On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we're discussing media coverage of abortion and reproductive rights. This week, in a leaked draft document, Justice Samuel Alito laid out the case for reversing Roe v. Wade, the landmark case enshrining a constitutional right to an abortion.

Over the years, many in the media have called abortion one of the most divisive issues our time even though the majority of Americans say Roe should be upheld.

On this edition of Your Call, we rebroadcast our conversation with reporter Alexander Sammon. He discusses his New Republic piece, Ikea’s Race for the Last of Europe’s Old-Growth Forest. Romania is home to one of the largest and most important old-growth forests left in the world.

Sammon reports that in 2015, the furniture giant Ikea bought 83,000 acres of forest in Romania. Within months, Ikea became, and remains, Romania’s largest private landowner. Activists are risking their lives to save the forest.

On this edition of Your Call, we rebroadcast our conversation with archaeologist Dr. Justin Dunnavant about the environmental impacts of the transatlantic slave trade with a focus on the former Danish West Indies, which are now the US Virgin Islands. Between 1500 and 1875, 4.8 million enslaved Africans were brought to the Caribbean, compared with 389,000 brought to the US. About a million people died in transit.

Dr. Dunnavant has conducted archaeological research in the field and underwater with Diving with a Purpose, an organization that specializes in the documentation, protection and interpretation of African slave trade shipwrecks. He’s part of the training program that searches for sunken slave ships. In the US, there are fewer than 20 Black archaeologists doing maritime archaeology work related to slavery and the African diaspora.

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss A Woman on the Outside, a new documentary about a family striving to love in the face of a system built to break them.

In the film, we meet Kristal Bush, a young woman whose father and two brothers have been in and out of the system for years. Her father was finally paroled after 24 years. One in four women in the United States have had a loved one who’s been incarcerated.

A Woman on the Outside is screening at this year’s DocLands on Sunday, May 8, at 5pm, at the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael. You can watch the film online if you live in California.

On this edition of One Planet series, we discuss a three-part Intercept investigation about the impacts of climate change on one of the country’s most vulnerable and neglected populations: people behind bars.

On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we find out why California continues to approve new oil and gas wells. The state approved more new wells in March and April than in any two-month period since last October.

We also discuss the power and influence of fossil fuel lobbyists on state regulators and lawmakers. According to a new analysis by Capital & Main, between 2018 and 2021, lobbying organizations representing oil and gas companies spent almost $77.5 million advocating for the industry’s interests in Sacramento.

On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we discuss the state of emergency in El Salvador, following a rise in gang violence. The measure restricts the freedom of the press and suspends civil liberties, including the right to assembly and access to a lawyer. More than 17,000 people have been arrested since the measure was declared a month ago.

On this edition of Your Call, we'll discuss The Territory, a new documentary about the ongoing fight to save the Amazon rainforest from land grabbers, loggers, and corporations.

In the 1980s, the Brazilian government had its first contact with the Uru-eu-wau-wau people. They use drones, cameras, and GPS devices to protect their land from invaders. They agreed to work on this film because they want the world to see what’s happening. What can we do to support them?

The Territory will make its California premiere at the DocLands Film Festival on Friday, May 5, at 1pm, at the Smith Rafael Center in San Rafael. You can also stream the film online if you live in California.

On this edition of Your Call, we'll discuss the organizations and dark money behind the Republican Party's "pro-parent" rebrand. According to True North Research, many parent groups opposing masks and critical race theory are driven by dark money. Dark money is also driving "concerned moms" attacking anti-racism classes in schools. Koch-funded groups are backing anti-abortion groups that call themselves the Independent Women’s Forum and Independent Women’s Voice. Why isn't this issue getting more attention?

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Black Mothers Love and Resist, a documentary about the mothers of young Black men victimized and killed by police brutality, who come together and build a network of community-led support, mutual aid, and healing. Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant, now supports mothers like Angela Williams, whose son, Ulysses, survived a police beating in Alabama, living to tell his story. The film will be screened at this year's San Francisco International Film Festival.