Your Call 092107 Friday Media Roundtable

Thanks to your generous support during our Fall membership drive, we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming. On today’s Your Call, it’s our Friday Media Roundtable – the day we speak to reporters about coverage of the week’s news. The San Francisco Chronicle’s Heather Knight will join us to discuss healthcare coverage at the local and federal level. The Christian Science Monitor’s Linda Feldmann will join us to discuss the presidential race and DC politics. And later in the show, we’ll be joined by Link TV’s Jamal Dajani to find out how the conversation about Iraq in DC is being covered in the Middle East. What was your story of the week? I’m Rose Aguilar and it’s Your Call after this news.

Guest:
Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle
Linda Feldmann, Christian Science Monitor
Jamal Dajani, Link TV

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Your Call 092007 Dream Politik

When was the last time a progressive political campaign swept you away? If you’re the average American, it's been a while. On the next Your Call we talk with Professor Stephen Duncombe, author of Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy.  Professor Duncombe says the left leaves behind many potential supporters by disdaining the tools and forms of pop culture. By relying too much on appeals to reason, do progressives cede political turf to the right? What would ethical spectacles look like? Can ending poverty be as moving as an SUV commercial? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Stephen Duncombe, author of Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy

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Your Call 091907 End of America?

On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with Naomi Wolf, author of End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. For the past six years, the Bush administration’s so-called 'Global War on Terror' has led to rampant violations of civil rights, abuse of executive power and trampling of U.S. Constitution. What will it take to bring back checks and balances? What role do citizens play in guarding the American liberal democracy? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot

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Your Call 091807 Supercapitalism

Would you trade affordable gadgets for higher wages in China? Would you pay more for cheap goods if we had nationalized health care? On the next Your Call, we talk with former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich about his new book, Supercapitalism. He argues that most people would answer "no" to those questions. Over the past twenty years, Reich says, corporate control has plummeted in the face of consumer and investor power, but citizens have fared the worst. Why are Americans so schizophrenically divided between their consumer and citizen selves? How do we get the social good back in the heart of the political process in the Supercapitalist 21st century? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Robert B. Reich, author of Supercapitalism.

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Your Call 091707 Responsible Travel

What does responsible travel mean? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a discussion with Lonely Planet writers and editors about tips for traveling responsibly. Tourism is the world's largest and fastest growing industry. It provides 10 percent of the world's income and employs almost one-tenth of the world's workforce. The more than 500 million people traveling for leisure each year has wide range effects on the environment, culture, and economies of local communities. How can we make our vacations more eco-friendly? How do you plan for your vacation? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests
Editors of Lonely Planet

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Your Call 091407 Takeover

How ambitious is President Bush's plan to consolidate federal power in the Oval Office? On the next Your Call, we discuss the president's unprecedented power grab with Pulitzer Prize winning Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage. In his new book, Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy, Savage traces the strategies adopted by President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to release the president from congressional constraint and oversight. It is one of the most complete indictments of this president and practically a legal brief for impeachment. Call in with your questions about presidential power on the next Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest
Charlie Savage, author of Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy

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Your Call 091307 There's Not Enough Time

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What do we mean when we say, "There’s not enough time in the day?" On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about our perception of time with Edward M. Hallowell, author of Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap. The Internet, cell phones, and other technologies have not slowed down the pace of our lives. Has technology made us busier? How do we relate to time? And what explains our rushed culture? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest
Edward M. Hallowell, author of Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap

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Your Call 091207 Frankenfood

Do you know what's in your food? On the next Your Call, we'll talk with Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of The Center for Food Safety, and author of Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food. Nearly three quarters of processed foods in your grocery store have genetically modified ingredients. What impact do these products have on our health and our environment? What affect are GMO foods having on organic farming, and most importantly, how do you find them and keep them out of your shopping cart? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest
Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of The Center for Food Safety and author of Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food

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Your Call 091107 NY Times Columnist Paul Krugman

Is it possible for the U.S. to pass a “New Deal”? On
the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with
Paul Krugman, the award winning NY Times columnist and
the author of a new book, “The Conscience of a
Liberal.” Krugman argues that in today’s America, the
gap between the rich and poor is at the levels of the
post civil war "Gilded Age" era, and for the past
thirty years, the conservative movement has dominated
American politics. What will it take to close the
income gap? Will liberal values become relevant again?
It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Paul Krugman, NY Times columnist and professor of
economics and international affairs at Princeton
University

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Your Call Pre-empted by Petraeus Report

Your Call is being preempted to bring you Gen. David Petraeus' testimony to Congress. We decided to cut into our Fall pledge drive to bring you the latest from Washington DC and Iraq. KALW still has a goal we need to make, and it is our belief and our hope that you will help us meet that goal. Over 75 percent of KALW's budget comes from you and 100 percent of Your Call's budget comes from KALW. Your support gives us the freedom to break our format and bring you the news and information you've asked for. If you'd like to support us online, click here. Thank you for your ongoing support.

