Your Call 062209 Are smaller banks an option?

On the next Your Call we discuss an agenda for a new economy: As the big banks implode, can community banks provide a real alternative? How have smaller banks and credit unions managed to survive the wave of consolidation in the banking industry? Have they managed to escape the current banking crisis? If you're thinking about moving your account to a smaller financial institution, what questions should you ask?

We'll be joined by Josh Silver of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Lynn Athens, CEO of Spectrum Federal Credit Union and Steve Andrews, president of the Bank of Alameda and former chairman of California Independent Banks.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What can community banks and credit unions offer during this financial crisis? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Join the conversation at 866-798-TALK, that's 866-798-8255. Or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org.

Guests:
Lynn Athens in Studio
CEO of Spectrum Federal Credit Union.

Steve Andrews in Alameda
President of the Bank of Alameda, former president of California Independent Bankers, board member of Independent Community Bankers of America.

Josh Silver in Washington DC
Vice President of Research and Policy at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

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Your Call 061909 Media RoundTable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable, where we discuss how the news of the week was covered. This week we ask what's left of the news media in California that informs and engages the people of the state? What are the new initiatives that should give us hope? How is California's ongoing budget crisis being covered? And how do we support real journalism in California? Who's got it wrong, and who's getting it right?

We'll be joined by Louis Freedberg, Director of the Center for Investigative Reporting's California Project, Jerry Roberts of CalBuzz-dot-com and Steve Harmon of the Contra Costa Times.

It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Louis Freedberg Director of The Center for Investigative Reporting's California Project

Jerry Roberts, former managing editor for the San Francisco Chronicle and co-founder of Calbuzz.com

Steve Harmon, Sacramento Reporter for the Contra Costa Times and Media News

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Your Call 061809 Is it time for a California Constitutional Convention?

Time for a California Constitutional Convention? On the Next Your Call, we'll continue our week-long series on California's economic crisis. What would it take to call a constitutional convention in California, and what could be achieved? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. If a convention comes to pass, what would you want on the table? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jean Ross, executive director of California Budget Project

John Grubb, spokesperson for the Bay Area Council

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Your Call 061709 What state services can we live without?

What state services can we live without? On the next Your Call, we continue our week-long series about California's economic crisis. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed billions of dollars of cuts in social services affecting everyone from poor children to college students. What does the budget say about the state's priorities? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. If cuts are inevitable, where should they happen? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

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

Jerry Nickelsburg, a senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast. Among his responsibilities are the economic forecast for California and authorship of the associated quarterly California Report.

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Your Call 061609 How did California's budget crisis happen?

How did California's budget crisis happen? On the next Your Call, we continue our week long series about California's economic crisis by focusing on how we got here in the first place. The State has a 24 billion dollar budget deficit. What caused it? Overspending? The state's tax system? Prop 13? The 2/3 majority requirement? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What can we learn from the current mess as we look toward fundamental reform? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Lenny Goldberg, executive director of the California Tax Reform Association

Mark Paul, senior scholar at the New America Foundation, was formerly deputy treasurer of California and deputy editorial page editor of the Sacramento Bee.

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Your Call 061509 How does the world's 7th largest economy actually work?

How does the world's 7th largest economy actually work? On the next Your Call, we're kicking off a weeklong series focusing on California's economic crisis. We'll kick it off by discussing how the state's economy functions. Which parts of the California economy are most productive and dynamic? Who's paying the taxes that fund public services? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Does the recession look any different in California than it does in the rest of the country? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Terry Connelly, dean of the Ageno School of Business at Golden Gate University

William Shughart, a senior fellow at The Independent Institute and Frederick A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Mississippi.

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Your Call 061209 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 Laura Ling and Euna Lee of San Francisco-based CurrentTV were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korean prisons, a black man was shot dead by a white supremacist at the Holocaust museum and the Iranian people went to the polls to elect a new president. We'll be joined by the San Francisco Chronicle's Jason Rezaian in Tehran, David Neiwert, author of The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, and Olga Pierce of ProPublica who just finished a state-by-state look at unemployment insurance. 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:
Jason Rezaian in Tehran
Writes Inside Iran for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also the writer, executive producer and narrator of a feature length documentary film on Iran called A World Between.

Olga Pierce in New York
Staff Reporter for ProPublica. She covered health policy for United Press International in Washington before attending the Stabile Investigative Journalism Seminar at Columbia University, where she won a Horton Prize for health reporting.

