Your Call

  On this edition of Your Call’s media roundtable, we’ll have a conversation with the Arizona Republic’s award-winning reporter Rob O’Dell about a two-year investigation that reveals how state lawmakers introduce thousands of bills dreamed up and written by corporations, industry groups, and think tanks.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll hear from filmmakers telling refugee stories.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll talk about the best ways to manage stress.

On this special edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss a rally patients and practitioners are planning in front of the Kaiser Permanente headquarters in Oakland, California today to demand better mental health care.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll hear from women whose loved ones have been incarcerated. One in four women and nearly one in two Black women has a family member in prison. Seven million children have had an incarcerated parent. The US has a quarter of the world's prisoners, but only five percent of the world's population.

On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we’ll have a conversation with Dr. Leonardo Trasande about his new book Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future … and What We Can Do About It.

  On this edition of Your Call’s media roundtable, we’ll discuss the rapidly unfolding situation in Sudan. After months of protests, Sudan’s military stepped in and removed President Omar al-Bashir. Activists call the military takeover a coup that aims to reproduce the same faces that protesters revolted against. What’s next for Sudan?

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll ask who bears what share of the tax burden and where their money goes.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll talk about why it's so difficult to access mental health services. What it will take to improve access? According to Mental Health America, more than 56 percent of adults experiencing a mental health illness are going untreated.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll hear stories of individuals affected by hate. Community activist and civil rights lawyer Arjun Singh Sethi chronicled survivors’ stories in his book American Hate: Survivors Speak Out.

  On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we’ll discuss the Environmental Working Group’s “Dirty Dozen,” a list of the fruits and vegetables with the highest amount of pesticides.

  On this edition of Your Call’s media roundtable, we’ll discuss anti-abortion legislation across the country, the Trump administration’s attack on the Title X family planning program, and the impact of the  Global Gag Rule on women’s health around the world

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll speak with Manu Karuka about his new book Empire’s Tracks.

On the next Your Call, we’ll hear from young refugees who fled Central American countries in search of safety in the United States.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll talk about sexual abuse in immigrant detention facilities.

  On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we’ll discuss the future of our public lands. Over the past few years, millions of acres have been auctioned off for oil and gas exploration.

On this week's media roundtable, we’ll discuss the political crisis in the United Kingdom as the county approaches another Brexit deadline. On April 12th, the UK has to come up with a new plan — or leave the EU without a deal.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss the decennial census. On April 1st 2020, the US government will engage in its largest peacetime mobilization for the count.

On this edition of Your Call, Gayle Romasanta joins us to discuss Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong, an illustrated nonfiction children’s book about the Filipino-American cofounder of the United Farm Workers.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss the function and impact of AIPAC. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s conference began this weekend in Washington DC.

  On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, veteran environmental journalist Jim Robbins joins us to talk about his in-depth series headlined, “The West’s Great River Hits Its Limits: Will the Colorado Run Dry?”

  On this edition of Your Call’s media roundtable, we’ll discuss coverage of the terror attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The gunmen killed at least 50 people during Friday prayers.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss last Friday's massacre at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and white supremacy around the globe. The alleged shooter, an avowed white nationalist from Australia, killed at least 50 children and adults.

On this edition of Your Call, how many millionaires can the Bay Area sustain? When Uber and Lyft go public this year, thousands of employees will become incredibly wealthy overnight. Home prices are expected to go up, making the Bay Area even more unaffordable for working class people.

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Invisible Bars, a documentary about families caught in generational cycles of prison. Five million children in the US have at least one parent in prison, which increases their risk of depression, anxiety, drug addiction, and ending up in prison themselves. 

In the film, we meet children who work on a Bill of Rights for the Children of Incarcerated Parents and are determined to break these cycles. 

On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we’ll be joined by Dave Abel, an award-winning Boston Globe environmental journalist and the director of “Lobster War: The Fight Over the World’s Richest Grounds.”

  On this edition of Your Call’s media roundtable, we’ll discuss coverage of the massacre at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zeland. The young man who killed 49 people espoused a far right, anti-Muslim ideology. The dead include Syrian refugees.

We'll also discuss US military involvement in Somalia and the Trump administration’s expansion of the Obama era drone strike campaign. At least 225 people have been killed in 24 strikes so far this year.

On the next Your Call, we’ll talk about child poverty. A new report from a bipartisan panel offers proposals for cutting child poverty in half over the next decade.