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Linea Abierta Programs for June 2006

Thursday, June 1st

PROGRAM # 4816 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. This radio service provides news and interviews of interest for Mexicans on both sides of the border.

Friday, June 2nd

PROGRAM # 4817 - 12:00 PDT
OAXACANS IN CALIFORNIA. Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz, from Southern Mexico, visits California on the heels of the assassination of a well-known migrant leader in his native Mixtec homeland. Migrant groups in California are holding protests denouncing the dismal human rights record in that impoverished state.

Guests: Rufino Domínguez, president, Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales, Fresno, CA; Filemón López, organizador, Asociación Cívica Benito Juárez; host, La Hora Mixteca, Fresno, CA.

ALSO, DIRTY WAR CRIMES. The Mexican government is about to release a highly-anticipated report on human rights crimes committed by Mexican authorities during the social movements of the 60s and 70s. A special prosecutor office created to investigate extra-judicial executions, missing political activists, and other government crimes is concluding its work with few indictments. This program includes a live conversation with special prosecutor Ignacio Carrillo Prieto, from Mexico City.

PROGRAM # 4818 - 13:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

Monday, June 5th

PROGRAM # 4819 - 12:00 PDT
SIMULCAST WITH MICHOACÁN: THE SWING VOTE. This is a simulcast with the twelve-station network of Radio Michoacán in Morelia. In this program, Mexican analysts discuss the dispute for the vote in key states for the upcoming presidential election. A U.S. analyst also states that the migrant agenda is in the backburner of the presidential campaigns.

Guests: Dr. Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, sociology professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Santiago Heyser Beltrán, researcher, Universidad de Zamora, columnist, Morelia.

Tuesday, June 6th

PROGRAM # 4820 - 12:00 PDT
IMMIGRATION EDITION – IMMIGRATION BILL WATCH. Chicago-based attorney Rosalba Piña provides details about the immigration bill approved by the U.S. Senate. She also discusses the prospects for immigration reform in the House-Senate negotiations. Piña also answers listener calls.

Guest: Lynn Tramonte de la Barrera, senior policy analyst and communications coordinator, National Immigration Forum, Washington, DC.

Wednesday, June 7th

PROGRAM # 4821 - 12:00 PDT
TEXAS EDITION – CORRIDOS. Carlos Spector Calderón hosts this edition from El Paso, TX. The renowned group Los Tigres del Norte have been invited to comment on the new boom of contemporary orridos or ballads that sing about immigrants hardship and resistance. Spector also comments on the deployment of the first National Guard troops to the border area.

Guest: Jorge Hernández, musical director, Los Tigres del Norte, San José, CA.

Thursday, June 8th

PROGRAM # 4822 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. In this live interview, Gabriel Sánchez Díaz, director of Presencia Ciudadana, AC, comments on the threat of electoral fraud, the negative campaigns, and the announced agreement of civility among the major political parties.

Friday, June 9th

PROGRAM # 4823 - 12:00 PDT
THE MEXICAN ÉMIGRÉS: WILL THEY COUNT? Mexican presidential campaigns are having few appeals to voters living abroad. Are presidential candidates underestimating the influence of the émigré workers on their families back home? Is there interest by Mexican émigrés in the July 2 election?

Guests: Claudia Sheinbaum, spokesperson, Por el Bien de Todos/PRD Coalition, Mexico City; David Ayón, researcher and director of Project U.S.-Mexico Focus, The Center for the Study of Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.

PROGRAM # 4824 - 13:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

Monday, June 12th

PROGRAM # 4825 - 12:00 PDT
TIJUANA: DESTINATION FOR THE UNINSURED. Faced with limited access to health care in the US, immigrants and the working poor are increasingly traveling to Tijuana to visit the doctor. More U.S. health insurance plans are also moving across the border attracted by lower costs. Hospitals are being built in Tijuana to meet the growing demand and plans to develop a medical plaza with clinics and pharmacies are under way. This is a live, anniversary broadcast from the studios of Radio Tecnológico in Tijuana.

Guests: Francisco Carrillo, Executive director, Sistemas Médicos Nacionales SIMNSA, Chulavista, CA; Dr. Elmyra Ibáñez, departamento de estudios de población, Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana; Leticia Saldívar, patient from Orosi, CA, Eduardo Carrillo, patient from Los Angeles.

Tuesday, June 13th

PROGRAM # 4826 - 12:00 PDT
TIJUANA: HIGH-TECH HUB, MIGRANT GATEWAY. This live broadcast from Radio Tecnológico in Tijuana addresses issues related to this border enclave known as a high tech hub, and border crossing point for migrants. This is an anniversary broadcast from Radio Tecnológico in Tijuana. Among the topics: the development of a Silicon border in this area, the local impact of Ley “Televisa”, and the debate on the U.S. walls along the border.

