MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19.

PROGRAM # 6832 12:00 PM PT

SANDY’S AFTERMATH. Two weeks after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, hundreds of thousands of people were still without electricity, water, heat, telephone lines, or internet. Are migrants receiving emergency aid? What's the progress of community rebuilding efforts? This edition includes interviews with survivors of Sandy, outreach workers, and emergency authorities.

Guests: Juan Carlos Ruiz, Activist, Occupy Sandy, New York, NY, http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/; Carmen Gloria Rodríguez, Media Relations Specialist, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), New York, NY, www.fema.gov; Alisa Pizarro, Lead Community Organizer, Red Hook Initiative, Brooklyn, NY, http://rhicenter.org/ (pretaped interview); Teresa López, Resident of Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY (pretaped interview); Janette Torres, Resident of Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY (pretaped interview).

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20.

PROGRAM # 6833 12:00 PM PT

ARIZONA VOTE COUNT. A number of Latino voters in Arizona are calling for a federal investigation into elections irregularities. Many report not receiving early ballots or being forced to vote provisionally. Ten days after the election, there were still more than 100,000 uncounted ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona. Most of those are provisional ballots. Will the uncounted ballots impact the election of Richard Carmona to the Senate and the reelection of Sheriff Joe Arpaio? Analysts will also look into the role of the Latino vote in this election.

Guests: Gabriel Villalobos, Host and Producer, Contacto Total, KNUV 1190 AM, Phoenix, AZ; Petra Falcón, Executive Director, Promise Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, www.promiseaz.org. 

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21.

PROGRAM # 6834 12:00 PM PT

WAL-MART WALKOUT. Workers in Wal-Mart warehouses have faced retaliation after strikes to demand water and ventilation in the workplace. Now, workers at Wal-Mart stores across the United States are planning thousands of protests, rallies, and walk-outs for Black Friday, known as the biggest shopping day of the year.

Guests: Javier Rodríguez, Warehouse Workers for Justice, Miraloma, CA, www.warehouseworkersunited.org; Josué Mata, Maintenance worker at Wal-Mart, and Organizer, OUR Walmart, Dallas, TX, forrespect.org/; Maritza Silva-Farrell, Organizer, Alliance for a Better New York, Secaucus, NJ, www.abny.org. 

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22.

PROGRAM # 6835 12:00 PM PT

HEALTHIER FEASTS. As people sit down around the holiday tables for lavish Thanksgiving meals, this edition takes a look at an innovative pilot program that helped Mexican and Mexican-American women eat healthier and lose weight. The De Por Vida (For Life) program encouraged women to go back to traditional fresh fruits and vegetables, and traditional cooking, and it had promising results.

Guest: Dr. Nangel Lindberg, Ph.D., Researcher, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, OR, http://www.kpchr.org/research/public/News.aspx?NewsID=71.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23.

PROGRAM # 6836 12:00 PM PT

MEXICO EDITION. With few hopes of economic improvements and looking at a political system characterized by corruption, Mexican citizens see the return of the PRI party to power with indifference. Official data report that during the Calderón presidential term, the economy grew on average 1.66 percent of the gross domestic product, the lowest level in 24 years. The press reports unauthorized spending from the Presidential Office and the Secretary of Public Security, while areas such as education, health, agriculture, and science stopped receiving funds that were authorized. Governors of all political parties have gone into debt, with a total of 360 billion pesos. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts Voz Pública from Mexico city.

Guests (pretaped audios): Luis Durán; Nadia Fuentes, Master's in Public Policy; Erick Aguilar, B.A. in Economy, UAM-Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico.

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