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Linea Abierta Programs for July 2002

Monday, July 1st

PROGRAM # 3464 - 12:00 PDT
HEALTH EDITION – LIVE REPORT FROM OSLO. Dr. Elmer Huerta, a regular commentator, provides a special report from Oslo, Norway on the Congress of the International Union against Cancer. Scientists and medical experts meet in this city to discuss their latest findings and their progress in the fight against the global challenge of cancer.

PROGRAM # 3465 - 13:00 PDT
US-MEXICO WATER AGREEMENT. The governments of the U.S. and Mexico reached an agreement to allow water in Mexican reservoirs to flow into the Rio Grande. The agreement includes a multi-million dollar project to develop infrastructure works to better manage the water in Mexico's Northern states. This program includes a report on the agreement. It also includes comments by congressman Ciro Rodriguez (D-San Antonio), from a previous interview.

"REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES". A pre-recorded conversation with playwright, poet, screenwriter and filmmaker Josefina Lopez, on her play "Real Women have Curves." Her play, starring America Ferrera, Lupe Ontiveros and Ingrid Oliu has won a Sundance Film Festival award and is soon debuting on HBO TV.

Tuesday, July 2nd

PROGRAM # 3466 - 12:00 PDT
LINEA DEL PAISANO. This weekly program provides a forum for live listener questions and comments to a roundtable of high officials in Mexico’s presidential cabinet. This groundbreaking radio service offers Mexican callers unprecedented access to the Mexican presidency. Dr. Juan Hernandez, head of the Presidential Office for Mexicans Abroad discusses current issues.

This program can also be heard online on www.mexicoenlinea.gob.mx

PROGRAM # 3467 - 13:00 PDT
FRONTERA LIBRE EDITION. Radio Bilingüe in the U.S. and Radiarte, Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión in Guadalajara, México, join broadcasts to interconnect live U.S. audiences with listeners in Mexico’s émigrés home states.

Wednesday, July 3rd

PROGRAM # 3468 - 12:00 NOON PDT
HELIPING NEW CALIFORNIANS. California should extend the welcoming mat to immigrants and help them become self-supporting and responsible community members. This in turn helps California maintain a booming economy. This and others are the recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature from The Little Hoover Commission, a bipartisan and independent panel.

Guests: Toby Ewing, Projects manager, The Little Hoover Commission, Sacramento, CA; Maria Fuentes, ethnic population services specialist, Mental Health Department, Santa Clara, CA; Belinda Reyes, Ph.D., researcher, Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, CA.

PROGRAM # 3469 - 13:00 PDT
PRENATAL CARE. Why should you receive prenatal care if you have other children before? This and other common questions are answered in this program, part of a series on the importance of early and regular prenatal care in conjunction with the National Alliance for Hispanic Health.

Guest: Dr. Elizabeth Valdez, El Concilio Latino de Salud, Phoenix, AZ, www.hispanichealth.org.

Thursday, July 4th

PROGRAM # 3470 - 12:00 NOON PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Francisco “Paco” Huerta, a veteran radio journalist and civic journalism foremost advocate, is the program host. He offers a weekly, tape-delayed edition of the series “Voz Pública,” a call-in program airing from Mexico City.

HOST: Francisco Huerta, www.vozpublica.com

PROGRAM # 3471 - 13:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION. WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico brings interviews and commentary on news developments in the Caribbean basin.

HOST: Wanda Colon-Cortez.

Friday, July 5th

PROGRAM # 3472 - 12:00 PDT
IMMIGRATION EDITION. Attorney Carlos Spector Calderón, in El Paso, TX, provides news and commentary on major developments on U.S. immigration law. Listeners are encouraged to call in with personal concerns on immigration and citizenship issues. Spector reports on a development from last week's program: INS and Mexican officials agreed to review the practice of facilitating expedite deportations of Mexican nationals. He also discusses new initiatives advanced in Congress to curtail the immigration appeal process, deploy troops at the border, create a national ID card and declare a crime the overstay of the tourist visa.

PROGRAM # 3473 - 13:00 PDT
LALO: MY LIFE AND MUSIC. An interview with Tucson-born Eduardo “Lalo” Guerrero, the father of Chicano music. A 1996 National Medal of Arts awardee, Lalo’s biography has been featured in a recent book entitled “Lalo: My Life and Music”. With seven decades singing and composing music, Lalo has become an icon of the Chicano working class. His song “La Cancion Mexicana” became an anthem for Mexicans on both sides of the border.

