Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Why is population control so controversial?

On the next Your Call, we'll rebroadcast our show about what it will take to have a substantive conversation about the growing population. There are almost 7 billion people on the planet; there could be 9 billion by 2050. What are the primary concerns with population growth? How have perceptions of population control changed? How do racism, classism, and resource inequalities factor into the controversies over population control? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb

William Ryerson, president of the Population Media Center

Martha Campbell, president of Venture Strategies for Health and Development and global health lecturer in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley

lick to Listen: Why is population control so controversial?

Monday, December 27, 2010

What lessons do the protests in Europe have for the U.S.?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about the civil unrest across western Europe in response to austerity measures. Fees for public education in the U.K. are going up, retirement pensions in France are being cut, unemployment for Italy's young population is at a record high. So how will these demonstrations, whether violent or peaceful, affect economic policies in Europe? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does this approach compare with response to the debt crisis in the U.S.? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Laurie Penny, reporter for New Statesmen

Costas Panayotakis, assistant professor of social science at New York City College of Technology

Eric Reguly, European business correspondent for The Globe and Mail

Click to Listen: What lessons do the protests in Europe have for the U.S.?

Thursday, December 23, 2010

How do roads and buildings reflect our values?

How do the physical places and structures around us reflect our society's values? On the next Your Call we'll have a conversation with historian Gray Brechin about the past, present, and future of common goods and services in California and nationwide. What does the health of our physical infrastructures like water systems, highways, and bridges say about our society and its values? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. And what will it take to improve our parks, libraries, and schools? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

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

Click to Listen: How do roads and buildings reflect our values?

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

How does the Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal achieve LGBT equality?

How does the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell relate to a broader movement for LGBT equality? On the next Your Call we'll talk about Congress' decision to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, the law that for 17 years meant gays and lesbians could serve in the U.S. military provided they didn't reveal their sexual orientation. The policy led to the discharge of 14,000 soldiers from the military and the harassment of countless others. How will this repeal change the future for gay rights? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Tommi Avicolli Mecca -- writer, performer and activist, editor of Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation

Laura Slattery, member of Knights Out

Kevin Naff, editor of the Washington Blade

Click to Listen: How does the Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal achieve LGBT equality?

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

What was your favorite book of the year... or the decade?

On the next Your Call, we'll be joined by two local independent bookstore owners for our end-of-the-year book show. 2010 is coming to a close and we want to know what you've been reading this year. Which books have you enjoyed most? Which have been the most telling of our time? Have any classics resurfaced for you? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Considering books as holiday gifts? Which ones? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Kevin Hunsanger, an owner of Green Apple Books

Rachel Meier, general manager and buyer at Booksmith

Lee Azus, owner of Get Lost bookstore

Click to Listen: What was your favorite book of the year... or the decade?

Monday, December 20, 2010

How are non-profits faring in the current economy?

On the next Your Call, we will have a conversation about the effects of the economic crisis and budget cuts on non-profits in the Bay Area. According to United Way annual survey, last year 62% of non-profits continued to struggle with declining revenue and increased demand, so how are they coping? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do you have a favorite non-profit you support or do you depend on their services? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Brian Higgins, spokesperson for Alameda County Community Food Bank

Aimee Durfee, VP of Community Investments at United Way

Michael Braude, director of finance and administration with the San Francisco Food Bank

Susan Olson, executive director of Pajaro Valley Shelter Services

Click to Listen: How are non-profits faring in the current economy?

Friday, December 17, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media eulogies of Richard Holbrooke, the top U.S. Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan who passed away earlier this week. We will also talk about the major inmate Protests at Six Georgia Prisons. What explains the lack of coverage? We'll be joined by Guardian's Jonathan Steele, Sacramento Bee's Charles Piller, and Black Agenda's Bruce Dixon. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Charles Piller, an investigative reporter with Sacramento Bee

Bruce A. Dixon, the managing editor of Black Agenda Report

Jonathan Steele, a columnist and roving foreign correspondent with Guardian of London

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Thursday, December 16, 2010

What do you think of President Obama's performance so far?

On the next Your Call we'll get your reaction to the Obama administration's record. A number of high-profile progressives sent a public letter to members of the "Establishment Left," referring to the Obama administration as "an implacable enemy of reform" and calling for the re-ignition of a true progressive movement. How do you explain Obama's moves on tax cuts, healthcare, and the environment? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do you still have hopes for Obama in office? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dahr Jamail, independent journalist and author
Bill Fletcher, Jr., senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author, political analyst, and radio host

Click to Listen: What do you think of President Obama's performance so far?

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

When is seeing spying?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about the role of surveillance in society today. More than ever, in this age of digital technology, our actions are being viewed, tracked, and recorded -- usually without us even knowing it. A current exhibit at the SFMOMA, called Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870 poses questions about the history of seeing and spying. Where are the limits of our civil liberties when it comes to privacy and surveillance? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator of photography at the SFMOMA

Trevor Paglen, artist, writer, and experimental geographer

Linda Lye, staff attorney with the Northern California ACLU

Click to Listen: When is seeing spying?

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

What does food 'safety' mean to you?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about the Food Safety Modernization Act that would give the FDA broader scope of regulation over the nation's food growers. Consumer advocates are celebrating the bill as a way to prevent food-borne illness. But some small scale farmers say it will drown them in paperwork and fees and will lead to more sterilized--but not necessarily safer--food and soil. What is the best way to keep our food supply safe? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dave Runsten, policy director with Community Alliance for Family Farms

Ken Kimes, owner of New Natives farm in Aptos, California

Patty Lovera, assistant director of Food and Water Watch

Click to Listen: What does food 'safety' mean to you?

Monday, December 13, 2010

Should public water be privatized?

What does the privatization of public water systems mean for citizens and who is fighting back? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the growing trend to privatize the country's water. Private companies are increasingly moving in to take over the operation of municipal waters systems by operating and profiting from reservoirs and other water-storage projects. Who is pushing for privatization? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How are communities fighting back? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Emily Wurth, Program Director at Food & Water Watch's "Water: Private Vs. Public"

Jim Graham, one of the founders of the Felton Friends of Locally Owned Water (FLOW)

Click to Listen: Should public water be privatized?

Friday, December 10, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the climate change conference in Cancun and how WikiLeaks cables revealed the U.S. manipulated previous climate talks. We'll also focus on the media narratives around the extension of the Bush tax cuts. We'll be joined by Tax Note's David Cay Johnston, columnist David Sirota and independent journalist Mark Hertsgaard. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
David Cay Johnston, a Tax Analysts' columnist

David Sirota, a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, and radio co-host

Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation's environment correspondent

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Is corporate PR killing true health care?

On the next Your Call we'll talk with Wendell Potter, author of Deadly Spin. A former executive of CIGNA, Potter is now an outspoken critic of the health insurance industry and its massive PR machine, which he says uses tactics from euphemisms to third party front groups to protect profits over patients. Has corporate media spun you around on the health care debate? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can we see through the spin and fight for real reform? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Wendell Potter, senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy and author of Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out On How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans.

