What is the best way to reintegrate prisoners into society?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about what it takes to help people transition from the inside to the outside. A recent Supreme Court ruling ordered California to reduce its prison population. This may mean more inmates are released on parole in the near future. But just last year California's recidivism rate was almost 70 percent. What explains that high number? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What does it take to reintegrate people behind bars back into our communities? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Linda Evans, organizer with All of Us Or None coalition and Legal Services for Prisoners with Children

Susan Burton, founder and executive director of A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project

Ramiro Mejia, resident employee at San Francisco's Delancey Street Foundation

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What happens between middle age and old age?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Marc Freedman, author of The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife. The average U.S. life span is getting longer, people are working past the traditional retirement age, having children later in life, and seeking fulfillment beyond their first careers. Freedman says, "We need a new map of life." But what should this map look like? And how do we create it? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Is the "new middle age" an individual matter or a societal concern? It's Your Call with Holly Kernan and you.

Guests:
Marc Freedman, author of The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Mid Life

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What does it take strike a balance between family and work?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with professor Joan Williams, author of Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter. She says the U.S. has the most family-hostile public policy in the developed world and in order to change policies, class and gender must become part of the national debate. What policies would you want to change? Join us live at 10 or send us email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do you balance work and family? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Joan Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings College of the Law

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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 050609 What gives your job meaning?

What gives your job meaning? On the next Your Call we'll speak with Paul Buhle and Harvey Pekar about their new graphic novel adaptation of Studs Terkel's Working. 35 years ago Studs published his interviews with parking lot attendants, corporate executives, newsboys, housewives, firemen and sailors about what they did all day and what it meant to them doing it. If Studs wanted to capture working life today, who would he need to talk to? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What do you do all day? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Paul Buhle in Providence, Rhode Island
Senior lecturer at Brown University and an editor of several books of comic art, including Wobblies!, A Dangerous Woman, Students for a Democratic Society, and A People's History of American Empire.

Harvey Pekar in Cleveland, Ohio
Comic-book writer and author of the autobiographical American Splendor series, which was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film. Pekar is also a prolific jazz and book critic.

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Your Call 011708 What don’t we know about gang life?

What don’t we know about the realities of gang life? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with Sudhir Venkatesh, a Columbia University sociologist and author of Gang Leader for a Day. Venkatesh spent almost a decade hanging out with crack-selling gang members and struggling poor residents in one of Chicago’s most notorious public housing projects. How do gang members see themselves as fitting in with society? How do they fit into your community? And what will it take to break the cycle of poverty, drugs, and violence in places like Chicago's Projects? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Sudhir Venkatesh
Author of Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

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