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On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we discuss FRONTLINE’s three-part series The Power of Big Oil, which exposes the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long efforts to mislead the public, cast doubt on the science, and delay action on climate change.

The series also explores how the oil industry, particularly Exxon Mobil and Koch Industries, used their wealth and influence to block climate change policy.

The Power of Big Oil is based on over 100 interviews and thousands of documents.

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss The New Abortion Battleground, a new report about the post-Roe legal landscape. If Roe is overturned, antiabortion Republican jurisdictions will likely try to prohibit their citizens from traveling to another state to obtain an abortion. Abortion-supporting states will seek to protect their providers from legal action for helping out-of-state residents. We'll then check in with a provider in California to find out how they're preparing.

On this edition of Your Call, we continue our discussion about the future of reproductive rights in the U.S. We'll begin by speaking with Robin Marty, operations director for the West Alabama Women's Center and author of "Handbook for a Post-Roe America." Then we'll speak with UC Irvine Law Professor Michele Goodwin who wrote a New York Times op-ed called, I Was Raped by My Father. An Abortion Saved My Life.

On this edition of Your Call, we'll continue our discussion about the future of abortion rights in the US.

In several polls, 70 percent of the public say Roe should not be overturned and yet, many in the media still say abortion is the most divisive issue of our time. How did we get here? Both sides journalism, gerrymandering, the electoral college, voter suppression, the Koch Brothers working with the religious right, and dark money.

On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we'll find out what scientists and ocean activists are doing to stop deep-sea mining.

The rising demand for electric cars and other clean technologies coupled with the depletion of minerals and metals on land is driving interest in mining the seafloor to extract cobalt, nickel and lithium.

Scientists are warning that scraping the seafloor will damage deep-sea ecosystems and kill animals not yet discovered.

On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we're discussing the plight of Ukrainian refugees and why thousand have decided to return in spite of Russia’s ongoing military aggression.

As of late April, an estimated 7.7 million residents have been displaced within Ukraine and more than 5.5 million people have fled since the invasion began on February 24, according to the U.N. Refugee Agency.

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.