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Linea Abierta Programs for April 2005

Friday, April 1st

PROGRAM # 4474 - 12:00 PST
MEXICO EDITION. Journalist Martha Elena Ramírez, producer of the radio program "Voz Pública," begins a new chapter of this radio series. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

Monday, April 4th

PROGRAM # 4475 - 12:00 PST
OPENING THE HEALTH CARE DOORS. Legislators in Sacramento work on a bill to create a health insurance program for farm workers and others in “chronically uninsured industries.” Also, community-based organizations work on a number of bills to provide medical insurance to other uninsured populations in the state. Former farm workers also talk about the predicament they face when they become ill.

Guests: Assemblyman Simon Salinas, D-Monterey; Arnoldo Torres, executive director, California Hispanic Health Care Association, Sacramento, CA; Lupe Alonzo-Díaz, executive director, Latino Coalition for a Healthy California, Sacramento, CA; Victoria Martínez, former farm worker and diabetes patient, Orosi, CA; Alma Medina, former farm worker and user of Medicaid services, Fresno, CA.

Tuesday, April 5th

PROGRAM # 4476 - 12:00 PST
LOS ANGELES SIMULCAST – SOCIAL SECURITY DEBATE. President Bush’s proposed reforms to the nation’s retirement system are facing widespread skepticism and resistance to a plan to create private accounts. This program examines a recent study that found that Latinos would be disproportionately affected by changes to Social Security. It also found that Latinos are divided in their views on the current debate on Social Security. It also includes a discussion on the Chilean private-investment pension plan, which President Bush has cited as a model for his proposed reforms.

Guests: Hector Barreto, administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration, The White House; Ismael Ortiz Jr, director for Hispanic memberships, American Association for Retired Persons, Washington, DC.; Fabio Bertranou, economist, International Labour Organization, United Nations; Yasmir Farina, president, Agrupación de Empleados Publicos por Reparación al Daño Previsional, Santiago de Chile.

Wednesday, April 6th

PROGRAM # 4477 - 12:00 PST
DEATH ROW IN TEXAS. More than 50 Mexican nationals on death row in the U.S. challenge their death penalty cases citing a violation of a U.S. treaty that requires foreign suspects access to their consulates. A recent verdict by an international tribunal draw worldwide attention to these cases. The case of José Medellín in Texas is testing the impact of international law in these U.S. cases.

Guests: Eric Olson, America’s Advocacy Director, Amnesty International, Washington, DC; others TBA.

PROGRAM # 4478 - 12:00 PST
PUERTO RICO EDITION – PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings live interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

Friday, April 8th

PROGRAM # 4479 - 12:00 PST
MEXICO EDITION. Journalist Martha Elena Ramírez, producer of the radio program "Voz Pública," begins a new chapter of this radio series. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

Monday, April 11th

PROGRAM # 4481 - 12:00 PST
INTERPRETER AND BRIDGE. Immigrants, migrant workers and their families often rely on friends, children or receptionists to interpret their visits to the doctor. The visit often ends with changed messages and poor quality of service. In recent years, health care professionals have been struggling to break the language barriers, ensure quality service, and respect their clients' civil rights. Some providers hire trained medical interpreters; others contract remote interpreting services for their medical interviews. This program features individual encounters that have proved to be disastrous and efforts to ensure effective communication and trust between provider and client.

Guests: Santiago Ventura, community worker, Oregon Law Center - Farm Worker Office, Woodburn, OR; Eugenia Perez, community health promoter and interpreter, Frente Indigena Oaxaqueno Binacional, Fresno, CA; Oscar Gomez, executive director, Farm Worker Health Services, Inc., Washington, DC; Julie Burns, National Council in Interpreting Health Care, The Cross Cultural Health Care Program, Santa Rosa, CA.

Tuesday, April 12th

PROGRAM # 4482 - 12:00 PST
IMMIGRATION EDITION. Chicago Attorney Rosalba Piña comments on the news developments of the week in the immigration area. Piña also answers listener calls on immigrant rights and citizenship procedures.

Wednesday, April 13th

PROGRAM # 4483 - 12:00 PST
TEXAS EDITION - A PRE-TAPED PROGRAM. GOV. AMALIA GARCÍA. This is an interview with Amalia García, governor of the state of Zacatecas during a recent visit to Northern California. She discusses her plans to develop jobs in this heavily migrant state from Mexico's north-central area. Gov. Garcia also talks about her efforts to seek increased communication with the U.S. and have her state be admitted in Mexico's association of Border States.

