Your Call 071509 What have women contributed to American labor?

What have women contributed to the American labor movement? On the next Your Call, we'll look at the history of women in the labor movement. Women played an underappreciated role in many parts of this country's working history, including the building of the Bay Area's bridges. Where were women the pioneers in labor organizing? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. How significant is women's role in the labor movement today? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jo Kreiter, choreographer and artistic director of Flyaway Productions

Harvey Schwartz, a labor historian at San Francisco State University

Molly Martin, retired electrician, co-founder, Tradeswomen, Inc.

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Your Call 071409 Who is Sonia Sotomayor?

Who is Sonia Sotomayor? On the next Your Call we'll look at what her judicial record and her life experience tell us about what kind of Supreme Court justice she would be. We'll speak with Susan Liss from the Brennan Center and take your calls. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What should senators ask her that might actually tell us more? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest: Susan Liss in NYC
Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Liss is a former member of the Clinton Justice Department and was the first woman on the Judicial Selection Committee at the Alliance for Justice.

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Your Call 071309 Who are California's newly unemployed?

Who are the tens of thousands of people who have lost their jobs in California? On the next Your Call, we'll put a face on the unemployment numbers. California's unemployment rate in May hit 11.5%, its highest level since 1941. What resources are available to people who can't find jobs? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Unemployment is expected to get worse. So what are the solutions? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Adrienne Suffin, chair of the Employment Development Department (EDD) Task Force

Lauren Appelbaum, research director for UCLA's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

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Your Call 071009 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 the President was in Moscow, Italy and Ghana; hundreds of Uighurs in Western China were dead or in jail after protests and Al Franken was sworn in as senator. We'll be joined by James Fallows of The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal's Farnaz Fassihi in Beirut and McClatchy's Tom Lasseter in Moscow. 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:
Tom Lasseter in Moscow
The Moscow Bureau Chief for the McClatchy papers, and formerly the Baghdad Correspondent for Knight Ridder before they were absorbed by McClatchy. Tom was the lead reporter for McClatchy's five-part series detailing the U.S.'s treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan. Tom recently finished a series that exposed the causes behind the explosion in Afghan heroin production.

James Fallows in DC
National Correspondent for The Atlantic. Fallows has written nine books. National Defense won the National Book Award in 1981. His most recent book, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China has just been published and is a record of his time living in and reporting from China.

Farnaz Fassihi in Beirut
Deputy bureau chief of Middle East and Africa for The Wall Street Journal and the author of Waiting for An Ordinary Day, a memoir of her four years covering the Iraq war. Ms. Fassihi was born in the United States and grew up in Tehran, Iran and Portland, Oregon.

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Your Call 070909 Are bicyclists revolutionizing American cities?

Are bicyclists revolutionizing American cities? On the next Your Call we'll speak with political reporter Jeff Mapes about his new book Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities and SF Weekly political writer Matt Smith. San Francisco is about to implement their long delayed bicycle master plan building 34 miles of new bike lanes on city streets and removing hundreds of parking spaces. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What would it take to get you out of your car and onto a bike? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Matt Smith in San Francisco
Columnist and political reporter for the San Francisco Weekly, and an avid bicyclist.

Jeff Mapes in San Francisco
Senior political reporter for The Oregonian. He has covered Congress, state government, and numerous local, state, and national campaigns. He is also author of the blog, Mapes on Politics and the new book Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities.

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Your Call 070809 What happened in Honduras?

What happened in Honduras? On the next Your Call we try to get past the global political considerations and try to understand on its own terms the military takeover and expulsion of President Manuel Zelaya. Is American influence really as powerful and nefarious as it is sometimes is portrayed? Are there changes happening there that neither progressives nor the Obama Administration fully understand? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. When we view world events through the lens of the superpower, what do we miss?

Guests:
Jose Castro in Nashville, Tennessee
Honduran radio host in Nashville, Tennessee. He hosts Puntes de Interes on 810 AM La Sabrosita.

Grahame Russell in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Co-Director of Rights Action which funds community-controlled development, environmental, human rights and emergency-relief projects in Guatemala, Honduras, Chiapas and Oaxaca (Mexico) and El Salvador, and does education and activism work with North Americans to address global exploitation, repression, enviro-destruction and racism.

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Your Call 070709 Will non-profits survive state budget cuts?

How are the non-profits that hold together our social safety net surviving the economic downturn and government budget cuts? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the impact of the California budget crisis on non-profit organizations. One third of Bay Area non-profits struggle to survive. Who is being impacted the most? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What can we do to help? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Lorne Needle, vice president of Community Development with United Way of the Bay Area

Steven Toy, past president and chairman emeritus of the Board of Friends of Vision Literacy

Karen Delaney, executive director of the Santa Cruz County Volunteer Center

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Your Call 070609 How do we declare our independence from consumerism?

In a consumer culture, is making something or fixing it yourself a revolutionary act? For the July 4th weekend Your Call we'll declare our independence from the consumer culture and replay our interview with Dale Daugherty, editor and publisher of Make Magazine and Matthew Crawford, author of Shop Class as Soulcraft. Will making and fixing more of our own stuff, and honoring the people who do it, bring us a healthier economy and happier lives? 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
Is 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. He would like to thank Joe Davis and David Franz, both of the Institute, for their contributions to this article.

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Your Call 070309 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable where we look behind the headlines with a panel of journalists from across the media landscape. We'll discuss the Stonewall anniversary, the coup in Honduras and the American withdrawal from Iraq's cities. We'll be joined by Matthew Bajko of the Bay Area Reporter, David Barsamian of Alternative Radio and Alan Maas of the Socialist Worker. 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? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Alan Maas in San Francisco
Staff writer for the Socialist Worker, the weekly paper published by the International Socialist Organization. Alan is in town for this weekend's Socialism 2009 conference at The Women's Building on 18th St. in the mission.