Click to Listen: Is corporate PR killing true health care?

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

What will it take to pass the Dream Act?

What will it take to pass the Dream Act? And what's in it? On the next Your Call we'll talk about the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act which goes before the Senate on Wednesday. If passed, it would provide a path to normalization for young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. But how effective will the Dream Act be without comprehensive immigration reform? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Would the Dream Act affect you or someone you know? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Julianne Hing, reporter and blogger for ColorLines

Jose Arreola, student outreach coordinator with Educators for Fair Consideration

Lisa Chen, community advocate with Asian Law Caucus

Click to Listen: What will it take to pass the Dream Act?

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

How has WikiLeaks changed your view of the world?

How has the latest round of revelations from WikiLeaks changed your view of the world? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about WikiLeaks. Do you think the release of state secrets is important for your understanding of U.S. foreign relations? WikiLeaks has published nearly 250,000 diplomatic cables from the State Department in Washington and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is under attack. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What compels you most about what WikiLeaks has exposed? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Sanjoy Banerjee, professor of International Relations at SFSU

Melvin A. Goodman, former CIA analyst and senior fellow at the Center for International Policy

Adrienne Pine, assistant professor of Anthropology at American University specializing in Latin America.

Click to Listen: How has WikiLeaks changed your view of the world?

Monday, December 6, 2010

Why aren't banks lending?

On the next Your Call, we continue with our Agenda for a New Economy series by looking at why financial institutions are clamping down on lending. In 2009 lending contracted 7.4%. Why are individuals and businesses still having a hard time borrowing? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is the continuing home foreclosure crisis affecting people who'd like to get loans now? And who has the power to make the banks loosen their purse strings? That's on Monday's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Liz Ryan Murray, senior policy analyst at National People's Action and co-author of the report "Gaming the System."

Rob Larson, Assistant Prof. of Economics at Ivy Tech Community College in Bloomington, Indiana

Click to Listen: Why aren't banks lending?

Friday, December 3, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of nearly 250,000 state department cables released by Wikileaks. We'll also talk about the economy as 800,000 people are set to loose their unemployment benefit next week, as well as escalation in tensions on the Korean Peninsula. We'll be joined by Huffington Post's Arthur Delaney, Aljazeera's Richard Gizbert, and veteran Donald Kirk joins us from Seoul. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you

Guests:
Arthur Delaney, economic reporter with Huffington Post

Richard Gizbert, host of Al Jazeera English's weekly media watch program, The Listening Post

Donald Kirk, a veteran newspaper correspondent based in South Korea

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Thursday, December 2, 2010

How can we protect kids from marketers?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the industry of advertising to children. San Francisco supervisors voted to regulate Happy Meals in the city, but it's the slightest dent in the onslaught of clever marketing directed at kids--on TV, online, and in public. How has marketing directed at kids grown? How has it changed with the internet? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are the tools available for parents and communities to fight back? It's Your Call with Hana Baba and you.

Guests:
Susan Linn, director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

Dan Coates, president of Youth Pulse, Inc.

Marisa Connolly, senior communications manager for Common Sense Media

Click to Listen: How can we protect kids from marketers?

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Is Antarctica the canary in the coal mine?

On the next Your Call, we'll speak with Fen Montaigne, author of Fraser's Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica. Montaigne spent 5 months with penguin researcher Bill Fraser, documenting the effects of climate change on Antarctica and its inhabitants, including the rapidly diminishing colonies of Adelie penguins. What do the changing landscape and ecosystems of Antarctica bode for the rest of us as the planet heats up? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Fen Montaigne, journalist and author of Fraser's Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica

Click to Listen: Is Antarctica the canary in the coal mine?

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Is liberalism dead?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Chris Hedges, author of Death of the Liberal Class. Hedges says, "The tragedy of the liberal class and the institutions it controls is that it succumbed to opportunism and finally to fear. It abrogated its moral role. It did not defy corporate abuse when it had the chance." Is the chance now expired? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What is needed to revive progressive politics in the U.S.? It's Your Call with Matt Martin and you.

Guest:
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Death of the Liberal Class

Click to Listen: Is liberalism dead?

Monday, November 29, 2010

What's the next step to slow global warming?

As the conference on climate change kicks off in Cancun, what's the next step to slow global warming? On the next Your Call, we'll hear a pre-taped conversation Rose Aguilar had with the Center for Investigative Reporting's Mark Schapiro. After the defeat of efforts to pass a cap-and-trade bill, what's the Obama Administration's next move? Is a global approach the way to go, or will real progress be made at the state level? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest:
Mark Schapiro, a senior correspondent, Center for Investigative Reporting

Click to Listen: What's the next step to slow global warming?

Friday, November 26, 2010

What can we learn from Native American environmentalism?

What can we learn from Native Americans' relationship with the land and environment? On the next Your Call, we'll rebroadcast our program from Indigenous People's Day. Native American reservations have been targeted for fossil fuel development, leading to the contamination and depletion of water, land and community health. How are indigenous communities responding? How are indigenous communities creatively tackling the many environmental problems we face?

Guests:
Nikke Alex, director of Black Mesa Water Coalition

Kandi Mossett, Tribal Campus Climate Challenge Organizer of the Indigenous Environmental Network

Charon Asetoyer, Comanche, founder and executive director of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

How important is "snail mail" to you?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the health of the country's mail carrier system. The U.S. Postal Service is facing a fiscal crisis that's threatening to close post offices, raise rates, and reduce services. Can digital communication take the place of postal correspondence? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do post offices help create community? And what's at stake when the Postal Service loses ground? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
John Beaumont, California state president of the National Association of Letter Carriers

Mandalit Del Barco, NPR reporter covering USPS proposal to eliminate Saturday mail delivery

Noah Adams, NPR reporter covering USPS rural deliveries

Philip Rubio, Assistant Professor of History at North Carolina A&T State University and author of There's Always Work at the Post Office

Click to Listen: How important is "snail mail" to you?

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

How are Obama's counterterrorism policies different from Bush's?

How are the Obama administration's counterterrorism policies different from the Bush administration's? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about Homeland Security under Obama and whether policies have changed at all since Bush. Public outrage is growing over the new use of body-scanners and intrusive pat-downs at airports. How do they fit into the larger picture? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. President Obama doesn't use the term "war on terror," but is his approach different? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Nico Melendez is Public Affairs Manager for the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) for California, Arizona, and Hawaii

Linda Lye, an attorney with the Northern California ACLU

Karen Greenberg, executive director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law and co-editor of The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice, the Courts, and the War on Terror

Zahra Billoo, executive director for the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)

Click to Listen: How are Obama's counterterrorism policies different from Bush's?

Monday, November 22, 2010

How is growing economic inequality transforming American politics?

Why is income inequality on the rise in the U.S.? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with UC Berkeley political scientist Professor Paul Pierson. He is co-author of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class. The income gap in the U.S. has widened over the past 30 years, more than most other developed countries. What's behind the widening income gap? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar.

