Do you know who makes your electronic gadgets?

On the next Your Call, we'll look at where our technological gadgets are made and the labor abuses that go into their manufacturing. Ten workers at the Foxconn factory in China--where Apple iPhones are assembled--have committed suicide this year. How do labor practices affect your purchasing decisions? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do you know where your smart phone is made? Who will be first to offer "fair trade" electronics? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Greg Fay--program coordinator with China Labor Watch
Richard Jones--Freelance journalist and photojournalist

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What's next for Tibet?

What's next for Tibet? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with the Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile, Professor Samdhong Rinpoche, and two activists for Tibetan sovereignty. Since fleeing from Tibet in 1959, the Dalai Lama has advocated for a nonviolent relationship with China. But some Tibetans feel this might not be an effective approach. How does an exiled diaspora resist a totalitarian government? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's in store for the future of Tibet? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy, and you.

Guests:
Professor Samdhong Rinpoche, Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile

Canyon Sam, Chinese-American activist and author of Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History

Kunsang Kelden, a Tibetan living in exile, and former board member for Students for a Free Tibet.

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What's Driving the Globalized Business of Organic Food?

What should you know about your "organic" food from China? On the next Your Call, we'll continue with our series Agenda for a New Economy and ask, what's driving the globalized business of organic food? How do you make your choices at the market? And how do you know what's safe?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Why are we buying broccoli from China in the first place? And what do you want to know about it? It's Your Call, with Hana Baba and you.

Guests:
Samuel Fromartz is a veteran journalist and author of Organic Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew.

Paul Muller is a founding partner and organic farmer at Full Belly Farm in Guinda, California.

Christine Bushway, Executive Director of the Organic Trade Association (OTA).

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Friday Media Roundtable

This week, we'll discuss coverage of President Obama's visit to China, protests on UC campuses, and the state of media in Mexico. We'll be joined by The Daily Planet's Riya Bhattacharjee, Mexico City based journalist Franc Contreras and New America Media's Vivian Po. Did a story stand out for you because of its reporting?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us your comments and questions to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Riya Bhattacharjee, staff writer at The Berkeley Daily Planet
Vivian Po, staff writer at New America Media
Franc Contreras, journalist based in Mexico City

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What's your Wish List for China?

President Obama just left China, after negotiating a relationship that will define our economic and political reality in the coming decades. Yet most progressives are hazy about what they wanted Obama to tell Hu Jintao. Is it all about the economy? Should environmental degradation and global warming be the top priority? Or do democratic reform and freedom to dissent come before for everything else?

Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's the progressive agenda for China? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Ling-Chi Wang, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and a US-China relations expert.

David Gordon, executive director of Pacific Environment.

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Your Call 082609 Is there a new colonial rush on in Africa?

Is there a new colonial rush on in Africa? On the next Your Call we will speak with Serge Michel, author of China Safari and scholar Nii Akuettah about increasing Chinese efforts to exploit - and develop - Africa. How is the Chinese approach different from the way the American government has operated on the Continent? Is either a good deal? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can African nations make it without being a client of a major power? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Serge Michel in Geneva
Author of China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa. Michel was the West Africa Correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde after stints in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. He won the Albert Londres Prize, France's most prestigious journalistic award, for his work in Iran and is the founder of the Bondy Blog, a citizen journalism project in the suburbs of Paris.

Nii Akuetteh in Washington DC
Independent Africa policy analyst and researcher. He is the former executive director of the Washington, DC-based group Africa Action.

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Your Call 071009 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable where we bring in reporters from the mainstream, alternative and international press to discuss the week in American media. This week the President was in Moscow, Italy and Ghana; hundreds of Uighurs in Western China were dead or in jail after protests and Al Franken was sworn in as senator. We'll be joined by James Fallows of The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal's Farnaz Fassihi in Beirut and McClatchy's Tom Lasseter in Moscow. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Tom Lasseter in Moscow
The Moscow Bureau Chief for the McClatchy papers, and formerly the Baghdad Correspondent for Knight Ridder before they were absorbed by McClatchy. Tom was the lead reporter for McClatchy's five-part series detailing the U.S.'s treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan. Tom recently finished a series that exposed the causes behind the explosion in Afghan heroin production.

