Your Call 091109 What can the world teach us about healthcare?

What can we learn from the rest of the world about how healthcare can work? On the next Your Call we'll speak with T.R. Reid, author of The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, about his round the world trip comparing health care systems. Why do Americans spend so much more on staying healthy, but get sicker, go bankrupt more often and regularly die from diseases the rest of the world handles easily?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can good health care be part of the American way? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
T.R. Reid in San Francisco
Veteran foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, a commentator for National Public Radio and the author of 10 books, including three in Japanese. His latest is called The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.

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Your Call 091009 Do you know where your money is?

A year after the collapse of Fannie Mae and Lehman Brothers, do you know where your money is? On the next Your Call we'll speak with Nomi Prins, author of It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street, about the death and rebirth of the financial industry on your dime. Why did the bankers get a bail-out and not foreclosed homeowners? Where did all that TARP money end up?

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Guest:
Nomi Prins in Los Angeles
Former managing director at Goldman Sachs, author of several books on corruption in Washington and on Wall Street, including her latest It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street. Prins writes for Mother Jones, Fortune, Alternet, the Nation, and is a senior fellow at Demos, the New York-based think tank.

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Your Call 090909 What's the way out of poverty?

With the economy getting worse, how do we build a pathway out of poverty? On the next Your Call we speak with Wade Rathke, founder of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) a nationwide activist network engaged in community organizing and author of the new book Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families.

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Guest:
Wade Rathke, in San Francisco
Founder of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), a nationwide activist network engaged in community organizing, and currently chief organizer of ACORN International. He is also a founding board member of the Tides Foundation, chief organizer of SEIU Local 100 in New Orleans, and chair of the Organizers' Forum. He authored the new book Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families.

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Your Call 090809 Does health care define the Democrats?

What does the healthcare debate tell us about the future of the Democratic and Republican parties? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew. He says what is at stake in the debate over healthcare is the identity of the Democratic Party. How do you rate the Democrats' performance in the healthcare debate as well as in other critical issues facing us today?

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Guest:
Thomas Frank is the author of What's the Matter with Kansas? and One Market Under God. The founding editor of The Baffler and a contributing editor at Harper's, he is also The Wall Street Journal's newest weekly columnist.

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Your Call 090409 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week in Japan, voters gave power to a new party for only the second time in a half-century. Meanwhile in Afghanistan, results from a presidential election are in limbo pending a fraud investigation. Here at home, two perennial California stories are dominating the headlines: Wildfires and child abductions. We'll be joined by James Korben of the San Bernardino Sun, independent journalist Reese Erlich, who's just back from Kabul, and Jerry Roberts of Calbuzz.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Where have you seen the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Ben Temchine and you.

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

James Rufus Koren, staff writer with San Bernardino County Sun

Reese Erlich, veteran independent journalist

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090309 Why do some schools thrive?

Why do some schools thrive when similar schools fail? On today’s Your Call, we rebroadcast our conversation 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? 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 090209 How does gay marriage change society?

How does gay marriage change society? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with professor Lee Bagdett, author of "When Gay People Get Married." She argues that marriage changes gay people more than gay people change marriage. How has concept of marriage changed over time? Send us an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m.

Are there ways you're hoping gay marriage will change our society? It's Your Call with Ben Temchine and you.

Guest:
M.V. Lee Badgett, an economist at the University of Massachusetts and the Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies

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Your Call 090109 What can we learn from the passage of Medicare?

What can we learn from the passage of Medicare? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about President Lyndon Johnson's successful push for Medicare in 1965. The political climate at the time was just as divisive and fierce as it is today. So how did it pass? We'll be joined by James Morone, co-author of The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office, and Bay Area Dr. Henry Abrons.

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Guests:
James A. Morone, Chair and Professor of Political Science, Brown University, co-author of The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office

Dr. Henry Abrons, Physicians for a National Health Program

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Your Call 083109 Hurricane Katrina Four Years Later--What's Changed?

What has changed since Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of Louisiana and Mississippi four years ago? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with two women whose lives have been forever altered by the tragedy. Katrina was the largest hurricane of its strength to reach the United States in recorded history. More than 1800 people were killed and 700,000 displaced. Who's returned since the hurricane? And how are people surviving both the aftermath of the storm and the economic crisis? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Colette Pichon Battle, president of the board of Moving Forward and program director of the Gulf Coast Fellowship for Community Transformation

Sharon Hanshaw, executive director of Coastal Women for Change

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Your Call 082809 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. We'll talk about the coverage of Teddy Kennedy's death, the release of a less redacted torture memo and Binyamin Netanyahu's visit trip to Europe. 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 Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Peter Waldman in San Francisco
Former editor at the Wall Street Journal and the Conde Nast Business magazine, Portfolio.

Danny Schechter in NY
Independent author, producer and media critic. He is executive editor of MediaChannel.org, and his writing is collected at the News Dissector blog. He is the producer and director of many films including In Debt We Trust and WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception.

Mort Rosenblum in Paris
Long time AP foreign correspondent, he reported from 200 countries in his career, several of which no longer exist. He is the author of Escaping Plato's Cave: How America's Blindness to the Rest of the World Threatens Our Survival. He is editor of the news, commentary and photography quarterly Dispatches.

