MONDAY,
AUGUST 30.
PROGRAM # 6191
12:00 PM PST
READY FOR THE
NEXT EMERGENCY? Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast,
children’s rights activists say most states have not implemented basic
protections for children during a natural disaster. They say thousands of
children in Louisiana and Mississippi were separated from their parents for
months, and tens of thousands missed school, or were diagnosed with clinical
depression. Also, reports show that even in Los Angeles, CA, emergency-response
providers lack the resources to prepare limited-English speakers for disasters.
Guests: Gabriel
Nehrbass, Specialist, Domestic Emergency Program, Save the Children, Bay Saint
Louis, MS,
www.savethechildren.org
; Lucas Díaz, Director, Puentes New
Orleans, New Orleans, LA, http://www.puentesno.org/;
Dr. Harry Pachon, President, Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, Los Angeles, CA
www.trpi.org
TUESDAY,
AUGUST 31.
PROGRAM # 6192 12:00 PM PST
YOUTH VOICES ON THE WEB. It’s not often that you read or hear Latino youth voices in mainstream media. Two different projects, in El Paso, Texas, and Chicago, IL, empower Latino teens to write their own stories and put them on the web. In El Paso, Latinitas is the first digital magazine made for and by Latina youth. In Chicago, a group of Latino immigrant youth are creating theater productions and radionovelas that they upload to the internet to help their communities make better health decisions.
Guests: Marisol Guzmán, Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator, Latinitas, El Paso, TX, www.latinitasmagazine.org ; Ireri Unzueta and Adriana Velásquez, Salud: Healing Through the Arts, Chicago, IL, newroutes.org/projects/salud.
WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 1.
PROGRAM # 6193
12:00 PM PST
PRIVATE
SECURITY FORCES TAKE OVER IN IRAQ. All combat troops have withdrawn from Iraq,
fulfilling President Obama’s deadline of August 31. Meanwhile, t
he State Department has asked Congress to
approve funds to more than double the number of private security contractors in
Iraq. Private contractors have been denounced by some civil organizations for
human rights violations. What does this shift in security mean for Iraqis and
for soldiers coming home?
Guests: Micheal
Hammer, Spokesman, White House National Security Council, Washington, D.C., www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/nsc;
Francisco Ibarra, Former National Commander, American GI Forum, Seattle, WA, www.agifusa.org; Rick Reyes, Iraq and
Afghanistan Veteran, Los Angeles, CA, http://rethinkafganistan.com/veterans/
THURSDAY,
SEPTEMBER 2.
PROGRAM # 6194
12:00 PM PST
UNDOCUMENTED
PARENTS FACE CUSTODY BATTLES. Cirila Baltazar, an indigenous Chatino-speaking
immigrant from Oaxaca, was separated
from her
daughter, Ruby, for a year after the baby was born. Baltazar, who has now been
reunited with her baby, is now suing Mississippi officials for conspiring to
take her baby so she could be adopted by a white couple. Advocates say this is
a nationwide problem, with other undocumented parents losing custody of their
U.S. citizen children when they are deported.
Guests: Cirila Baltazar, Mother, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico; Michelle Lapointe, Civil rights attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL, www.splcenter.org; Yolanda Cruz, Chatino-Spanish interpreter, Los Angeles, CA; Marcia Zug, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, SC.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3.
PROGRAM # 6195
12:00 PM PST
MEXICO EDITION. Mothers, sisters, and wives of disappeared migrants
demand that the Mexican government stop the extortion, mutilation and killings
of Central Americans on their way to the United States in search of work. 356
Honduran migrants and 180 Salvadorans are reported missing. The Committee of
Family Members of Migrants who have Died or Disappeared from El Salvador
(COFAMIDE) says it is working with forensic anthropologists and taking DNA
samples to try to identify more than 500 cadavers found in Arizona.
Martha Elena Ramírez hosts Voz
Pública from Mexico City.
Guests:
Lucy Acevedo, Comité de Familiares de Migrantes Fallecidos y Desaparecidos del
El Salvador (COFAMIDE); Rosa Nelly Santos, Coordinator, Comisión de Familiares
de Migrantes, Progreso en Honduras (COFAMIPRO); Edith Zavala, Foro Nacional para
los Migrantes en Honduras.
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.