Guest:
Paul Pierson, Professor of Political Science and holder of the Avice Saint Chair of Public Policy at UC Berkeley

Click to Listen: How is growing economic inequality transforming American politics?

Friday, November 19, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll talk about coverage of Burmese opposition figure Aung San Suu Kyi. We will also talk about the Lame duck sessions of Congress as lawmakers return to Capitol Hill to vote on important legislation. What pressing issues need more attention? We'll be joined by Washington Independent's Martha White, Burmese journalist in exile Min Zin, and Socialist Worker's Alan Maass. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradiol.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Martha C. White, a freelance writer in New York. She writes for Washington Independent and Slate Magazine.

Min Zin, a Burmese journalist in exile

Alan Maass, editor of Socialist worker magazine

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Thursday, November 18, 2010

After the Mehserle verdict, where is justice?

On the next Your Call, we'll open up a dialogue about our justice system. BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle was given a two year sentence for the killing of unarmed suspect Oscar Grant. Who does our criminal justice system protect and who does it target? When protesters chanted "We're all Oscar Grant" -- did you think they were talking about you? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's our responsibility as a community to push for justice? And what does that look like? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jack Bryson, father of Nigel and Jackie Bryson, friends of Oscar Grant who witnessed his death

Tshaka Barrows, program manager for Community Justice Network for Youth (CJNY)

Aram James, retired Santa Clara County Public Defender of 25 years and justice activist

Click to Listen: After the Mehserle verdict, where is justice?

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Why are Americans wasting so much food?

On the next Your Call, we'll speak with Jonathan Bloom, author of American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of its Food (And What We Can Do About It). Every day, Americans waste enough food to fill the Rose Bowl--while one in seven Americans go hungry. He says current rates of waste and population growth can't coexist for much longer. It's already turning into a serious environmental hazard, so what can we do about it? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Jonathan Bloom, author of American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of its Food (And What We Can Do About It)

Click to Listen: Why are Americans wasting so much food?

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Will the Internet be taken over by corporate monopoly?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with with Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. Wu, who coined the term "net neutrality," says "The Master Switch" is the moment "a corporate power centralizes and takes control of society's latest technological medium." Is this already happening with the Internet? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Why is it important to fight for a free and open Internet? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Tim Wu, Columbia Law School professor and author of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

Click to Listen: Will the Internet be taken over by corporate monopoly?

Monday, November 15, 2010

How will the new health care law affect you?

Now that the new health care law is starting to take effect, how is it actually going to change the way we get our healthcare? On the next Your Call, we take your calls about the new health care law. How will it change the quality of care that you currently receive? Will it improve? Join us at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What does the law mean to you? And how will it be impacted by politicians who want to over turn it? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Steffie Woolhandler, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Trudy Lieberman, Contributing editor at the Columbia Journalism Review

Click to Listen: How will the new health care law affect you?

Friday, November 12, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the Presidential Commission's investigation into the BP oil disaster, which released 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf. We'll also talk about President Obama's three-day visit to India. We'll be joined by independent journalist Dahr Jamail, The Guardian's environmental correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg, and New India Times' Sunil Adam. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dahr Jamail, an independent investigative journalist

Suzanne Goldenberg, based in Washington DC, the US environmental correspondent of The Guardian

Sunil Adam, the editor of The Indian American, a bimonthly general-interest magazine published from New York

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Thursday, November 11, 2010

What's in store for the future of the women's movement?

On the next Your Call, we continue a two-part special about the state of the women's movement in the U.S. What should the priorities and goals be? How will we get there? What are the differences between gaining power and being empowered? Where are women and girls finding inspiration and role models? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are the primary struggles facing women today? And in what ways are women empowered? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Ruth Rosen, journalist, historian of gender and society, and visiting history professor at UC Berkeley

Myra Duran, national campus organizer with the Feminist Majority Foundation, organizer for Barbara Boxer's re-election campaign, and recent graduate from UCLA

Mariam Saeed, student of political science at SF State University and intern with Your Call

Click to Listen: What is the women's movement today and how did we get here?

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

What is the women's movement today and how did we get here?

On the next Your Call, we begin a two-part special about the state of the women's movement, how we got here, and where we're going. What were the feminists of the 70s fighting for? What gains have women made? And what have they lost? How do you measure progress for women? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. We'll have an intergenerational conversation. What can the older generation of women's rights activists teach to the younger generation? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Loretta Ross, national coordinator of SisterSong

Norma Swenson, professor of women and health at the Harvard School of Public Health and co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves

Mariam Saeed, student of political science at SF State University and intern with Your Call

Click to Listen: What is the women's movement today and how did we get here?

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

What are the effects of war on civilians?

On the next Your Call, we'll speak with war correspondent Anna Badkhen about her new book, Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories, a travelogue about war, food, and humanity. How do stories of people living in war zones help us understand the impact of war on civilian populations? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do people manage to persevere in extreme situations? And what stories would actually resonate with the public? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Anna Badkhen, a journalist and the author of Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories

Click to Listen: What are the effects of war on civilians?

Monday, November 8, 2010

How will the economy be affected by the results of the midterm elections?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about where US economic policies stand and where we're going from here. Republicans now have a majority in Congress. How will that change conditions for employment, wages, federal spending, public service funding, and taxation? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you want to know about US economic policy today? On the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Mark Weisbrott, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
Nomi Prins, senior fellow at Demos and author of It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street

Click to Listen: How will the economy be affected by the results of the midterm elections?

Friday, November 5, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we'll discuss coverage of US elections. What role did the media play in shaping the conversation about the elections? Also we'll talk about rise of right wing political parties in Europe. We'll be joined by The Guardian's Khaled Diab, Independent journalist Davey D and The Huffington Post's Arthur Delaney. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Arthur Delaney, reporter with Huffington Post

Khaled Diab, a journalist and writer who works in the Belgian and EU capital Brussels. He writes a regular column for The Guardian and also freelances with other publications.

Davey D, a nationally recognized journalist, syndicated talk show host and radio programmer with Hard Knock Radio on KPFA

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Thursday, November 4, 2010

How have Hollywood's images of Native Americans changed?

How have Hollywood's images of Native Americans changed -- and how has the public consciousness changed with it? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the changing ways Native Americans have been portrayed in popular culture. The 35th American Indian Film Festival opens in San Francisco on Friday. What are the images -- and stereotypes -- of Native Americans in media and film? How have they changed? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where does your understanding of Native Americans come from? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Michael Smith, founder and president of American Indian Film Festival

Jack Kohler, director of "Behind the Door of a Secret Girl"

Ernest Webb, president of Rezolution Pictures and producer of "Reel Injun"

Click to Listen: How have Hollywood's images of Native Americans changed?

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

How will the midterm elections results affect you and your community?

On the next Your Call, we'll dig into the election results to ask what they tell us about the direction we're headed in as a country. What will the new composition of the House and Senate mean for the next two years of the Obama Administration? Have California voters signaled that they want fundamental change for the state? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. In hearing the results from yesterday's vote, what worried you? And what gave you hope? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation

Rinku Sen, president and executive director of the Applied Research Center and publisher of Colorlines magazine

Jodi Jacobson, editor in chief of RH Reality Check

Roberto de la Cruz, organizer with the Todos a Votar campaign

Click to Listen: How will the midterm elections results affect you and your community?

