Your Call 112107 On the Record: Representative Dennis Kucinich

What does Congressman Dennis Kucinich's long voting record tell us about what kind of president he would make? On the next Your Call, we continue our On the Record series where we move beyond the stump speeches and rhetoric and instead focus on candidates’ voting records. What does Congressman Kucinich go to bat for? Who funds his campaigns and why do Cleveland voters keep sending him back to Capitol Hill? What do you want to know about Dennis Kucinich? It’s Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.
 
Guests:
John Nichols in Madison, Wisconsin
Washington Correspondent for the Nation magazine.

Sabrina Eaton in Silver Spring, MD
Washington Correspondent for the Cleveland Plain Dealer

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Your Call 112007 A Debate about Peak Oil

How worried should we be about "Peak Oil"? On Your Call, we’ll talk about the looming oil crisis with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, author of Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future. We’ll also be joined by Michael Klare, author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum. How will "Peak Oil" affect our society? Some say it’s happening now. How should we prepare? It’s Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.       

Guests:
Michael Klare, professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College, and author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum.

Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Correspondent for The Economist. He is also the author of Power to the People: How the Coming Engery Revolution in the Engergy Revolution Will Change Industry, Change our Lives and Maybe Even Save the Planet.  He also co-authored Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future.

Click to Listen: A Debate about Peak Oil

Your Call 111907 Cross Cultural Care-giving

How do people from different cultures care for aging loved ones? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a discussion about culturally sensitive care giving. The elderly population is growing every year and it is becoming increasingly diverse. What is being done to insure culturally sensitive care? Has awareness changed from generation to generation? Are you receiving support from a caregiver from a different cultural background? Join us on the next Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Rita Hargrave, M.D., is a Fellow of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, with Special Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry. She is on the staff of the V.A. Hospital in Martinez, Calif., and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at Davis and keeper of the ethnic elders care network.

Carmen R. Green, MD Director, Pain Research Division, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology University of Michigan Medical School

Wesley Mukoyama, Executive Director of Yu-Ai Kai
Yu-Ai Kai, a Japanese American Community Senior Service, located in Japantown San Jose, committed to serving seniors with an array of activities and programs.

Click to Listen: Cross Cultural Care-giving

Your Call 111607 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable. The votes are finally in for the 2007 San Francisco election. We’ll discuss election coverage and the oil spill with San Francisco Bay Guardian editor Tim Redmond. We’ll also be joined by Lou Dubose, who left the comforts of Texas to edit the Washington Spectator.  What was your story of the week? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Tim Redmond in San Francisco
Executive Editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco’s independent weekly

Lou Dubose in Washington DC
Editor of the Washington Spectator and formerly of the Texas Observer. He co-authored several books with the late and lamented Molly Ivins.

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Your Call 111507 The Tolerant Empire

What makes an empire rise to global dominance and what makes it fall? On the next Your Call we welcome two students of the rise and fall of global hyperpowers.  Professor Juan Cole wrote a book about Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt two hundred years ago and Professor Amy Chua has written Day of Empire, a study of how tolerance may be at the heart of every empire’s rise, and intolerance the cause of every decline. What can we learn from empires long buried about America’s flirtation with global dominance? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Amy Chua in San Francisco
John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School and author of Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall

Juan Cole in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan. His most recent book is Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East.

Click to Listen: The Tolerant Empire

Your Call 111407 On the Record--Rudolph Giuliani

On the next Your Call, we continue our On the Record series where we look at presidential candidates' voting records. Next up is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. New York's murder rate dropped by 60 percent under Giuliani, but complaints about police brutality rose by 70 percent. Giuliani received international attention after 9/11 and since then, he founded a security consulting business and became a partner in a law firm. What does Giuliani’s record tell us about what kind of president he would make? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
John Judis in suburban Washington DC. 
Senior editor at The New Republic and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.  He is also author of The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
 
Wayne Barrett in New York
Investigative reporter and senior editor for the Village Voice since 1979.  He is the author of Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11. 

Click to Listen: On the Record--Rudolph Giuliani

Your Call 111307 What is the state of our oceans?