David Neiwert in Seattle
Freelance journalist and author of several books including the newly released The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right from Polipoint Press. Dave is a freelance journalist based in Seattle. His reportage for MSNBC.com on domestic terrorism won the National Press Club Award for Distinguished Online Journalism in 2000. Neiwert is also the managing editor of the video blog Crooks and Liars.

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Your Call 061109 How can we best care for the ground beneath our feet?

How can we best care for the ground beneath our feet? On the next Your Call, we'll continue our series on the commons by focusing on dirt, an invaluable substance we mostly take for granted. We'll speak with Gene Rosow, producer & director of Dirt! The Movie. The film tells the little known story of the relationship between dirt and humans. What can we do to preserve one of our most precious natural resources? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What are you doing to enrich your soil? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Gene Rosow in Los Angeles
Director of Dirt! The Movie, an official selection in the Documentary Competition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Gene wrote, produced and directed more than 20 documentaries including Doctora for Channel 4 England, Routes of Rhythm with Harry Belafonte for PBS, and Knights for Canal+ France. His feature film credits include the lovable family film Zeus and Roxanne for MGM, among others. On top of a Ph.D in History, Gene relishes his year of post-graduate work in Ecology, Biochemistry, Cellular Physiology, and Parisitology.

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Your Call 061009 Do Arabs and Muslims feel a change under Obama?

Do the people targeted after 9/11 feel a change under Obama? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the Arab and Muslim communities' responses to President Obama's address in Cairo. Can that make a difference for Muslims here? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What about the non-Muslims who became the targets of the "war on terror"? And what could we do to combat the prejudice and distrust that remains? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Veena B. Dubal, an attorney at the Asian Law Caucus
Khalil Bendib, an Algerian-American fine artist and political cartoonist
Beshara Doumani, history professor at UC Berkeley

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Your Call 060909 Can we think beyond corporations?

Can the dominance of corporate ideology in our lives and in our thinking be reversed? On the next Your Call we'll speak with Douglas Rushkoff, author of Life Inc: How The World Became A Corporation And How To Take It Back. Rushkoff, a novelist and professor of Media Studies at NYU, traces how the logic of markets came to dominate our sense of ourselves and lays out a plan to rehabilitate community power. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. How are you nurturing community? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Douglas Rushkoff in San Francisco
Best-selling author of Life Incorporated: How the World Became A Corporation and How To Take It Back and nine others about new media and popular culture including, Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, and Coercion, winner of the Marshall McLuhan Award for best media book. He is the host of The Media Squat, on WFMU in New York and a correspondent for Frontline's ongoing examination of the future of media, DigitalNation.

Rushkoff will be at:
Tuesday, June 9
7:30pm
BOOKSMITH
1644 Haight St. in San Francisco

Wednesday, June 10
6:30pm to 8:00pm
MECHANICS INSTITUTE LIBRARY
57 Post Street at Montgomery (right above the Montgomery BART station)

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Your Call 060809 Can market-based approaches effectively combat global warming?

Can market-based approaches effectively combat global warming? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about energy and climate bill moving through congress. It aims to control greenhouse gas emissions in a proposed cap-and-trade program. Is this a reason to be optimistic? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What circumstances make effective cap-and trade systems possible and are there better solutions? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Joseph Romm, a physicist and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he writes and maintains their climate blog.

John Reilly, an energy, environmental and agricultural economist at M.I.T.

Liz Perera, climate policy specialist with the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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Your Call 060509 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable -- the day we hold the media accountable for getting us the news we need. This week President Obama delivered his highly anticipated speech to the Muslim world, the Organization of American States reversed their 47-year-old decision to expel Cuba, and Dr. George Tiller was assassinated in his Wichita, Kansas church. We'll be joined by Egyptian journalist Hossam Hamalawy, New America Media's Marcelo Ballve, and Salon.com's Tracy Clark-Flory. 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 the media fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Tracy Clark-Flory in San Francisco
Staff writer at Salon where she writes Broadsheet, a column about women, culture and politics.

Hossam Hamalawy in Cairo
Journalist, blogger, commentator and contributor to the LA Times.

Marcelo Ballve in New York
Staff writer for New America Media.

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Your Call 060409 Has the Obama Administration learned the lessons of the Bush failures?

Has the Obama Administration learned the lessons of the Bush failures? On the next Your Call we speak with Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power. Bacevich rose to prominence as a fierce critic of the Bush administration's aspirations for and execution of military policy. Have we learned the lessons of imperial overreach? Are we shifting our military and diplomatic resources in a way that would protect the American people and improve the chances for reformers overseas? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Is Imperial America a thing of the past? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Andrew Bacevich in San Francisco
Professor of international relations and history at Boston University. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and retired with the rank of colonel. He is the author of several books, including American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy and The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War. His most recent book The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism is now out on paperback.

On May 13, 2007, Bacevich's son, also named Andrew J. Bacevich, was killed in action in Iraq. He was 27 and a first lieutenant assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 8th U.S. Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division.

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Your Call 060309 How do we support access to abortion services?

What can be done to support access to abortion services? On the next Your Call we'll talk about guaranteeing the legacy of Dr. George Tiller, assassinated in his church for providing abortions to women who wanted them. Eight abortion providers have been killed in the last thirty years and 87 percent of U.S. counties have no abortion provider. What is it like to provide women with constitutionally protected health care? What help do providers need? Join us live at 11 am or send us an email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can this tragedy be transformed into an opportunity to strengthen the pro-choice movement? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Gloria Feldt
Former national president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Michelle Goldberg in New York
Author of The Means Of Reproduction: Sex, Power, And The Future Of The World

Jennifer Baumgardner in New York
Author of Abortion And Life

Merle Hoffman in New York
Director of CHOICES Women's Medical Center on Long Island

Megan J. Peterson in Boston
Deputy director of the National Network of Abortion Funds

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Your Call 060209 Looking back, why did we enter Iraq?

What do we know now about why we went to war in Iraq? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Charles Duelfer, the principal author of the Iraq Survey Group's final report. He is out with the new book Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq. What is the truth? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. And what difference does the truth make to our current debate about the future of US policy in Iraq? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Charles Duelfer, the principal author of the Iraq Survey Group's final report and author of the new book Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq.

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Your Call 060109 Is it time to go beyond antitrust?

Is it time to go beyond antitrust? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the risks of power concentrated in corporations. American antitrust law is meant to fight monopolies. Are there other tools in American law that legislators could use to keep corporations from monopolizing the market? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What can we learn from the crisis in the financial market? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Gary Reback, one of the nation's most prominent antitrust attorneys, best known for spearheading the efforts that led to the federal lawsuit against Microsoft. He is currently of counsel with Carr & Ferrell LLP.

Jonathan Baker, professor of law at American University's Washington College of Law.

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Your Call 052909 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable. This week, President Obama announced his Supreme Court nominee, new Abu Ghraib photos "show rape" and GM is ready to file the largest industrial bankruptcy in U.S. history. We will be joined by independent journalist Anna Badken, Slate's Dahlia Lithwick and David Shepardson of Detroit News. Where did you see good reporting this week? 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:
David Shepardson, reporter in the Washington Bureau of the Detroit News.

Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor at Slate magazine.

Anna Badken, independent reporter

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Your Call 052809 Has Obama transformed our socio-political landscape?

How has Obama's presidency transformed the socio-political landscape of the United States? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with scholar and author Michael Eric Dyson. He is out with a new book entitled Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson. In his new book, Dr. Dyson argues that President Obama has struck a new chord in American politics. How is President Obama appealing to different constituencies? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Michael Eric Dyson, scholar and author of Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson

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Your Call 052709 Have we given up on peace?

Have we given up on peace? On the next Your Call we’ll speak with Professor Seble Dawit, Director of Goucher College’s Peace Studies Program, one of more than 200 across the country. Why has the public goal of security replaced peace so frequently in public discourse?  What transforms violent conflicts?  If a person living in conflict asks for security, is that the right goal to help them achieve? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am.  How do we transition from the absence of violence to true peace, personally and in communities who have suffered? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Seble Dawit in Baltimore
Director and assistant professor in the Peace Studies Program at Goucher College in Baltimore. Dawit co-founded the African Women's Leadership Institute, and directed Alliances, an African women's advocacy organization that supports policy-oriented gender programs throughout Africa.
 
Charles F. (Chic) Dambach in Washington
President and CEO of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a network of private and public organizations dedicated to building sustainable peace and security worldwide. He is the North American representative to the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict. Before joining Alliance for Peacebuilding, Dambach was CEO of the National Peace Corps Association, and in 1998 Chic helped form and lead a team of returned Peace Corps Volunteers to work informally with the leaders of Eritrea and Ethiopia to help end their border war.  The team also facilitated joint meetings among the leaders of the combatants in the Congo civil war and participated in the Inter-Congolese Dialogue leading to the formation of a coalition government and the election of the official government.

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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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