What have IMF austerity policies wrought?

What have been the consequences of the IMF's structural adjustment policies on the world economy? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the International Monetary Fund. The IMF, with 184 member countries, was established in 1944. What was the IMF's original mandate? And what has it evolved into? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is the IMF governed? And how does it operate? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. Jo-Marie Griesgraber, the executive director of New Rules for Global Finance Coalition.

Bhumika Muchhala, finance and development programmer at Third World Network

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What can we learn from the California in the 1930s?

On the next Your Call, we're going to go back in time and revisit California in the 1930s. We'll talk about how citizens and political leaders responded to the Great Depression with efforts to promote not only jobs, but lasting infrastructure, art and literature. We are suffering with a dire economic situation today--so what can we learn from that historic period? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Are there programs we might consider using today from that era? It's Your Call with Holly Kernan and you.

Guests:
Gray Brechin, historical geographer and author; project scholar of California's Living New Deal Project with U.C. Berkeley Department of Geography

David Kipen, owner of Libros Schmibros and former National Endowment for the Arts' director of Literature

Lauren Coodley, author of The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California, and California: a Multicultural History in Documents

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the latest jobs numbers. Economists said the bad news caught them offguard. How did the media respond? We will also talk about widening investigations into Rupert Murdock's phone hacking scandal. We'll be joined by The Huffington Post's Arthur Delaney, New York Review of Books' Jeff Madrick and The Independent's Archie Bland. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Arthur Delaney, economic reporter with The Huffington Post

Jeff Madrick, a contributor to The New York Review of Books. His new book is Age of Greed, The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to Present.

Archie Bland is foreign editor at the Independent and also writes for Columbia Journalism Review.

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Should video games be treated as a form of expression?

Should video games be treated as a form of expression like books and music? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about video games and free speech. The Supreme Court recently struck down a California law that banned the sale of violent video games. Video game advocates celebrated the ruling saying there's more to games than violence. They say they're a form of expression and the law now says they are art. Do you agree? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do you play video games? What do you get out of them? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Evan Narcisse, freelance writer who covers comic books, pop culture, and video games

Alan Simpson, vice president of policy for Common Sense Media

Peter Brinson, videogame developer, filmmaker and instructor at the Interactive Media Division of USC School of Cinematic Arts

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What does it take to prove rape?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about what happens to women when they report rape. According to the Department of Justice, 300,000 women are raped every year in the US, but less than one percent of rapes result in incarceration. So what does justice mean for rape survivors? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does the criminal system treat the accusers and the accused? It's your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Julie Baltzley, a case manager for San Francisco Women Against Rape

Julie Posadas-Guzman, an advocate with Bay Area Women Against Rape and President of JPG Consultants

Wendi Deetz, a teacher at Alive & Kicking Self Defense, a non-profit women's self-defense teaching cooperative based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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What does it take to organize in the workplace?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about how workers try to form or join a union. Recently employees at a Target store in New York voted against joining the country's largest retail union. What does it take to win rights for workers? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How are corporations preventing workers from forming unions? Have you tried to organize in your workplace? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Debbie Fontaine, an employee at the Rite Aid Distribution Center in Lancaster

Lila Shairo, a labor reporter with Huffington Post. She has been writing extensively on the Target employees' efforts to form a union.

David Bacon is a writer and photojournalist based in the Bay Area.

Margaret Van Ness, an overnight stocker at a Wal-Mart store in Lancaster

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What are the realities of same-sex parenting today?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about LGBTQ families. At least 270,000 children under the age of 18 are being raised by gay and lesbian couples in the US. But gay parents still face legal, political and economic obstacles that can complicate their families and sometimes put them at serious risk. If you or someone you know is in a family with same-sex parents, what's your experience? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How are LGBTQ families re-shaping our notion of family? It's Your Call with Holly Kernan and you.

Guests:
Amie Miller, author of She Looks Just Like You
Judy Appel, executive director of OUR Families Coalition

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the government shutdown in Minnesota and massive budget cuts in forty-six states. How are journalists covering these cuts? We'll also speak about the phone-hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdock's News of the World in the UK. We'll be joined by Minnesota Independent's Sam Lane, Ventura County Star's Timm Herdt and Aljazeera's Richard Gizbert. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Sam Lane, a reporter with The Minnesota Independent

Richard Gizbert, host of Listening Post, the media watch broadcast on Al Jazeera English

Timm Herdt, The Ventura County Star's Sacramento Bureau Chief

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How is climate change contributing to global violence?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Christian Parenti, author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence. Parenti says if you "scratch the surface of many conflicts, you will find a clear climatological angle." How have extreme weather conditions and resource scarcity sparked social and political unrest? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can we avoid further climate catastrophes? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Richard Dolesh, Chief of Public Policy of National Recreation and Park Association

Bonny Hawley, executive director of Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks

Ruth Coleman, Director of California State Parks

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How are budget cuts affecting state parks?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about California parks. Redwood forests, beaches, and some of the state's most important cultural and historic sites are among 70 parks slated for closure. As many as 220 jobs will be eliminated. Will widespread park closures lead to privatization? Join us live or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What should be done to save our state parks and keep them in public hands? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Bonny Hawley, executive director of Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks

Ruth Coleman, Director of California State Parks

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What should we learn from the financial crisis in Greece?