What will be the long-term impact of the recent oil spill in the Bay? On the next Your Call, we’ll take a look at the state of the Pacific Ocean. An estimated 58,000 gallons of heavy bunker oil leaked into the Bay, killing sea birds and prompting the closure of nearly two dozen beaches. The spill prompted a public outcry because the damage is so visible. But what aren’t we seeing in the ocean that we should be concerned about? It’s Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Sejal Choksi, Program Director at San Francisco Bay Keeper
Rod Fujita, a Senior Scientist at Environmental Defense, based in Oakland, California and author of Heal the Oceans: Solutions for Saving Our Seas

Click to Listen: What is the state of our oceans?

Your Call 111207 Veterans Day Special--What Kind Of Care Do Our Vets Get Now?

How are wounded veterans being cared for upon returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan? On the next Your Call, we’ll get an update on vets' health care. According to a new report by Physicians for Social Responsibility, healthcare for Iraq vets could top $650 billion. Since the 2003 invasion, at least 60,000 U.S. soldiers have been wounded. The percentage of amputees is the highest since the Civil War. Is the VA prepared to deal with this crisis? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Larry Scott, member of VA Watchdog organization

Dr. Evan Kanter, a member of the Board of Directors for Physicians for Social Responsibility

Click to Listen: Veterans Day Special--What Kind Of Care Do Our Vets Get Now?

Your Call 110907 Media Roundtable

On the Next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we speak with LA Times consumer columnist David Lazarus about consumer safety and the credit crunch, with NPR ombudsman Lisa Shepard about interviewing torture victims in the presence of their torturers and with Al-Jazeera English México Correspondent Franc Contreras about one of the worst natural disasters in Mexican history, the flooding of Tabasco. What was your story of the week? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
David Lazarus in Los Angeles
Author of the Consumer Confidential column for the LA Times

Franc Contreras in México City, México
Al-Jazeera English’s México correspondent

Lisa Shepard in Washington DC
Ombudsman for NPR News. 

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Your Call 110807 What Makes the War Real?

What do we see in still photos of the Iraq War that we miss in other forms of media? On the next Your Call, New York Times photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson joins us to discuss his photographic memoir of his time in Iraq called “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.” We’ll also be joined by independent journalist Dahr Jamail, author of “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Iraq.” What can we learn from journalists whose goal is to show what life is really like for Iraqis? And what do you want from coverage of a war? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Dahr Jamail in San Francisco
Independent reporter and author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq

Ashley Gilbertson in Washington DC
War photographer for the New York Times and author of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
 
Click to Listen: What Makes the War Real?

Your Call 110707 On the Record: Senator Chris Dodd

What kind of a president would Senator Chris Dodd make? On the next Your Call, we continue our On The Record series where we look at the voting records of presidential hopefuls. This week, we’re focusing on Democratic Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut. Senator Dodd is making waves for stalling the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act until amnesty for telecom companies is removed. Dodd has been in Congress for 33 years. Where does he stand on issues you care about and who’s funding his campaign? Join us on the next Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Tom Swann, executive director of the CT Citizen Action Group and previously ran Ned Lamont’s campaign against Joe Lieberman.

Bill Curry, columnist for the Hartford Courant, a two-time Democratic nominee for governor of Connecticut and a White House advisor in the administration of Bill Clinton.

Hari Sevugan, spokesperson for Chris Dodd for President
 
Click to Listen: On the Record -- Senator Chris Dodd

Your Call 110607 How can we support caregivers?

Are we doing enough to support caregivers? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about family caregiving. Fifty million Americans are taking care of sick family members. Their unpaid work is valued at $306 billion per year. What challenges do they face? How does public policy affect their work? What can we as a society do to support caregivers? And what does the future look like for our aging population? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guest:
Peggy Flynn, as founder of the Caregiving Zone
 
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Your Call 110507 Crackdown in Pakistan

Just days before the Pakistani Supreme Court was due to decide whether General Pervez Musharraf’s recent reelection was valid, he imposed emergency rule, suspended the Constitution, and fired the Supreme Court. Over the weekend, Musharraf’s military government arrested 500 opposition party figures and announced that journalists who bring “ridicule or disrepute” to the General could face up to three years in prison. News channels in major cities have been blocked. We’ll get the latest from a Pakistani journalist on the next Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you. 

