What should we occupy in 2012?

Can people from different political backgrounds come together to work for prison reform? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about various efforts to reform the prison system in the US. Today, 2.3 million prisoners are in US jails, costing more than $44 billion. In California, more money is spent on prisons than education. What will it take to reform the system? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How are groups with different political backgrounds joining forces? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Katt Hoban, organizer with Occupy San Francisco

Vanessa Carlisle, organizer with Occupy Los Angeles

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What are the best tactics for a successful Occupy movement?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about how Occupy camps around the country are doing outreach and resolving conflicts. How are different encampments dealing with their city governments, the media, police, and homelessness? Join us at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How should the movement engage local communities and communicate effectively with supporters, opponents, and those watching from the sidelines? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and You.

Guests:
Vanessa Carlisle, occupier with Occupy Los Angeles
Rob Call, occupier with Occupy Atlanta
Ali Winston, reporter for KALW news
Andrew Carrigan, occupier with Occupy SF

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What do you think of President Obama's performance so far?

On the next Your Call we'll get your reaction to the Obama administration's record. A number of high-profile progressives sent a public letter to members of the "Establishment Left," referring to the Obama administration as "an implacable enemy of reform" and calling for the re-ignition of a true progressive movement. How do you explain Obama's moves on tax cuts, healthcare, and the environment? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do you still have hopes for Obama in office? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dahr Jamail, independent journalist and author
Bill Fletcher, Jr., senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author, political analyst, and radio host

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How Did Howard Zinn Change the History of the United States?

On the next Your Call, we'll look back at the writing, activism, and life story of social historian Howard Zinn. His influential People's History of the United States sold over a million copies and is used in many history courses. What did his work mean to you? How did it change your perspective of history?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feedback@yourcall.org. How should Zinn's work influence the way history is taught in the future? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Daniel Ellsberg, an activist and political analyst. His leaking of the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times set in motion a chain of events that ended not only the Nixon presidency but the Vietnam War.

Ron Briley, a history teacher and assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he has taught for over thirty years.

Olive Mitra, a humanities and English literature teacher at June Jordan School for Equity, a San Francisco public high school.

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Your Call 110508 Now What?

Now what? The votes are cast and the spin has begun about what it all means. What kind of change do you expect for your vote? How can the hopeful energy the Obama campaign has generated continue into the reality of governing? How do the people who've given the energy to the Obama campaign many of whom are well to his left politically stay engaged without becoming disillusioned? After 8 years in the opposition, can the left build an effective movement that supports progressive change? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Karen K. Narasaki in DC
Executive Director of Asian American Justice Center

Chris Kromm in North Carolina
Executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies

Sujatha Jahagirdar in Washington DC, normally in LA
Program director for the New Voters Project of the Student Public Interest Research Group.

Maya Rockeymoore in DC
President and CEO, Global Policy Solutions and author of The Political Action Handbook: A How to Guide for the Hip-Hop Generation

Vida Benevides in DC
Executive Director of Asian Pacific Island American Vote

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Your Call 061808 The New Blue Media

What explains the success of left wing media? On the next Your Call we speak with Theodore Hamm, author of The New Blue Media- How Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart and Company Are Transforming Progressive Politics. Hamm says the new left media has grown in power and influence by adopting three strategies- satire, polemic and the activism. But is the popularity of Michael Moore, The Daily Show and Daily Kos dependent on an unpopular Bush Administration? Has the ground work been laid for continued influence if Obama takes the White House? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Theodore Hamm in San Francisco
The founding editor of The Brooklyn Rail. His first book, Rebel and a Cause, about the 1960 execution of San Quentin death row author Caryl Chessman, was published by the University of California Press in 2001. His new book is The New Blue Media: Progressive Politics and Culture in the Bush Years.

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