BROTHER OF SLAIN JOURNALIST SEEKS PROBE. A conversation with Javier Couso, brother of Spanish journalist José Couso, who two years ago was shot in Baghdad by a U.S. tank and died. He visits the U.S. calling for an independent investigation to determine whether the U.S. military deliberately targeted journalists at the Palestine Hotel.

MIGRANT HUNTERS. Vigilante groups who gathered at the Arizona-Mexican border are in their second week in their one-month season of migrant hunting. Calling themselves The Minuteman Project, they claim to be helping Border Patrol agents locate undocumented border crossers. This is a news report by correspondent Elvia Díaz and an analysis by Rocio Magana, a researcher with the University of Illinois, Chicago, who is observing the activities of the migrant hunters in Tucson and the border area.

PROGRAM # 4484 - 12:00 PST
MEXICO EDITION. Journalist Martha Elena Ramírez, producer of the radio program "Voz Pública," begins a new chapter of this radio series. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

Friday, April 15th

PROGRAM # 4485 - 12:00 PST
PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings live interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

Monday, April 18th

PROGRAM # 4486 - 12:00 PST
MICHOACANOS OF TWO NATIONS. Radio Michoacán in Morelia and Radio Bilingüe in California join signals to bring news and analysis about the gathering of organized migrants from Michoacan meeting in Morelia, their home state capital. Émigrés club federations from California, Illinois, Texas, Washington and other states meet with government officials in a public forum to discuss issues ranging from money remittances and development, to farm workers and health. This roundtable with government officials and émigré leaders signals the beginning of a simulcast collaboration across the border with Radio Michoacán’s twelve-station network in the migration heartlands.

Guests: Candido Morales, director, Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior, Mexico City; Jesus Martinez Saldana, congressman, PRD, Congress of the state of Michoacan, Morelia; Luis Magana, coordinator, Organizacion de Trabajadores Agricolas de California, Stockton, CA; Claudio Mendez Fernandez, coordinator, Coordinacion General para la Atencion al Migrante Michoacano, Morelia.

Tuesday, April 19th

PROGRAM # 4487 - 12:00 PST
HERBAL REMEDIES: MEDICINE AND BUSINESS. Traditional herbal remedies are a common medicine for many immigrants. Latinos use herb products such as epazote and chamomile to treat a wide variety of ailments. While these traditional treatments are a tremendous medical treasure, they have risks involved when not properly prescribed. What is the value of traditional medicine practices and products? How to ensure safe and effective herbal treatments? Should herbs be regulated as drugs? This program is in collaboration with KQED, San Francisco’s public radio.

Guests: Mirna Brener, Natural Medicine expert, Fresno, CA; Raul Ruiz, M.D., herbal medicine researcher, University of Pitsburgh, graduate - School of Medicine of University of Harvard.

Wednesday, April 20th

PROGRAM # 4488 - 12:00 PST
TEXAS EDITION – MOTHERS FROM JUAREZ. This program features an interview with Norma Andrade, leader of “Nuestras hijas de regreso a casa”, a group of relatives of women who have been murdered or disappeared in Ciudad Juárez, across from El Paso. Andrade talks about the problems plaguing the investigations. She also talks about the support received from congresswoman Hilda Solís, from Los Angeles to help in their painstaking research work.

REMEMBERING A CHICANO MILITANT. Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez, pioneer of the Chicano movement in the nation, passed away in his home in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 76. Author of the epic poem "I am Joaquin," an anthem that inspired a generation of Chicanos, Gonzalez rose to national prominence at the forefront of the civil-rights cause when he organized the Crusade for Justice, he sparked the organization throughout the South West of a number of nationalistic Chicano youth committees, and he helped launch the La Raza Unida Party.

Guests: Civil-rights veteran activist Herman Baca, Committee on Chicano Rights, San Diego, CA; Profr. Juan Felipe Herrera, poet, writer, and professor at University of California, Riverside.

