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Linea Abierta Programs for March 2006

Wednesday, March 1st

PROGRAM # 4744 - 12:00 PDT
TEXAS-GUADALAJARA SIMULCAST: ÉMIGRÉS BALLOT. While 3 million Mexican émigrés were estimated to be eligible to vote under Mexico’s new voting laws, only about 55 thousand Mexican émigrés applied for absentee ballots in July’s presidential election. This program looks into the results of a recent opinion poll on the matter. It also discusses efforts to ensure émigré voters cast their ballot and receive reliable campaign information. This is a special simulcast with the three-station network of Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión in Guadalajara, in Western Mexico.

Guests: Gabriel Escobar, associate director, Pew Hispanic Center, Washington, DC; Patricio Ballados, Director, Program for Vote of Mexicans Abroad, Instituto Federal Electoral, Mexico City; Esteban Mario Garaiz, State chairman, Instituto Federal Electoral, Guadalajara; Luis de la Garza, member of the Advisory Committee, Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior, member of Coalition for the Rights of Mexicans Living Abroad, Dallas, TX.

Thursday, March 2nd

PROGRAM # 4745 - 12:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments.

Friday, March 3rd

PROGRAM # 4746 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

Monday, March 6th

PROGRAM # 4747 - 12:00 PDT
DR. MARIO MOLINA – GLOBAL WARMING. A member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Molina received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the effect of some chemical products on the ozone hole. One of the world’s top experts on pollution, he’ll talk about gas emissions that contribute to the greenhouse effect and global warming. This is a simulcast with the twelve-station network of Radio Michoacán in Morelia, in Western Mexico.

Tuesday, March 7th

PROGRAM # 4748 - 12:00 PDT
TEXAS EDITION – BILINGUAL ED BATTLE. The Texas Board of Education is debating offering English immersion instead of the required bilingual education programs. Civil rights groups go to court urging Texas to effectively implement bilingual programs for ELL students. This program also includes comments on news developments, including the Democratic and Republican primaries in Texas and the efforts by Dallas' officials to pursue legal changes to be able to recruit undocumented professionals to meet the growing need of bilingual teachers.

Guests: Jane E. Lopez, senior staff attorney, META - Multicultural Education, Training and Advocacy, Inc., Somerville, MA; Nora Harris, Bilingual program coordinator, Harlandale Independent Unified School District, Harlandale, TX.

Wednesday, March 8th

PROGRAM # 4749 - 12:00 PDT
CHICANA LEADERS. On International Women’s Day, this program features distinguished women in the movement for civil rights and social justice. It features a conversation with Olga Talamante, executive director of the Chicana Latina Foundation in San Francisco. A daughter of farm workers from California, she was a political prisoner in Argentina during the military dictatorship. Also, Elizabeth Martinez, a legendary writer, teacher, and pioneer of the civil rights movement of the 60s. Author of the classic photo textbook 500 Years of Chicano History, she is currently working on the book 500 Years of Chicana History.

Thursday, March 9th

PROGRAM # 4750 - 12:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments.

Friday, March 10th

PROGRAM # 4751 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

Monday, March 13th

PROGRAM # 4752 - 12:00 PDT
GRASROOTS POWER. Community organizations, clinics and public agencies in Central California are joining forces in an effort to fight asthma, cholesterol, diabetes, pesticides poisoning, poverty, exclusion and other ills affecting farm workers. This health model, called Poder Popular, is announced as a trail-blazing approach that relies on farm worker mobilization and self-advocacy to improve the health and living conditions and ensure human rights for migrant workers and their families. This roundtable features stakeholders of the project Poder Popular.

Guests: Dr. Max Cuevas, CEO, Clinicas de Salud, Salinas, CA; Argelia Flores, coordinator, Poder Popular, Tulare County; Irma Arroyo, director of Quinto Sol group, organizer for LUPE and Poder Popular, Lindsay, CA; Kingdom Meik, spokesperson, City of Lindsay.

Tuesday, March 14th

PROGRAM # 4753 - 12:00 PDT
IMMIGRATION EDITION – FACE OFF IN WASHINGTON. While in Chicago tens of thousands join a broad coalition to march for legal status for millions of immigrants, Cardinal Roger Mahoney urged Catholics to disobey anti-immigrant bills if they become law. These are the latest developments in a growing upsurge of citizen activism as the U.S. Senate takes up immigration reform and control bills. Attorney Rosalba Piña hosts this edition from Chicago and answers listeners calls.

Guests: Leo Anchondo, national campaign manager, Justice for Immigrants, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC; Vanessa Cardenas, National Immigration Forum, Washington, DC; Jorge Salazar, news reporter, Chicago, IL.

Wednesday, March 15th

PROGRAM # 4754 - 12:00 PDT
A TROUBLING VISIT. In recent days, two agents who identified themselves as part of an anti-terrorist agency paid a visit to Dr. Miguel Tinker Salas, a professor of Latin American history at Pomona College. They wanted to know about his politics and alleged links to the Venezuelan government. College officials see the police action as an intrusion that could have a chilling effect in free academic life.

Guests: Dr. Miguel Tinker Salas, professor of Latin American history/Chicano Studies, Pomona College, Los Angeles; Steve Whitmore, spokesperson, Los Angeles County Sheriff Department.

WALKOUT. The cable network HBO Films is presenting Walkout, a film that tells the true-life story of the Chicano high school student uprising in East Los Angeles in 1968. This is a brief announcement and sounds of the trailer of the movie, directed by film makers Edward James Olmos and Moctesuma Esparza.