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Are you voting or are you sitting this election out?

On the next Your Call, we'll discuss voter participation. The outcome of the election will determine everything from who controls the House to important ballot measures in California, but if historical trends hold, only 40 percent of eligible voters will cast a ballot. What motivates your decision to vote? Join us at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do you believe voting is a civic duty? And what does low voter turnout say about civic engagement? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Dan Shea, director of the Center for Political Participation at Allegheny College

Melanie Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation

Joe Mathews, senior fellow with New America Foundation

Roberto de la Cruz, organizer with the Todos a Votar Coalition

Click to Listen: Are you voting or are you sitting this election out?

Monday, November 1, 2010

Where can you find the information you need before you vote?

On the next Your Call, we'll look at the various resources to help you make decision about issues and candidates. Do you have last-minute election questions and want guidance on where to find the answer? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Want to know where you're registered -- or you have discovered a great voter-information resource you want to share with us? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Chase Davis, an investigative reporter focusing on money and politics for California Watch

Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation

Click to Listen: Where can you find the information you need before you vote?

Friday, October 29, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of National and State elections. What did you learn from the coverage about candidates' positions on important issues? We'll also talk about media's response to the newly released Iraq War documents by Wikileaks website. We'll be joined by The Nation's John Nichols, California Watch's Lance Williams and the Guardian's Martin Chulov joins us from Baghdad. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Martin Chulov, The Guardian's Iraq correspondent.

John Nichols, the Washington correspondent for The Nation.

Lance Williams, an investigative reporter focusing on money and politics for California Watch.

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Thursday, October 28, 2010

How should we draw the lines in California politics?

On the next Your Call, we'll continue our election series with a debate on California Propositions 20 and 27, which would change the way political districts are drawn in California following the 2010 census. Who should draw district lines? And what are the principles that should guide them? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do you have a better idea for redistricting that what's being offered by either of these propositions? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Helen Grieco, Northern California Common Cause Organizer and Democracy Matters Northern California Coordinator

Nathan Lowenstein, an associate in the Los Angeles office of Irell & Manella LLP

Click to Listen: How should we draw the lines in California politics?

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

How should our political leaders stand against homophobia?

What's the responsibility of our political leaders to stand against homophobia? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the disastrous effects of homophobia and the role leaders can play in preventing it. Recent teen suicides have exposed the incredible pressure and prejudice LGBTQ youth still experience. But few elected officials have taken on the issue. Why? Can we encourage them to speak out? Does it matter? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How are queer youth "making it better" for themselves? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Dan Savage, author of the sex advice column Savage Love, and creator of the It Gets Better Project

Danielle Askini, national program manager for the Gay Straight Alliance, and collaborator with the Make It Better Project

Cyd La Luz, young LGBT activist, OutLoud radio alum, and graduate of Reed College

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Why is the public sector under attack?

What explains the attacks against government employees and are any of them warranted? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about public workers. In this election year, they have become political targets. A recent study found that government workers in California have better benefits than private workers, but they earn less. What else do we need to know? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Whether you're a public or private sector worker, what do you make of the claims we're hearing about pay and pensions? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jeffrey Keefe, Professor of Labor and Employment Relations at Rutgers University and co-author of the study, The Truth about Public Employees in California: They are Neither Overpaid nor Overcompensated

Mark Paul, senior scholar at the New America Foundation and co-author of California Crack-up: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It

Ken Tray, social studies teacher at Lowell High School and political director for United Educators of San Francisco

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Monday, October 25, 2010

How should we fix California's taxation system?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about Propositions 21, 24 and 26. Would Propositions 24 and 26 help revive the state's economy or let the state's wealthiest corporations off the hook? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Is the vehicle license fee proposed by Proposition 21 a good way to create revenue for the State Parks -- and is it a good idea to earmark that revenue for a specific purpose? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jean Ross, the founding executive director of California Budget Project

David Gamage, assistant Professor of Law with primary research in the areas of taxation, budget policy, and public finance

Click to Listen: How should we fix California's taxation system?

Friday, October 22, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we discuss coverage of massive protests in France over the government's plans to raise the retirement age. We'll also discuss media coverage of voter suppression across the country and candidates' positions on reproductive rights. We'll be joined by RH Reality Check's Jodi Jacobson, The National Journal's Eliza Carney and The Independent's John Litchfield, who joins us from Paris. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
John Litchfield, Paris Correspondent for The Independent

Eliza Newlin Carney, a contributing editor for National Journal, where she writes in-depth features on Congress, politics and campaign finance reform

Jodi Jacobson, Editor-in-Chief, RH Reality Check

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Thursday, October 21, 2010

How can we keep California's oceans safe for whales?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the struggles whales are facing on the Pacific coast. At least five dead whales have been sighted or have washed ashore on Northern California beaches since late July. Researchers say abundant swarms of krill and an increase in ship strikes are to blame. What can we do to reduce ship collisions and prevent more deaths? Join us live at 11 or send us an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do we raise public consciousness about the threats to these remarkable mammals? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jackie Dragon, director of the Marine Sanctuaries Program with Pacific Environment

John Calambokidis, marine mammal biologist with Cascadia Research

Jodi Frediani, wildlife photographer

Roger Bland, professor of physics at SF State and whale communications researcher

Click to Listen: How can we keep California's oceans safe for whales?

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Should we allow the majority to rule on California's budget?

On the next Your Call, we continue our special California election series with a debate on Proposition 25: "the ballot measure that would lower the vote threshold down from 2/3, so that lawmakers could pass budgets with a simple majority." Why shouldn't the majority rule on the state budget? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Why do some legislative decisions require supermajorities? And should passing the budget be one of them? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Fred Glass, communications director for the California Federation of Teachers--Yes on 25

Loren Kaye, president of the California Foundation for Commerce and Education--No on 25

Bill Monning, State Assemblymember representing the 27th District

Click to Listen: Should we allow the majority to rule on California's budget?

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

What's at stake in the Senate race between Carly Fiorina and Barbara Boxer?

On the next Your Call, we continue our special California election series by discussing California's U.S. Senate race. Carly Fiorina, a tea party Republican and the former CEO of Hewlett Packard is running against long-time Democratic incumbent, Barbara Boxer. What do you want to know about where they stand on the issues that matter to you? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's at stake in this race? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Barbara O'Connor, director emeritus for the Institute for the Study of Politics and Media

Carolyn Lochhead, reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle's Washington Bureau

Click to Listen: What's at stake in the U.S. Senate race between Carly Fiorina and Barbara Boxer?

Monday, October 18, 2010

Where is Cuba's economy headed?

