Your Call 052609 Is making something or fixing it yourself a radical act?

In a consumer culture, is making something or fixing it yourself a radical act? On the next Your Call we'll mark the arrival of Maker Faire 2009, a two-day showcase of Do-It-Yourself culture and technology. We'll speak with Dale Daugherty, editor and publisher of Make Magazine and Matthew Crawford, author of Shopwork as Soulcraft. Will making and fixing more of our own stuff, and honoring the people who do it, bring us a healthier economy, or is it just the latest face of consumerism? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dale Dougherty in San Francisco
Editor and publisher of MAKE magazine, and general manager of the Maker Media division of O'Reilly Media. He was the developer and publisher of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial Web site which launched in 1993. Dale developed the Hacks series of books for O'Reillly and was a lecturer in the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California at Berkeley from 1996 to 2000.

Matthew B. Crawford in Richmond, Virginia
A philosopher/mechanic, fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia and a contributing editor of The New Atlantis.

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Your Call 052509 How do we keep the Iraq war in the news?

On Memorial Day: How do we keep the war in Iraq in the American consciousness? On the next Your Call we will speak with people who can't forget that there's a war happening in Iraq right now: Military families, veterans, Iraqis in Iraq and in exile, aid workers involved with refugees. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. If we pay more attention, will it improve the outcome in Iraq? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Kristele Younes in DC
Senior Advocate for Refugees at Refugees International

Karen Meredith in DC
Mother of 1Lt. Ken Ballard, Killed in Action in Iraq on May 30, 2004

Abderahman al Tikriti in Alexandria, VA
Iraqi refugee relocated by Refugees International

Stephanie Bowen in Los Angeles
Program Director for International Medical Corps

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Your Call 052209 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, California voters -- those who voted, anyway -- rejected the slate of budget reform ballot measures. Congress passed credit card reform and Binyamin Netanyahu visited the White House. We'll be joined by independent journalist Danny Schecter, Brian Leubitz of Calitics and Lawrence Pintak, from Arab Media & Society. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. 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:
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. He is a former CBS News Middle East correspondent who has been writing about the region for the past 30 years. On Aug. 17, he will become the founding dean of the Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University.

Danny Schechter in New York
Founder and executive editor of MediaChannel. His work has been honored with Emmy awards, the IRIS award, the George Polk Award, the Major Armstrong Award, and honors from the National Association of Black Journalists.

Brian Leubitz in San Francisco
Publisher & editor of Calitics.com, a news and commentary site about California politics from a progressive perspective.

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Your Call 052109 Where do you go to find wonder?

Where do you go to find wonder? On the next Your Call we discuss how to step back, get space and re-connect without becoming self-indulgent or oblivious. We'll speak with Winifred Gallagher, author of Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. How can taking time to be quiet and calm actually help us engage positively in the world? What is your recipe for falling in love with life? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Winifred Gallagher in Upstate New York
Author and Journalist who has written books exploring psychology and human behavior including House Thinking, Just the Way You Are (a New York Times Notable Book), Working on God, and The Power of Place. She has written for numerous publications, such as Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times. Her most recent book is RAPT: Attention and the Focused Life.

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Your Call 052009 Again in Afghanistan?

Can the Obama Administration's strategy in Afghanistan leave the country better off? On the next Your Call we'll talk about the changes announced by the Obama Administration for the war in Afghanistan: a new general running the show and 21,000 more troops on the way. Is this a break from a military-first approach, or just escalation? What are the United States' interests there? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. How can the left best advance non-military approaches in Afganistan? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Gilles Dorronsoro in DC
Visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment, where he focuses on security and political development in Afghanistan. He was a professor of political science at the Sorbonne, Paris and the Institute of Political Studies of Rennes and author of Revolution Unending: Afghanistan, 1979 to the Present (Columbia University Press, 2005)

Rodney Jones in DC
Director of the United States Institute of Peace's Pakistan/South Asia Program and the Pakistan Working Group. Prior to joining the Institute, Jones was President of Policy Architects International, a national security-consulting firm in Reston, Virginia. He served as a senior officer in the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1989-1994, participated in the INF and START negotiations, and led the ACDA team in the JCIC in negotiating START I implementation. He was born in India and has done field work for scholarly purposes both in India and Pakistan.

Rona Popal in San Francisco
Executive Director of the Afghan Coalition. In 1992, she formed the Afghan Women's Association International.

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Your Call 051909 Are you voting in the special election?

Are you voting in California's special election? On the next Your Call, we want to hear from you. What do you hope your vote will accomplish? Regardless of the outcome, Governor Schwarzenegger says, there will be billions in state budget cuts. What are the solutions? You can send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What hard choices - and major reforms - need to happen to address the ongoing state budget crisis? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
John Howard, managing editor of Capitol Weekly

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Your Call 051809 Can local currencies transform our economy?

