Your Call 081709 What fills the hole where the abandoned Wal-Mart was?

What fills the hole where the abandoned Wal-Mart was? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Julia Christensen, author of Big Box Reuse. Communities across the country are transforming their vacant big box stores into libraries, indoor racetracks, museums, and more. Could the collapse of big box retail in your town have a silver lining?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What would you transform your city's Big Box store into? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Julia Christensen, author of Big Box Reuse

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Your Call 081409 Friday Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable where we hold American media accountable for getting us the news we need. This week the Secretary of State traveled to seven African countries, the Congressional Budget Office said the deficit would be four times higher than it had ever been before and Sarah Palin said if health reform passed, the government could decide to kill the old and disabled. We'll be joined by John Wasik from Bloomberg and Franc Contreras, freelance reporter in Mexico City.

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:
John Wasik
Personal finance columnist for Bloomberg News, the world's third-largest news service. He is the author of 13 books, most recently The Audacity of Help: Obama's Economic Plan and the Remaking of America and Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream.

Franc Contreras in Mexico City
Independent reporter and producer from Mexico City. His reports are regularly heard on BBC, NPR and he is the former Mexico Bureau chief for Al Jazeera English.

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Your Call 081309 How are we going to educate our kids?

How are we going to educate our kids? On the next Your Call we will be talking with teachers from around the Bay Area. With the latest budget cuts, California now ranks last in per-student school funding in the country. So who will be standing in front of the six and a quarter million students trying to do more with not very much? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can teachers still thrive when budgets are tight? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jeremiah Jeffries in San Francisco
Teacher for the last 2 years in pre-, middle-, and summer school. He is beginning his second year teaching 1st grade at Redding Elementary in the Tenderloin, with a mostly low-income student population. Jeffries is a Coordinator for Teachers for Social Justice in San Francisco.

Dahlia Blair in San Francisco
San Francisco substitute teacher since 2005

Andy Lisbon in San Francisco
Teaches 9th grade integrated science at Mission High

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Your Call 081209 Would you vote for the Health Care Reform Bill?

Would you vote for the House's Health Care Reform Bill? On the next Your Call we'll discuss the plan that the House will vote on when they get back from the August recess. What's in it? What's left out? Do you think it goes far enough? If not, could you support it as a step in the right direction? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. How are you willing to compromise on health care reform? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Stan Brock in Los Angeles
Founder of Remote Access Medical, a traveling medical camp that offers healthcare to anyone who can't afford it. RAM is offering services in Los Angeles starting today through next Tuesday.

Manoj Jain in Memphis
An infectious disease physician, writer, and national leader in healthcare quality improvement.

Ken Jacobs in Berkeley
Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center. He provided consultation to the City and County of San Francisco on the development of the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance and was a member of the Mayor's Universal Health Care Council.

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Your Call 081109 Can personal change save the planet?

Can personal change save the planet? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with environmental activist Derrick Jensen. Many of us choose the alternative option of living more consciously to cause less harm to our planet and to challenge the existing corporate culture. But Jensen argues that personal change does not equal social change. What do you think? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What are you doing for the environment? And what difference is it really making? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Derrick Jensen, author and environmental activist

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Your Call 081009 Agenda for a New Economy: Depression & the Depression

On the next Your Call we continue to discuss an Agenda for a New Economy: Depression & the Depression. What's the psychological impact of the economic collapse? How do we weather a national storm of anxiety and depression? What's the effect on families and kids? And what resources are available for people whose change in economic circumstances has led to depression or worse?

We'll be joined by Dr. Harvey Brenner, professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Dr. David Spiegel, director of the Center on Stress and Health at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. How is the recession affecting us emotionally and what can we do about it? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you. Join the conversation at 866-798-TALK, that's 866-798-8255.

Guests:
Dr. Harvey Brenner, professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and at the School of Public Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of North Texas. Dr. Brenner has written extensively on the relationship between the economy and our emotional well being.

Dr. David Spiegel is the director of the Center on Stress and Health at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Your Call 080709 Friday 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 we'll be joined by Sarah Varney from KQED's Health Dialogues, Michael Massing from the New York Review of Books, and Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig, news editor for the Public Press. 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:
Sarah Varney in San Francisco
Health reporter for KQED Radio News and Health Dialogues, a monthly radio program produced by KQED and aired across California. Health Dialogues and Sarah's reporting about the Canadian health care system were recently given high marks by the Columbia Journalism Review.

Michael Massing in NYC
Contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is author of several books, most recently Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq which he co-authored with Orville Schell.

Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig in Tampa
News editor for the Public Press, non-commercial collaborative news service in San Francisco. Fitzhugh-Craig is the former city editor for the Oakland Tribune and won accolades for her investigative reporting for the Chauncey Bailey Project; she also won an Associated Press Managing Editors Award for column writing.

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Your Call 080609 What does "cooperating" with the Police actually look like?

What should you do when the cops come knocking on your door, pull you over or arrest you? On the next Your Call we talk about what it means to cooperate with the police. The attention paid to Henry Louis Gates' arrest in Cambridge has focused on racial profiling, but it also tells us a lot about how police operate and how private citizens are expected to respond. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What respect is due to the police and the civilian when an arrest hangs in the balance? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Jakada Imani in Oakland
Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, an Oakland based organization working for racial and environmental justice with a particular focus on the criminal justice system. The Ella Baker Center was founded 13 years ago by Van Jones as an expansion of Bay Area PoliceWatch. Imani took over at Ella Baker in 2007 after leading their Books not Bars program.

Gary P. Delagnes in San Francisco
President of the San Francisco Police Officers Association

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Your Call 080509 Can a documentary save thousands of dolphins from slaughter?

Can a documentary save thousands of dolphins from slaughter? On the next Your Call we will speak with Louie Psihoyos, director of the new documentary The Cove. The Cove reveals an annual slaughter of tens of thousands of dolphins in a small town in Japan. It won the audience award at Sundance in 2009 and followed Psihoyos' extreme efforts to film a slaughter the Japanese government wanted to keep hidden. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What are you doing to save dolphins? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Louie Psihoyos

Director of the Cove, winner of the audience award at Sundance in 2009. Psihoyos was a photographer for National Geographic for 18 years and his photography has appeared in Fortune, Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine and Rock and Ice.

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Your Call 080409 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 looking at Commons, those things and places we all benefit from and have to nurture together. We'll be replaying Rose Aguilar's interview with Gene Rosow, producer & director of Dirt! The Movie, inspired by the book Ecstatic Skin of the Earth about the challenges and opportunities to save our soil. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What are you doing to enrich the earth? 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 080309 What role has the Federal Reserve Bank played in the financial crisis?

What role has the Federal Reserve Bank played in the financial crisis? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about the Federal Reserve Bank. Its power to raise and lower interest rates has made it more influential over economic growth than any other government entity. So why does President Obama want to give it even more power? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. How has its role in our economy changed since its establishment in 1913? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Nomi Prins, a senior fellow at Demos, a nonpartisan public policy think-tank and author of the forthcoming book It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street

Ellen Brown, an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles and author of "Web of Debt"

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Your Call 073109 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, President Obama had a beer with Professor Gates and Officer Crowley, Blue Dog Democrats agreed to sign on to a watered down healthcare bill in the House, progressive Democrats rejected that compromise, and American diplomats bounced between Jerusalem, Damascus, Baghdad, and Cairo. We'll be joined by Ourfuture.org's Bill Scher, the Nation's Barbara Corssette, and the San Francisco Chronicle's Andrew Ross. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did the media fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Bill Scher, Online editor for Campaign for America's Future, executive editor of LiberalOasis.com, and author of "Wait! Don't Move To Canada!: A Stay-and-Fight Strategy to Win Back America"

Barbara Crossette, UN correspondent for the Nation Magazine, former foreign correspondent for The New York Times and their bureau chief at the United Nations from 1994 to 2001

Andrew Ross, Bottom Line columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle

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Your Call 073009 Why do some schools thrive?

Why do some schools thrive when similar schools fail? On the next Your Call we talk with a range of educators and policy makers about what we're learning about how to teach. How do successful principals and school systems shift resources, motivate teachers and students and increase parent involvement? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can passion and best practices make up for low education funding? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Kimi Kean in Oakland
Principal of ACORN Woodland Elementary in Oakland, one of the state's five highest-improving schools. They raised their API, or Academic Performance Index, 120 points in one year and nearly 300 in five. Kean, a former Skyline High School dropout, taught at Acorn Woodland before talking over as principal in 2006.

Robert Manwaring in Washington, DC
Senior policy analyst for Education Sector, a left-leaning but independent national education policy think tank. Before joining EdSector, Mr. Manwaring was the director of policy for the Governor's Committee on Education Excellence, a committee California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed to develop a comprehensive long-term reform strategy for improving K-12 education in the state. Manwaring served as the K-12 education director of the California Legislative Analyst's Office.

Merril Vargo in Santa Rosa
Executive Director of Pivot Learning Partners, a nonprofit organization that works in nearly 50 school districts statewide, nearly all low income or low performing. Pivot trains and coaches teachers and administrators to transform broken school systems.

