Your Call

The Ants & the Grasshopper documentary follows Malawian farmer Anita Chitaya as she visits the US to ask, why aren't you doing more to prevent the climate crisis?

For 2013 to 2022, there were 2,351 shooting incidents in Richmond, California. Almost half happened near a school. Students are struggling to cope with few resources.

More than 27,000 migrants have died or disappeared in the Mediterranean Sea since 2014, according to the International Organization for Migration.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss recent Supreme Court decisions, and how we got here.

Conservative justices voted to repeal affirmative action for college admissions, overturned a Biden Administration law relieving up to $20,000 in student debt, and ruled in favor of a Christian website designer refusing to serve gay customers.

Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have recently come under scrutiny for accepting luxury gifts from wealthy donors, including conservative legal activist Leonard Leo, who received the largest ever $1.6 billion political donation last year to fund his conservative legal network, according to ProPublica.

Many experts say expanding the Supreme Court is the only solution, but there is not widespread support among Democrats in congress. So what options are available?

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the state of abortion in the US one year after conservatives on the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Fourteen states have completely banned abortion and 61 clinics, Planned Parenthood facilities, and doctors’ offices stopped offering abortions, according to the New York Times. From July 2022 through March 2023, more than 25,000 people were unable to get an abortion from a provider, according to The Society of Family Planning.

Some clinics in conservative states are still offering crucial non-abortion services, but they are struggling to survive. How can we support them?

On this edition of Your Call, we remember Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower who exposed the truth behind the Vietnam War. He died on June 16 at the age of 92.

We listen to our 2018 interview with him about his book The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner in which he documents the development of the US nuclear war plan and the flaws that make the system so unstable and dangerous.

More than 165,000 Haitians have fled their homes amid a surge in gang violence with nowhere to turn in the capital of nearly three million people.

The Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt, which would have benefitted up to 43 million Americans.

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Liquor Store Dreams, a documentary featuring two Korean American children of liquor store owners in Los Angeles as they reconcile their own dreams with those of their immigrant parents.

They dig into the complex legacy of the city’s racial dynamics, including the 1992 uprisings sparked by the police beating of Rodney King, and the current struggles for social and economic justice during the summer of protests following the death of George Floyd.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss the new memoir, Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education, which tells the story of Sola Mahfouz, a young woman who fights to secretly educate herself under Taliban rule.

Sola Mahfouz taught herself math and English online for years, eventually escaping to the United States, where she is now a quantum computing researcher at Tufts University.

Later in the show, we’ll discuss the current state of women’s rights under Taliban control.