How can we protect kids from marketers?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the industry of advertising to children. San Francisco supervisors voted to regulate Happy Meals in the city, but it's the slightest dent in the onslaught of clever marketing directed at kids--on TV, online, and in public. How has marketing directed at kids grown? How has it changed with the internet? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are the tools available for parents and communities to fight back? It's Your Call with Hana Baba and you.

Guests:
Susan Linn, director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

Dan Coates, president of Youth Pulse, Inc.

Marisa Connolly, senior communications manager for Common Sense Media

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Spreading the Atheist Gospel?

Evangelizing for atheism? You've seen the ads on the Muni buses: "Imagine no religion" and other quotes from famous non-believers promoting the Freedom From Religion Foundation. It's part of a small wave of pro-atheist media that's risen over the past few years. Is the campaign a sign of a broadening public discourse about faith and the lack of it? Or does it insult religious people and widen the divide between people of faith and their non-believing neighbors?

Join us live at 11 or email us at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you think of the rise of Athiesm? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Reverend Scotty McLennan, dean of Religious Life at Stanford.

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Your Call 032508 Unmarketable

What does integrity mean when everything is for sale? On the next Your Call we welcome Anne Elizabeth Moore, author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity. Moore writes that even advertisers know the Internet generation is impervious to traditional ad campaigns. So now they're out to infiltrate your friendships, invade your passions and own your love. And it's working. If all the world's an advertisement and we are merely players, how do you find space to track your own loves and interests? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Anne Elizabeth Moore in Chicago
Author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity. She is the co-editor of Punk Planet, The Best American Comics series editor and the author of Hey Kidz! Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda and Artistic Activism for Short People.

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