Can local currencies transform our economy from the bottom up? On the next Your Call, we'll have a discussion about the growing interest in currency production in communities around the country. Thousands of them were used during the Great Depression. How do local currencies work today? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. How do you start one where you live? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Susan Witt, Executive Director, E. F. Schumacher Society and Co-founder of BerkShares.

Paul Glover, founder of the Ithaca Hours program

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Your Call 051509 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable. This week, President Obama decided not to release more torture pictures. Nancy Pelosi announced the timeline for healthcare reform and industry groups offered their plan. The man running the war in Afghanistan was sacked and half of a million people are displaced in Pakistan. We'll be joined by Salon's Mike Madden and Jonathan Steele of Guardian. Where did you see good reporting this week? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. It's Your Call, with Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Jonathan Steele, a Guardian columnist and roving foreign correspondent

Mike Madden, Salon's Washington correspondent

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Your Call 051409 What do you need for your best birth?

On the next Your Call we talk about giving birth -- at home, in a hospital, wherever works best for you -- and the systems in place to help your family plan the birth you want, where you want. What social supports do women and their partners need to make informed decisions about how to bring their babies into the world? How can doctors and midwives come together to transform the way of American birth? We'll be joined by Abby Apstein, co-author of Your Best Birth, and local mid-wife Maria Lorillo. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or call 866-798-TALK, that's 866-798-8255, and join us live at 11 am. What do you need for your best birth? It's Your Call with Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Abby Epstein, director of the film The Business of Being Born and co-author of Your Best Birth

Maria Lorillo, licensed midwife and founder of Wise Woman Childbirth Traditions

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Your Call 051309 Can the special election save California?

Can the special election save California? On the next Your Call we'll speak with John Myers and Trudy Schafer about the upcoming special election. The vote aims to direct emergency funds to the fledgling California Budget but is being ignored by most Californians. Can the ballot measures get California back on track, or do we need to go back to the drawing board? Why should we care about the special election? Join the conversation at 866-798-TALK, that's 866-798-8255. Or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Can the special election avert further crisis? It's Your Call with Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
John Myers, The California Report's Sacramento bureau chief. He writes the daily newsblog, "Capital Notes," and host a weekly political podcast of the same name.

Trudy Schafer
Senior program director of the League of Women Voters of California

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Your Call 051209 Who are the Hindus?

Who are the Hindus? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Wendy Doniger, author of The Hindus: An Alternative History of Hinduism. With around 890 million practitioners, Hinduism has a rich tradition of texts but just as much history that falls in the cracks between the texts. What are the history and beliefs of Hindus? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. How are Hindus changing the American experience? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Suhag Shukla, legal counsel and managing director of Hindu American Foundation

Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago

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Your Call 051109 What's next for the anti-globalization movement?

What is the next step for the anti-globalization movement? On the next Your Call we continue our series Agenda for a New Economy and search for the common interests between workers in the U.S. and those in poor countries. We'll speak with John Jeter, one-time foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, now author of Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Do bad times give us an opportunity to rethink economic development? It's Your Call with Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Jon Jeter in Los Angeles
From 1999 to 2003 he was the Washington Post's Southern Africa bureau chief before running the Post's bureau in South America from 2003 to 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer twice, in 2000 for a series he did about AIDS in Africa and for a series on race published by the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 1991. He is the author of the forthcoming Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People.

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Your Call 050809 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable. This week, U.S. air strikes killed more than 100 Afghan civilians. Some of the nation's largest banks are in need of even more money and single payer activists were arrested during a hearing on Capitol Hill. We'll be joined by Corporate Crime Reporter Russell Mokhiber, the LA Times' Jim Puzzanghera and Naheed Mustafa, producer with CBC Radio. You can join us by email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or 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.

Guests:
Jim Puzzanghera, staff writer with Los Angeles Times

Russell Mokhiber, editor of Corporate Crime Reporter

Naheed Mustafa, producer with CBC Radio

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Your Call 050709 How does this Swine Flu outbreak compare to others?

How does the current Swine Flu outbreak compare to others in history? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Philip Alcabes, author of Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu, and Marc Schenker, chair of Department of Public Health Sciences at University of California, Davis. When it comes to an epidemic, can fear be as dangerous as disease? You can join us by calling in or by emailing feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. How should public health and the news media spread information, without spreading panic? What should be done to improve public health? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Philip Alcabes, author of Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu. He is associate professor of urban public health at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Marc Schenker is a professor of Medicine and Chair of Dept. of Public Health Sciences at University of California, Davis.

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Your Call 050609 What gives your job meaning?

What gives your job meaning? On the next Your Call we'll speak with Paul Buhle and Harvey Pekar about their new graphic novel adaptation of Studs Terkel's Working. 35 years ago Studs published his interviews with parking lot attendants, corporate executives, newsboys, housewives, firemen and sailors about what they did all day and what it meant to them doing it. If Studs wanted to capture working life today, who would he need to talk to? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What do you do all day? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Paul Buhle in Providence, Rhode Island
Senior lecturer at Brown University and an editor of several books of comic art, including Wobblies!, A Dangerous Woman, Students for a Democratic Society, and A People's History of American Empire.

