What Do You Want to Know About the Swine Flu Vaccine?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the controversial vaccination. The United States has ordered 195 million doses, and public health officials have to make tough choices about who should be vaccinated. Some states are mandating the vaccine for health workers. Are you planning to take the vaccine?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How should we balance the risks of an epidemic versus individual choice? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Art Reingold, professor and head of the Division of Epidemiology at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Christian Sandrock, assistant professor of clinical medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC Davis School of Medicine

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Your Call 101209 Agenda for a New Economy--Income Gap Widens

How are you coping with the financial crisis? On the next Your Call, we continue our Monday series Agenda for a New Economy by focusing on the widening income gap. Last year, median income fell. How are people managing? Spending less? Moving to cheaper cities? Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. If you make less than the median income, what changes have you made to cope with the crisis? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Arloc Sherman, a senior researcher at Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He is a specialist in the impact of poverty and public policy on child development.

Alissa Anderson, the deputy director of the California Budget Project

Catherine Goerz, a filmmaker and director and producer of the documentary, RE:Invention.

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Your Call 100909 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it is our Friday Media Roundtable. This week marked the 8th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan. The Senate passed a $636 billion military spending bill, and as the debate on healthcare continues, more Americans are putting off doctors' visits, to save money. We will be joined from Kabul by freelance journalist Aunohita Mojumdar, McClatchy's David Lightman and freelance journalist Eric Stoner. Where did you see the best reporting this week?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feeback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
David Lightman, Washington Bureau correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers.

Aunohita Mojumdar, a freelance journalist based in Kabul. She has reported on the South Asian region for the past 18 years.

Eric Stoner is a freelance journalist based in New York, and an adjunct professor at St. Peter's College.

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Your Call 100809 What's a Blue-Dog Democrat anyway?

What's a Blue-Dog Democrat anyway? Democrats call them the biggest impediment to Obama's agenda, but many might support a public healthcare option. So who are the Blue Dogs? How much influence do they have? Are they responding to their constituents or is it about reelection alone? And why are they Democrats?

We'll be joined by Josh Israel and Aaron Metha, political reporters for the Center for Public Integrity, and U.C. Berkeley political science professor David Karol, author of the forthcoming book Party Position Change in American Politics: Coalition Management.

Guests:
Aaron Metha, Political Reporter, Center for Public Integrity.

Josh Israel, Political Reporter, Center for Public Integrity.

David Karol, Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley and author of the forthcoming book Party Position Change in American Politics: Coalition Management.

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Your Call 100709 The Commons: California's Water Crisis

California is running out of water. After three years of drought, is it the day of reckoning for California's water system? How do we get water to California's farms, businesses and houses, and still leave enough for the fish? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. How can we share California's limited water with everyone, and still save enough for the future? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dave Runston in Davis
Policy director with the Community Alliance with Family Farms and the California Agricultural Water Stewardship Initiative.

John Cain in the studio
Director of conservation for flood management at American Rivers. He previously served as the Director of Restoration Programs at the Natural Heritage Institute in San Francisco.

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Your Call 100609 What's on the docket for the Supreme Court?

What's on the docket for the Supreme Court? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the new Supreme Court session and its upcoming cases. The court is scheduled to hear 55 cases in the new term. What are the high-profile cases and which ones could change our lives while we're not paying attention? You can join us live at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feeback@yourcallradio.org. What are the early signs about the role Sonia Sotomayor will play on the Court? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Vikram Amar, associate dean for Academic Affairs and professor of law at the University of California, Davis School of Law

David Savage, Los Angeles Times Supreme Court reporter

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Your Call 100509 Is cheaper always better?

Is living more cheaply part of the solution to our economic crisis or part of the problem? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Laura Weber, author of In Cheap We Trust. During economic hard times, questions about consumption and frugality become more urgent. Does an emphasis on thrift lead us to a more simple way to live or to Sam's Club? Join us live at 11:00 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Was there ever a time when thrift was the norm in America? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Lauren Weber, journalist and author of the new book In Cheap We Trust.