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Your Call 082709 What is the right response to hate speech in the media?

On the next Your Call we'll try to define the line between appropriate and inappropriate statements on the airwaves. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has called on the FCC to investigate hate speech in the media. What effect will that have? Email us at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What exactly qualifies as hate speech? And when hateful words go viral online, do broadcast regulations still matter? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Rory O'Connor in New York
Journalist, blogger, filmmaker and media critic. He's the author of Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio and is a contributing columnist to Alternet and MediaChannel. Rory's also the president of the media firm Globalvision Inc. and the author of the blog Media is a Plural.

James Rucker in Berkeley
Co-founder and executive director of Color of Change, an online activist organization that strives to strengthen the voices of African Americans. James has also served as director of Grassroots Mobilization for MoveOn.org.

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Your Call 082609 Is there a new colonial rush on in Africa?

Is there a new colonial rush on in Africa? On the next Your Call we will speak with Serge Michel, author of China Safari and scholar Nii Akuettah about increasing Chinese efforts to exploit - and develop - Africa. How is the Chinese approach different from the way the American government has operated on the Continent? Is either a good deal? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can African nations make it without being a client of a major power? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Serge Michel in Geneva
Author of China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa. Michel was the West Africa Correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde after stints in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. He won the Albert Londres Prize, France's most prestigious journalistic award, for his work in Iran and is the founder of the Bondy Blog, a citizen journalism project in the suburbs of Paris.

Nii Akuetteh in Washington DC
Independent Africa policy analyst and researcher. He is the former executive director of the Washington, DC-based group Africa Action.

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Your Call 082509 How is the insurance industry spinning the health care debate?

How is the insurance industry spinning the health care debate? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with former health insurance insider Wendell Potter. For 20 years, he was the head of Public Relations for CIGNA. Today he's revealing what he calls the industry's obsession with profits and greed and he's speaking out for a public option. What advice does he have for healthcare reform proponents? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Does reform have a chance? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Wendell Potter, former health insurance industry executive

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Your Call 082409 When the recovery comes, where will the jobs be?

When the recovery comes, where will the jobs be? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the jobs of the future. 15 million people are without jobs right now, so which parts of the economy are creating new jobs? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What kind of investments and incentives can government make that would create long-term employment opportunities? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. Paul Fassinger, director of Economic and Demographic Research and economist with Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG)

Cathy Calfo, executive director of Apollo Alliance

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Your Call 082109 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable. This week Afghans went to the polls amidst heavy violence, California legislators started filling in details of the budget, and the media finally started reported the facts about health care, but has the damage already been done? We'll be joined by the Wall Street Journal's Anand Gopal in Kabul, the Center for Public Integrity's Bill Buzenberg, and NPR national correspondent Laura Sullivan. 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.

Guests:
Laura Sullivan, NPR crime and punishment correspondent
Anand Gopal, Wall Street Journal Afghanistan correspondent
Bill Buzenberg, Center for Public Integrity executive director

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Your Call 082009 What's the state of student loans?

Is the home mortgage crisis over? As everyone looks for signs of recovery from the economic collapse, what's the state of home mortgages? On the next Your Call, we'll talk to the creators of American Casino, a documentary that investigated the home mortgage crisis as it was happening. What risk is left in this issue? And has the government response dealt with the major, fundamental problems? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

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Guests:
Leslie Cockburn in San Francisco
Director of American Casino. Cockburn, a San Francisco native, has been producing television news for nearly thirty years, for 60 minutes, PBS Frontline and ABC. She's won Polk, Columbia Dupont, Overseas Press Club and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism awards. She is a Vanity Fair contributing editor.

Andrew Cockburn in San Francisco
Co-producer of American Casino. Cockburn is regular contributing author for National Geographic and CounterPunch, and has written several books, most recently Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy.

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Your Call 081909 What's the state of student loans?

What's the state of student loans? On the next Your Call we'll examine the politics behind the billions of dollars college students borrow every year. We'll be joined by Serge Bakalian, filmmaker of the forthcoming documentary Default, Tamara Draut of Demos, and Alan Collinge of Student Loan Justice. The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act would have students borrow directly from the federal government - is that a good thing?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What's wrong with the student loan industry? And how should we fix it? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Serge Bakalian, writer/producer Default: The Student Loan Documentary

Tamara Draut, Vice-President of Policy and Programs at Demos, author of Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead.

Alan Collinge, founder of Student Loan Justice, author of The Student Loan Scam.

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Your Call 081809 What is on your summer reading list?

What is on your summer reading list? On the next Your Call, we'll open the phone lines and share what we're reading. Investigative reporter John Pilger is out with his summer political reading list. And Bay Area activist Todd Chretien recently compiled a summer list for President Obama. What would you add to that list?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What are you reading? What non-fiction and fiction books do you suggest? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Pete Mulvihill, co-owner of Green Apple Books

Neal Sofman, founder and owner Bookshop West Portal

Casey Coonerty Protti, owner of Bookshop Santa Cruz

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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?

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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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