Your Call

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss Keys Bag Names Words, a new documentary portraying stories about the personal and global impacts of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

Through a series of personal experiences, people around the world share how they have adapted to their diagnoses. As the global population ages, the number of people living with dementia is expected to triple from 50 million to 152 million by 2050, according to the WHO.

We also meet the scientists and artists from around the world using creativity, humor, and compassion to lead the way towards hope and resilience.

According to a Propublica investigation, The World Bank Group project in Guinea has left a trail of hunger, displaced and broken families and decimated ecosystems

Hundreds of millions of pounds of pesticides are applied to California crops each year, the largest share of agricultural pesticide use in the United States.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll mark the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

As people gathered in Washington DC to continue the call for civil rights and economic justice last Saturday, they learned about the racist shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, which left three Black people dead.

How are people who were there in 1963 reflecting on the past and where we are today?

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss a 60 Minutes investigation that found weapons contractors like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon overcharge the Pentagon on almost everything the Department of Defense buys with taxpayer dollars every year.

Almost half of this year’s largest-ever $842 billion dollar military budget will go to weapons contractors. Five Senators are calling on the Defense Department to launch an investigation into the long history of price gouging.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss how extreme Republican policies are fueling anti-LGBTQ violence.

The murder of gay dancer O’Shae Sibley, and Laura Carleton, a California business owner who was killed for hanging a pride flag, has put a spotlight on rising extremism against the community.

Republican lawmakers in 46 states have introduced more than 650 bills targeting the queer community, according to the Movement Advancement Project. A joint report from the Anti-Defamation League and GLAAD also found more than 350 anti-LGBTQ incidents across 46 states and D.C.

How are queer people and their allies fighting back?

Last year, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which included $369 billion in climate funding and $60 billion for environmental justice investments.

Former Chicago Tribune editor Mark Jacob says Republican Party has given up on democracy and is trying to rule America by any means necessary, including fraud and violence.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss a recent report from the Institute for Policy Studies and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Still a Dream: 500 years to Black Economic Equality.

Sixty years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Black Americans are still facing a harsh reality of economic inequality and persisting disparities. Without significant changes, it could take African Americans over 500 more years to achieve economic parity with White Americans.

The report proposes a range of solutions to narrow the racial economic divide, including a universal jobs guarantee, a massive land and homeownership program, a commitment to individual asset building, policies to the concentration of wealth and power, and targeted reparations.

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the power and influence of the Federalist Society.

In a piece for Truthout, law professors Michael Avery and Mark Brodin detail how the society evolved from a small group of disaffected conservative law students into an organization with extraordinary influence over American law and politics. The group has successfully lobbied for years to strike down affirmative action, overturn Roe, and undermine civil rights.

Today, there are over 60,000 conservative lawyers and law students involved with Federalist Society activities with chapters in 90 cities, including six Supreme Court justices.

The Republican Party has played the long game to take control of the courts. The Democratic Party hasn't had a game. What explains this? And what can be done to counter the influence of this powerful and well funded group?