Your Call 102308 New Voters, New Politics

How will new voters from immigrant and ethnic communities change the Democrats? On the next Your Call we'll discuss the deeper impacts of these new voters on American politics. A record 130 million voters are expected to cast ballots this year, up from nearly 126 million in 2004, and many of those new voters are not part of the white majority. What are the issues and values that are attracting Asian-American and Latino voters to the Democrats? How will the politics of social issues like same-sex marriage and parental notification about abortion shift? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Roberto Lovato in New York
Contributing Associate Editor with New America Media and a frequent contributor to The Nation and the Huffington Post. Roberto was the Executive Director of the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), then the country's largest immigrant rights organization.

Vida Benevides in Washington DC
Executive Director of Asian Pacific Islander American Vote, a national nonpartisan, nonprofit that promotes civic participation of APIA community in national, state and local politics.

Josh Norek in New York
Deputy Director of Voto Latino, is voter registration and get out the vote organization, founded by in 2004 by the actress Rosario Dawson.

Karen K. Narasaki in San Francisco
President and Executive Director of the Asian American Justice Center, a national organization defending and advancing the civil and human rights of Asian Americans.

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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 100808 The View from the Purple States

What did the second McCain-Obama debate look like from the most contested states in this year's election? On the next Your Call we'll speak with voters in Florida, New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia and Pennsylvania. New voters, old voters, single moms, and immigrants, we'll hear how the election is shaping up where the outcome is likely to be decided. What does Election 2008 look like from the purple states? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests: Bob Schaeffer in Florida
Florida director for the Center for Civic Participation, a national non-profit that organizes non-partisan voter registration drives in swing states. They work for groups like the League of Women Voters, ACORN and the NAACP.

Brian Rothenberg in Columbus
Executive Director of ProgressOhio, Founded In 2006, ProgressOhio is like a local MoveOn.

Joanie Rabinowitz in Pittsburgh
Co-Director of Just Harvest, A Center For Action in Pittsburgh.

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Your Call 092908 Barriers to Democracy in America

How open is the American political system? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Harper's publisher John MacArthur. He is out with a new book entitled You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America. With Barack Obama and Sarah Palin on the big party tickets, are we closer than ever to a nation where anyone can aspire to be president? How democratic is our presidential politics? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: John MacArthur, Harper's publisher, and author of You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America

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Your Call 090808 John Zogby on Presidential Polling

What will the pollsters focus on for the next two months? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with John Zogby, president of polling company Zogby International. He is also author of, The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream. Polling firms are being commissioned by different media outlets and political parties to gauge the latest opinions in the presidential race. Who is being polled? What questions are being asked? And does any of it matter? It's Your Call, weekdays at 11:00 with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
John Zogby, president & CEO of the polling company Zogby International, and author of The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream

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Your Call 090408 Sex and Politics

How will questions about sex play out in the presidential election? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with historian Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has the nation talking about her teenage daughter's pregnancy. The news has become part of the political debate. What do the responses on the left say about what they get or don't get about how gender and sexuality works politically on the right? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Dagmar Herzog is professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of several books, including Intimacy and Exclusion and Sex after Fascism. Her most recent book is Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics.

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Your Call 082908 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable – the day we applaud good reporting and scrutinize media bias. This week, the Democratic National Convention dominated the headlines. Fifteen thousand reporters were in Denver. How was coverage? Did you read about protests and corporate donors? We'll be joined by the Denver Post's Susan Green and Al Jazeera English's Richard Gizbert. What did the coverage look like overseas? With all eyes on the convention, what was missing from the front pages? It's Your Call at 11:00, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Richard Gizbert, host of Listening Post, the media watch broadcast on Al Jazeera English

Susan Green, news columnist with the Denver Post

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Your Call 082808 Democratic National Convention (DNC) and the Democrats' future

What is really happening in Denver? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about DNC and what it says about the future of the Democratic Party and November's presidential election. Some 50,000 delegates, 2,500 FBI and police, and thousands of media are in Denver. The city is spending 18 million dollars for security and the Democratic Party is spending 50 million dollars on the event. What is DNC accomplishing? What do the conventions say about the future of the party? And what are you getting out of this convention? It's Your Call at 11 a.m. with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Michael Tomasky, editor of Guardian America.