Monday, July 8th

PROGRAM # 3474 - 12:00 PDT
HEALTH EDITION – COLORECTAL CANCER. The cancer of the colon or the rectum is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S. Most government and community-based health care organizations have identified this disease as a priority and are calling for screening and early detection of colorectal cancer. This program is in collaboration with the National Alliance for Hispanic Health.

Guest: Dr. Elizabeth Valdez, President and CEO, Concilio Latino de Salud, Phoenix, AZ, www.hispanichealth.org.

PROGRAM # 3475 - 13:00 PDT
SERVICE EMPLOYEES. Latina women workers forced casino owners in Las Vegas to sign the most expensive contract of its kind in history. This deal is seen as a sign of the emerging power of Latina immigrant workers in the U.S. This program discusses the ramifications of the union contract in Las Vegas.

Guests: Geoconda Argüello-Kline, President, Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Union, Culinary Local 226, Las Vegas, NV; Congresswoman Grace Napolitano (D-LA), recorded message.

Tuesday, July 9th

PROGRAM # 3476 - 12:00 PDT
LINEA DEL PAISANO. This weekly program provides a forum for live listener questions and comments to a roundtable of high officials in Mexico’s presidential cabinet. This groundbreaking radio service offers Mexican callers unprecedented access to the Mexican presidency. Fernando Lozano, of the Presidential Office for Mexicans Abroad answers listener questions. Emilio Pineda, broadcaster of the Presidency, also comments on the trailblazing questioning of former President Echeverria under charges of genocide.

This program can also be heard online on www.mexicoenlinea.gob.mx

PROGRAM # 3477 - 13:00 PDT
FRONTERA LIBRE EDITION – LUIS ECHEVERRIA: UNDER QUESTIONING. Radio Bilingüe in the U.S. and Radiarte, Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión in Guadalajara, México, join broadcasts to interconnect live U.S. audiences with listeners in Mexico’s émigrés home states. This week, a special prosecutor interrogates former president Luis Echeverria about his responsibility in bloody incidents of repression during his regime. Two massacres of students and the torture and disappearance of guerrillas and activists are among the charges filed in this historic query.

Guests: Martin Marcos Velasco, Radio Educacion, Mexico City; Leticia Carrasco, Researcher on Social Movements, Universidad de Guadalajara, sister of disappeared political activist.

ALSO, HUICHOL INDIAN HEALTH. Huichol Indian communities are experiencing disproportionately high children mortality and epidemics. Cultural barriers are blamed for the problem.

Guest: Jose Luis Lopez Lopez, researcher, Public Health Department, Universidad de Guadalajara .

Wednesday, July 10th

PROGRAM # 3478 - 12:00 NOON PDT
ALVAREZ GARIN APPEALS TO SUPREME COURT. Interview with Profr. Raul Alvarez Garin, a student leader in Mexico in 1968, a former political prisoner and currently a plaintiff in a lawsuit on charges of genocide against ex president Luis Echeverria. Alvarez Garin and others are appealing to the Mexican Supreme Court to find that they were victims of undue process and innocents of all charges in the past.

ALSO, IN-STATE FEES FOR STUDENTS. Rep. Phyllis Gutierrez-Kenney (D-Seattle) talks about a bill in Washington state to allow undocumented resident students to pay in-state tuition fees when enrolling in college.

PROGRAM # 3479 - 13:00 PDT
MENTALLY-ILL YOUTH OFFENDERS. With more than half of juveniles in custody reportedly suffering mental illnesses, California’s correctional halls are becoming mental health wards. The problem is those detention centers are not professionally equipped to deal with the mentally ill. On the other hand, few mental health institutions accept children with a history of violence. This roundtable in collaboration with KQED in San Francisco discusses initiatives to deal with the problem.

Guests: Rosa Rivera, Programs Manager, California Youth Authorities, Stockton, CA; Marcia Rincon-Gallardo, President, Ollin Associates and member of the National Association of Social Workers, Watsonville, CA; Jimmy Valenzuela, Youth Opportunity Movement, Los Angeles.

Thursday, July 11th

PROGRAM # 3480 - 12:00 NOON PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Francisco “Paco” Huerta, a veteran radio journalist and civic journalism foremost advocate, is the program host. He offers a weekly, tape-delayed edition of the series “Voz Pública,” a call-in program airing from Mexico City.

HOST: Francisco Huerta, www.vozpublica.com

PROGRAM # 3481 - 13:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION. WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico brings interviews and commentary on news developments in the Caribbean basin.

HOST: Wanda Colon-Cortez.