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Your Call 072909 What's the real impact of illegal immigration?

What's the real impact of illegal immigration? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the net economic and cultural effect of the 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Does the cost of health care, prisons and remittances outweigh the money they make and spend? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. As the slowing economy means fewer immigrants coming to the U.S., will that only make the downturn worse? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Randy Capps in New York
Demographer and senior policy analyst with Migration Policy Institute's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy.

Dan Kowalski in Austin, Texas
Immigration attorney and editor of Bender's Immigration Bulletin, a collection of legal and mainstream news for the immigration professional.

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Your Call 072809 Can satire put the powerful on the spot?

Can satire put the powerful on the spot? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Andy Bichlbaum, member of the Yes Men and the co-director of the documentary, The Yes Men Fix the World. Disguised as captains of industry, The Yes Men use their authority to humiliate corporate and government leaders. What has their experience of going undercover in the halls of power taught them about the way authority works? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can 21st century corporations be shamed into change? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Andy Bichlbaum, member of the Yes Men and the co-director of the documentary, The Yes Men Fix the World

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Your Call 072709 What's the state of the Stimulus in California?

What's the state of the economic stimulus in California? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about California's share of the 787 billion dollar fiscal stimulus package that Congress passed in February. Where's the federal money headed? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Is it likely to provide a basis for long-term growth? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Michael Grabell covers transportation and stimulus spending for ProPublica

Aaron Glantz, journalist, author and New America Media stimulus editor

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Your Call 072409 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 a budget deal was struck in Sacramento, the F-22 was killed and health care reform teetered in DC. We'll be joined by the LA Times' Tracy Wilkinson in Mexico City, Tim Redmond of the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Ricardo Sandoval from the Sacramento Bee. 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:
Tracy Wilkinson in Mexico City
Mexico Bureau chief for the LA Times, the only English language California newspaper with a Mexico bureau. Since June of last year, Wilkinson has overseen a team of reporters covering the drug war in Mexico from both sides of the border. Their reporting is collected in their series Mexico Under Siege: The drug war at our doorstep.

Ricardo Sandoval in Sacramento
Assistant City Editor for the Sacramento Bee. Ricardo is the former Mexico Bureau Chief for the Bee Papers and the current president of the Northern California branch of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Tim Redmond in San Francisco
Managing editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

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Your Call 072309 Are we ready for universal health coverage?

Are we ready for universal health coverage? On the next Your Call we discuss the status of the health care reform effort. President Obama's Wednesday evening press conference is his attempt to reinvigorate a wavering Congress. But what happens if everyone gets a health insurance card? Are there enough primary care doctors? Would more healthcare mean better outcomes for patients? We'll speak with Anthony Iton, director of the Alameda County Public Health Department, and take your calls. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. How do we get from better healthcare to better health? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Anthony Iton in San Francisco
Director and health officer of the Alameda County Public Health Department. Iton appeared in "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?," a four-part PBS series about how social factors - economic status, race, neighborhood conditions - can be more powerful predictors of health and life expectancy than biology or even smoking.

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Your Call 072209 What is the state of the protest in Iran?

What is the state of the protest in Iran? On the next Your Call we will discuss this Saturday's demonstration in support of the Iranian opposition at San Francisco City Hall - a demonstration that some groups on the left have decided to boycott. Is the battle in Iran now just a fight amongst the elite for power and money, or is there a grassroots demand for justice driving change? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can the American people play a positive role in Iran despite our government's long history of meddling? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Shahram Aghamir in San Francisco
Bay Area based activist and producer of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on KPFA

Kaveh Ehsani in Chicago
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).

Reese Erlich in Oakland
Reese Erlich is a best-selling book author and Peabody-award winning journalist who writes regularly for the Dallas Morning News, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Radio and National Public Radio. Erlich is co-author of Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You and his latest book Dateline Havana: The Real Story of US Policy and the Future of Cuba was published this year. Reese is just back from a trip to Iran.

Hadi Ghaemi in New York
Spokesperson for United 4 Iran, the organizers of Saturday's rallies. The rally in San Francisco will be from noon to 4 p.m this weekend.

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Your Call 072109 How transparent is the Obama administration?

How transparent is the Obama administration? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about President Obama's campaign promise to create the most transparent and accountable government in American history. How's he doing? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What information do you want from the government? And how has the administration responded to controversies over classified documents and secrecy in the name of national security? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. Craig Holman, legislative representative for Public Citizen

Ben Wizner, staff attorney in the ACLU National Security Project

Jennifer Lafleur, director of Computer Assisted Reporting at Propublica

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