Are you prepared for the next earthquake?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about disaster preparedness and how communities are organizing for the next Big One. KALW is partnering with Mobile Commons to create a digital interactive map of the greater Bay Area to highlight how communities are preparing. And Thursday is a state-wide earthquake drill. How earthquake ready are you? Do you have a plan? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Is your community ready? What about the local government? What actions can we take before an earthquake hits? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

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Guests:
Jeff Terpstra, operations chief for the Aptos/La Selva Fire District; and coordinator of Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) training and disaster preparedness

Patty Peper, chair of disaster preparedness for the Red Cross of the Bay Area

Ana-Marie Jones, executive director of Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters (CARD)

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Are we ready for the big one?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about earthquake preparedness. US Geological Survey forecasts that there is a 63% chance of a 6.7 or greater magnitude earthquake in the Bay Area in the next 30 years. Are we ready? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do we need to do in case of a big earthquake? And what can we learn from the devastating earthquake in Japan? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Abolhassan Astaneh, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Berkeley.

Danielle Hutchings, Earthquake and Hazards Program Coordinator Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG).

Corey Johnson, an investigative reporter focusing on K-12 education for California Watch. He just published a three-part series looking into whether California schools meet seismic safety standards.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll talk about coverage of the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. And many in the national media say the oil in the Gulf has disappeared. Locals say the disaster is far from over. We'll also discuss the lack of coverage of the devastating floods in Pakistan. We'll be joined by Brentin Mock, a New Orleans-based reporter with ColorLines, The News International's Riaz Daudzai, and The Times-Picayune's David Hammer. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What caught your attention in the media this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Brentin Mock, a New Orleans-based reporter with ColorLines

David Hammer, staff writer with The Times-Picayune

Riaz Daudzai, a reporter with The News International newspaper based in Peshawar, Pakistan

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Are We Ready for the Next Big Quake?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about what it takes to prepare your neighborhood or community for a natural disaster. Seismologists have predicted that a major earthquake is likely to hit the San Francisco Bay Area within the next 30 years. How can we be ready to come together effectively when disaster strikes? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What lessons can we take from past disasters and recent earthquakes? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Mike Conrad--Aptos Fire Department CERT program

Lyz Luke--events director for The Big Rumble SF

Emily White--director of earthquake preparedness at Bay Area Red Cross

Lt. Erica Arteseros--Program Coordinator of San Francisco Fire Department NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams) Training

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Your Call 091609 Why do disasters bring out the best in us?

Why do disasters so often bring out the best in people? On the next Your Call we speak with writer, critic and activist Rebecca Solnit about her new book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster. She tells the story of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, Halifax Nova Scotia after a devastating munitions explosion that shattered windows 50 miles away, 9-11 and New Orleans after the levies failed among other disasters. In that time of shock and dislocation, when everything familiar has been leveled, Solnit found generosity, altruism, heroism and joy.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What is it about catastrophe that frees people to be good? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Rebecca Solnit in San Francisco
Writes about the environment, politics, place, and art from her home here in San Francisco. Solnit has received many awards for her writing: a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship for Literature and the 2004 Wired Rave Award for writing. Her latest book is called A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster.

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Your Call 083109 Hurricane Katrina Four Years Later--What's Changed?

What has changed since Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of Louisiana and Mississippi four years ago? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with two women whose lives have been forever altered by the tragedy. Katrina was the largest hurricane of its strength to reach the United States in recorded history. More than 1800 people were killed and 700,000 displaced. Who's returned since the hurricane? And how are people surviving both the aftermath of the storm and the economic crisis? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Colette Pichon Battle, president of the board of Moving Forward and program director of the Gulf Coast Fellowship for Community Transformation

Sharon Hanshaw, executive director of Coastal Women for Change

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Your Call 072308 Do photographs change your environmental views?

How do photographs affect your views on the environment? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with world renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky, whose work was featured in the documentary Manufactured Landscapes. Burtynsky has made it his life's work to explore and document humanity's expanding footprint and the ways in which we're reshaping the surface of the planet. Do photographs have the power to alter the way we think about the world and our place in it? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Edward Burtynsky, the subject of the film Manufactured Landscapes, is a respected Canadian artist whose work is displayed in fifteen major museums across the world.

Amanda Herman, who from 2005 until 2007 worked with families and individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina and produced the film Lost Island.

Rosanne Olson worked for five years as a photojournalist before moving to Seattle, where she works as a commercial and fine arts photographer. This spring, she published a body image book titled This Is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Shapes and Sizes.

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Your Call 052608 Pacific Connections: Burma Edition

What can Bay Area residents do to help Burmese victims of the cyclone and the military junta? On the next Your Call we replay a show recorded May 20th speaking with Burmese exiles across the Pacific Rim. Burma has been under military rule for more than 40 years and last year's Saffron Revolution was brutally crushed. The May 2 landfall of Cyclone Nargis added an unprecedented natural disaster to decades of suffering and neglect. What is the state of the opposition movement after so many years of repression? What forces in and outside Burma could end the decades long nightmare and how can Bay Area residents help? On the Next Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Koko Lay in San Francisco
Koko Lay was one of the organizers behind a popular people's uprising in Burma on August 8, 1988. Known as the 8-8-88 protests, the Burmese military killed more than 3,000 students and civilians. Koko Lay fled first to Thailand and then to the U.S. He is the West Coast director of the National Council of Union of Burma, the government in exile and a Master's student in the Social Change Design and Conflict Resolution program at San Francisco State.

U Kovida in San Francisco
A Burmese monk and leader of last year's Saffron Revolution against the military junta that has ruled Burma for 20 years. U Kovida led a protest march to the house of imprisoned opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. After the military assault on the monks and civilians in September of last year, U Kovida fled first to Thailand and then to the United States.

Debbie Stothard in Thailand
Founder of Altsean, a Burmese advocacy and training organization training based in Thailand.

Dr. Tint Swe in New Dehli
Elected to the Burmese parliament in the May 1990 elections. They were the first since the coup in 1962. The elections were won overwhelmingly by Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, winning 392 of the 492 seats.

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