Friday, July 12th

PROGRAM # 3482 - 12:00 PDT
YOUNG VOTE DECLINES. Voting by U.S. citizens under 25 has been declining since 1972, when 18-to-21-year-olds were allowed to vote. Lawmakers in California propose a “Youth Voter Corps” program and other measures to encourage young voters to engage in the election process.

Guests: Dr. David Crocker, professor of philosophy, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement; Mario Velazquez, President, Rock the Vote, Los Angeles; Cesar Z, reporter and commentator, Youth Radio, Berkeley, CA.

PROGRAM # 3483 - 13:00 PDT
IMMIGRATION EDITION. Attorney Carlos Spector Calderón, in El Paso, TX, provides news and commentary on major developments regarding U.S. immigration law. Listeners are encouraged to call in with personal concerns on immigration and citizenship issues. This week, former gang member and activist Alex Sanchez was granted political asylum and the DOJ extends for 18 months the TPS program for Salvadorans, Hondurans and Guatemalans.

Monday, July 15th

PROGRAM # 3484 - 12:00 PDT
HEALTH EDITION – KIDS WITH URGENT AILMENTS. Latino children have an alarming proportion of asthma, tuberculosis and obesity. And they are not being adequately treated. This new findings are published by the American Medical Association. Dr. Elmer Huerta, a regular commentator, discusses the issue and provides advise for parents. He also comments on the developments at the XIV International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, Spain.

PROGRAM # 3485 - 13:00 PDT
LA COLIFATA. A conversation with psychologist Alfredo Olivera, a professor of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, on a mental health radio program he co-founded with the title La Colifata (The Crazy Ones). The program, run by mentally-ill patients from a psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires, airs on stations in five South American countries. This edition also includes segments of La Colifata shows.

Tuesday, July 16th

PROGRAM # 3486 - 12:00 PDT
LINEA DEL PAISANO. This weekly program provides a forum for live listener questions and comments to a roundtable of high officials in Mexico’s presidential cabinet. This groundbreaking radio service offers Mexican callers unprecedented access to the Mexican presidency. Fernando Lozano and Mauricio Zermeno, of the Office for Mexicans Abroad, join this edition to dispell rumors about the possible dismantling or relocation of this presidential office.

This program can also be heard online on www.mexicoenlinea.gob.mx

PROGRAM # 3487 - 13:00 PDT
FRONTERA LIBRE EDITION - TOBACCO RESTRICTIONS, CHAPALA LAKE WOES. Radio Bilingüe in the U.S. and Radiarte, Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión in Guadalajara, México, join broadcasts to interconnect live U.S. audiences with listeners in Mexico’s émigrés home states. This week, a public official comments on newly-enacted restrictions for commercial advertising of tobacco products. Also, a scientist warns about an impending disaster in the shores of Chapala Lake, where soil and earth movements due to dryness in the lake bed already caused tragic rock falls.

Guests: Victor Manuel Gonzalez, Consejo Estatal contra las Adicciones, Guadalajara, Jalisco; Arq. Sergio Valdez Angulo, researcher, Centro Universitario de Arte, Arquitectura y Diseno, Guadalajara.

Wednesday, July 17th

PROGRAM # 3488 - 12:00 NOON PDT
FELIX SOTO TORO. This is a conversation with Dr. Félix Soto Toro, a scientist with the Kennedy Space Center at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He talks about his role in sustaining the international space station and studying marine life using electronic sensors. This program is part of the series Latinos in Engineering.

PROGRAM # 3489 - 13:00 PDT
NEW LEGISLATIVE LEADER. Assemblyman Marco Antonio Firebaugh (D-Southeast Los Angeles) is the new leader of the Latino legislative caucus in Sacramento. In this conversation, Firebaugh discusses a new law allowing undocumented students to have access to college, the ongoing debate on the state budget and pending bills on farmworker housing and language rights.

MEXICO'S MIGRANT CZAR . Mexico's presidential office for Mexicans Living Abroad, a cabinet-level position, is being closed. It is unclear what Migrant Czar Dr. Juan Hernandez' new job will be. Unofficially, the responsibilities of the office will be absorbed by the Secretariat of Foreign Relations. An academic and activist discuss the ramifications.

Guest: Dr. Jesus Martinez, professor, Chicano/Latino Studies, CSU Fresno, CA.

Thursday, July 18th

PROGRAM # 3490 - 12:00 NOON PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Francisco “Paco” Huerta, a veteran radio journalist and civic journalism foremost advocate, is the program host. He offers a weekly, tape-delayed edition of the series “Voz Pública,” a call-in program airing from Mexico City.

