Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media coverage of the protests and elections in Egypt as well as the latest news of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Egyptians went to the polls this week following violent and deadly protests in Tehran last week. In Occupy news, Los Angeles has become the latest big city to evict its encampment. Politicians have praised the LAPD for their tactics, though some protesters are still claiming excessive force was used. We'll be joined by AlterNet's Joshua Holland, Alternative Radio's David Barsamian, and writer and journalist Anand Gopal. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Angie Coiro and you.

Guests:
Joshua Holland, Senior Writer and Editor at AlterNet

David Barsamian, Founder and Director of Alternative Radio

Anand Gopal, Writer and Journalist

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What's the role of video in getting at the truth?

On the next Your Call, we'll discuss two films about surveillance and social control featured in the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival: Josh Wolf's Police Tape and Michael Schiller's The After Party. What does the proliferation of video in our society mean for justice, and social control? What kind of surveillance is legal? And does more documentation necessarily mean more truth? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Have you filmed or been filmed by the police? What have been the consequences? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:

Josh Wolf, journalist and director of Police Tape about the relationship between law enforcement and being chronicled on video, in light of the recent Oakland BART shooting

Michael Schiller, award-winning filmmaker and director of The After Party about domestic surveillance in the post 9-11 era

Michael Risher, staff attorney with ACLU of Northern California

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How effective are gang injunctions in dealing with urban crime?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about gang injunctions, or court orders that prohibit alleged gang members from activities--including associating with one another--inside a proscribed area. Proponents say injunctions make communities safer from gang violence. Opponents say they perpetuate police repression at inordinate cost to the city. Do you live in an area affected by gang violence or gang injunctions? What do you think is the best solution? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Holly Kernan and you.

Guests:
Ali Winston, reporter for "The Informant" at KALW News

Whitney Walton, organizer with Oakland's Stop the Injunctions Coalition

Pat Kernighan, Oakland City Councilperson for District 2 and chair of the Public Safety Committee.

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What do you think of Bradley Manning's detention?

What do you think of the way the US is treating Bradley Manning? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the 23-year-old US army officer accused of leaking classified information to Wikileaks. Manning faces 22 charges, including "aiding the enemy." His lawyer says he's being held in solitary confinement in a tiny cell at a Navy brig in Quantico, Virginia. Why has his treatment and confinement been so extreme? And what do you think of the charges against Bradley Manning? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Ann Wright, former United States Army colonel and retired official of the U.S. State Department, outspoken opposer of the Iraq War

David MacMichael, former CIA analyst and current member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

Greg Mitchell, journalist with The Nation and author of Bradley Manning: Truth and Consequences

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What is today's political pulse on immigration?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the ripple effects of Arizona's new immigration law, SB1070, on nationwide politics. It's set to go into effect Thursday, though controversial portions have been put on temporary hold. While immigrants themselves are trying to figure out what the new laws will mean for them, so are politicians. Is this a partisan issue? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How will Obama's opposition to SB1070 impact its implementation? Are other border states, like California, rejecting Arizona's direction or moving toward it? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Aarti Kholi, director of immigration policy at the Warren Institute at the UC Berkeley School of Law

Alessandra Soler Meetze, executive director of the ACLU of Arizona

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Can Liberal Democracy and Organized Religion Get Along?

What is the compatibility of liberal democracy and organized religion? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with Ian Buruma, professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, about his latest book, Taming the Gods: A worldwide examination of the relationships between Church and State. Where are the tensions between religion and politics? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do you see religion as a help to democracy? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Ian Buruma, professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College

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What are Your Rights in the Workplace?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Lewis Maltby, founder of the National Workplace Institute and author of Can They Do That? How American Companies Abuse Workers and What To Do About It. Did you know that you could be fired for having a political bumper sticker on your car or even having a beer after work?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What options do you have to protect yourself? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Lewis Maltby, founder of the National Workplace Institute and author of Can They Do That? How American Companies Abuse Workers and What To Do About It.

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What's President Obama's Record on Civil Liberties?

On the next Your Call, we'll discuss a new ACLU report that says the President has taken serious steps to improve civil liberties during his first year in office. But it also reveals the continuation of some of the most radical and invasive Bush administration policies. Join us live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's your take on Obama's civil liberties record? What should be at the top of his list? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jay Stanley, Technology & Liberty Project at American Civil Liberties Union, Washington Legislative Office

Shanta Driver, National Chair with The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN).

Cindy Cohen, Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Your Call 061009 Do Arabs and Muslims feel a change under Obama?

Do the people targeted after 9/11 feel a change under Obama? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the Arab and Muslim communities' responses to President Obama's address in Cairo. Can that make a difference for Muslims here? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What about the non-Muslims who became the targets of the "war on terror"? And what could we do to combat the prejudice and distrust that remains? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Veena B. Dubal, an attorney at the Asian Law Caucus
Khalil Bendib, an Algerian-American fine artist and political cartoonist
Beshara Doumani, history professor at UC Berkeley

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Your Call 040209 What's the state of civil liberties in the U.S.?

