Do you know "a woman like that?"

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Elaine Madsen about her award winning documentary film, I Know A Woman Like That. We will be also speaking with the celebrated author Maxine Hong Kingston and Barbara Hillary, the first known African-American woman to reach the North Pole, at the age of 75 in 2007.

The documentary features women passionately engaged in spirited endeavors at a time when the world expects them to be in their rocking chairs. Is there an older woman in your life who counters stereotypes about growing old? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What can we do to honor "older people?" It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Maxine Hong Kingston, an eminent Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California.

Elaine Madsen, an Emmy Award winning writer producer, director, playwright, poet and documentary maker.

Barbara Hillary, the first known African-American woman to reach the North Pole, at the age of 75 in 2007.

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How Do People with Mental Illness Experience the World?

How do people with mental illness experience the world? How does the world respond to them? How helpful is it to label mental health struggles as illnesses? How helpful are medications? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about mental health--as it is experienced by those with imbalances, as it is viewed through psychiatric medicine, as it is portrayed through art. Do you or does anyone you know wrestle with depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do we as communities provide support? And can we redefine the way we regard mental illness? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Ken Paul Rosenthal--director of the documentary film, Crooked Beauty

Ashley McNamara--co-founder of the Icarus Project, a network of people living with and/or affected by experiences that are commonly diagnosed and labeled as psychiatric conditions.

Dr. Bradley Lewis--clinical psychiatrist

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Is There a Poem that has Moved You?

Is there a poem that has moved you, touched you, or changed your life? On the next Your Call, we'll celebrate National Poetry Month by asking you to share your favorite poem. Where did you first hear it and why did it stick with you? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does poetry make you feel? Does it quiet your mind? Does it inspire you to action? What does poetry do for you that prose can't? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Devorah Major--former San Francisco poet laureate, adjunct professor at California College of the Arts, and Poet in Residence at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Pireeni Sundaralingam--poet and co-editor of Indivisible: A Contemporary Anthology of South Asian American Poetry

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How Do We Break the Silence Around Domestic Violence?

How do we break the silence around domestic violence? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with Olivia Klaus, director of Sin by Silence, a documentary about incarcerated women speaking out against domestic violence. We'll also be joined by Brenda Clubine. She spent 26 years in prison and founded Convicted Women Against Abuse to change laws and raise awareness. Why is it still so hard to talk about domestic violence?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can we break the cycle? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Olivia Klaus--Director and producer of Sin by Silence, a documentary about domestic violence

Brenda Clubine--Founder of Convicted Women Against Abuse; spent 26 years in prison

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Who are the Tea Partiers?

Beyond contempt for government--the current administration in particular--what exactly is making this party tick? And how unified are its members? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the Tea Party. Is it fueled from the ground up or from the top down? How should progressives respond? And how are Republicans reacting? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you want to know about the extreme Right in this country? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jonathan Raban--Author and contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent.

Thomas Frank--Weekly opinion columnist with the Wall Street Journal; Author of "The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation"

John Guerrero--Fremont Tea Party leader

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Which Women Do Feminists Champion Today?

Who are the women championed by today's feminist movement? On the next Your Call, we will celebrate Women's History Month. It was introduced 100 years ago by a German socialist Clara Zetkin but how much of that history is with today's women's movement? What does it mean to be a woman in today's society? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Which women would you like to see honored during Women's History Month -- or year-round? It's Your Call, with me Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Nona Willis Aronowitz, journalist and cultural critic.

Katie Kanagawa, a lecturer at San Francisco State University. Her areas of interests are contemporary U.S. film and popular culture, feminist histories and theories.

Cynthia Enloe, a feminist scholar and a Research Professor of Women's Studies and International Development at Clark University.

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Why Do So Many Americans Own Guns?

Why do so many Americans own guns? On the next Your Call, as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a challenge to Chicago's handgun ban, we'll have a conversation about gun ownership. If you own a gun, we want to know why. Are there limits to the right to bear arms that you're comfortable with?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. If you can't imagine keeping a gun, what questions do you have for the people who do? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Joe Meyers, gun collector based in Santa Cruz

Scott Jackson, chief instructor with California Department of Justice and a handgun safety instructor at Bay Area Firearms Instruction Company

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Are You Going Native in Your Garden?

On the next Your Call, we'll look at the world of native plants in Northern California, both in the great outdoors and our backyards. What is a native plant? Why are they worth planting, and how do you pick the right ones? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org? Is there ever a wrong time to choose native species? And what are your favorite native plants? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Ellen Zagory, director of Horticulture at UC Davis Arboretum

Jessa Guisse, California pollinator outreach coordinator at Xerces Society

Kevin Bryant, chapter council chair of California Native Plant Society

Kathy Kramer, Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour Coordinator

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What Will America Look Like in 2050?

Urban or suburban, what will the U.S. look like in forty years? On the next Your Call we'll be joined by Joel Kotkin, author of the new book The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050. Kotkin celebrates a vision of the country that looks increasingly more like the suburbs of Los Angeles and less like San Francisco or New York. He argues that significant increases in population and sprawling development will make America, "the most affluent, culturally rich, and successful nation in human history." Where do you see yourself living over the coming decades -- the city, the country, or somewhere in between?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to Feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's your vision of America in 2050? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Joel Kotkin is a journalist, formerly at the Wall Street Journal and currently at Forbes.com, and a development consultant with The Brookings Institution, The New America Foundation and The Center for an Urban Future. He has authored several books; his most recent is The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050.