CRUCIAL VOTE ON IMMIGRATION. Michelle Waslin, political analyst for the National Council of La Raza in Washington, comments on immigration bills being discussed in the Senate Judiciary Committee, the crucial vote on how to treat undocumented immigrants, and the last-minute efforts to extend discussions on these issues.

THE MEDIA IN MEXICO. Professor Tomas Saucedo, a leading representative of Universidad de Sinaloa in Northwest Mexico and host of the talk show En Corto, gives his views about access to the media and social services by migrant populations from Southern Mexico living in the valleys of the north of the country, and also about the radio and TV coverage of political campaigns in this year's heated electoral season.

Thursday, March 16th

PROGRAM # 4755 - 12:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments.

Friday, March 17th

PROGRAM # 4756 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

Monday, March 20th

PROGRAM # 4757 - 12:00 PDT
LABORERS’ CROSS-COUNTRY RUN. A dozen day laborers are in the middle of a cross-country run from Los Angeles to New York to bring attention to the plight of immigrant workers. Also, in San Francisco, activists begin a hunger strike urging California Senators to support immigration reform. These and other stories are part of this program.

Guests: Oscar Paredes, runner, day laborer in New York; Guillermo Glenn, host of the runners, coordinator for Association of Border Workers, El Paso, TX; Pablo Alvarado, coordinator, National Day Laborers Organizing Network, Los Angeles; Renee Saucedo, director, La Raza Centro Legal, director for the Day Labor Program, San Francisco.

Tuesday, March 21st

PROGRAM # 4758 - 12:00 PDT
MARIACHI PIONEERS. Pioneering groups Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán and Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano are back in Fresno, CA for Radio Bilingüe’s 24th Viva el Mariachi! Festival. This year, the festival will also pay tribute to three accomplished artists from the valley: singer and songwriter Carmencristina Moreno, a recipient of the NEA’s National Heritage Award; and Agustín Lira, co-founder of El Teatro Campesino in 1965 and director of Chicano music ensemble Grupo Alma. This program features conversations with some of the artists.

Guests: Carmencristina Moreno, interpreter and composer of the cancion Chicana genre, Fresno, CA; Natividad "Nati" Cano, founder and director, Mariachi Los Camperos, Los Angeles, CA; Pepe Martinez, director, Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan, Mexico City.

Wednesday, March 22nd

PROGRAM # 4759 - 12:00 PDT
TEXAS EDITION – SENATE CONTINUES WORK ON IMMIGRATION. Senators working on an immigration bill set a vote for Monday on proposals that deal with the status of undocumented immigrant workers. Under pressure from the Republican leadership, the committee’s chairman demanded more time to complete an immigration reform package. This program reports on the issue and on an emerging group of youth from Houston who are getting together to urge passing of legislation to legalize undocumented students.

Guests: Joseph Reina, director for Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Dallas, TX; Tatiana Medina, college student, organizer of demonstration for Dream Act, Houston, TX.

Thursday, March 23rd

PROGRAM # 4760 - 12:00 PDT
PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments.

Friday, March 24th

PROGRAM # 4761 - 12:00 PDT
MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

Monday, March 27th

PROGRAM # 4762 - 12:00 PDT
MEGA-DEMONSTRATION. Los Angeles was the site of the largest immigrant-rights rally in recent history. Nearly a million demonstrators packed the streets of downtown Los Angeles urging the U.S. Senate to pass a reform that protects the civil rights of millions of immigrants. Ruben and Wendy Tapia attended the mega-demonstration and provide an extensive report.

FARMWORKERS IN THE SOUTH. In North Carolina, migrant workers who pick cucumbers were exposed to hazardous conditions in the farms. They didn’t receive breaks to drink water or transportation to go out of the fields. Tobacco workers often suffered “green sickness” from being exposed to the nicotine in the plants. A historic agreement between a labor group and the main growers association promises to change life conditions in the fields. It allows workers to unionize, demand health care and workers’comp, decent wages, and other benefits. How is this agreement working?

Guests: Leticia Zavala, organizer, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Dudley, NC; Lupe Huitron, staff apprentice, Student Action with Farm Workers, Durham, NC.

Tuesday, March 28th

PROGRAM # 4763 - 12:00 PDT
IMMIGRATION EDITION – PANEL OKS WORK-VISA PLAN. The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee completed in recent hours an immigration reform bill that includes visas for undocumented immigrants and guest workers. The legislation is now in the hands of the full Senate, which is expected to begin debates this week. Attorney Rosalba Piña interviews Vanessa Cardenas, a spokesperson for the National Immigration Forum in Washington, DC, and Senator Ken Salazar, Democrat for Colorado about these topics and answers listeners calls to provide legal advice.

Wednesday, March 29th

PROGRAM # 4764 - 12:00 PDT
TEXAS-GUADALAJARA EDITION – BUSH IN MEXICO. President Bush travels this week to Cancun to meet with President Fox of Mexico and Prime Minister Harper of Canada. They are scheduled to discuss a partnership for continental security and common prosperity. In this program, experts in Guadalajara comment on how the meetings is seen in Mexico and guests in El Paso provide the view from analysts North of the border. This is a simulcast with the three-station network of Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión in Guadalajara, in Western Mexico.

Guests: Dr. Jorge Durand, professor at Universidad de Guadalajara, co-director of Mexican Migration Project and Latin American Migration Project, Princeton University-Universidad de Guadalajara; Marcos Francisco del Rosario Rodriguez, academic coordinator for the Law School of Universidad Panamericana at Guadalajara, founder and director of Instituto de Estudios Politicos y Parlamentarios, Guadalajara; Attorney Carlos Spector Calderon, immigration law analyst, El Paso, TX.

Thursday, March 30th

PROGRAM # 4765 - 12:00 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.

Friday, March 31st

PROGRAM # 4766 - 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.

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