Your Call 021909 What are the Weather Underground's founders saying today?

Forty years after they announced their intentions to overthrow the U.S. government by any means necessary, what is the message of the founders of the Weather Underground today? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, co-founders of the Weather Underground and authors of Race Course Against White Supremacy. Why are they placing white supremacy at the center of their analysis of American politics? You can join us by calling in or emailing us at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What has changed since the heyday of activism 40 years ago? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
William Ayers & Bernadine Dohrn in San Francisco
Former leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Weather Underground. Bill is now Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Bernadine is an associate professor at Northwestern University School of Law and the Director of Northwestern's Children and Family Justice Center.

They co-authored a book, Race Course Against White Supremacy, and Bill just re-released his memoir, Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti- War Activist.

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Your Call 111108 Who voted?

Voter turnout was a big story in Election 2008 -- so what do we know about who really turned up at the polls? On the next Your Call, we'll take a look at voting blocks, including young voters, African-Americans and Latinos and find out who played a crucial role in the presidential election. Five southern states set records for voter turnout and we saw second largest youth vote in history. So what kind of lasting impact could these new voters have on the future of politics? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Peter Levine, Director of Research and Director of CIRCLE, the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement at Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University

Mark Lopez, Associate Director of the Pew Hispanic Center

Brendan McGarry, Deputy News Editor at Army Times

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Your Call 110708 Friday Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable where we examine the week that was in American media. Barack Obama had a convincing victory at the polls Tuesday night. How is the story of that vote recounted, developed, spun and manipulated through the national media? As the country chews over the realignment, who gets a seat at the table of that conversation and who is being left out? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests: Mark Danner in Florida
A contributing writer for the New York Review of Books

Betsy Reed in New York
Managing Editor of the Nation.

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Your Call 110508 Now What?

Now what? The votes are cast and the spin has begun about what it all means. What kind of change do you expect for your vote? How can the hopeful energy the Obama campaign has generated continue into the reality of governing? How do the people who've given the energy to the Obama campaign many of whom are well to his left politically stay engaged without becoming disillusioned? After 8 years in the opposition, can the left build an effective movement that supports progressive change? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Karen K. Narasaki in DC
Executive Director of Asian American Justice Center

Chris Kromm in North Carolina
Executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies

Sujatha Jahagirdar in Washington DC, normally in LA
Program director for the New Voters Project of the Student Public Interest Research Group.

Maya Rockeymoore in DC
President and CEO, Global Policy Solutions and author of The Political Action Handbook: A How to Guide for the Hip-Hop Generation

Vida Benevides in DC
Executive Director of Asian Pacific Island American Vote

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Your Call 110408 Election Day Reports

What is happening at polling stations across the country? On the next Your Call, we'll check in with voters nationwide and we want to hear from you. Voter turnout has already surpassed the expectations. On Election Day, we expect long lines, electronic voting machine malfunctions and ballot shortages in several swing states. So what was your experience like at the polling booth? And how did it feel to finally vote? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Suzanne Gravette Acker, Communications and Development Director of Coalition on
Homeless and Housing in Ohio

Bob Hall, Executive Director of Democracy North Carolina.

Tomas Garduno, the statewide organizer for the SouthWest Organizing Project, a
non-partisan, non-profit group in New Mexico

Bob Schaeffer, with Florida's Center for Civic Participation

Joe Szakos, Executive Director of Virginia voting project

Carmen Rhodes, executive director of Front Range Economic Strategy Center
(FRESC) in Colorado

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Your Call 103108 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable where we discuss how the news of the week was covered. This week was the final full week before Election 2008. We'll have a look back with British reporter Andrew Gumbel and Gail Chaddock from the Christian Science Monitor. The monitor shuttered their printing presses and went fully electronic this week. How many other papers are likely to follow? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Joshua Holland in San Francisco
Senior Writer & Editor for AlterNet

Gail Chaddock in DC
Congressional Correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor

Andrew Gumbel in LA
Former U.S. correspondent for the London newspaper The Independent. He has been writing stories this election season for the Nation.

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Your Call 102708 Tax policy and the economy

What does tax policy have to do with the economy? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the impact of taxes on economic growth. Based on a Congressional Budget Office study, President Bush's tax cuts have offered the biggest benefits to people at the very top. With economic recession, how would McCain's and Obama's tax proposals affect the economy? How does our tax structure contrast Europe's? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Joel Slemrod, the Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Ross School and director of its Office of Tax Policy Research

Jeff Madrick, editor of Challenge Magazine, visiting professor of humanities at The Cooper Union, and director of Policy Research at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School

Lee Farris, Senior Organizer on Estate Tax Policy with United for Fair Economy

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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 091908 Media Roundtable with Thomas Frank

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we're spending the hour with Thomas Frank, the columnist who holds down the left end of the Wall Street Journal editorial page. His new book is called The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule. Frank argues that conservatives have taken pains to enshrine the free market as the permanent creed of state. Could a Democratic victory reverse the damage? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest: Thomas Frank, author and columnist for the Wall Street Journal's op-ed page.

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Your Call 091608 Voter Suppression

Will the enforcement - or violation - of voting rights decide a narrow election in November? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about voter suppression. We'll be joined by Steven Rosenfeld, author of Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting, and Dorothy Fadiman, producer of Stealing America: Vote by Vote. What are the most pressing issues in the swing states that we should know about? What can we do to ensure that all eligible voters actually cast their votes? And who's looking out for them? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Steven Rosenfeld, author of Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting

Dorothy Fadiman, producer of Stealing America: Vote by Vote.

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Your Call 091608 Voter Suppression

Will the enforcement - or violation - of voting rights decide a narrow election in November? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about voter suppression. We'll be joined by Steven Rosenfeld, author of Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting, and Dorothy Fadiman, producer of Stealing America: Vote by Vote. What are the most pressing issues in the swing states that we should know about? What can we do to ensure that all eligible voters actually cast their votes? And who's looking out for them? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Steven Rosenfeld, author of Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting

Dorothy Fadiman, producer of Stealing America: Vote by Vote.

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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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