Harvey Pekar in Cleveland, Ohio
Comic-book writer and author of the autobiographical American Splendor series, which was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film. Pekar is also a prolific jazz and book critic.

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Your Call 050509 How do we connect with the mentally ill?

How do we connect with the humanity of the mentally ill? On the next Your Call we'll talk about how movies like The Soloist and the ballot proposition that could divert funds away from residential care impact our understanding and connection to the mentally ill. How far have we come in relating to and understanding the them? What kind of services are needed for them to tell their own stories? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What have you learned from your own experience of mental illness or of friends or family members who are mentally ill? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. Karin Tamerius in San Francisco
Karin was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1994 while a graduate student in political science at the University of Michigan. As a result of this experience, Dr. Tamerius entered medical school and is now a Psychiatry intern at UCSF.

Thomas Jefferson in San Francisco
Diagnosed with schizophrenia since the age of 16, he's been in and out of jail as a result of his illness. He was facing a sentence of 25 years to life under California's "Three Strike" law when he entered San Francisco's Behavioral Health Court.

Kathleen Connolly Lacey in San Francisco
Director of University of California San Francisco's Citywide Case Management Forensic Program which provides community-based treatment to 150 mentally ill offenders. She is also a founding member of San Francisco's Behavioral Health Court

Chance Martin in San Francisco
Community Organizer at Western Regional Advocacy Project. From 1999 2006, Chance was the managing editor for STREET SHEET--the oldest continuously-published street newspaper in the world.

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Your Call 050409 Are foreign workers still an economic asset?

Are foreign workers still an asset in a struggling economy? On the next Your Call we'll talk about an increasing unease in the Bay Area about American companies hiring foreign workers or outsourcing jobs. The Bay Area has been a haven for high skilled immigrants and they have returned the welcome by founding half of Silicon Valley's new companies in the last fifteen years. Is the welcome mat about to be pulled back inside? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. How will our economy change if foreign students take their diplomas and go home? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Matt Richtel in San Francisco
New York Times reporter, covering technology and telecommunications from the San Francisco bureau. He currently writes the monthly column "VC Nation," about the venture capital industry.

Vivek Wadhwa at Duke University
Fellow with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and executive in residence/adjunct professor at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University.

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Your Call 050109 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable where we discuss how the news was covered in the American media. This week, the World Heath Organization said a swine flu pandemic was "imminent," President Obama marked his 100th day in office and Sen. Arlen Specter defected, pushing the Democratic majority closer to a filibuster-proof 60 votes. We'll be joined by Aaron Glantz, author of The War Comes Home, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! and Will Bunch from the Philadelphia Daily News. 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 it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Aaron Glantz in San Francisco
Author of The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans

Amy Goodman
Host of Democracy Now! She joins us from the middle of her 70 city tour across the country supporting community stations

Will Bunch in Philadelphia
Writes the Attytood column for the Philadelphia Daily News and author of Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future

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Your Call 043009 How healthy are the Monterey and San Francisco bays?

How healthy are the Monterey and San Francisco bays? On the next Your Call we will speak with the superintendent of the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary and the San Francisco Baykeepers about maintaining the bays for future generations. What are the greatest successes of our conservation efforts? How are potential threats from economic activity being mitigated? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What needs to be done to leave our children an ecosystem and an economic asset that is sustainable and healthy? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Paul Michel in Monterey
Superintendent of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the federally-protected marine area that stretches 276 miles from Marin to Cambria. The sanctuary encompasses 5,322 square miles of ocean, extending an average distance of 30 miles from shore.

Sejal Choksi in San Francisco
Director of Programs for San Francisco Baykeeper. Ms. Choksi, an attorney, spearheaded Baykeeper's anti-pesticide campaign to secure the nation's first regulations of agricultural pollution. She is a member of East Bay Municipal Utility District's Blue Ribbon Panel, addressing sewage problems, and served on California's Oil Spill Prevention & Response Advisory Committee. Baykeeper is celebrating their 20th anniversary as the public's watchdog for the health of the San Francisco Bay.

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Your Call 042909 Why does torture capture the public's imagination?

Why does torture capture the public's imagination in a way that death wrought by war does not? On the next Your Call we will discuss the disparity between our national conversation on torture and the relative quiet about the death and destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. Is it easier to imagine ourselves as the tortured, or the torturer, than as a soldier in the field? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Does the scale of war make it harder to fathom, while torture is intimate enough to come alive in the imagination? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Richard Falk in Santa Barbara
Professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, writer (the author or co-author of 20 books), speaker, activist on world affairs, and an appointee to two United Nations positions on the Palestinian territories.

Scott Horton in New York
Professor at Columbia Law School where he teaches law of armed conflict. He is also a contributing editor to Harper's Magazine and writes the No Comment blog

Uwe Jacobs in San Francisco
Clinical director for Survivor's International

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