MONDAY,
AUGUST 2.
PROGRAM
# 6171
12:00 PM PST
PROTECTION FOR
FARMWORKERS. At least fifteen farm workers have died from heat-related causes
in California in recent years, and the state is investigating the deaths of
several more. As the summer heat rolls into the triple digits, farmworkers push
for more protection. Meanwhile, California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation
is pushing to approve methyl iodide as a new pesticide for strawberries,
despite multiple scientists’ testimony that the pesticide is dangerous to human
health.
Guests: Francisco
Castillo, Spokesman, Office of the Governor of California, Sacramento, CA; Armando
Elenes, Vice President, United Farm Workers, Delano, CA,
http://www.ufw.org; Kathryn Gilje,
Executive Director, Pesticide Action Network of North America,
San Francisco, CA,
www.panna.org
;
Paula Placencia,
Assistant Coordinator for
Working Conditions, Líderes Campesinas, Salinas, CA,
www.liderescampesinas.org
.
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TUESDAY,
AUGUST 3.
PROGRAM # 6172
12:00 PM PST
SONGS FOR ARIZONA.
Arizona’s immigration law SB 1070 pushed people not only to protest in the
streets, but to raise their voices in song. Corridos, Chicano soul, rap, and
hip-hop are just some of the genres used by singer-songwriters to express
themselves against the law. One Texas couple called for entries to a song
contest “against racism and bigotry and encouraging progressive action against
Arizona’s anti-immigration law” and received more than 150 entries, including
from children, nuns, and doctors.
Guests: Dr. Paul
Ruíz, Senior advisor and Cofounder, Education Trust, Co-organizer, “Sing for
Hope and Justice” Contest, San Antonio, TX; Eugene Rodríguez, Founder,
Los
Cenzontles, San
Pablo, CA, www.loscenzontles.com;
Francisco Herrera, Musician, San Francisco, CA, http://franciscoherreramusic.com.
WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST 4.
PROGRAM # 6173
12:00
PM PST
GREAT DEPRESSION. As the economic crisis takes its toll on the nation’s pocketbooks, the stress of unemployment, foreclosures, and less buying power is putting more and more people at risk of depression. This edition brings together counselors and mental health experts, as well as survivors of the economic crisis who say they are finding a way out.
Guests: Angela Londoño-McConnell, Public education coordinator, Georgia Psychological Association; Jose Vega, Former Homeowner, Pittsburgh, CA; Renata Delgado, Assistant Director, Centro Campesino, Florida City, FL, http://www.centrocampesino.org.
PROGRAM # 6174
12:00
PM PST
WIKILEAKS: WAR SECRETS REVEALED. The website Wikileaks recently published more than 90,000 classified documents about the war in Afghanistan, detailing hundreds of unreported deaths of civilians killed by Coalition forces, increases in Taliban attacks, and hunts for Taliban leaders for “kill or capture” without trial. The leak is controversial, but it’s underscoring a deeper question: how is the internet revolutionizing what records can be kept secret? This program is part of our series “Conéctate,” on the internet and the digital divide.
Guests: Axel Caballero, Spokesperson, Brave New Foundation, Culver City, www.bravenewfoundation.org; Eric Rojo, Retired Colonel, Washington, D.C.; Patricio Espinoza, Fellow, Knight Digital Media Center, San Antonio, TX, www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 6.
PROGRAM
# 6175
12:00 PM PST
MEXICO EDITION. Mexico’s authorities have refused to
investigate the disappearance of more than 4,000 Central Americans, who were
lost when they were travelled through Mexican territory toward the United
States. According to the priest Luis Ángel Nieto, from the organization
Nuestros Lazos de Sangre (Our Blood Ties), the migrants could have been
kidnapped by criminal gangs in complicity with Mexican authorities, and their
countries of origin are doing little to support an investigation either.
Martha Elena Ramírez hosts the
program Voz Pública, from Mexico City.
Guest:
Father Luis Ángel Nieto, Coordinator, Nuestros Lazos de Sangre, Los Ángeles,
CA.
Funds for Línea
Abierta are provided in part by The National Endowment for the Arts, The
California Endowment, the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, the William and
Flora Hewlett Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, and the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting.