MONDAY, AUGUST 9.
PROGRAM # 6176 12:00
PM PST
IMMIGRATION EDITION: BIRTH RIGHTS. Some Republican senators are
calling to revoke the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which makes all
people born in this country U.S. citizens. But the 14th amendment is
inherent to who many of us are as Americans; it was signed after the Civil War
to prevent states from denying citizenship to the children of slaves. Attorney
Rosalba Piña, an immigration law expert, hosts this edition from Chicago. Piña
also answers listeners’ questions about the do’s and don’ts of applying for
residency and naturalization.
Guest: Maribel Hastings, Advisor and analyst, America’s Voice,
Washington, DC,
http://americasvoiceonline.org/
.
TUESDAY,
AUGUST 10.
PROGRAM # 6177
12:00 PM PST
CLOSING THE GAP TO FIGHT AIDS. African American and Latino men and
women are more likely to be infected with HIV and more likely to die early from
AIDS than Whites. For the first time ever, the White House recently released a
national strategy on HIV/AIDS in the U.S., which calls to reduce these
disparities and others that affect gay and bisexual men, as well as decreasing
new HIV infections and connecting more people to care sooner after they test
positive.
Guests: Daniel Leyva, Director of Prevention Services, The Latino Commission on AIDS, New York, NY, www.latinoaids.org; James Albino, Senior Program Manager, White House Office of National AIDS Policy, Washington, DC, http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/onap, http://aids.gov/federal-resources/policies/national-hiv-aids-strategy/; Jose Vargas Bidot, Director, Community Initiative, San Juan, Puerto Rico, www.iniciativacomunitaria.org; Julie Turkewitz, Advocacy Communications Associate, Housing Works, New York, NY, www.housingworks.org
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11.
PROGRAM # 6178
12:00 PM PST
HOMEBUYERS WITHOUT HELP. The new housing market offers low prices
and low interest rates. Yet Latino and African-American families are not
getting the loans they need to buy homes. Homeowner advocates are urging the
Federal Reserve to overhaul the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, to immediately
disclose current loan data by region, race, and ethnicity, in order to hold
banks accountable when few loans are provided to people of color and to prevent
more foreclosures. What can prospective homebuyers do to compete with
investors in the new housing market?
Guests: Orson
Aguilar, Executive Director, The Greenlining Institute, Berkeley, CA, www.greenlining.org; Lez Trujillo, National
Deputy Director, Affordable Housing Centers of America, Chicago, IL,
www.ahcoa.org;
THURSDAY,
AUGUST 12.
PROGRAM # 6179
12:00 PM PST
FLIP-FLOPPING FOR
THE LATINO VOTE. The Republican candidate for governor in California, Meg
Whitman, is aggressively courting Latino voters, with Spanish-language
billboards and TV announcements, announcing she opposes the anti-immigrant law
SB 1070 in Arizona and would have opposed the anti-immigrant Proposition 187 in
California. Yet, in English, she has campaigned with former Governor Pete
Wilson, who signed Prop 187, and she’s said she thinks the Arizona law should
remain in place. Meanwhile, Democrat Jerry Brown is running a low-profile
campaign criticized for its lack of ads and campaign events.
Guests: Andrea Nill,
Immigration Researcher-Blogger, www.ThinkProgress.org and The Progress
Report, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Washington, DC; Hector
Barajas, Spokesman, Republican Candidate Meg Whitman’s Campaign, Sacramento,
CA, www.megwhitman.com; Frank Torres,
Spokesman, Democratic Candidate Jerry Brown’s Campaign, Oakland, CA, http://jerrybrown.org;
Raul Hinojosa, Associate Professor, Chicano
Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, www.chavez.ucla.edu/raulhinojosaojeda.htm
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13.
PROGRAM # 6180 12:00
PM PST
MEXICO EDITION. Three and a half
years after the fight against drug trafficking in Mexico began, and after
23,000 people have died, President Felipe Calderón says he is willing to
correct his security strategy. After meeting with leaders from political
parties, members of the judiciary, and 30 governors from around the country, he
is calling for more resources to professionalize and arm police, build 12
federal prisons, and increase opportunities for work and education to prevent
young people from being recruited by organized crime. Martha Elena Ramírez
hosts the program Voz Pública from Mexico City.
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.