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How Do We Use Black History Month to Bridge Racial Divides?

On the next Your Call, we'll look at the history of Black History Month, what it has to teach and how it can continue to be relevant today. Half a century away from the Civil Rights Movement and with a black president in office, how do we as a society relate to race? Do we talk about it too much? Not enough? Do institutions like Black History Month help spark important investigations and conversations about race?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does looking into history create honest dialogue about race in today's world? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Dr. Daryl Michael Scott, professor of history at Howard University and Vice President of Programs at the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH).

Tammy Johnson, director of strategic partnerships at the Applied Research Center in Oakland--which publishes Color Lines; Tammy is also a community organizer, trainer and writer versed in race and public policy.

Kevin Epps, community activist and award-winning filmmaker from the Bay Area; producer of the 2002 documentary Straight Outta Hunter's Point and, more recently, The Black Rock.

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How Did Howard Zinn Change the History of the United States?

On the next Your Call, we'll look back at the writing, activism, and life story of social historian Howard Zinn. His influential People's History of the United States sold over a million copies and is used in many history courses. What did his work mean to you? How did it change your perspective of history?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feedback@yourcall.org. How should Zinn's work influence the way history is taught in the future? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Daniel Ellsberg, an activist and political analyst. His leaking of the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times set in motion a chain of events that ended not only the Nixon presidency but the Vietnam War.

Ron Briley, a history teacher and assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he has taught for over thirty years.

Olive Mitra, a humanities and English literature teacher at June Jordan School for Equity, a San Francisco public high school.

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Should America be Therapist to the World?

Has American Pyschology been exported? We'll talk with Ethan Watters, author of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. Does our approach to mental health make sense outside the context of the U.S.? Are we dominating the understanding of the mind? And what do the stories of psychotherapy gone wrong abroad tell us?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Has the American Psyche been exported? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy, and you.

Guests:
Ethan Watters, author Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

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What's the Power of Graphic Journalism?

How can the craft of graphic novelists illuminate politics and history? Join us for conversation with Joe Sacco, author of Footnotes in Gaza and John Hogan of the Graphic Novel Reporter live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What can we learn from graphic journalism? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy, and you.

Guests:
Joe Sacco, author of Footnotes in Gaza

John Hogan, editor of the Graphic Novel Reporter

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Should we Save or Spend?

In a recession, what's the right way to manage your financial resources? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Chris Farrell, author of The New Frugality. What's the difference between being cheap and being frugal? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Are Americans ready to adjust their spending and save for the long-term? And how can government and communities support more sane personal finance? It's Your Call, with guest host Hanna Baba, and you.

Guest:
Chris Farrell, economics editor for American Public Media's Marketplace Money program on public radio.

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When is Dissent Hip?

What is the relationship today between pop-culture, counterculture and dissent? What is the counterculture that sells media now? And can activists reclaim the counterculture that now permeates the mainstream?

Join the conversation live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. When is dissent hip? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy, and you.

Guests:
Douglas Haddow, Adbusters Magazine
Dan Sinker, Punk Planet
Davey D, journalist and hip-hop historian

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How Do We Want to Live with Pot?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the questions raised by the November ballot measure that could legalize and tax marijuana in California. Where and why should people be able to use it? How should it be marketed, sold and taxed? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What should we tell the kids?

It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Mason Tvert, the executive director and co-founder Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER), a Voter Education Fund, and a national marijuana policy reform organization based in Denver, Colorado.

Paul Armentano, the deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML).

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How Does America Converse After Newspapers?

What does the demise of the newspaper tell us about the future of cities and the way we relate to the people around us? Join Sandip Roy for a wide-ranging pre-recorded conversation about human connection and our changing media with essayist Richard Rodriguez, author of Brown and Hunger of Memory.

Guest:
Richard Rodriguez

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What's Exciting on Stage Right Now?

What's exciting on stage right now? Been to the theatre lately? Have relatives in town you'd like to take out for a show? Join the conversation as we delve into the creative pulse of theatre in Northern California live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's new in live theater? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Karen McKevitt, editor of Theatre Bay Area Magazine
Jolene Change, writer of the blog Saturday Matinee
Stephanie Weisman of The Marsh Theater
Kenneth Kelleher, artistic director of the Pacific Rep in Monterey

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Want to Give Nothing for the Holidays?

This Holiday season, do you feel pressure to spend more money than you have? Think the national gift giving frenzy is more wasteful than wonderful? Joel Waldfogel agrees. We'll talk with him about his new book Scroogenomics: Why you shouldn't buy presents for the Holidays. When we buy for ourselves, we shop carefully and purchase items that are worth more than they cost. Gift giving is different. We make less-informed choices, and millions are wasted. How did it get this far?

Join the conversation at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Why should you give nothing for the Holidays? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guest:
Joel Waldfogel, author of Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays

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Read a Good Book Lately?

Do you have a great book to recommend? On the next Your Call, we'll ask Green Apple Books's Pete Mulvihill and the Booksmith's Rachel Meier to share their recommendations for the best books of the year. Do have friends or family members who you'd love to get a book for -- if only you had some recommendations? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or tune in live at 11. What's your book gift idea? And what are you reading? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Pete Mulvihill, co-owner, Green Apple Books and Music

Rachel Meier, manger and book buyer at Booksmith in San Francisco

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