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Linea Abierta Programs for December 2006
Friday, December 1st
PROGRAM # 4989 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO EDITION: PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the Voz Pública series from Mexico City. Ramírez reports on the official inauguration this day of Felipe Calderón as president of México and the controversy surrounding the event.
Monday, December 4th
PROGRAM # 4990 - 12:00 PDT
EDUCATION FOR MIGRANTS – SIMULCAST WITH MICHOACÁN. Thousands of Mexican émigrés visit their families for the holidays and many take this opportunity to get their diploma for elementary or middle school. This special simulcast in conjunction with the twelve-station network of Radio Michoacán provides a report on these efforts. The program also reports on community centers that have been established in San Antonio, TX, to help migrants from Michoacán complete their high school education in Spanish.Guests: Patricia Ramos, director for foreign affairs, Instituto Nacional para la Educación de los Adultos, Morelia, MX; Envida Reynoso Acosta, subdirectora de Planeación, Instituto de los Migrantes Michoacanos en el Extranjero, Morelia, MX.
Tuesday, December 5th
PROGRAM # 4991 - 12:00 PDT
IMMIGRATION EDITION – HOLIDAY TRAVELS. Attorney Rosalba Piña hosts this edition from La Villita in Chicago. Piña shares helpful tips for immigrants who are planning to travel out of the country. She also gives tips on useful holiday gifts for citizenship applicants.
Wednesday, December 6th
PROGRAM # 4992 - 12:00 PDT
BORDER VIGILANTE FOUND GUILTY. Roger Barnett, the godfather of border vigilantism, was found guilty of inflicting emotional distress, unlawful imprisonment and assault against two Mexican-American families from Douglas, Arizona. The jury ordered that Barnett pay the families almost $100,000 in damages.
Guest: Jennifer Allen, Border Action Network, Tucson, AZ.
ALSO, RULING AGAINST RACIAL SEGREGATION IN DALLAS SCHOOL. A federal judge ruled that Preston Hollow Elementary School in Dallas, TX segregated minority students on the basis of their race and ordered the school's administration to cease the segregation and pay punitive damages to injured students. The Court found that the school intentionally assigned English-speaking Latino and African American students to English as a Second Language classes to keep them separate from Anglo students.
Guest: Carlos Becerra, staff attorney, MALDEF, San Antonio, TX.
Thursday, December 7th
PROGRAM # 4993 - 12:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION: TOTO LA MOMPOSINA. Born in the island of Mompos in northern Colombia, the legendary singer Toto la Momposina celebrates the traditional music of the indigenous peoples and the Afro-Caribbean rhythms of the Colombian coastlands.This weekend, la Momposina is in San Francisco, CA to headline the Encuentro del Canto Popular 25th Anniversary. WRTU’s Wanda Colón Cortés, co-hosts this live edition from San Juan, PR. For more info: http://accionlatina.org/encuentro/2006/2006artists.html
Friday, December 8th
PROGRAM # 4994 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the Voz Pública series from Mexico City. The civic journalist brings interviews with Dr.Raul Carranca y Rivas, expert in Mexican Constitutional Law, Mexico City; Canek Cilia, representative, Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Oaxaca.
Monday, December 11th
PROGRAM # 4995 - 12:00 PDT
REPORTING THE UNDOCUMENTED. The state of Washington has developed procedures to reassure patients who fear being reported to immigration authorities and avoid seeking medical care. Under the new guidelines, public health agencies are prohibited from cooperating with border control agencies. This program revisits the incident that started discussions leading to the new policy. It involves “Ricardo,” a TB patient who went into hiding fearing being detained and deported.
Guests: “Ricardo”, TB patient, Mt. Vernon, WA; Peter Browning, executive director, Skagit County Department of Health, Mt. Vernon, WA; Uriel Iñiguez, acting executive director, Washington State Commission on Hispanic Affairs, Olympia, WA; Maru Mora Villalpando, Red Activa Comunitaria de Washington, Lynwood, WA.
Tuesday, December 12th
PROGRAM # 4996 - 12:00 PDT
CLIMATE CHANGE IN MEXICO. In this special interview, Homero Aridjis, one of Mexico’s most renowned fiction writers and environmental leaders, talks about the impact of climate change on Mexico’s coastline and the dry northern lands. Aridjis also warns about the increasing use of gas-fueled vehicles in Mexico City and the lack of leadership to introduce clean energy alternatives in the country. He also talks about initiatives by Grupo de los Cien to promote clean energy and environmental protection, and shares opinions about the incoming administration
ALSO, GREENHOUSE GASES AT THE SUPREME COURT. The U.S. Supreme Court justices consider a lawsuit over the government’s power to stop businesses from polluting. The Court hears arguments from twelve states and environmental
groups, and the Bush administration, which is opposed to regulating greenhouse gases emitted by industries. Javier Sierra, a spokesperson for the Sierra Club in Washington, DC, comments on the case.