John Nichols, Washington Correspondent for The Nation.

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Your Call 082208 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable, the day we applaud good reporting. One of the deadliest suicide bombings in Pakistan claimed 60 lives this week. Presidential hopefuls Obama and McCain sought salvation at the Saddleback mega-church and the Beijing Games are coming to an end. We will speak to Pakistani journalist Zahid Husain, Nation columnist Dave Zirin, and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer's Ray Suarez. Did you see any good reporting this week? It's Your Call, with guest host Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Ray Suarez, senior correspondent at PBS's "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer"

Zahid Hussain, the Pakistan correspondent for the Times of London, the Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek. He is also the political correspondent for the Karachi-based monthly Newsline.

Dave Zirin, the first sports correspondent for the Nation Magazine.

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Your Call 082008 Following the Money- Where does your campaign contribution go?

When you give $100 to a political candidate what do they spend it on? On the next Your Call break down the expected $1 billion dollars candidates will have spent before November's election. The FEC is releasing the latest fundraising totals for the presidential race Tuesday. How much of it will go to advertising? Salaries? Mailers and signs? Who wins and who loses in the billion dollar run for the White House? It's your call, with me, Rose Aguilar and you, weekdays at 11.

Guests:
Evan L. Tracey in Washington DC
is the founder and chief operating officer of Campaign Media Analysis Group, a TNS Media Intelligence company. CMAG is the leading custom media-research company for politics and public affairs advertising expenditure data.

Julie Rajan in Sacramento
Executive Director of the California Clean Money Campaign, a coalition building organization building state-wide support for pubic financing of election campaigns.

Ira Teinowitz in Washington
Washington Bureau Chief for Advertising Age

Massie Ritsch in Washington
Communications Director for The Center for Responsive Politics, a national research group that tracks money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy.

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Your Call 073108 The Kids Are All Left

How do today's young liberals participate in the political process? On the next your Call, we talk to a panel of young people who have recently become political activists and who are trying to mobilize other progressive youth. Polls and election analysts predict that the 18-to-29-year-old voting bloc will play a decisive role in this fall's presidential election. Why are young voters turning to the left in record numbers, and how are they using new technology to organize? What can these activists learn from the protesters of the 1960s? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Young political activists

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Your Call 072508 Friday Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable -- the day we discuss how the media covered the week's top stories. This week, Barack Obama traveled the world from war zones to world capitals, and the anchors of every network were right there with him; when presidential candidate John McCain arrived for campaign events in New Hampshire, one local photographer and reporter was there. The progressive blogosphere met up in Austin, and Bosnian war criminal Radovan Karadzic was discovered impersonating an alternative medicine guru in Belgrade. Did you get the reporting you needed to put those stories in context? It's your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you

Guests:

Ken Silverstein in Washington
Washington Editor for Harper's Magazine and author of Washington Babylon for Harper's Online

Jamal Dajani in San Francisco
Senior Director for Middle Eastern Programming at LinkTV

Adrian Wooldridge in Washington
Washington Bureau Chief and 'Lexington' columnist for the Economist magazine.

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Your Call 060908 Can the Bay Area impact the pres. election?

How can we in the Bay Area have an impact on the national conversation in this election year? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with our guests and you, our listeners, about the ways in which we can positively influence the current presidential race. What are the conversations you would want us bring to the air? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Lisa Margonelli, California-based Fellow at the New America Foundation

Shanell Williams, Program Director of the Center for Young Women's Development

William Poy Lee, Berkeley based author of Eighth Promise

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Your Call 052308 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable where we discuss how the news of the week was covered in the mainstream, alternative and international press. This week West Virginia and Oregon voted. Should a rally in Portland that drew a sixth of the city's population been a bigger story? Also this week, peace talks were simultaneously announced by Syria and Israel. We'll be joined by environment reporter Clare Cummings; Shmuel Rosner from Haaretz and Joe Garofoli of the San Francisco Chronicle. Where did you get the context you needed from this weeks news? It's Your Call with Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Clare Cummings, an environmental lawyer and journalist who writes primarily about the environmental and political implications of what we eat and how it is grown and raised. She is the author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds.

Shmuel Rosner is the chief U.S. correspondent for Haaretz, a center-left Israeli newspaper.

Joe Garofoli writes about media trends, politics and culture for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Your Call 051208 Candidates Ralph Nader and Cynthia Ann McKinney

Will third party candidates make a difference this election? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Ralph Nader who's running for president on the Independent ticket, and former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia Ann McKinney. She is running as a Green. Nader has been an effective crusader for the consumer rights and McKinney has been an outspoken anti-war advocate. But who is listening? What is their platform? Do you think their message can impact the election? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Ralph Nader, renowned advocate for the rights of consumers and Independent presidential candidate

Cynthia Ann McKinney, former Congresswoman from Georgia and Green Party presidential candidate.

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Your Call 050208 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Media Roundtable. The Reverend Jeremiah Wright continues to dominate headlines. Is the coverage justified? The American Prospect's Sarah Posner joins us to discuss religion coverage in general. And the Free Press's Harvey Wasserman will talk about coverage of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold a law requiring citizens to show an ID card before voting. We'll also talk about the coverage of Iraq. Where did you see solid reporting? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist and the author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq

Sarah Posner has covered the religious right for The American Prospect, The Gadflyer, and AlterNet. Her new book is God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters

Harvey Wasserman, Senior Editor of Free Press

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Your Call 041808 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable. This week saw the worst series of suicide bombings in Iraq in months. We'll talk with the Independent's Iraq correspondent and author of the new book, Moqtada, Patrick Cockburn. This week also saw what is likely to be the final debate between Clinton and Obama. Anything of substance go on there? We'll talk with Danny Schechter of the News Dissector. What was the best reporting you saw this week? It's Your Call With Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests

Will Bunch in Philadelphia

Will is the Pulitzer Prize winning senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, its former political writer and the author of Daily News' blog, Attytood.

Patrick Cockburn in Great Britain

Author of Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq, and the UK Independent's correspondent, Cockburn has spent about half of the last five years reporting, unembedded, around Iraq, a country he's been visiting since 1977.

Danny Schechter

Founder and executive editor of MediaChannel. His work has been honored with Emmy awards, the IRIS award, the George Polk Award, the Major Armstrong Award, and honors from the National Association of Black Journalists.

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Your Call 040208 Matt Gonzalez

Why is Matt Gonzalez running for vice president? On the next Your Call we speak with the former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and current Independent Party running mate of Ralph Nader. Since leaving the Democratic Party in the middle of an election in 2000, Gonzalez has charted his own path through electoral politics. Why has he come back now, and what does he hope to accomplish? Is this a model for how you make peace with your idealism and your practicality? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Matt Gonzalez in San Francisco
Ralph Nader's running mate on the Independent Party presidential ticket. Former President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

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Your Call 031408 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable where we discuss how the news of the week was covered. With every lead story focusing on New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's sex life, what stories are we missing? This week, Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News joins us as the national media prepares to cover the Pennsylvania primary. Donna Ladd, editor of Mississippi's only alternative, The Jackson Free Press, just watched the media fly in and fly out and she wasn't impressed. Where did you see solid reporting this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Donna Ladd in Jackson, Mississippi
Donna is one of the founders and the editor of the Jackson Free Press, the sole alternative weekly in Mississippi. She used to write for the Village Voice and also helped start the Colorado Springs Independent.

Will Bunch in Philadelphia
Will is the Pulitzer Prize winning senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, its former political writer and the author of Daily News' blog, Attytood.

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Your Call 022908 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable, the day we speak with reporters about coverage of the week's news. The Ohio and Texas primaries are this Tuesday. We'll speak with two journalists who have covered those states for decades. John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine, covered Ohio for years; Lou Dubose, editor of The Washington Spectator, and co-author of five books with the late Molly Ivins, has reported from Texas for decades. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
John Nichols in Madison
Washington Correspondent for the Nation Magazine. John covered Ohio politics for many years.

Lou Dubose in Austin
Editor of The Washington Spectator and former editor of The Texas Observer. He is a long time chronicler of the State of Texas with his partner in crime and co-author of five books, the late Molly Ivins.

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