviv, Color Line's Brentin Mock, and journalist Joe Mathews. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Joe Mathews is a journalist and a contributing writer at the Los Angeles Times.

Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast and contributor to outlets including The Nation, Al Jazeera English, and Salon.com.

Brentin Mock is a New Orleans-based reporter.

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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 Gaza-bound flotilla attacked by Israeli commandos, the ongoing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico -- the oil is now close to Florida -- and the escalation of violence in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We'll be joined by Daily Beast's Rick Outzen and independent journalist Pratap Chatterjee. Join us live at 11 or send us and email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Rick Outzen, publisher and editor of Independent News, the alternative newsweekly for Northwest Florida

Pratap Chatterjee, an investigative journalist and progressive author.

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Will the Flotilla attack affect Israel?

How will the attack on the "Freedom Flotilla" affect Israel's relations with the world? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the implications of Israel's deadly raid on Turkish ships carrying international activists and humanitarian aid for Gaza. As many as 10 people on board the flotilla were killed and dozens more wounded; among them were Turkish and American nationals. Will this incident shift world opinion of Israel? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What should the U.S. do to hold Israel accountable? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
George Bisharat, UC Hastings law professor
Neve Gordon, Ben Guiron University professor, author of Israel's Occupation
Miko Peled, Israeli peace activist living in San Diego
Peter Beinart, associate professor at City University of New York, author of The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris

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What will it take to end the siege on Gaza?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with independent scholar Norman Finkelstein and Iraqi/British Rap artist Lowkey. Professor Finkelstein is out with a new book, This Time We Went Too Far - Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion. We will also talk about American Radical, a new documentary about his lifelong activism on Palestine-Israel. What are ordinary citizens doing to end the occupation? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Norman Finkelstein, an independent scholar, author and activist
Lowkey, an Iraqi-British rap artist

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media roundtable. This week, we'll discuss the coverage of the healthcare summit, the three-week-long assault in Helmand province, NY Times and conflict of interest as well as the lack of coverage of Gaza. We'll be joined by Kabul-based journalist Anand Gopal, Electronic Intifada's Ali Abunimah and Congressional Quarterly's Adriel Bettelheim.

Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Anand Gopal, reporting from Afghanistan for the Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal. His dispatches can be read at anandgopal.com.

Ali Abunimah, a Palestinian American journalist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada, a not-for-profit, independent online publication about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Adriel Bettelheim, Congressional Quarterly's Managing Editor

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Are U.S.-Israel Relations at a Turning Point?

On the next Your Call we'll be joined by Joel Schalit, author of Israel Versus Utopia, to discuss the future of Israel. Israel is the number one recipient of U.S. economic and military aid, but its right-wing Likud government has bristled at Obama Administration calls for an end to illegal settlements. Meanwhile, the J Street Project is setting a new course for the Jewish-American relationship with Israel. Could a new U.S.-Israeli relationship emerge? And will any of it make real change for the Palestinians?

Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's the future of US-Israel relations? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Joel Schalit, author of Israel Vs. Utopia

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Your Call 071709 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable -- the day we speak with reporters about coverage of the week's news. This week, the Senate questioned Judge Sotomayor, Al Jazeera was banned from the West Bank, a humanitarian convoy made it into Gaza, and according to reports, former VP Dick Cheney held information about a secret assassination program from Congress. We'll be joined by Kevin Baker from Harper's, Sherine Tadros of Al Jazeera English and Jeremy Scahill, independent journalist and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did the media fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Kevin Baker in New York City
Writes the "In the News" column for American Heritage magazine. His writing has appeared in many national publications and his essay "Barack Hoover Obama: The Best and Brightest Blow it again" appears in this month's Harper's Magazine.

Sherine Tadros in Gaza
Gaza correspondent for Al Jazeera English. During the Israel-Gaza conflict, she was one of the only reporters to stay in Gaza during the Israeli siege last winter.

Jeremy Scahill in New York
Independent reporter and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. He is currently a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. He is a frequent contributor to Democracy Now and The Nation. You can find his reporting and writing at rebelreports.com.

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Your Call 040709 How should we understand Hamas?

How should we understand Hamas? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Paul McGeough, former executive editor of Australia's Sydney Morning Herald and the author of Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas. Paul McGeough argues that Israel's attempt to assassinate Hamas' leader Khalid Mishal has had a significant impact on Palestinian politics. You can join the conversation by email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How did Hamas rise to power? It's Your Call, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Paul McGeough, former executive editor of Australia's Sydney Morning Herald and author of Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas.

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Your Call 012309 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable where we bring in reporters from the mainstream, alternative and international press to discuss the week in American media. This week we'll speak with Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Policy about the global coverage of the inauguration. We'll also speak with Jamal Dajani from Mosaic on LinkTV who is just back from two weeks covering the assault on Gaza. What else was going on while we watched the inaguration? Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Moises Nam in Washington DC
Editor of Foreign Policy, a sister publication of Slate and the Washington Post. Dr. Nam served as Venezuela's minister of trade and industry in the early 1990s;

Jamal Dajani in Berkeley
Senior Director of Middle Eastern Programming at Link TV where he produces the program Mosaic, which translates and rebroadcasts Arabic language news broadcasts. He is also a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post;

George Curry in Suburban Washington
Syndicated columnist. From 2001 until 2007, he served as editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a news service for the nation's Black newspapers. He was the executive editor of Emerge magazine and a reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

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Your Call 012209 What is Israel's End Game? What is Hamas'?

Now that the cease fire has begun, what is Israel's End Game? What is Hamas'? On the next Your Call we'll speak with Israeli and Palestinian analysts about the goals and state of mind of the two peoples. What did the Israeli people think they were trying accomplish? Were they trying to stop the rockets, intimidate the Palestinians, Iran or even the Obama administration? Did Hamas achieve their goals when they began the strategy of firing qassam rockets into Israel? Can we end the slaughter by understanding the motivations of all sides?

Guests:
Beshara Doumani in Berkeley
Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley specializing in Middle Eastern history. He is working on two books: a social history of the Palestinians, and a comparative history of women and the family in Palestine and Lebanon.

Nathan Guttman in Washington DC
Washington bureau chief for the Forward, and the former Washington correspondent for the Israeli dailies Ha'aretz and The Jerusalem Post. The Forward has been reporting in Yiddish and English on the Global Jewish Community for more than a century.

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Your Call 011609 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable where we hold American media accountable for getting us the news we need. For the final week of the Bush presidency we will speak with Lawrence Pintak in Cairo, the publisher & co-editor of Arab Media & Society; Kenneth Whyte, publisher and editor in chief of the Canadian news magazine Maclean's and Clara Jeffrey, co-editor of Mother Jones. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Clara Jeffery in San Francisco
Co-Editor of Mother Jones

Kenneth Whyte in San Francisco
Publisher and editor in chief of Maclean's, and author of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst.

Lawrence Pintak in Cairo
Director of the Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research at The American University in Cairo and publisher & co-editor of Arab Media & Society. For 30 years he has covered the Middle East, for the San Francisco Chronicle and then later for ABC News. He joins us from Cairo, Egypt.

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Your Call 010609 How are Israelis responding to the bloodshed in Gaza?

How are progressive Israelis holding their government accountable for the air strikes and ground invasion in Gaza? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the response to the siege of Gaza. With Israeli troops now on the ground and more than 550 Palestinians dead, where is Israel's peace movement? And what role do progressives here in the U.S. have in changing the conversation in Israel and in changing policy within the incoming Obama administration? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests: Miko Peled, Israeli peace activist living in the U.S.

Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz reporter

Neve Gordon, chair of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, and author of the book, Israel's Occupation.

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Your Call 010209 Media Roundtable

In an otherwise quiet news week, Israeli airstrikes have killed hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and made headlines worldwide. How can journalists tell this story without doing the bidding of Israel or Hamas? Consumer confidence hit an all-time low this week -- how are economic hard times hitting the not-for-profit news media? And all kinds of news media this week were filled with end-of-year rundowns and top ten lists -- was there one of them you found particularly enlightening? Or maddening? Join the conversation with Sandip Roy.

Guests: Blake Hounshell, online editor for Foreign Policy magazine.

Eric Beauchemin, reporter for Radio Netherlands.

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Your Call 120908 Crisis in Gaza

What is the International Community doing to help the people of Gaza? On the next Your Call, we'll take a look at the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency has warned that its warehouses in Gaza will be totally empty in two or three days if Israel does not open the crossings to allow the entry of humanitarian supplies. Eighty percent of the population depends on humanitarian aid. What is daily life like for people in Gaza? Who is helping? And who has access to Gaza? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Paul LaRudee, the Northern California head of the International Solidarity Movement

Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur for human rights to the Palestinian Occupied territories

Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, Irish Nobel Peace laureate and co-founder of the Community of Peace People

Karen Abu Zayed, the commissioner general of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza

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Your Call 080508 Non-violence in Israel-Palestine

How strong is the non-violence movement in Israel? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with two Israeli filmmakers, Shai Carmeli Pollack and Rachel Leah Jones, who are using their camera to raise awareness about the Occupation. Sahi Carmeli Pollack's documentary film Bil'in Habibti documents the struggle against the construction of the wall by the residents, internationals and Israelis in the village of Bil'in. So who is watching these films? And do they make any difference? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Rachel Leah Jones, producer of the documentary film, Ashkenaz

Shai Carmeli Pollack, producer of the documentary film, Bil'in my love

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Your Call 050708 Divided Historical Memory -- A look at the Arab-Israeli war of 1948

Can there be peace between peoples who have such a radically different interpretation of a key moment in their shared history? The war of 1948 has forever shaped the middle east. What do you know about it? On the next Your Call, we'll hear personal stories from survivors from both sides of the conflict. Can getting at the truth of past national conflicts help move both sides toward peace? 60 years later, how can we move towards solutions? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Dr. Ghada Karmi is an author along with being research fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter University, and a former consultant to the Palestinian Authority. She was born in Jerusalem but in 1948 was forced along with her family to relocate to London.

Uri Averny is a journalist and author who fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He is also the founder of Gush Shalom, a peace organization based in Israel.

Zeev Maoz is an author and professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He is also director of their International Relations Program.

Event: “Remembering 1948.” Sat., May 31, 7:30pm. (Doors open at 7pm). Personal narratives by Jews and Palestinians about the establishment of the State of Israel, experienced as a liberatory event by many Jews in the wake of the holocaust, and also experienced as a national catastrophe or Nakba by Palestinians. Co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace and Kehilla. Held at 1300 Grand Avenue, Piedmont, CA.

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