HOST: Francisco Huerta, www.vozpublica.com

PROGRAM # 3491 - 13:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION. WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico brings interviews and commentary on news developments in the Caribbean basin.

HOST: Wanda Colon-Cortez.

Friday, July 19th

PROGRAM # 3492 - 12:00 PDT
IMMIGRATION EDITION. Attorney Carlos Spector Calderón, in El Paso, TX, provides news and commentary on major developments regarding U.S. immigration law. Listeners are encouraged to call in with personal concerns on immigration and citizenship issues. Few late amnesty recipients have applied for the recently gained benefit. Spector comments on this issue. He also reports from New York, providing insights into the immigrants museum at Ellis Island.

PROGRAM # 3493 - 13:00 PDT
CORPORATE CRACKDOWN. In a policy address in Wall Street, President Bush proposed measures to crackdown on corporate fraud. This program includes a segment of President Bush' message outlining his plan. The program also includes Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX) response, charging Bush’ plan offers too little to clean up corporate U.S.A.

Guest: Jaime A. Gomez, Vicepresident, International Relations, Max International Broker Dealer Corp., New York.

Monday, July 22nd

PROGRAM # 3494 - 12:00 PDT
HEALTH EDITION – DR. ANA NOGALES. Renown psychotherapist Ana Nogales, a regular commentator, answers listeners concerns about their mental well-being.

PROGRAM # 3495 - 13:00 PDT
PHONE CARDS. A legislative bill in California seeks protections for Latino consumers against prepaid phone card fraud. The proposal requires companies that sell prepaid phone cards to inform consumers about international surcharges, pay phone charges and other hidden fees. A consumer advocate discusses this and other issues.

Guest: MariTere Arce, Consumer Union, Washington, DC, www.ConsumerReports.org.

Tuesday, July 23rd

PROGRAM # 3496 - 12:00 PDT
LINEA DEL PAISANO – AN EVALUATION. This weekly program provides a forum for live listener questions and comments to a roundtable of high officials in Mexico’s presidential cabinet. This groundbreaking radio service offers Mexican callers unprecedented access to the Mexican presidency. Fernando Lozano and Rodrigo Ortega, from the Presidential Office for Mexicans Abroad, interact with listeners.

This program can also be heard online on www.mexicoenlinea.gob.mx

PROGRAM # 3497 - 13:00 PDT
FRONTERA LIBRE EDITION - ROSARIO IBARRA/MIGRANT FRUIT CANNERIES. Radio Bilingüe in the U.S. and Radiarte, Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión in Guadalajara, México, join broadcasts to interconnect live U.S. audiences with listeners in Mexico’s émigrés home states. This program includes a conversation with human rights leader Rosario Ibarra de Piedra. She opposes truth commissions and a special prosecutor to bring to trial government's human rights abuses of the past. Also, a community development promoter talks about a mango cannery being built with money from local and emigre investors.

Guests: Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, President, Comite Eureka, Mexico City; Oscar Chavez Vargas, veterinarian, coordinator, production projects for Secretaria de Desarrollo Rural del Estado de Jalisco.

Wednesday, July 24th

PROGRAM # 3498 - 12:00 NOON PDT
ASYLUM FOR EX GANG MEMBER. An immigration judge granted political asylum to Salvadoran Alex Sánchez, a former gang member who is now director for Homies Unidos, an activist program in Los Angeles. Sanchez case won notoriety after his arrest and detention more than two years ago. This is an interview with Sanchez on his life, his deportation procedures, gang violence and police abuse.

ALSO, LATINO FILM FEST. The Latino International Film Festival in Los Angeles, the largest of its kind in the country, presents features, documentaries and shorts from the U.S., Argentina, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Spain and other countries. Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos receives the 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award, the Gabi Award.

Guest: Edward James Olmos, actor, director and activist, Los Angeles.

PROGRAM # 3499 - 13:00 PDT
COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING. A bill to require all private health insurance plans to pay for screening tests to find colorectal cancer in people 50 or older moves through the U.S. Senate. This story is discussed in this program aired in conjunction with the National Alliance for Hispanic Health. An expert on preventative health care gives advise on how to detect colon cancer on time.

Guest: Dr. Elizabeth Valdez, CEO/President, Concilio Latino de Salud, Phoenix, AZ, www.hispanichealth.org.

Thursday, July 25th

PROGRAM # 3500 - 12:00 NOON PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Francisco “Paco” Huerta, a veteran radio journalist and civic journalism foremost advocate, is the program host. He offers a weekly, tape-delayed edition of the series “Voz Pública,” a call-in program airing from Mexico City.