On the next Your Call, we continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by talking about the future of Cuba. The Cuban government recently announced plans to lay off half a million state employees. That's about 10 percent of the state workforce. Who is going to be impacted? What are the economic realities in Cuba today? Join us live at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Why is Cuba restructuring its economy? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Frank Thompson, professor of economics at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. He regularly lectures at La Universidad de La Habana.

Geoff Thale, Program Director at Washington Office on Latin America.

Click to Listen: Where is Cuba's economy headed?

Friday, October 15, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of President Obama's decision to lift the oil-drilling ban. We'll also talk about coverage of the rescued miners in Chile and the lack of coverage of mining disasters in the U.S. and Mexico. We'll be joined by Left Turn's Jordan Flaherty, the Washington Independent's Andrew Restuccia and independent journalist Franc Contreras. Join us at 11 a.m or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Andrew Restuccia, Energy and Environment Reporter at The Washington Independent

Franc Contreras, an independent reporter based in Mexico. He has been reporting for NPR, the BBC, and CBC Radio in Toronto, and Aljazeera Network.

Jordan Flaherty, editor of Left Turn Magazine

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Event:
Rose Aguilar is speaking at this weekend's Bioneers conference in San Rafael.
Women, Gender and Media: Changing the Conversation
Sunday, October 17, at 4:30pm

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Is torture still standard practice for the U.S.?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about U.S. torture policies. Revelations about the treatment of detainees in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and other prisons, have shed light on U.S. torture policies. What happened to that conversation? Join us at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do we know about the use of torture today? Has anything changed since President Obama took office? What will it take to bring this issue back into the public consciousness? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Andy Worthington, British journalist and author of The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison

Justine Sharrock, author of Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things

Patricia Isasa, Argentinian torture survivor

Click to Listen: Is torture still standard practice for the U.S.?

Event:
Rose Aguilar is speaking at this weekend's Bioneers conference in San Rafael.
Women, Gender and Media: Changing the Conversation
Sunday, October 17, at 4:30pm

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

How would Whitman and Brown differ as governor?

On the next Your Call, we continue our special California election series and respond to last night's gubernatorial debate. With high unemployment rates, a budget in peril, health care and education systems flailing, and tension running high on immigration policy--how do each of the candidates propose to lead California into a more promising future? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you want to know about Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
William Bradley, California-based political analyst and author of blog, NewWestNotes.com

Chase Davis, investigative reporter for California Watch

Click to Listen: How would Whitman and Brown differ as governor?

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

How are C Street politicians shaping politics here and abroad?

How are the fundamentalist Evangelical politicians who live on C Street affecting legislation and U.S. foreign policy? On the next Your Call, we welcome back Jeff Sharlet, author of C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. Based on new documents and interviews, Sharlet says C Street is more dangerous now than ever. Who's working there and what are they working on? What do you want to know about their agenda? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Does Christian fundamentalism also hold sway within California state politics? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jeff Sharlet, author of C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy

Christopher Soper, professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University

Click to Listen: How are C Street politicians shaping politics here and abroad?

Monday, October 11, 2010

What can we learn from Native American environmentalism?

What can we learn from Native Americans' relationship with the land and environment? On the next Your Call, we'll continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by honoring Indigenous People's Day. Native American reservations have been targeted for fossil fuel development, leading to the contamination and depletion of water, land and community health. How are indigenous communities responding? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How are indigenous communities tackling the many environmental problems we face? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Nikke Alex, director of Black Mesa Water Coalition

Kandi Mossett, Tribal Campus Climate Challenge Organizer of the Indigenous Environmental Network

Charon Asetoyer, Comanche, founder and executive director of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center

Click to Listen: What can we learn from Native American environmentalism?

Friday, October 8, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we'll discuss the lack of coverage of last Saturday's Rally in DC, which was organized by civil rights and labor groups. We will also discuss coverage of the terror alert in Europe. We'll be joined by New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse, independent journalist Danny Schechter and The Globe and Mail's European bureau chief Doug Saunders. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 11 or send email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Danny Schechter, independent journalist, author and media critic
Steven Greenhouse, NY Times labor reporter
Doug Saunders, The Globe and Mail's European bureau chief

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Have you seen a great documentary lately?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the power of documentaries. The 9th Annual International Documentary Film Festival and the Arab Film Festival are in the Bay Area this month. We'll talk to filmmakers, film subjects, and festival organizers about the motivation behind their work. How do documentaries affect you? What do you love about them? What can they do that other film genres can't? Join us at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How have documentaries changed over the years? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Zeina Daccache, director, 12 Angry Lebanese

Jeff Ross, founder/director of SF IndieFest

Gregg Marks, co-director of May I Be Frank? A Film about Sex, Drugs, and Transformation

Frank Ferrante, subject of May I Be Frank? A Film about Sex, Drugs, and Transformation

Click to Listen: Have you seen a great documentary lately?

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

What's in store for Pakistan?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Fatima Bhutto, niece of assassinated Pakistani president Benazir Bhutto, and author of Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir. As flood relief efforts continue, the U.S., with the support of the Pakistani government, has increased deadly drone operations. What explains this? Join us at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Bhutto says if it weren't for American money and political support, the Pakistani government would not be in power. What lies ahead in this relationship? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Fatima Bhutto, niece of assassinated Pakistani president, Benazir Bhutto, and author of Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir

Click to Listen: What's in store for Pakistan?

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

What do we need to know about cell phone radiation?

What do we need to know about cell phones and the affect they are having on us? On the next Your Call, we welcome back epidemiologist Devra Davis, author of Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family. Devra Davis argues that suppressed research proves that cell phones are not safe. So what precautions should we take? What do you want to know about cell phones and radiation? It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Devra Davis, author of Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family.

Debbie Raphael, toxics reduction program manager for the San Francisco Department of the Environment

Click to Listen: What do we need to know about cell phone radiation?

Monday, October 4, 2010

Who are the billionaire Koch brothers?

Who are the billionaire Koch brothers and how much are they spending on the tea party, right-wing causes, and California's Prop 23? On the next Your Call, as the election season kicks into high gear, we'll talk about the hundreds of millions of dollars being spent to influence state and national races. Join us at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Spending by outside groups has exploded since the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United. How transparent is this and what does this mean for the future of campaign finance reform? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jim Hightower, a radio commentator, writer, and author

Peter Stone, who covers a wide array of lobbying and campaign finance issues in Washington for Center for Public Integrity

Click to Listen: Who are the billionaire Koch brothers?

Friday, October 1, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we'll discuss the new documentary, Waiting for 'Superman' and coverage of education. We'll also talk about reporting on the Bush tax cuts and their impact on the economy, as well as the expansion of the Israeli settlements. We'll be joined by Mel Frykberg, an IPS reporter based in Ramallah, the Oakland Tribune's Education Reporter Katy Murphy and AlterNet's Joshua Holland. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us at 11 a.m. or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with me Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Katy Murphy, The Oakland Tribune's Education reporter
Mel Frykberg, Inter Press Service (IPS) global news agency's Ramallah correspondent
Joshua Holland, an editor and senior writer at AlterNet

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Thursday, September 30, 2010

How are you planning to cast your vote for governor this November?