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Your Call 100209 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week the Senate Finance Committee voted down plans for a public option in health care. The White House announced it might not be able to close Guantanamo prison by January, and there's a renewed focus on the Iranian nuclear program. We'll be joined by Andreas Zumach, who covers the UN for the German daily Die Tagezeitung, Huffington Post's Ryan Grim, and ProPublica's Dafna Linzer. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did journalists fall short? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Ryan Grim, senior congressional correspondent for the Huffington Post

Dafna Linzer, senior reporter with ProPublica

Andreas Zumach, a journalist reporting on the United Nations in Geneva, for the German newspaper "Die tageszeitung" (taz)

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Your Call 100109 What's ahead for the U.S. in the world?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Noam Chomsky, celebrated linguist and leading critic of American foreign policy. As the U.S. sits down for direct talks with Iran, does Chomsky see a less confrontational foreign policy under Obama? What does the coup in Honduras mean for Latin America?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does a self-avowed anarchist like Chomsky find common ground with one-time coup leader Hugo Chavez? It's Your Call, with Matt Martin and you.

Guest:
Noam Chomsky, noted linguist and a leading public intellectual.

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Your Call 093009 What are we going to do with Afghanistan?

On the next Your Call we will be looking at alternatives to the plan in General McChrystal's report to President Obama. McChrystal says that without a significant increase in U.S. troops, failure is likely for the international mission in Afghanistan. What is America's national interest in Afghanistan? What would success look like and are we willing to provide the resources we need to bring that success to fruition? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

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Your Call 092909 What comes next for California's state parks?

What comes next for California's state parks? On the next Your Call we'll talk about the deal that averted a state park closure in California. Locked gates at hundreds of parks across the state has been delayed for at least one more year, but what comes next? How will the parks cut an additional $22 million from their budget? In his new PBS series, Ken Burns calls the National Parks America's Best Idea, but across the country fees are rising and hours are shrinking. What are you willing to do to keep state parks public? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Dan Jacobson in Sacramento
Legislative Director for Environment California, a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization. Mr. Jacobson has been with Environment California for 22 years and played a leading role in the passage of the California Clean Energy Act - the strongest renewable energy law in the country, the 2003 ban on PBDE's and the phthalate ban in 2006.

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Your Call 092809 Can global regulation create a more sane financial system?

Can global regulation create a more sane financial system? On the next Your Call, we continue our Monday series Agenda for a New Economy with a pre-taped show about regulation around the globe. The G20 just finished its meeting in Pittsburgh, and financial regulation was high on the agenda, but most countries have been slow to act. Some have done nothing at all. How does the US regulatory response to the financial crisis compare to what's happening in other countries? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

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Your Call 092509 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 hold our media accountable for getting us the news we need. This week President Obama addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations and convened a meeting of the G20 in Pittsburgh and the FCC gave its strongest endorsement yet of an Open Internet, formerly called Net Neutrality. We'll be joined by Barbara Crosette, UN correspondent for The Nation Magazine. 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:
Barbara Crosette in Pennsylvania
UN correspondent for the Nation Magazine. Croseette is a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times and their bureau chief at the United Nations from 1994 to 2001. She is the author of several books on Asia, including The Great Hill Stations of Asia, a New York Times notable book of the year in 1998.

Marcelo Ballve in New York
Staff writer for New America Media

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Your Call 092409 Can the 30% tuition increases at UC be stopped?

Can the 30% tuition increases at UC be stopped? On the next Your Call we speak with the organizers of the faculty and staff walk-outs on the 10 University of California campuses. The legislature cut $813 million from UC budgets this year alone, and last Wednesday the regents approved layoffs, program cuts and tuition hikes. Is UC President Mark Yudof right that the highway to higher education is closed in California?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What is at stake with these cuts, and what can be done to stop them? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Shannon Steen in UC Berkeley
Associate Professor of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. Professor Steen is a specialist in critical race and performance theory, and writes on the intersection of Asian and African American racial determinations. She is also one of the organizers of today's walk out and a member of the coordinating committee of Save UC, 170 professors working to preserve access to education, excellence in teaching and transparency of administrative decisions.

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Your Call 092309 Is the best health care system in America the VA?