James Fallows in DC
National Correspondent for The Atlantic. Fallows has written nine books. National Defense won the National Book Award in 1981. His most recent book, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China has just been published and is a record of his time living in and reporting from China.

Farnaz Fassihi in Beirut
Deputy bureau chief of Middle East and Africa for The Wall Street Journal and the author of Waiting for An Ordinary Day, a memoir of her four years covering the Iraq war. Ms. Fassihi was born in the United States and grew up in Tehran, Iran and Portland, Oregon.

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Your Call 042009 A New Deal With China?

Is it time for a new deal with China? On the next Your Call we'll discuss new visions of a trans-Pacific economic arrangement. We are continuing our series on creating the economy we want (not just complaining about the one we have). Can we make out the broad strokes of an economic relationship that helps China create the tens of millions of new jobs they need each year, supports the American working people and does both in an ecologically sustainable way? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can the relationship between the U.S. and China change in a way that helps workers on both sides of the Pacific? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Sasha Gong in Northern Virginia
Essayist and author of one of the most widely read Chinese language blogs. Gong, a native of China, got her PhD in sociology from Harvard in 1995 and is a former senior program officer of the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, AFL-CIO.

Ted Fishman in Chicago
Author of the international best-seller China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, which has been published in twenty-five languages. Fishman is a former commodities trader and journalist who has been published in the NY Times Magazine, the Times of London and Harper's.

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Your Call 031109 How does the Tibet Uprising live on in the Bay Area 50 years later?

How does the Tibet Uprising live on in the Bay Area fifty years later? On the next Your Call we'll speak with representatives from the Tibetan exile, Chinese expat and white communities about the present and future Tibet. Is there common ground for dialogue? How has Tibetan culture influenced life here? You can send us an email anytime to feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can a peaceful resolution to the Tibet crisis start here? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Dennis Cusack in San Francisco
Co-Chair of the International Tibet Support Network. He is also author of the newly released Tibet's War for Peace. He is an attorney in San Francisco.

Edward Liu in San Francisco
A Chinese-American attorney & writer in San Francisco. His blog Spatium Trientis is about finding a third way for Chinese-Americans, unburdened by the homeland or the West.

Dechen Tsering in San Francisco
President of the Tibetan Association of Northern California

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Your Call 080608 Pacific Connections- Olympic Edition

In the lead up to the Olympics, what have you learned about China that has surprised you? The next Your Call is a replay of the special Pacific Connect, recorded Tuesday night at 9pm. We will discuss how China and the rest of the world have changed their thinking about one another since Beijing was awarded the Olympics 7 years ago. For many Chinese, the Olympics is a moment of nervousness and pride, and for many Americans, it is the most intense interaction they've ever had with China and Chinese culture. What did you learn? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Bevin Chu, (in Taipei)
Pro Chinese blogger. American trained architect who works professionally in both Taiwan and Mainland China;

Guoqi Xu (in Beijing)
Wen Chao Chen Chair at Kalamazoo College, Michigan and author of Olympic Dreams: China and sports, 1895-2008

Sasha Gong (in Virginia)
One of the most widely read Chinese language bloggers and the Senior program officer of the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, AFL-CIO

Dr. Patrick Hatcher (in San Francisco)
Director of the Center for the Pacific Rim at the University of San Francisco. He specializes in Asian American history, politics, peace, and war.

John Pomfret (in Washington)
Edits the Washington Post's Outlook section. He is the former chief China correspondent for the Post from 1998-2004 and author of Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China.

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Your Call 040708 Freeing Tibet

Will the actions around the Olympic torch have any impact on the issue of Tibet? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the recent protests taking place in Tibet and around the world. The Olympic torch's odyssey has been met by large actions against China's recent crack down in Tibet and its wider human rights records. The torch will reach San Francisco on Wednesday, April 9. Where do you stand on this issue? What does it mean to free Tibet? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:

John Ackerley, director of the International Campaign for Tibet.

Josh Kurlantzick, the author of Charm Offensive.

Pico Iyer, a longtime essayist and author of The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.

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