On the next Your Call, we'll continue with our Agenda for a New Economy series and discuss the Greek economic crash and its causes. What does the crisis in Greece tell us about global finance, national sovereignty, and popular resistance? Join us live at 10 or send us and email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. And are there lessons for us here in the U.S. to learn from the Greek experience? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Max Fraad-Wolff, teaches economics in the New School University Graduate Program in International Affairs. His research interests include international financial risks and opportunities.

Costas Panayotakis, teaches Sociology at CUNY's New York City College of Technology and is the author of Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy, which will be published by Pluto Press in September 2011.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of California's $86 billion budget and the wave of anti immigrant laws across the country. We'll also talk about Christine Lagarde's appointment to head the IMF. We'll be joined by Calitics' Brian Leubitz, independent journalist Valeria Fernndez, and Globe and Mail's Doug Saunders. Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Matt Martin and you.

Guests:
Brian Leubitz, the Publisher & Editor Calitics.com, a progressive blog about California politics

Doug Saunders, the European Bureau Chief with The Globe and Mail

Valeria Fernandez, a phoenix-based journalist who writes about immigration

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What's the value of public libraries?

What's the value of public libraries and what can we do to save them? On the next Your Call, well rebroadcast a conversation we had about what public libraries mean to our communities. How are they being affected by budget cuts? A number of libraries are cutting their hours and services. Two-thirds of us carry library cards. How often do you visit your local library? What can we do to keep libraries open? Its Your Call, with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Carol da Silva, Division Manager at San Jose Public Library

Teresa Landers, head of Santa Cruz Public Libraries

Robert Dawson, San Francisco Photographer whose projects examine western American water, global water, American Public Libraries, the legacy of the New Deal

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What is the best way to integrate prisoners back into society?

On the next Your Call, we'll rebroadcast a conversation we had recently about re-entry after prison. A recent Supreme Court ruling ordered California to drastically reduce its prison population. It remains to be seen how this ruling will be implemented. Just last year California's recidivism rate was almost 70 percent. What explains that high number? And what does it take to reintegrate people behind bars back into the community in a healthy way? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Linda Evans, organizer with All of Us Or None coalition and Legal Services for Prisoners with Children

Susan Burton, founder and executive director of A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project

Ramiro Mejia, resident employee at San Francisco's Delancey Street Foundation

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What happens when sharing becomes big business?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about car-sharing, work-sharing, cloud computing and the creative commons -- all the ways sharing has emerged as a way to organize economic production. Are you part of the growing economy of sharing? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with me, Matt Martin and you.

Guests:
Neal Gorenflo, the co-founder and publisher of Shareable Magazine, a nonprofit online magazine about sharing.

Lisa Gansky, author of The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing and the founder of Mesh Studios.

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What's the role of political satire in tough times?

On the next Your Call, we'll rebroadcast our conversation with three political comedians about the power of humor in a time of crisis. We are faced today with an economic recession, revolutions around the globe, wars, earthquakes, floods and an increasingly divided political landscape. Can political satire help us process the madness? Are there some things we just can't laugh about? Or are we doomed if we can't laugh? Where do you go to get your comic relief? It's Your Call with Holly Kernan.

Guests:
Dean Obeidallah, a comedian, former attorney, and co-creator of the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival

Katie Halper, a comic, writer, blogger, satirist, filmmaker, and founder of Living Liberally

Seth Reiss, a senior writer/associate sports editor at The Onion and a performer with the sketch comedy group, Pangea 3000

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the US Supreme Court decision in Dukes v. Wal-Mart. We'll also talk about President Obama's speech on Afghanistan. How is the media covering US strategy in that country? We'll be joined by Slate senior editor Dahlia Lithwick, Huffington Post's Lila Shapiro and veteran journalist Elizabeth Gould. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Malihe Razazan and you.

Guests:
Lila Shapiro, a Business Writer at the Huffington Post

Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate. She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches."

Elizabeth Gould is a veteran journalist and author. She has spent the last thirty years covering Afghanistan.

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How should US law hold corporations accountable for worker rights?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the Supreme Court's recent decision to throw out the class action suit brought against Wal-Mart by several of its female employes. The plaintiffs jointly claimed widespread sex discrimination on the job, but the Court ruled they had insufficient commonalities to be considered a "class." So, where does that leave workers who want to file class actions? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How could the law change to better protect workers? It's Your Call with Hana Baba and you.

Guests:
Arcelia Hurtado, executive director of Equal Rights Advocates

Liza Featherstone, journalist and the author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker's Rights at Wal-Mart

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What are your summer reading picks?

On the next Your Call, we'll open the lines to get your summer reading recommendations. According to the National Endowment for the Arts, the average person between the ages of 15 and 24 spends two hours per day watching TV and just seven minutes reading. What can we do to encourage reading? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are you reading? Do you have an all time favorite? It's Your Call, with Holly Kernan and you.

Guests:
Kevin Hunsanger, owner of Green Apple Books in San Francisco

David Kipen is owner of Libros Schmibros, a used bookstore and free lending library in Boyle Heights in Southern California.

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How has greed contributed to economic ills over the last forty years?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Jeff Madrick, author of Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present. He argues greed undermines the way markets should work. So what could government have done to stop greed? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Is greed responsible for our economic outlook? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jeff Madrick, a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and director of policy research at Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School

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