Guests: Profr. Jorge Carlos Ríos, outreach director, Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana; Rosa María Lares, station manager, Radio Tecnológico; Oscar Genel, veteran radiojournalist, writer, Tijuana.

Wednesday, June 14th

PROGRAM # 4827 - 12:00 PDT
TEXAS EDITION – BORDER CRACK DOWN. President Bush visits the border to address Border Patrol recruits, advocates question the turning of undocumented immigrants to the border patrol by sheriff agents, and the first National Guard troops are deployed at the Texas border. These and other stories is the subject of a conversation hosted by Carlos Spector Calderón from El Paso, TX.

Guests: Ed Hernández, Texas Civil Rights Project, El Paso, TX; State Sen. Elliot Shapleigh, Democrat, El Paso, TX; Marisol Pérez, MALDEF, San Antonio, TX.

Thursday, June 15th

PROGRAM # 4828 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. This radio service provides news and interviews of interest for Mexicans on both sides of the border.

Friday, June 16th

PROGRAM # 4829 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO’S VOTE. Two weeks before the election, the race for the presidency in Mexico is a dead heat and candidates are in high gear targeting swing voters. This program includes interviews with campaign spokespersons about their agenda on Mexican migration. It also includes analysis about the influence of the émigré vote.

PROGRAM # 4830 - 13:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

Monday, June 19th

PROGRAM # 4832 - 12:00 PDT
HEALTH BENEFITS UNDER ATTACK. Aired in conjunction with a special series in KQED, San Francisco public radio, this program discusses the impact of the current immigration debate on health care benefits received by immigrants and the poor. Issues include new Medicaid rules requiring proof of citizenship. Also, in California, Republican legislators are moving to block the spending plan objecting to Democratic proposals that expand state-funded healthcare programs to include undocumented children.

Guests: Elia Gallardo, California Primary Health Care Association, Sacramento, CA; Assemblyman Fabián Núñez, Speaker, California Assembly, Sacramento, CA; Assemblywoman Bonnie García, Republican, Cathedral City, CA.

Tuesday, June 20th

PROGRAM # 4833 - 12:00 PDT
IMMIGRATION EDITION – BLOCKING THE BILL. House Republicans are threatening to kill the Senate immigration bill using delay tactics under a procedure called “blue slip.” Chicago Attorney Rosalba Piña talks about this news development and answers listener calls.

Guests: Alejandro Burgos, deputy press secretary, National Republican Congressional Committee, Washington, DC; Federico de Jesús, director of Hispanic Communications, Office of the Democratic leader of the Senate, Sen. Harry Reid.

Wednesday, June 21st

PROGRAM # 4834 - 12:00 PDT
TEXAS EDITION – COUNTRYMEN TO THE RESCUE. A group of Mexican-American pilots from El Paso resumes this week regular flights over the border area in New Mexico and Arizona to save immigrants from dying of dehydration. Named “Paisanos al Rescate,” the group of volunteers drops bottles of water on parachutes to individuals crossing the border through the scorching desert lands.

Guest: Armando Alarcón, pilot and organizer, Paisanos al Rescate, El Paso, TX.

“NACHO LIBRE.” This is the title of a comedy that hits the movie theaters this week. The comedy is inspired by the true story of a Veracruz priest who became a lucha libre wrestler to raise money and save a shelter for orphans. In this program, the film director and a retired wrestling star from El Paso, TX, have been invited to comment about “Nacho Libre” and the career of Mexican wrestling.

Guest: Arturo García Patiño “Flama Roja”, retired professional wrestler, El Paso, TX.

Thursday, June 22nd

PROGRAM # 4835 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. She interviews professor Lourdes Fournier, and her students from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Xochimilco. They conducted an opinion poll about voting preferences and links with émigré families.

Friday, June 23rd

PROGRAM # 4836 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO’S VOTE. Two weeks before the election, this program focuses on the final preparations for election day, the climate among the electorate and the heated campaigns.

Guest: Dr. Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, researcher, professor, Universidad Nacional Auónoma de México, columnist, Mexico City.

DIRTY WAR PROBE. A human rights researcher raises serious questions about the probe being conducted by a special prosecutor in Mexico on government crimes of the past forty years.

Guest: Kate Doyle, Director, Mexico Project, National Security Archive, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

LOS ANGELES: SCHOOL REFORM. A conversation with assemblyman Fabián Núñez (D-Los Angeles), leader of the Assembly, about the agreement on a reform package for the Los Angeles schools. The agreement was reached with Mayor Antonio Villarraigosa and the teachers unions.

PROGRAM # 4837 - 13:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

Monday, June 26th

PROGRAM # 4838 - 12:00 PDT
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH EDITION. This program includes three topics:

MACDONALD’S. Florida tomato workers protesting poor working conditions and wages want fast-food giant MacDonald’s Corp. to finance one-cent-per-pound pay raise. Florida supplies 90 percent of domestic fresh produce to the country and Immokalee is among the poorest farming towns. Leaders of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers talk about their efforts to negotiate with the fast-food chain.