On the next Your Call, we'll continue our special California election programs with our second debate between third-party candidates running for governor: the Peace and Freedom Party's Carlos Alvarez and the Libertarian's Dale Ogden. What do you want to ask them? What issues matter most to you? Join us live at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you want from the next Governor of California? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Carlos Alvarez, Peace and Freedom Party candidate for governor
Dale Ogden, Libertarian Party candidate for governor

Click to Listen: How are you planning to cast your vote for governor this November?

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Should marijuana be legalized in California?

On the next Your Call, we'll continue our special California election series with a debate about Proposition 19, known as the "Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010." The measure would make California the first state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Where do you stand on Prop 19? Join us live at 11 or send us and email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What would the legalization of marijuana mean for the state of California? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Joseph McNamara, retired San Jose Police Chief and spokesperson for Yes on 19
Chief Walt Tibbet, Fairfield Police Chief and spokesperson for No on 19

Click to Listen: Should marijuana be legalized in California?

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

How do people overcome abuse and neglect from childhood?

On the next Your Call, we'll speak with Liz Murray, author of Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, & My Journey From Homeless to Harvard. Growing up the daughter of drug addicts, Murray was often so hungry that she resorted to eating chapstick and toothpaste. She worked her way to a Harvard education and now serves undernourished children. What is it like to be a hungry child in America? Join us at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do people overcome their own abuse to help others? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Liz Murray, author of Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, & My Journey From Homeless to Harvard

Click to Listen: How do people overcome abuse and neglect from childhood?

Monday, September 27, 2010

Who's your choice for Governor?

How are you planning to cast your vote for governor this November? On the next Your Call, we'll kick off our special California election programs with a debate between two third-party candidates running for governor: the Green Party's Laura Wells and the American Independent's Chelene Nightingale. What do you want to ask them? What issues matter most to you? Join us live at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you want from the next Governor of California? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Chelene Nightingale, an American Independent Party Candidate for California Governor

Laura Wells, a Green Party Candidate for California Governor

Click to Listen: Who's your choice for Governor?

Friday, September 24, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the 7 U.S. soldiers charged with killing Afghan civilians for sport and collecting fingers for trophies. We'll also probe California's Global Warming Solutions Act and efforts to kill it, and talk about the investigation into San Bruno's gas pipeline explosion. Joininh us arethe San Francisco Chronicle's David Baker, California Watch's Environmental Reporter Susanne Rust, and Aunohita Mojumdar from Kabul. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
David Baker, staff writer with San Francisco Chronicle
Susanne Rust, environmental reporter with California Watch
Aunohita Mojumdar, freelance journalist based in Kabul

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Thursday, September 23, 2010

What will it take to get healthcare for all at the state level?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with the "Mad As Hell Doctors." They're on a road trip in California hoping to rally public support for high quality health care for all. Single payer legislation has passed at the state level several times, but was vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger. Join us at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Is healthcare for all possible in California? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. Paul Hochfield, emergency physician and a "Mad As Hell Doctor"
Dr. Carol Paris, psychiatrist and a "Mad As Hell Doctor"

Click to Listen: What will it take to get healthcare for all at the state level?

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

What are the root causes of our current economic crisis?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk to journalist Robert Scheer, author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street. Robert says we are too eager to blame the Bush administration, because the collapse happened on his watch. But how did free markets and deregulation from earlier administrations set the stage for the crisis? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's needed to fix the economy now? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Robert Scheer, author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street

Click to Listen: What are the root causes of our current economic crisis?

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

What are the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk to Dr. Sandra Steingraber, a cancer survivor and author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, which is now adapted into a feature-length documentary film. The President's Cancer Panel published their report about environmental cancer this year. How have chemicals from industry and agriculture affected public health? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can we protect ourselves from environmental carcinogens? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Sandra Steingraber, author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

Click to Listen: What are the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health?

Monday, September 20, 2010

Do you know America's underclass?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Joe Bageant, author of Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir. Through personal accounts, he argues that after WWII millions of rural Americans moved into the cities, where they became the foundation of a permanent white underclass. Who are the underclass in today's America? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. And what role do they play in U.S. political landscape? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you?

Guest:
Joe Bageant, author and political commentator. Bageant spends much of each year in Belize, Central America, and in Jalisco, Mexico, where he writes, and in which he sponsors small health-and-shelter development projects.

Click to Listen: Do you know America's underclass?

Friday, September 17, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll have a conversation with the Washington Independent's Annie Lowrey, and Gary Rivlin, author of Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. -- How the Working Poor Became Big Business. According to the Census, 44 million people in the U.S., or one in seven, lived in poverty last year. With so many people struggling to make ends meet and businesses making huge profits off low-income communities, why is there such marginal media coverage of the poor? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Annie Lowrey, economic reporter with Washington Independent

Gary Rivlin, a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, GQ, Wired and Newsweek

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Are cell phones making us sick?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk to epidemiologist Devra Davis, author of Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family. Many countries have issued warnings against cell phone use by children. Why has the U.S. refused to participate in cell phone health studies? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Should we advocate for safer technology or can we tailor our cell phone use to be safer? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Devra Davis, author of Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family.

Click to Listen: Are cell phones making us sick?

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

What is the future of wild seafood?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food. A few decades ago, most of the seafood we ate was wild. But we may be the last generation to enjoy wild fish, if we don't change our practices. How can we help restore fish populations through our food choices? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What factors do you consider when you buy fish? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

What is the state of the Christian Right in the U.S.?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Jeff Sharlet, author of the bestseller, The Family, about his new book, C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. While The Family focused on the history of C Street, Sharlet's new book brings the story into the present with new documents and interviews. He says C Street is more dangerous than ever. Who's living on C Street now and what are they working on? It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Jeff Sharlet, author of C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy

Click to Listen: What is the state of the Christian Right in the U.S.?

Monday, September 13, 2010

Will Main Street Replace Wall Street?

On the next Your Call, we continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by speaking with David Korten about the second edition of his book, Agenda for a New Economy. Nearly two years after the economic meltdown, joblessness and foreclosures are still endemic, Wall Street executives are once again getting massive bonuses, and each day brings scandalous new revelations of Wall Street corruption. What will it take to make the fundamental policy changes desperately needed to achieve real recovery? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. David Korten is a trained economist, chair of the board of Yes! Magazine, and a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living economies. He is out with an expanded 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth.

Click to Listen: Will Main Street Replace Wall Street?

Friday, September 10, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll have a conversation with Will Bunch, senior fellow at Media Matters. He's out with a new book called The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama. We'll be also joined by Al Jazeera's Richard Gizbert. How has the right changed U.S. policies and our political conversation? And how have the media responded? Join us live at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do you think the media should respond to this so-called backlash? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Will Bunch, senior fellow at Media Matters and a senior writer at the Philadelphia Daily News

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

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Thursday, September 9, 2010

How does our food system reflect our society and our history?

