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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Your Call 051109 What's next for the anti-globalization movement?

What is the next step for the anti-globalization movement? On the next Your Call we continue our series Agenda for a New Economy and search for the common interests between workers in the U.S. and those in poor countries. We'll speak with John Jeter, one-time foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, now author of Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Do bad times give us an opportunity to rethink economic development? It's Your Call with Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Jon Jeter in Los Angeles
From 1999 to 2003 he was the Washington Post's Southern Africa bureau chief before running the Post's bureau in South America from 2003 to 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer twice, in 2000 for a series he did about AIDS in Africa and for a series on race published by the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 1991. He is the author of the forthcoming Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People.

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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 092308 What's ahead for our economy?

What's ahead for the U.S. economy? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with investigative journalist Danny Schechter, author of Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Sub-prime Scandal. Last week, the Treasury Department called for $700 billion to stabilize volatile financial markets. What's in the plan? Is there any transparency? And who's benefiting? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest: Danny Schechter, a television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic.

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Your Call 081208 Doha round of world trade talks

What happened to the Doha round of world trade talks? On the next Your Call, we'll discuss the WTO talks in Geneva and get an update on the movement opposing free trade and globalization. Last month, negotiations broke down after nine days. So what happened? What role did the U.S. play? Who is benefiting from these trades polices? And nine years after 500,000 people took to the streets of Seattle, how strong is the anti-globalization movement? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Victor Menotti, Program Director with International Forum on Globalization

Deborah James, the Director of International Programs of Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington.

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Your Call 042308 McMafia

How do the international black market and national governments collude and cooperate in the black market? On the next Your Call we speak with journalist Misha Glenny, author of McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld. Glenny was correspondent in South-eastern Europe and chronicled the rise of the criminal gangs that prospered during the post-Soviet chaos. The World Trade Organization now estimates that 20 percent of global trade is now controlled by criminal enterprises. Where does the line between illegal arms and drug dealing cross into official state policy? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Misha Glenny in San Francisco
Author of McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld.

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Your Call 020408 Prez. Candidates' Positions on Military Spending & Global Trade

How do the presidential candidates differ on military spending, the global economy and trade? On the next Your Call, one day before the California primary, Chalmers Johnson will give us his take on the similarities and difference between the candidates; and Public Citizen Todd Tucker joins us to discuss their views on trade. What changes should we expect, once we get a new president? Do you have pressing questions before you go to the polls? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Todd Tucker, research director with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, based in Washington, DC.

Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute.

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