What does it take to prove rape?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about what happens to women when they report rape. According to the Department of Justice, 300,000 women are raped every year in the US, but less than one percent of rapes result in incarceration. So what does justice mean for rape survivors? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does the criminal system treat the accusers and the accused? It's your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Julie Baltzley, a case manager for San Francisco Women Against Rape

Julie Posadas-Guzman, an advocate with Bay Area Women Against Rape and President of JPG Consultants

Wendi Deetz, a teacher at Alive & Kicking Self Defense, a non-profit women's self-defense teaching cooperative based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the US Supreme Court decision in Dukes v. Wal-Mart. We'll also talk about President Obama's speech on Afghanistan. How is the media covering US strategy in that country? We'll be joined by Slate senior editor Dahlia Lithwick, Huffington Post's Lila Shapiro and veteran journalist Elizabeth Gould. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Malihe Razazan and you.

Guests:
Lila Shapiro, a Business Writer at the Huffington Post

Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate. She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches."

Elizabeth Gould is a veteran journalist and author. She has spent the last thirty years covering Afghanistan.

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How should US law hold corporations accountable for worker rights?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the Supreme Court's recent decision to throw out the class action suit brought against Wal-Mart by several of its female employes. The plaintiffs jointly claimed widespread sex discrimination on the job, but the Court ruled they had insufficient commonalities to be considered a "class." So, where does that leave workers who want to file class actions? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How could the law change to better protect workers? It's Your Call with Hana Baba and you.

Guests:
Arcelia Hurtado, executive director of Equal Rights Advocates

Liza Featherstone, journalist and the author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker's Rights at Wal-Mart

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How will the Walmart case alter class actions and women's rights?

How will the outcome of the Walmart sex discrimination case alter the future of class action lawsuits and women's rights in the workplace? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the Walmart case in the Supreme Court. Originally filed in 2001, it would represent over a million female Walmart employees on claims of sex discrimination in hiring, promotions, pay raise, and general treatment on the job. If the court rules these women can legally form a "class," how will this case alter the landscape for future class action suits? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How will this case change sex discrimination for women at work? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Brad Seligman, a civil rights attorney specializing in class action and founder of the Impact Fund

Noreen Farrell, managing attorney with Equal Rights Advocates

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How has the birth control pill changed women's lives?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Elaine Tyler May, professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota and author of America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation. Around 100 million women world-wide including 12 million women in the United States take a form of regular oral contraceptive. What should we be celebrating as the pill turns 50 this year? What are the Pill's downsides?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What effect has the pill had on your life? Do you think it has been good for society as a whole? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Elaine Tyler May, professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota and author of America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril and Liberation

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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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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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Your Call 071509 What have women contributed to American labor?

What have women contributed to the American labor movement? On the next Your Call, we'll look at the history of women in the labor movement. Women played an underappreciated role in many parts of this country's working history, including the building of the Bay Area's bridges. Where were women the pioneers in labor organizing? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. How significant is women's role in the labor movement today? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jo Kreiter, choreographer and artistic director of Flyaway Productions

Harvey Schwartz, a labor historian at San Francisco State University

Molly Martin, retired electrician, co-founder, Tradeswomen, Inc.

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Your Call 062509 What has changed in Iran?

What has changed in Iran? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the disputed presidential election in Iran and how protesters have used social media in their protests. What are the protesters' demands? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. How should organizers and citizens use social media? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Janet Afary, a professor of Religious Studies and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara.

Kaveh Ehsani, an assistant professor of International Studies at DePaul University and a member of the editorial boards of Middle East Report and the Tehran-based Goft-o-gu (Dialogue).

Shahram Aghamir, Bay Area based activist and producer of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on KPFA

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Your Call 041609 Who controls the means of reproduction?

Who controls the means of reproduction? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Michelle Goldberg, author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World. Botched abortions kill 70,000 women every year worldwide. What's being done to protect them? You can join the conversation by email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is the religious right curtailing women's reproductive health around the world? And who's fighting that powerful force? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Michelle Goldberg, a journalist and the author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World

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Your Call 030909 How has U.S. foreign policy affected women in the Middle East?

How has U.S. foreign policy affected women in the Middle East and at home? On the next Your Call, we'll mark International Women's Day by speaking with women's rights activists about what changes they expect to see under Obama administration. In the run up to the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration took to the airwaves promising it would "liberate women," but the realities tell a different story. You can join the conversation by emailing feedback@yourcallradio.org. What changes do you hope to see? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Cynthia Enloe is an internationally renowned scholar who helped to found feminist studies in International Relations. She is director of the Women's Studies Department at Clark University.

Zeina Zaatari is senior program officer for the Middle East and North Africa for the Global Fund for Women.

Yasmeen Hassan is a Pakistani lawyer and the deputy director of programs at Equality Now, an international women's rights organization based in New York.

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Your Call 072908 Women Leave the Workplace

Why are so many women leaving the workforce? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about how the economy is affecting women. In 2000, 74.9 percent of women worked. Last month, that number fell to 72.7 percent. Women are increasingly impacted by layoffs, outsourcing, stagnant wages and the discouraging prospect of an outright pay cut. How alarming is the situation? And what needs to be done? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Sylvia A. Allegretto, labor economist with Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Ariane Hegewisch, Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) and an international fellow of the Center for Work Life Law.

Ethel Long-Scott, Executive Director of The Women's Economic Agenda Project.

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Your Call 070308 Women's Rights in the Middle East

What is life like for women in the Middle East, where they've been active agents of change for many decades? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with an Iraqi and a Palestinian about women's rights. What role have women played in their national struggle? What challenges do they face? And how have the policies of the U.S. government affected their struggle? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Nadje Al-Ali is a senior lecturer in social anthropology at the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, UK.

Isis Nusair, International Studies and Women's Studies Programs at Denison University

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