On the next Your Call we'll talk to the authors of Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. With climate change, population growth, genetically modified organisms, market globalization, and corporate consolidation--what is happening to our food systems? And to us? Is the modern agricultural machine that feeds the world also destroying it? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Could local food systems be a solution to global food crises? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Andrew Rimas, a journalist and the managing editor at the Improper Bostonian magazine

Evan Fraser, adjunct professor of geography at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds in the UK with a focus on farming, climate change and the environment

Click to Listen: How does our food system reflect our society and our history?

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

What's the significance of California's upcoming election?

On the next Your Call we'll begin our series on the November elections by talking about today's political climate, its historical context, and what the elections could mean for the state. What's unique about the races and ballot measures in this election? The outcomes could bring big changes to California. Are you planning to vote? Join us live at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What matters to you on the ballot? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Jeffrey Lustig, professor of government at Sacramento State and editor of Remaking California: Reclaiming the Public Good

Robert Cruickshank, public policy director for the Courage Campaign and contributing editor at Calitics

Mark DiCamillo, director of the non-partisan California Field Poll

Click to Listen: What's the significance of California's upcoming election?

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

What are the long-term effects of the BP oil disaster?

What are we learning about the long-term effects of the BP oil disaster? On the next Your Call we'll talk about the ongoing recovery of the Gulf Coast in the wake of the BP oil disaster. The long-term impact could be worse than the short-term -- especially for health. How are people and ecosystems of the Gulf adapting to the spill? What could be lost for good? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's really happening in the Gulf? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Anne Rolfes, founding director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade
Dr. Chris Pincetich, marine biologist with the Sea Turtle Restoration Project
Cherri Foytlin, citizen activist in Rayne, LA
Gregg Hall, citizen activist in Pensacola, FL

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Monday, September 6, 2010

What's the new economy of New Orleans?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about what has been done to rebuild the Gulf Coast economy five years after Hurricane Katrina. The region sustained $135 billion in property damage, so how has the economy recovered? Who's benefiting? Who's been excluded? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How will the BP oil disaster further transform the economy in the Gulf? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Davida Finger, professor of law at Loyola Law School Clinic. She has worked extensively on Katrina cases and policy matters to improve government accountability in rebuilding and on distribution of disaster funds.

Tracie Washington, the president of The Louisiana Justice Institute

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Friday, September 3, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of President Obama's speech on Iraq. How did media look back at Iraq's past seven years? We'll also talk about economic news. Who is asking the right questions? We'll be joined by the former NY Times tax reporter David Cay Johnston, Washington Independent's Annie Lowrey and Guardian's Martin Chulov. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
David Cay Johnston, a columnist for Tax Notes and former tax reporter with NY Times

Martin Chulov, Guardian's Iraq correspondent. He has reported from the Middle East since 2005.

Annie Lowrey, economic reporter with The Washington Independent

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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Are we on our way to healthy food for kids?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about school food. In a unanimous vote, the Senate approved $4.5 billion to increase the number of free meals and improve the quality of food served in schools nationwide. How significant a victory is this for the campaign to improve school food programs? What's next on that movement's agenda? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Have you seen menu changes in a school near you? It's Your Call, with Hana Baba and you.

Guests:
Janet Poppendieck, author of Free For All: Fixing School Food in America

Zenobia Barlow, cofounder and executive director of The Center for Ecoliteracy

Jennifer LeBarre, nutrition services director for Oakland Unified School District

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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

How do we care for people with serious or terminal illness?

On the next Your Call we'll have a conversation about palliative care and hospice care and the future of these services. In light of the federal health reform bill, what options are there for people to live through potentially fatal illness in a dignified, supported way? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do you envision being cared for as you near the end of your life? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Dr. Diane Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City

Dr. Steven Pantilat, director of the Palliative Care Program and the Palliative Care Leadership Center at UCSF

Sarah Creed, hospice nurse with Partners HealthCare

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

How do you live a good life in the digital age?

On the next Your Call, we'll rebroadcast a conversation we had with William Powers, author of Hamlet's BlackBerry, and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget. Do our digital lives leave us with less time to reflect and relax? Is technology affecting our individuality and creativity? How do virtual relationships affect how we connect in person? What is your relationship with technology? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
William Powers, author of Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto

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Monday, August 30, 2010

What's in store for the future of the open/free Internet?

On the next Your Call, we'll continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by talking about the recent Google-Verizon deal, which would allow Internet service providers to speed up access to some content while leaving the rest behind. How will this change the way you access the Internet and what does it mean for digital democracy? Does the deal mark the beginning of the end of the Internet as we know it? Can it be stopped? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Aparna Sridhar, Policy Counsel with Free Press

Barbara van Schewick, Associate Professor of Law and (by Courtesy) Electrical Engineering and Director, Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School

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Friday, August 27, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll talk about coverage of the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. And many in the national media say the oil in the Gulf has disappeared. Locals say the disaster is far from over. We'll also discuss the lack of coverage of the devastating floods in Pakistan. We'll be joined by Brentin Mock, a New Orleans-based reporter with ColorLines, The News International's Riaz Daudzai, and The Times-Picayune's David Hammer. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What caught your attention in the media this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Brentin Mock, a New Orleans-based reporter with ColorLines

David Hammer, staff writer with The Times-Picayune

Riaz Daudzai, a reporter with The News International newspaper based in Peshawar, Pakistan

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Thursday, August 26, 2010

What kind of art inspires you?

On the next Your Call, we'll speak with a variety of artists about the healing and empowering aspects of art and creativity. The late historian Howard Zinn said the role of the artist is to transcend the world of the establishment and to escape what is handed down by the government and the media. How does art help you cope with our chaotic and unjust world? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What have you seen lately that's inspired you? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jo Kreiter, artistic director of Flyaway Productions

Meklit Hadero, Ethiopian-born singer, musician, and cultural activist

Josef Norris, founder and director of Kid Serve

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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

What's the best approach to border policy?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about U.S. border policy. President Obama's signing of a bipartisan border security bill continues a trend toward more agents, weapons, and technology policing the U.S.-Mexico border. What are the costs of militarizing the border and who pays them? What are the alternatives? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How are people at the border affected by today's immigration policy? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Melissa del Bosque, investigative reporter for The Texas Observer; author of the blog, La Linea

Alfredo Gutierrez, former Arizona state senate majority leader; immigration activist; editor of La Frontera Times

Edward Alden, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations

Geoff Boyce, No More Deaths volunteer

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

What does modern-day mining look like?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about what's being extracted from the earth. New elements are being harvested to make today's technological gadgets. Decades ago, it was silicon. Today, it's lithium. What else is being extracted in the 21st century? How does the extraction process affect the land, workers, the environment, and the economy? Who's profiting? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Is it possible to harness the earth's resources efficiently and equitably? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, freelance journalist covering lithium extraction in Bolivia

Robert Moran, hydrogeologist and geochemist

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Monday, August 23, 2010

Are team owners ruining professional sports?

On the next Your Call, we'll continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by speaking with The Nation's sports editor Dave Zirin about his new book, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love. He argues that sports franchise owners are squeezing every last penny out of their fans. Have the rich guys and gals who own sports teams sold out the fans? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
A conversation with The Nation's sports editor Dave Zirin about his new book Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love.