PROGRAM # 4489 - 12:00 PST
MEXICO EDITION. Journalist Martha Elena Ramírez, producer of the radio program "Voz Pública," begins a new chapter of this radio series. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

Friday, April 22nd

PROGRAM # 4490 - 12:00 PST
CIVILIAN UPRISING IN ECUADOR. Ecuador has a new president after a week of widespread street demonstrations in Quito, the capital. Former President Lucio Gutiérrez is now in political asylum and the vice president Alfredo Palacio has replaced him. Radio La Luna, a local radio station, and its manager and talk show host Paco Velasco, played a significant role in the citizen revolt that toppled a presidency over charges of corruption and authoritarianism. Listeners calling in to the station helped to create a form of “direct democracy.” In this special edition, Línea Abierta provides news and analysis by Mario Villalobos from Asociación Latinoamericana para la Educación Radiofónica ALER in Quito. The program also features dramatic segments of Radio La Luna (a member of ALER), during the critical moments of the revolt.

Monday, April 25th

PROGRAM # 4491 - 12:00 PST
IMPORTED SHEEPHERDERS. After years of government neglect, sheepherders in California won legal protections in 2001. Yet, advocates who were instrumental in passing the law recently surveyed the fields and found a disturbing picture. They discuss their recommendations in this program. Their report comes at a time when there is renewed discussion about expanding guest worker programs in the nation.

Guests: Chris Schneider, executive director, Central California Legal Services, Fresno, CA; Tito Damian Macha, disabled sheepherder, Fresno, CA; Heraclio Astete, president, Union de Pastores Ovejeros, Bakersfield, CA.

Tuesday, April 26th

PROGRAM # 4492 - 12:00 PST
TEXAS EDITION – CHALLENGE TO NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND LAW. In the first major challenge to President Bush’s education policy, a school district in Texas joined school districts in two other states and the largest teachers union in the nation to sue the U.S. Department of Education claiming the No Child Left Behind Act is short-changing the states. This is a discussion on the issue.

Guests: Sylvia Bruni, Superintendent, Laredo Independent School District, Laredo, TX; Dr. Guadalupe Cortés, teacher, J.A. Kawas Elementary, Laredo, TX; Sonya Sanchez, spokesperson, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC; Kathleen Leos, spokesperson, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC.

Wednesday, April 27th

PROGRAM # 4493 - 12:00 PST
JALISCO SIMULCAST – ÉMIGRÉS RIGHT TO VOTE. This is the latest edition of “Sin Fronteras,” a monthly simulcast with the three-station network Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión in Guadalajara. In this live program, top officials and émigré organizers discuss a legislative bill allowing Jalisco migrants living abroad to vote in state elections.

Guests: Dr. Jaime Tamayo Rodriguez, Consejo Estatal Electoral, Guadalajara, Jalisco; congressman Ricardo Rios Bojorquez, chair, Electoral affairs commission, State Congress, Jalisco; Salvador Garcia, president, Federacion de Clubes Jaliscienses en Los Angeles.

PROGRAM # 4494 - 12:00 PST
MEXICO EDITION. Journalist Martha Elena Ramírez, producer of the radio program "Voz Pública," begins a new chapter of this radio series. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

PROGRAM #4495. 21:00 PST
LOS ANGELES SIMULCAST: CLOUDS IN THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD. This is a live program broadcast in collaboration with “Nuestra Voz,” a Spanish-language program on KPFK, Los Angeles. Listeners interact and comment on the topic of the week: The new pope Benedict XVI calls himself “a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord” and he is described as a “man with a deep pastoral charity.” But many Roman Catholic faithful are troubled by the past of the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany. He is known as a hard-line conservative and during his youth he allegedly joined Hitler’s party. Journalist and writer Sanjuana Martínez, a former Vatican correspondent for Mexican weekly Proceso joins this simulcast between Nuestra Voz of KPFK in Los Angeles and Línea Abierta, of the Radio Bilingüe network to talk about her upcoming book on this story. Catholic church observers also talk about their expectations under the new papacy. Dr. Juan Martinez, director, Hispanic Studies, Theological Seminar, Pasadena, CA; Father Luis Angel Nieto, Los Angeles Catholic Diocese; Rev. Tomas Lopez, presbyterian and former collaborator of Msgr. Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Los Angeles, CA.

Friday, April 29th

PROGRAM # 4495 - 12:00 PST
PUERTO RICO EDITION – PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

 

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