Your Call 091409 How does the military invade our everyday life?

How does the military invade our everyday life? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with award-winning journalist and essayist Nick Turse. He is out with a new book entitled The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives. In 1961, in his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned us of "acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." Where are we now four and half decades after he made his historic speech?

Send us an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11:00. What role is the military playing in our lives? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Nick Turse, an award-winning journalist, historian, and essayist, and the associate editor of The Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com

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Second Hour: Novella Carpenter

Can a city feed itself? On a special 2nd airing of Your Call on Monday 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, 2 turkeys named Harold and Maude, and a vegetable garden all growing in a neighborhood without a supermarket.

We'll take your emails at feedback@yourcallradio.org and your questions live. Can urban food production feed more than fantasies of rural life? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar 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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