ALSO, CLEANING THE MOST POLLUTED BASIN. Faced with tight federal standards and deadlines to clean up the heavily polluted air basin, local government officials from California’s San Joaquin valley argue the clean up is too costly and are requesting extensions. Environmental advocates counter that breathing the current unhealthy air is costing more to the public. Reporter Alma Martínez covered a public session on this issue.
Wednesday, December 13th
PROGRAM # 4997 - 12:00 PDT
SIMULCAST WITH GUADALAJARA: HIV HAS NO BORDERS. HIV infection rates are still low among Mexican migrant workers, but they may be on the brink of a full-scale HIV/AIDS epidemic. These are preliminary findings of the California-Mexico AIDS Initiative, which surveyed migrants in communities across the border. High levels of drug use and unprotected sex put these migrants and their families in Mexico at heightened risk of HIV infection. What are governments in Mexico and the U.S. doing to prevent the new epidemic? This is a live simulcast with the three-station network of XEJB, Radiarte in Guadalajara.
Guests: María Teresa Hernández, epidemiologist, University of California Office of the President, California-Mexico AIDS Initiative, Berkeley, CA; Dr. Juan Ruiz, Chief, HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Branch Office, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, CA; Marco Antonio Castillo Morán, academic researcher, Departamento de Salud Pública, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, MX.
Thursday, December 14th
PROGRAM # 4998 - 12:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION: SHOULD WAR BE CHILD’S PLAY? The holiday shopping season has began and among the top selling toys are missile launchers, commando tanks, military operation games and other war toys. According to analysts, when toys turn war into a game, children only see the fun, not the horror of war and learn to see violence as an acceptable part of life and solving conflicts.
Guests: Dr. Cindy Calderón, pediatrician, chair, Puerto Rican chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics, San Juan, PR; Iván Broida, Proyecto Caribeño de Justicia y Paz, San Juan, PR.
ALSO, THE EXECUTION OF ANGEL NIEVES. Amid intense public protests and legal appeals, Puerto Rican inmate Angel Nieves was executed in Florida. Activists for abolishing the death penalty join this conversation.
Guests: Osvaldo Burgos, chair, Puerto Rico’s Civil Rights Commission, San Juan, PR; and a Catholic church advocate. WRTU’s Wanda Colón Cortés, hosts this live edition from San Juan, PR.
Friday, December 15th
PROGRAM # 4999 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the Voz Pública series from Mexico City. The civic journalist interviews Isabel García, chair of Tucson’s Human Rights Coalition, distinguished with the 2006 national human rights award in Mexico, on how she was prohibited from speaking at the official ceremony. She also interviews Elvira Arellano, the immigrant mother who has resisted deportation and is sheltered in a church in Chicago, on a renewed campaign for family unity in the U.S. Ramírez also talks with Ruben Islas, a high official for Mexico’s PRD, on current debates inside the center-left party.
Monday, December 18th
PROGRAM # 5000 - 12:00 PDT
GENES AND DISEASE. Cancer, diabetes, asthma and other diseases run in families and entire populations. Genes influence disease and studying genetic factors enable scientists to develop medications more appropriate to groups that share the same ancestry. But, what are the barriers for Latinos to volunteer and participate in genetic studies? This program is aired in collaboration with KQED, San Francisco’s public radio.
Guests: Dr. Esteban González Burchard, assistant professor, Pharmacogenomics and Genetic Epidemiology of Pulmonary Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital; State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, president of the National Conference of State Legislators, pharmacist and co-author of “Genes, Culture and Medicines”, Austin, TX.
Tuesday, December 19th
PROGRAM # 5001 - 12:00 PDT
IMMIGRATION EDITION – CITIZENSHIP TEST EXAM. Attorney Rosalba Piña from Chicago interviews Alfonso Aguilar, chief of the office of citizenship for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, on the new citizenship exam that will go into effect on 2008. The exam would focus on American history and government and it will be tested in 2007 in ten sites. Public advocates have expressed concerns about the questions being developed for the new citizenship applicants.
Wednesday, December 20th
PROGRAM # 5002 - 12:00 PDT
ALTERNATIVE BORDER ENFORCEMENT. This is a follow-up conversation about a series of recommendations that local officials and advocates took to the White House and the U.S. Congress in an effort to improve border enforcement policies. The program also includes a fragment from a news conference with President Bush, who calls on Congress for a “comprehensive immigration bill.”