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Friday, August 20, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the uproar around the mosque in NY City. We will also talk about coverage of the U.S. pulling "combat troops" out of Iraq and the Time magazine cover showing the photo of a disfigured Afghan girl. We'll be joined by investigative journalist John Gorenfeld, McClatchy's Nancy Youssef and independent journalist Alia Malek. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What caught your attention this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Nancy Youssef, Pentagon Correspondent with McClatchy Newspapers based in Washington, DC

Alia Malek, a freelance journalist and author based in NY

John Gorenfeld, a freelance writer in San Francisco

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Why is population control so controversial?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about global population and what we should be doing about it, if anything. There are almost 7 billion people on the planet and there could be 9 billion by 2050. What are the primary concerns with population growth? How are they being addressed? And by whom? How have perceptions of population control changed? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do racism, classism, and resource inequalities factor into the controversies over population control? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb

William Ryerson, president of the Population Media Center

Martha Campbell, president of Venture Strategies for Health and Development and global health lecturer in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

What do local street food vendors add to our communities?

On the next Your Call, we'll look at the pleasures and problems of street food. The San Francisco Street Food Festival is approaching and curbside cuisine is on the rise. What explains its comeback? How is it regulated? What kind of opportunities does it create? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you love to eat out on the street? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Caleb Zigas, executive director of La Cocina

Matt Cohen, founder of the San Francisco Cart Project, Off the Grid: San Francisco, and Tabe Services

Jessica Phadungsilp, co-owner of Global Soul

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

What is the power of a photo?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about photography as social commentary. The Time Magazine cover portrait of an Afghan girl with a mutilated face has been controversial -- especially paired with its caption. How do photographs enhance, alter, or manipulate the "news"? Or vice versa? Do photographs carry more inherent "truth" than words or can they also be spun? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. If you enjoy photography for art, do you also see it as social commentary? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Steve McCurry, world-renowned photojournalist

Ken Light, social documentary photographer; author of Witness In Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers; adjunct professor and curator of the Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley

Daisy Hernandez, former editor of ColorLines

Trevor Paglen, artist, writer, and experimental geographer; author of Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes

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Monday, August 16, 2010

What does AB32 actually do?

On the next Your Call, we'll continue our Agenda for a New Economy series with a conversation about California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, a.k.a. AB32. The opponents of AB32 are introducing a November initiative to suspend it; but what's really in AB32? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does AB32 help California's future? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Steven Maviglio, spokesman for California Clean Energy and Jobs, an alliance of companies and environmental groups defending AB32. He is also the publisher of California Majority Report.

Susanne Rust, an investigative reporter for California Watch focused on the environment

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Friday, August 13, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the trial of Guantanamo Bay's youngest detainee. Also this week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates outlined the U.S. military strategy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, and in the midst of massive flooding, Pakistan shut down two TV stations. We'll be joined by Pakistan's Geo TV reporter Sami Ibrahim, Propublica's Chisun Lee, and McClatchy's Jonathan Landay. What grabbed your attention this week? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Jonathan Landay, national security and intelligence correspondent with McClatchy

Sami Ibrahim, Geo news TV correspondent based in New York

Chisun Lee, a reporter for ProPublica

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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Can we imagine a world free of nuclear weapons?

On the next Your Call, we ask, are we on the path to global nuclear disarmament or not? President Obama is going to spend 80 billion dollars to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenals, starting with 8 billion this year. What does modernizing actually mean? And what is the state of U.S. nuclear capability? Are we moving towards nuclear escalation rather than disarmament? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. If we aim for a nuclear-free world, what steps need to be taken? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Paul Kawika Martin, political & communications director with Peace Action

Scott Yundt, staff attorney with Tri-Valley CARE

Darwin Bond-Grahm, sociologist and researcher with the Los Alamos Study Group

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

What does leaving Iraq really mean?

On the next Your Call, we'll speak with Andrew Bacevich, author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, and Iraqi historian Thabit Abdullah. President Obama has promised to pull out all but 50,000 troops by the end of this month. How many contractors will be left? How will this affect Iraqis? What is life like in Iraq today? Join us live at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What is the Obama administration's plan for the future of Iraq and the surrounding region? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Andrew Bacevich, retired U.S. army officer, professor of history and international relations at Boston University, and author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War

Thabit Abdullah, associate professor of Middle East history at York University

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

What do you want from Your Call?

On the next Your Call, we'll check in with you, our listeners, to find out what you love about the show and what you think could improve. Whether you've tuned in once or listen regularly, how could Your Call have a broader and deeper impact on the community? If you have guest or show ideas, questions, comments, or constructive critiques, join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What inspires you to participate? What holds you back? Now's your time to be heard. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
You!

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Monday, August 9, 2010

How has Social Security changed since its creation?

How has Social Security changed since its creation 75 years ago? On the next Your Call, we'll continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by talking about Social Security. Ninety percent of Americans over the age of 65 receive Social Security benefits. Do you rely on social security? A coalition of fifty organizations recently joined forces to save Social Security from privatization. Do you think yours will be there when you retire? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Eric Kingson, professor of social work at Syracuse University's School of Social Work.

Paul Van de Water, a Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he specializes in Medicare, Social Security, and health


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Friday, August 6, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, President Obama announced plans to change the military mission in Iraq from combat to support. How did the media cover his promise? We'll also discuss the Sacramento Bee's investigation that found widespread suppression of inmates' rights. And we'll talk about the launch of KALW's The Informant, which focuses on criminal justice coverage. We'll be joined by the Sacramento Bee's Charles Piller, New Internationalist's Hadani Ditmars and KALW's Rina Palta. What grabbed your attention this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Charles Piller, staff reporter with Sacramento Bee
Rina Palta, a reporter with KALW News, Cross Currents
Hadani Ditmars, a co-editor of New Internationalist and author of Dancing in the No Fly Zone

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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Are we coming to the end of wild seafood?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Paul Greenberg, author Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food. We harvest 90 million tons of wild fish and shell fish each year. What does our over-fishing say about our relationship to the ocean and our planet's natural resources? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do you eat fish? And how concerned are you about the effects of overfishing? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Paul Greenberg, a writer for the New York Times, National Geographic, and GQ. In 2005, his New York Times Magazine article on Chilean Sea Bass received the International Association of Culinary Professionals' award for excellence in food journalism.

Tom Worthington, owner of Monterey Fish Market in San Francisco

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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

How are teachers preparing for the new school year?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk to California school teachers about their hopes, their fears, and their jobs as they anticipate coping with a dwindling education budget, growing class sizes, and strict standardized testing expectations. Thousands of teachers have been laid off this year. How will ones who are left meet rising demands for accountability in the classroom without additional resources? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do we support teachers under today's pressures? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Susan Scott, 5th grade teacher at Joaquin Miller in Oakland
Kelly Clark, 5th grade teacher at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy in San Francisco
Cherese Young, 1st grade teacher at Evergreen School District in San Jose


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