Is the best health care system in America the VA? On the next Your Call we speak with Phillip Longman, author of Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours, about the results produced by the most government controlled healthcare system maybe on the planet. Doctors for the VA are government employees, working in government owned hospitals, and proponents of a single payer say the VA is a shining example of what socialized medicine can do. Are they right?


Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What lessons can we learn from the successes and failures of the VA system? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Phillip Longman in DC
Author of Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours

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Your Call 092209 What's in store for the future of biofuels?

What's in store for the future of biofuels? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about biofuel technology. Most ethanol-based biofuels are produced in Brazil and the U.S. More than 30 million acres of agricultural land has already been turned over for biofuel production. What are the consequences of this technology on the environment and food production?

Drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Will biofuels help us become energy independent? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Erik Nelson, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior and the Department of Applied Economics at University of Minnesota.

Patricia Monahan, director of the California office and deputy director for Clean Vehicles at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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Your Call 092109 Is GDP a good method to measure economic progress?

Is GDP a good method to measure economic progress? On the next Your Call we'll have a conversation about gross national product or GDP, which a number of economists, psychologists and sociologists have argued to be an imprecise measurement of economic performance. Is it time to go beyond GPD? Join us live at 11:00 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What would the alternative to GDP look like? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Sarah Burd-Sharps, co-director of American Human Development Project.

Richard Wilkinson, an economic historian and social epidemiologist. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School and Honorary Professor at University College London.

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Your Call 091809 Why has the religious right remained so strong?

Why has the religious right remained so powerful despite a string of political losses and embarrassing scandals? On the next Your Call we speak with Max Blumenthal, author of the NY Times best seller, Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party. Blumenthal traces the roots of the American religious right, the people who laid the philosophical groundwork, and the obscure people at its helm today. How much power do they actually wield?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can the religious right really stop the progressive agenda a majority of American voters chose a year ago? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Max Blumenthal in New York
NY Times best selling author of Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party. Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast, writing fellow at The Nation Institute and won the USC Annenberg Online Journalism Award for his investigative print journalism.

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Your Call 091709 Two Hour Special: David Kessler, then Ralph Nader

First Hour: Can the obesity crisis be solved by changing individual behavior?
Can the obesity crisis be solved by changing individual behavior? On the next Your Call we speak with David Kessler, former FDA commissioner under Presidents Bush and Clinton, about his new book The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. Kessler brings together the disparate scientific studies that lay out a devastating case that the obesity epidemic in the United States is the result of food companies hooking us on food that makes us momentarily happy, very unhealthy and coming back for more. He has a plan to get us out of our addiction to hypereating.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can individual choices to resist compete against the food advertising juggernaut?

Guest:
David Kessler in San Francisco
Former FDA commissioner under Presidents Bush and Clinton. Author of The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite.

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Second Hour: Consumer advocate Ralph Nader
What if some of America's most powerful individuals decided it was time to fix our government and return the power to the people? On a special noon hour of Your Call, we'll have a conversation with consumer advocate Ralph Nader; he is out with a new book Only the Super-rich Can Save Us! In his new book of fiction, Ralph Nader explores the idea of what would happen if a cadre of "superrich" individuals focused on unionizing Wal-Mart, advancing clean elections, and improving the environment with alternative forms of energy. Join us live at 12 noon or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Ralph Nader, attorney, author, lecturer, political activist, and former candidate for President of the United States.

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Your Call 091609 Why do disasters bring out the best in us?

Why do disasters so often bring out the best in people? On the next Your Call we speak with writer, critic and activist Rebecca Solnit about her new book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster. She tells the story of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, Halifax Nova Scotia after a devastating munitions explosion that shattered windows 50 miles away, 9-11 and New Orleans after the levies failed among other disasters. In that time of shock and dislocation, when everything familiar has been leveled, Solnit found generosity, altruism, heroism and joy.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What is it about catastrophe that frees people to be good? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Rebecca Solnit in San Francisco
Writes about the environment, politics, place, and art from her home here in San Francisco. Solnit has received many awards for her writing: a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship for Literature and the 2004 Wired Rave Award for writing. Her latest book is called A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster.

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