WOMEN DISCRIMINATION IN THE FIELDS. Six Latina farm workers are suing a major agricultural company in Delano, CA alleging their job applications were rejected because they are women. EEOC officials say the employment record of Kovacevich 5 Farms, of hiring zero women in a five-year period, is unheard of in any other company. Both sides were invited to comment.

Guests: Attorney Evangelina Hernández, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, San Francisco, CA; Yasmin Macariola, investigator, EEOC, San Francisco, CA; testimonials from farm workers Flor Rivera and Yolanda Hernández from Earlimart, CA.

HEAT-STROKE REGS. California is enacting new rules to protect farm workers from heat stroke during the summer season. These rules become permanent, after emergency regulations were imposed last year in response to a series of field workers deaths from heat-related illnesses.

Guest: Amalia Neidhart, senior industrial hygienist, Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Sacramento, CA.

Tuesday, June 27th

PROGRAM # 4839 - 12:00 PDT
GLOBAL WARMING DEBATE HEATS UP. California’s legislature is considering a historic bill to significantly cut global warming pollution. California is listed as the 12th largest global warming polluter in the world and warming of the earth is already threatening the coastline, air quality and agricultural activity in California. This is a conversation with Assembly leader Fabián Núñez, co-author of the Global Warming Solutions Act.

KICKING THE GAS ADDICTION. Gas prices are soaring and depleting the pocketbooks. What are consumers doing to save money and pollute less? This program explores ideas for green transportation.

Guest: Liz Cornejo, Outreach director, Environment California, San Diego, CA.

URBAN FARM EVICTION. Farmers and supporters of the South Central Community Garden in Los Angeles, the largest urban farm in the nation, were recently evicted by local authorities. In this conversation, organizer Tezozomoc talks about the eviction, the families fed by the farm, and the quest for parks and green areas in the city.

Wednesday, June 28th

PROGRAM # 4840 - 12:00 PDT
TEXAS-GUADALAJARA EDITION – MEXICO’S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN FINAL DAY. Today is the final day for political campaigning in Mexico. This program provides a report on the final campaign stops and a review of migrant issues in the presidential hopefuls platforms. It also gives a report on the early voting by Mexican émigrés who are sending their ballots by mail as well as other ways émigrés help influence the vote back home. This is a simulcast with the three-station network of Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión in Guadalajara, in Western Mexico.

Guests: Patricio Ballados, coordinator, Vote of Mexicans Living Abroad, Instituto Federal Electoral, Mexico City; Juan Benavente, Mexican citizen who voted by mail, Visalia, CA.

Thursday, June 29th

PROGRAM # 4841 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the Voz Pública series from Mexico City. She talks with campaign reporters, explores voting trends and opinions from voters in Mexico City, and plans by local civic groups to monitor the election.

Guests: Clara Jusidman, Incide Social AC, Mexico City; Enrique Velasco, radiojournalist, professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana; Guadalupe Ramírez, photo reporter, assigned to Calderon campaign; Octavio Nava, photo reporter, assigned to López Obrador campaign.

PROGRAM # 4842 - 13:00 PDT
MEXICO EDITION – VOZ PÚBLICA. Martha Elena Ramírez continues this special extended edition. The Voz Pública host talks with election experts.

Guests: Jaime Cárdenas Gracia, former council member, Instituto Federal Electoral, Mexico City; Lilian Lieberman, Yaocihuat, AC.

Friday, June 30th

PROGRAM # 4843 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO: PRE-ELECTION PLANS. Pollsters and journalists are being invited to discuss the issues at stake and the races to follow on Sunday’s election. Campaign financing, election costs and the role of the mass media are also explored. It will also report on plans by international observers to conduct election monitoring to document voting violations.

Guests: Sergio Aguayo, professor, researcher, Colegio de México, columnist, Mexico City; Ted Lewis, founding director, Mexico Program, Global Exchange, San Francisco, CA; international observer, Mexico City; Daniel Lund, pollster, researcher, MUND Americas, Mexico City; Enrique Velasco, retired professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, veteran radiojournalist, contributor.

PROGRAM # 4844 - 13:00 PDT
MEXICO: PRE-ELECTION PLANS. Who can vote? Who is doing what to help get the Mexican émigré vote out? What are the émigré voting trends? How the voting system works? These are some of the questions discussed with election officials and migrant leaders in this special news hour.

Guests: Alberto Avilés, coordinator, Los Angeles group, Advisory Board, Instituto de Mexicanos en el Exterior; Armando García, leader, Redes Migrantes, Los Angeles; José Jacques Medina, Citizen observers of the Vote from Abroad – sección Los Angeles, PRD, Ciudad de México; Lourdes Granillo, Coordinator, Registro Federal de Electores para el Voto en el Extranjero, Instituto Federal Electoral, Mexico City.

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