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

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Your Call 040109 How will America recover its optimism?

By now, most people know the problems facing us. We can short-hand many with single words: Fiasco; AIG; Empire; Warming; Toxic; Inequality; Debtor. On today's Your Call we're speaking to one of the lonely Cassandras that have been pointing to the iceberg ahead since it first appeared in the distance during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. Now that the crash has happened, William Greider has spoken up again to fill the gap and help us imagine a new way forward. William Greider is National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation magazine and author of Come Home, America. When you stop looking at all the ways America has gone wrong and imagine where we can go next, what do you see? How will America find optimism and even pleasure in a world where less is our future? What will replace material gain in the American Dream? When you let yourself dream big, what institutions rise up to replace the mighty military, government and corporate institutions that are failing us now? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
William Greider in San Francisco
National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation magazine. He was the National Affairs Editor at Rolling Stone magazine and the former assistant managing editor at the Washington Post. He is the author of five best sellers including The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy. His new book is Come Home, America.

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Your Call 060308 Author Russell Banks on America

As the empire crumbles, is there still an American project? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Russell Banks, author of 16 novels, most recently The Reserve, who has published his first non-fiction collection. In Dreaming Up America, Banks takes a novelists eye to colonial America to find the root of the dreams and obsessions that bind us together today. Do the aspirations in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution still call Americans to action? It's Your Call with me, Ben Temchine and you.

Guest:
Russell Banks, acclaimed American novelist. His latest book is entitled Dreaming Up America.

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