HOST: Francisco Huerta, www.vozpublica.com

PROGRAM # 3501 - 13:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION. WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico brings interviews and commentary on news developments in the Caribbean basin.

HOST: Wanda Colon-Cortez.

Friday, July 26th

PROGRAM # 3502 - 12:00 PDT
SALVADORAN GENERALS TO PAY TORTURE VICTIMS. Two Salvadoran retired generals were found responsible for torture and rape against three Salvadoran refugees who now live in the United States. The jury in West Palm Beach, FL, ordered generals Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova and Guillermo Garcia to pay nearly 55 million to the torture victims. The verdict could help prosecute other foreign residents for rights abuses commited abroad.

Guests: Attorney Joshua Sondheimer, litigation director, Center for Justice and Accountability, San Francisco, CA; Dr. Juan Romagoza, plaintiff, Clinica del Pueblo, Washington, DC; Neris Gonzalez, plaintiff, executive director, EcoVida, Chicago; Carlos Mauricio, plaintiff, teacher at Balboa High School, San Francisco.

PROGRAM # 3503 - 13:00 PDT
IMMIGRATION EDITION. Attorney Carlos Spector Calderón, in El Paso, TX, provides news and commentary on major developments regarding U.S. immigration law. Listeners are encouraged to call in with personal concerns on immigration and citizenship issues. Spector also discussed three news developments: noncitizens would require noncitizens to report changes in addresses, the Child status Protection Act, and a bill to limit deportation of some legal residents.

Monday, July 29th

PROGRAM # 3504 - 12:00 PDT
HEALTH EDITION – PATIENT NAVIGATOR AND CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION ACT. A group of congressmembers introduced a legislative bill to ensure that all U.S. people have access to basic health care services and have an advocate to help them navigate the system. Dr. Elmer Huerta, founder/director of the Cancer Preventorium at the Washington Hospital Cancer Institute, joined the congressional group in announcing the bill. He also joins this edition as a regular commentator.

PROGRAM # 3505 - 13:00 PDT
HOLDING THE LINE. In a study titled “Holding the Line,” a California think tank analyzes costly border build-up strategies and addresses questions like: Has more border patrolling changed decisions to migrate? Has it led to more migrant deaths? Has it reduced the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S.? It also examines policy options. This is an interview with one of the authors.

Guest: Dr. Belinda Reyes, Public Policy Institute of California, Berkeley, CA, www.ppic.org.

Tuesday, July 30th

PROGRAM # 3506 - 12:00 PDT
LINEA DEL PAISANO. This weekly program provides a forum for live listener questions and comments to a roundtable of high officials in Mexico’s presidential cabinet. This groundbreaking radio service offers Mexican callers unprecedented access to the Mexican presidency. Mauricio Zermeno and Fernando Lozano join this edition to answer listener concerns.

PROGRAM # 3507 - 13:00 PDT
FRONTERA LIBRE EDITION - THE POPE IN MEXICO. Radio Bilingüe in the U.S. and Radiarte, Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión in Guadalajara, México, join broadcasts to interconnect live U.S. audiences with listeners in Mexico’s émigrés home states. This week, correspondent Patricia Ramos files a report from Mexico City on the upcoming arrival of Pope Juan Pablo II to this city to canonize the first Indian saint.

Wednesday, July 31st

PROGRAM # 3508 - 12:00 NOON PDT
¿DONDE ESTA LA JUSTICIA? Latino/a youth are more likely to end up in jail than their white peers even when they are charged with the same offense. This is one of the findings of a study entitled “¿Dónde está la Justicia?” The analysis, described as the first ever in the nation on Latino/a youth in the juvenile justice system, exposes significant disparities in the U.S. justice system.

Guests: Silvestre Tellez, youth organizer, Youth Justice Coalition, Los Angeles; Dr. Francisco Villarruel, author of the study and professor of family and child ecology, Michigan State University; Marissa Bermeo, policy analyst, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Washington, DC, www.buildingblocksforyouth.org.

PROGRAM # 3509 - 13:00 PDT
PRENATAL CARE. A special series provides mothers-to-be with practical advise on how to have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. Preparing the body for pregnancy, planning visits to the doctor, keeping healthy eating and exercising habits, and medical concerns, are issues discussed. This program is aired in collaboration with the National Alliance for Hispanic Health.

Guest: Dr. José Cordero, interim director, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, www.hispanichealth.org.

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