MONDAY, AUGUST 23.
PROGRAM # 6186 12:00 PM
PST
BREASTFEEDING
THE NEXT GENERATION. If 90% of U.S. women breastfed their babies for the first
six months of life, hundreds of babies' lives and billions of dollars would be
saved, according to research. Although many Latina mothers begin breastfeeding,
a high percentage also feed their babies formula. The longer their families
have been in the U.S., the more likely it is that Latina mothers will opt for
formula. In honor of National Breastfeeding Awareness Month, this edition takes
a look at what's needed to help more Latinas breastfeed, for both stay-at-home
mothers and those who work outside the home.
Guests: Dr.
Yvette Piovanetti, Medical director of Lacta Project, Ashford Presbyterian
Community Hospital, San Juan, PR; Celinet Franco, Coordinator, Hispanic Health
Council, Hartford, CT,
www.hispanichealth.com/hhc/breastfeeding
; Grace Damio, Director of the
Center for Women and Children’s Health, Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, CT, www.hispanichealth.com/hhc/breastfeeding;
Erika Cebreros, Mother, Burlingame, CA.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 24.
PROGRAM # 6187
12:00 PM PST
IMMIGRATION EDITION. The $600
million border security bill that Obama recently signed into law will add 1500
more border patrol agents and other law enforcement personnel at the border.
The law has prompted the American Immigration Lawyers Association and others to
push up their calls for comprehensive immigration reform. 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: Fernando García, Executive
Director, Border Network for Human Rights, El Paso, TX, www.bnhr.org
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25.
PROGRAM # 6188
12:00 PM PST
HEALTH REFORM: STEP BY STEP. Now that Health Reform
is law, what does it mean for real-life uninsured people? Some changes will
begin in September of this year, to expand coverage to young adults,
and to require new insurance plans to cover more preventive services at no
charge. Other provisions, such as the elimination of discrimination for
pre-existing health conditions, won't go into effect until 2014. Analysts
discuss and break down the benefits of the new health reform law, and what it
will mean for the uninsured, taking into account specific real-life cases.
Guests: Jaime Torres, Regional Director, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, New York, NY, www.hhs.gov, ; Angela Alvarez, Health Project Coordiantor, Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California, Los Angeles, CA, www.idepsca.org; Ana Malinow, M.D., Former President, Physicians for a National Health Program, Pittsburgh, PA, www.pnhp.org; Livier Cabezas, Project Manager, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Los Angeles, CA, www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu; Carmen Avila Uninsured mom, Downey, CA
Search for
a clinic:
http://bphc.hrsa.gov
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THURSDAY,
AUGUST 26.
PROGRAM # 6189
12:00 PM PST
BASEBALL PROTESTERS
TAKE THE FIELD. Baseball fans continue to hold demonstrations and storm the
field at Major League Baseball games, to try to move the All-Stars Game from
Phoenix, in protest of Arizona's new immigration law. Although Commissioner Bud
Selig has said he will not move the game, some columnists say the players
themselves could make him change his mind. This edition is a trip to the
stadium, with a look at the protests over the All-Stars Game, the history of
race and baseball, and an interview with the oldest living ballplayer.
Guests:Gustavo Andrade, Organizing Director, Casa de Maryland, Langley, MD, www.casademaryland.org
;
Pepe Lozano, Writer and Blogger, People’s World, Chicago, IL, www.peoplesworld.org; Emilio Navarro,
Former professional baseball player, Negro League Baseball, Ponce, PR,
http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com/
.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 27.
PROGRAM # 6190 12:00 PM
PST
MEXICO
EDITION. 9,758 Central American migrants were victims of kidnapping and extortion
in Mexico in 2009. The cases were documented by the National Human Rights
Commission, which has still not received a response from the Mexican
government. Civil organizations accuse Mexican authorities of refusing to
receive the list of 1,222 Central Americans who have disappeared in Mexico.
After 72 migrants were killed, allegedly by the organized crime group “Las
Zetas,” the question is “Who is protecting them?”
Martha Elena Ramírez hosts Voz Pública from Mexico City.
Guest: Father Luis Ángel Nieto, Coordinator of
Nuestros Lazos de Sangre, Our Blood Ties, Los Angeles, 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