Matthew Bajko in San Francisco
Staff writer for the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco's oldest and largest local newspaper of record serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.

David Barsamian in San Francisco
Host and Director of Alternative Radio, heard on KALW Mondays at 1 p.m.

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Your Call 070209 What changed in Iraq this week?

What has changed now that American troops have redeployed out of urban centers in Iraq? What still hangs in the balance? On the next Your Call we'll talk about who withdrew and where they went and what it all means. President Maliki declared it National Sovereignty Day, but how much will Iraqi police and military control? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. A majority of Americans and Iraqis want the troops out of Iraq. Is this a step in the right direction? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Vijay Prashad in Hartford, Connecticut
George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of eleven books, most recently The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World.

Nabil Al-Tikriti in Fredericksburg, Virginia
Assistant professor of History of the University of Mary Washington. From 1992-2003, Dr. Al-Tikriti was a context and liaison officer, administrator and logistician for Mdecins Sans Frontires. Al-Tikriti was a member of the team that operated the Catholic Relief Services humanitarian assistance project in Iraq in 1991-1992.

Basma AlKhateeb in Baghdad
Gender and Youth Project manager for the Iraqi AlAmal Association in Baghdad.

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Your Call 070109 What happens when rural and urban collide?

What happens when rural and urban collide? On the next Your Call we'll speak with Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. Carpenter bought a dilapidated house next to a vacant lot in West Oakland and converted the open space into an urban homestead with chickens, goats, rabbits, pigs, two turkeys named Harold and Maude and a vegetable garden, all in a neighborhood without a supermarket. We'll take your emails at feedback@yourcallradio.org and your questions live at 11 a.m. Could a city really feed itself? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Novella Carpenter in San Francisco
Author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and proprietor of Ghost Town Farm, an urban farm in West Oakland

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Your Call 063009 How has the LGBT movement changed America?

How has the movement for LGBT liberation and equality changed America? On the next Your Call, we'll have an intergenerational conversation with LGBT activists about the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and the future of the movement. How much progress has been made? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What challenges does the gay community face today? What's the best strategy to go about fighting for rights like gay marriage? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Kate Raphael, a member of LAGAI-Queer Insurrection, which is one of the oldest radical queer groups in the country. She is a former San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade grand marshal.

Boyce Hinman, California Communities United Institute

Danielle Askini, works with Gay Straight Alliance Network

Tommi Avicolli Mecca, a former member of GLF/Temple University, is editor of Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation.

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Your Call 062909 What is the best kind of tax?

What is the best kind of tax? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the convoluted U.S. tax system. It's also incredibly controversial with many Republicans signing the "no new taxes" pledge. We pay taxes on just about everything we buy. There's income tax. Property tax. Gasoline tax. Is there a tax you'd actually like to pay? Do you think certain taxes should be raised? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What should our tax system look like? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Robert S. McIntyre, director of Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ). CTJ is a nonpartisan research and advocacy group that fights for tax fairness at the federal, state and local levels.

Chuck Marr, director of Federal Tax Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

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Your Call 062609 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 the Iranian government violently quelled protests, President Obama held a news conference and the Washington Post fired columnist Dan Froomkin. We'll be joined by Glen Greenwald of Salon and Dave Roberts of Grist. 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:
Dave Roberts in Seattle
Staff writer for the environmental online magazine Grist

Glenn Greenwald in Brazil
Columnist for Salon

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Your Call 062509 What has changed in Iran?

What has changed in Iran? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the disputed presidential election in Iran and how protesters have used social media in their protests. What are the protesters' demands? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. How should organizers and citizens use social media? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Janet Afary, a professor of Religious Studies and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara.

Kaveh Ehsani, an assistant professor of International Studies at DePaul University and a member of the editorial boards of Middle East Report and the Tehran-based Goft-o-gu (Dialogue).

Shahram Aghamir, Bay Area based activist and producer of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on KPFA

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Your Call 062409 Can good principles create bad economic policies?

What are the most widespread misconceptions about how our economy works? On the next Your Call we speak with New York Times columnist Robert H. Frank about his new book The Economic Naturalist's Field Guide: Common Sense Principles for Troubled Times. We all know the tax cuts for the wealthiest were good for rich people and bad for everyone else, right? Frank says they were pretty bad for the rich too. Would allowing companies to pay to pollute simply push environmental problems into the future? Frank says otherwise. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Would economic policies based on empirical research work better than basing policy on ideology, left or right? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Robert H. Frank in San Francisco
Professor of economics at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He is the author of several books including Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class and most recently The Economic Naturalist's Field Guide: Common Sense Principles for Troubled Times.

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Your Call 062309 Who is Running the Health Care Reform Debate?

Who are the major players in the health care debate? On the next Your Call we start the first of a series of programs on health care reform. News coverage about the legislative process covers the ins and outs of the national debate with nearly microscopic detail, but often missing is a sense of how the process works, who the major players are and where the real work is getting done. We'll speak with Mary Agnes Carey, senior correspondent with Kaiser Health News, and take your questions. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Who has the biggest megaphone in the health care reform debate and whose voice needs to be heard? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Mary Agnes Carey in Washington DC
Senior correspondent with Kaiser Health News (no relation to Kaiser Permanente). Ms. Carey has covered health policy for more than decade. Before joining Kaiser Health News, she reported for Congressional Quarterly and Dow Jones Newswires.

Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access

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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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