COMING UP
NY Times columnist Paul Krugman

Your Call 090707 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable. This week is a special pledge edition with two Friday favorites. Norman Solomon, author and director of War Made Easy, a documentary that exposes the complicity between a government eager to sell us foreign adventures and a media that caters to power. We’ll also be joined by Danny Schechter, the news dissector, out with a documentary about debt, mortgages and the companies that profit from indenturing American citizens. Norman Solomon, Danny Schechter, and your stories of the week, on the next Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Danny Schechter, director of In Debt We Trust
Norman Solomon, director of War Made Easy

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Your Call 090607 Exposed

Do you know what’s in your shampoo? The soap you use in your kitchen or on your children? The European Union does and they’re banning hundreds of chemicals that are still legal in the U.S. On the next Your Call we’re talking with Mark Schapiro, author of Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power. Would a European see Carboxymethylcellulose in their laundry detergent, or is that carcinogen reserved just for us? On Thursday’s Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Mark Schapiro, author of Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power

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Your Call 090507 Whither the State Parks?

What is happening with our national parks? On the next Your Call we’ll discuss the state of parks in year seven of the Bush Administration. The National Park Service says it has an $8 billion backlog of maintenance projects and a further $100 million was cut this year. With final plans in place now for the centennial celebration of the parks in 2017, what projects do you want at your favorite national park? And if you visited a national park this summer, what did you see? It’s Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Bill Wade, National Association of Park Service Retirees
Gerry Gaumer, National Park Service
 
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Your Call 090407 Is Labor Day your day?

Is Labor Day your day? On the next Your Call we'll be talking about the composition of American work force in the 21st century. The percentage of employed people in manufacturing jobs is the lowest it has ever been. Almost 37 million Americans live below the poverty line and only 12 percent of the work force is represented by the labor unions. Do the growing legions of the self-employed, consultants and contract workers as well as so few in manufacturing jobs identify themselves with the working class? What does Labor Day mean to you? And is Labor Day your day? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

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Your Call 083107 Friday Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it’s our Friday Media Roundtable. This week was the second anniversary of the destruction of New Orleans. We’ll talk with Pulitzer Prize winner John McQuaid. Did editors strike the right balance between stories looking back to the first days of the levee failure and the state of New Orleans today? Are the business pages the right place for explanations of the growing subprime loan crisis? We’ll talk with Peter Waldman of Portfolio and Matt Taibbi, political correspondent for Rolling Stone. On the next Your Call, with me, Sandip Roy and You.

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Your Call 083007 Can a video game ever truly alter reality?

On the next Your Call we’re discussing the rise of video games designed to transform the world outside your screen. Two new games -- ICED!, about immigration, and World Without Oil -- give gamers the opportunity to try out different strategies for solving complicated questions about race, war and the economy. But if winning at Monopoly won’t make you a real estate magnate, why would a game about peak oil transform you into an ecowarrior? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.


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Your Call 082907 Undocumented workers: Is going after employers the right thing to do?

Is going after employers a better way to enforce immigration laws? On the next Your Call we'll discuss the Bush administration plan to raise fines and increase focus on the companies that hire illegal immigrants. Progressives have long called for the focus of immigration enforcement to turn from the border to the board room. On Aug 11th, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agreed. Is this better for the American-born working class? Is it better for the 2 million undocumented workers in California? When immigration is the issue, is there a fair way to enforce the law? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

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Your Call 082807 The Green Economy-Green Collar Jobs

On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about grassroots activism with David Bornstein, author of "How to Change the World." Every day, citizens from all walks of life spend their time working for a myriad of causes. They're volunteering in their communities, marching against war, lobbying Congress, and challenging the institutions of power. What are you doing to bring change to your community and the globe? Are you concerned about our current state of affairs, but aren't sure what to do? How does change come about? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

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Your Call 082707 How are you making a difference in your community, your family or your world?

On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about grassroots activism with David Bornstein, author of "How to Change the World." Every day, citizens from all walks of life spend their time working for a myriad of causes. They're volunteering in their communities, marching against war, lobbying Congress, and challenging the institutions of power. What are you doing to bring change to your community and the globe? Are you concerned about our current state of affairs, but aren't sure what to do? How does change come about? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.



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Your Call 082407 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it’s our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we’ll speak with the California Progress Report’s Frank Russo about coverage of the budget stalemate, which ended in Sacramento. Only 12 percent of Californians polled said they were paying close attention. We’ll also speak with NPR’s Adam Davidson about coverage of the economic crumbling and the Guardian's Suzanne Goldenberg about the Democrats' change of heart on Iraq. What was your story of the week? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.


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