Guests:
Shahnaz Rouse, professor of sociology at Sarah Lawrence College
Zahid Hussain, senior editor of Pakistan's Newsline magazine

Click to Listen: Crackdown in Pakistan

Your Call 110207 Friday Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll speak with the Nation's Gary Younge about misconceptions of black history in the media. We'll also hear from Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Loretta Tofani. She's out with a lengthy series about the treatment of workers in China. And Al-Jazerra English's Anand Naidoo joins us to discuss the latest in Gaza and Iraq. What was your story of the week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Anand Naidoo in Washington, DC, an anchor and correspondent for Al-Jazeera English.
Loretta Tofani, in Salt Lake City, a Pulitzer Prize winning independent reporter, working at the Pulitzer Center
Gary Younge in New York City, a staff writer with The Nation

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Your Call 110107 What Makes A Woman Powerful?

Who is a powerful woman? On the next Your Call we’ll discuss the many ways women exercise power in the world. Forbes magazine released their list of the 100 most powerful women and it was full of politicians and billionaires. Are there other ways women exercise power that Forbes missed? And does having female prime ministers and secretaries of state change the way the traditional power is exercised? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Laurel Thatcher-Ulrich, author of Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History and professor at Harvard University.

Laurel Thatcher-Ulrich will be speaking tonight at 7:30 at Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue in Berkeley

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Your Call 103107 Election 2007

Next Tuesday is Election Day. Do you know what’s on the ballot? On the next Your Call, the Chronicle’s John Diaz, SPUR’s Egon Terplan, and the Green Party’s Christina O’Lague will join us to discuss their endorsements of measures on the San Francisco ballot. With no real competition for Mayor, District Attorney, or Sheriff, the big fights this election are over MUNI, libraries, free Wi-Fi, and parking. Who’s supporting and funding these measures? What are you voting for? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy.
 
Guests:
John Diaz, Editorial Page Editor for the SF Chronicle
Egon Terplan, Economic Development and Governance Policy Director of SPUR
Christina O'Lague, Green Party Coordinating Council Member

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Your Call 103007 The Budget

How can we make sense of the $2.8 trillion dollar U.S. budget? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with Linda Bilmes, a budget expert and public policy professor at the Kennedy School of Government. Federal spending grew by nearly 50 percent between 2001 and 2007 and the federal debt has grown to about 9 trillion dollars. What is the overall war spending in the budget? And what’s being squeezed as a result? It’s Your Call, Rose Aguilar, and you.
 
Guest:
Linda Bilmes, a budget expert and public policy professor at the Kennedy School of Government

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Your Call 102907 Is California running out of water?

Is California running out of water? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about managing California’s water supply. Two-thirds of the planet is covered in water but population growth and climate change could impact our water supply in the coming decades. What is the connection between global warming and our water supply? And what can we learn from states that are experiencing a water crisis? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
 
Guest:
Norm Miller is an adjunct professor of geography at UC Berkeley and associate director of Berkeley Water Center. Professor Miller is one of the four professors at UC Berkeley who have contributed to a United Nations international climate change organization that is sharing the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.

Mindy McIntyre is water program manager at The Planning and Conservation League. That’s a nonprofit organization involved in environmental public policy research and education. Mindy works on projects to improve water management and policy in California.

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Your Call 102607 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, Southern California burned. Did the reporters covering the fires connect the emergency with larger ecological and social trends? Also this week battles raged on the border of Turkey and Iraq and within the halls of power in Istanbul. Did you see or hear reporting that covered more than the blow-by-blow and provided the context to help you understand what's at stake? What was your story of the week? It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Robert Parry in Healdsburg, California
Founder and editor of Consortium News

David Roberts in Seattle, Wash.
Staff writer for Grist and blogmaster of Gristmill

Evrim Bunn in Washington DC
Reporter with Voice of America Turkish Service

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Your Call 102507 The Mad Cowboy

What can we learn about the meat and dairy industry from a Montana farmer who also happens to be a vegan? On the next Your Call, we talk with Howard Lyman, the fourth generation rancher who rose to fame after he and Oprah were sued by the cattle industry for libeling beef, a crime in Texas. They won the suit. Lyman is now on a crusade to change food safety policies and end our addiction to meat. What would a world of vegetarians look like? What would happen to livestock if we all became vegan? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Update: Howard Lyman is speaking tonight at the Marin Humane Society at 7:00 p.m.
171 Bel Marin Keys Blvd., Novato, CA

Guest:
Howard Lyman, fourth generation cattle farmer, now vegan activist

Click to Listen: The Mad Cowboy