Guests: Manny Ruiz, Supervisor, Santa Cruz County, Nogales, AZ; José Rodríguez, County Attorney, El Paso, TX.
Thursday, December 21st
PROGRAM # 5003 - 12:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION: PARRANDAS AND POSADAS. Puerto Ricans celebrate the holiday season with “parrandas” or “asaltos navideños,” the Puerto Rican version of the Christmas caroling. Mexican and Central American communities celebrate “Posadas,” a similar festivity of music and food. Wanda Colón Cortés from Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, Nivia Cervantes from Radio Universidad de Guadalajara – Lagos de Moreno, and Samuel Orozco from Satélite Radio Bilingüe, co-host this live edition inviting listeners to comment on these annual traditions and exchange season’s greetings and memories.
Friday, December 22nd
PROGRAM # 5004 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the Voz Pública series from Mexico City. The civic journalist brings news and analysis on Mexican developments.
Monday, December 25th
PROGRAM # 5005 - 12:00 PDT
HOLIDAY SPECIAL. This program features conversations with mariachi singers on newly-released Holiday albums.JUANITA ULLOA: PAZ Y ALEGRIA. This is a conversation with opera singer Juanita Ulloa about her award-winning CD “Paz y Alegría.” The album features
festive Latin American villancicos, sung bilingually, including a reggaeton piece, the Ladino song “Eight Candelikas”, the cumbia “Los Peces en el Río”, the tango “Surabaya Santa”, the ranchera “Canto a la Paz,” and many more. Based in northern California, Ulloa tours with mariachis singing boleros and rancheras. www.juanitamusic.comMARIACHI DIVAS: MY GROWN UP CHRISTMAS LIST. Divas is an acclaimed all-female, multicultural ensemble from Los Angeles. The mariachi group,
wich includes women from Latino, Asian, and Anglo descent, released a new album on time for the holidays. “My Grown Up Christmas List” features twenty
holiday classics, including “Ven a mi Casa esta Navidad”, “Noche de Paz” y “Año Viejo”. Melinda Salcido, the singer and guitar-player of the group, joins this edition. www.mariachidivas.com
Tuesday, December 26th
PROGRAM # 5006 - 12:00 PDT
COLD AIR AND THE COMMON COLD. Dozens of people have died during the current wave of extreme cold gripping the U.S. and Mexico. Can cold weather make people catch a cold or the flu? How can we prevent winter-related risks? Dr. Elmer Huerta, from the Washington Hospital Center in Washington DC, provides practical advice.ALSO, E. COLI OUTBREAK. Hundreds have been sickened after eating vegetables at Taco Bell and Olive Garden restaurants in several states. Leafy produce
has been blamed for this outbreak. How did vegetables become contaminated? When to call the doctor about a diarrhea? What can we do to protect
ourselves from foodborne infections? This is an interview with an expert on food safety.
Guest: Dr. Jorge Ferna, Clínica Médica Teocalli, Bell Gardens, CAALSO, MEDICARE DEADLINE. To ensure prescription drug coverage on January 1, 2007, Medicare recipients must enroll in Medicare Part D by December 31. Confusing and frustrating for many users, the federal program provides free help to make Medicare D decisions when choosing and enrolling in plans.
Guest: Josefina G. Carbonell, Undersecretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, www.medicare.gov
PROGRAM # 5007 - 12:00 PDT
TEXAS EDITION – THE YEAR IN REVIEW. This is a review of some of the year’s most remarkable events as reported on Linea Abierta – Texas Edition. The program includes voices of the pro-immigrant student walkouts, the views of war veterans on the war in Iraq, and a report on the November election. It
also includes a tribute to the late Freddy Fender, Miguel Aceves Mejía and Ray Barreto, who died this year, as well as recognition to Elvira Arellano and LULAC’s Rosa Rosales. Listeners call in and submit their own story choices.
Thursday, December 28th
PROGRAM # 5008 - 12:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION - THE YEAR IN REVIEW. The war in Iraq, the Puerto Rico Social Forum, and other notable stories are the topic of conversation in this live edition from San Juan, PR. WRTU’s Wanda Colón Cortés, encourages listeners to comment on the biggest stories of the year.
Friday, December 29th
PROGRAM # 5009 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the Voz Pública series from Mexico City. The civic journalist brings news and analysis on Mexican developments.
Funds for Línea Abierta are provided in part by The California Endowment, the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Community Technology Foundation of California, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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