What does it mean to live in exile?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with novelist, playwright, and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman, about his memoir, Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile. Dorfman was forced to flee for his life during the Chilean military coup in 1973. Now he reflects on the history of politics in Latin America and his own life--with the conclusion that "we are all exiles." So what does that mean? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What can exiles teach us about our common humanity? It's Your Call with Shirin Sadeghi, and you.

Guests:

Ariel Dorfman, novelist, playwright, and human rights activist who is out with a new memoir, Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile

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Will they ever close the School of the Americas?

On the next Your Call, we'll speak with Nico Udu-Gama, one of 15 human rights activists facing trial for nonviolent direct action to shut down the military training school. What legacy has the School of the Americas left on US foreign policy with Latin America? And what's happening there today? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you want to know about the School of the Americas? On the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Nico Udu-Gama, one of 15 human rights activists facing trial for nonviolent direct action to close the School of the Americas

Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, associate professor of Justice and Peace Studies at University of St. Thomas in Minnesota and author of School of Assassins: Guns, Greed and Globalization

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Where is Mexico heading?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with John Gibler, author of To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War. During the past four years, more than 30,000 people have been killed in Mexico's drug wars. Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is this crisis impacting the future of Mexico and what role does the U.S. play in Mexico's Drug War? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
John Gibler, a journalist based in Mexico and author of To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War

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Your Call 100109 What's ahead for the U.S. in the world?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Noam Chomsky, celebrated linguist and leading critic of American foreign policy. As the U.S. sits down for direct talks with Iran, does Chomsky see a less confrontational foreign policy under Obama? What does the coup in Honduras mean for Latin America?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does a self-avowed anarchist like Chomsky find common ground with one-time coup leader Hugo Chavez? It's Your Call, with Matt Martin and you.

Guest:
Noam Chomsky, noted linguist and a leading public intellectual.

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Your Call 070809 What happened in Honduras?

What happened in Honduras? On the next Your Call we try to get past the global political considerations and try to understand on its own terms the military takeover and expulsion of President Manuel Zelaya. Is American influence really as powerful and nefarious as it is sometimes is portrayed? Are there changes happening there that neither progressives nor the Obama Administration fully understand? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. When we view world events through the lens of the superpower, what do we miss?

Guests:
Jose Castro in Nashville, Tennessee
Honduran radio host in Nashville, Tennessee. He hosts Puntes de Interes on 810 AM La Sabrosita.

Grahame Russell in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Co-Director of Rights Action which funds community-controlled development, environmental, human rights and emergency-relief projects in Guatemala, Honduras, Chiapas and Oaxaca (Mexico) and El Salvador, and does education and activism work with North Americans to address global exploitation, repression, enviro-destruction and racism.

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Your Call 061208 Unsure about UNASUR

Are we on the brink of the United States of South America? On the next Your Call we'll discuss the creation of La Union de Naciones Suramericanas last month in Brasilia. The Constitutive Treaty creates a headquarters in Quito, Ecuador, the South American Parliament in Cochabamba and the Bank of the South in Bogota. How big a deal was the signing? Will momentum for unification weaken when Bush is gone? And why hasn't the agreement garnered more attention in any of the Americas? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Nathan Gill in Valparaiso, Chile
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar researching globalization and South American regional integration at the Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile (Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile). He is also the publisher of Southern Affairs, a blog that offers news and analysis of Latin American international relations, and is the government and economy correspondent in Chile for Bloomberg News.

Larry Birns in Washington, D.C.
The director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs since its founding in 1975. A former defense researcher and strategist and member of the Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and the All Souls College, Oxford's military seminar, he was a senior grade public affairs officer for the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America in Santiago, Chile.

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