What's the state of civil liberties in the U.S.? On the next Your Call we talk with Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot and Bruce Fein, author of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy. Fein was one of the most prominent conservative critics of the former Bush administration and Wolf's book makes a chilling comparison between the rise of the Third Reich and America today. What do we mean when we say "civil liberties"? How are they distinct from human rights? How do democracies weaken over time, and how are they brought back from the brink? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Bruce Fein in Virginia
Fein was one of the most prominent conservative critics of the former Bush administration. He was appointed by President Reagan to be an associate deputy attorney general from 1981 to 1982. He was the general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission and minority research director for the Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran. He recently served on the American Bar Association's Task Force on Presidential signing statements. Fein called for the impeachment of former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney and writes regular columns for The Washington Times and Slate devoted to legal and international affairs. He is author, most recently of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy.

Naomi Wolf in NYC
Wolf, an essayist and provocateur, was born in San Francisco. The Beauty Myth, her first book, was an international bestseller and each of her books since then has maintained her place as one of the premier feminist critics of American political culture. She is author most recently of The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot and its sequel, Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries. The End of America was adapted into a documentary by the same name. Ms. Wolf joins us from New York.

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Your Call 102908 The Shadow Factory

When you start a secret program to spy on everyone, how can you ever be sure it's been unplugged for good? On the next Your Call we'll be joined by James Bamford, who has done more to pull back the curtain on the ultra-secret National Security Agency than anyone else. Bamford's new book The Shadow Factory recounts how the Bush Administration transformed epic failures by American intelligence agencies into arguments for massively increasing their power. How does the NSA skim the emails, faxes, phone calls and Internet traffic of the entire world? What is the NSA listening to right now? It may be Your Call, with me, Sandip Roy and you.

Guests: James Bamford in DC
Our nation's chronicler of the dark side. He's a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, Harpers and his article in Rolling Stone "The Man who Sold the War" won the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Mr. Bamford joins us from DC.

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Your Call 102108 Is voter suppression widespread?

How widespread is voter suppression? On the next Your Call, we'll have a discussion about tactics used by political parties to discourage or prohibit eligible voters from casting their votes. From voter purges to electronic voting, thousands of voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering. What are voters doing to fight back? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests: Adam Skaggs is counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice and an attorney for the voting rights organizations challenging Florida's "no match-no vote" law.

Bob Schaeffer with Florida's Center for Civic Participation

Tomás Garduño, the statewide organizer for the South West Organizing Project, a non-partisan, non-profit group in New Mexico that educates minority citizens.

Brian Rothenberg, Executive Director of Progress Ohio

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Your Call 071608 Never Alone, Always Recorded

How has our culture changed because of near ubiquitous surveillance? On the next Your Call we'll discuss the ever shrinking zone of privacy free from government or corporate observation. The NSA could be listening to your phone calls, Google might be taking pictures of your front door and the pizza parlor might be selling your information to marketers. How are we responding, co-opting and resisting the culture of no privacy? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and You.

Guest:
Trevor Paglen in San Francisco
East Bay artist who uses high powered cameras to take pictures of spy satellites

Bruce Schneier in Santa Clara, CA
Security expert and skeptic, founder of Counterpane Security and author of the blog Schneier on Security

Rudolf Freiling in San Francisco
Curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Your Call 070208 Homeschool's Out for the Summer

Where is the balance between a parent's right to educate their child as they wish and a society's need to have educated citizens? On the next Your Call we're talking about a remarkable hearing at the California Supreme Court. Last March, the court ruled parents who teach their children at home needed a teaching certification. On June 23rd, the court called a do-over. Even if you don't like what schools teach or how they teach it, does a societal interest in standards win over your personal interest in your child? What do kids absolutely have to know? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Debbie Schwarzer in Colorado
Lawyer for the Home School Association of California, has been very involved in the case and was present for the recent hearing. She also home schools her own two children.

Diane Flynn-Keith in Milpitas, CA
Home schooled her own two children, who are now in their early twenties. Now she coaches other home-schooling parents in California and runs a curriculum resource at homefires.com

Susan Sandler in San Francisco
President of Justice Matters, a San Francisco based education reform group working to create racially just schools.

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Your Call 061708 The future of gay marriage in CA and the US

What's in store for the future of gay marriage in California and across the country? On the next Your Call, we'll discuss the recent California Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage. In November Californians will vote on a state constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage. Will gay marriage influence the presidential race? And will California influence other courts around the country? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Kate Runyon, interim executive director of Triangle Foundation in Michigan.

Ian Palmquist, executive director of Equality North Carolina

Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, a public interest law firm that joined the legal battle to overturn the ban on same-sex marriage

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Your Call 122007 Maya Harris- executive director of the Northern California American Civil Liberties Union

What happened to Californians' civil liberties in 2007? On the next Your Call we welcome the executive director of the Northern California American Civil Liberties Union, Maya Harris. The NorCal ACLU has sued a San Jose company for arranging rendition flights, defended a young girl's right to wear Tigger socks to school and fought immigration raids by ICE officers. Which of our liberties should they focus on next year? It’s your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Maya Harris in San Francisco
Executive Director of the Northern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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