Rose Aguilar

San Francisco

Host, Your Call at KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA)

Mentor Editor, The OpEd Project at Freelance

Host of @yourcallradio, a live daily public affairs show on @kalw in SF. Listen live from 10-11am PT or podcast. Mentor/editor, @TheOpEdProject.

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Articles

Kids Under Fire In Gaza

1 week ago | kalw.org | Malihe Razazan |Rose Aguilar

On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we discuss an Al Jazeera/Reveal documentary about US physicians who’ve volunteered in Gaza. They report witnessing a disturbing and systemic pattern of children shot by the Israeli military. They’re now pushing for accountability. The US-backed Israeli assault on Gaza has killed about 17,500 children since October 2023, most of whom have died in indiscriminate bombings.
The consequences of the political battle over late-term abortion

1 week ago | kalw.org | Malihe Razazan |Rose Aguilar

On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, The Nation's abortion access correspondent Amy Littlefield discusses her report on one of the last remaining clinics in the US that provides third-trimester abortions. She writes, Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it, but later-abortion care has never been more important. Since Roe was overturned almost three years ago, abortion bans have pushed some patients further into pregnancy.
Native tribes sue US government over deaths, abuse at boarding schools

1 week ago | kalw.org | Rose Aguilar

On this edition of Your Call, Washington Post reporter Dana Hedgpeth discusses her reporting on the 523 Indian boarding schools established in the US. Hedgpeth and her colleagues found that 3,104 students died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970, three times as many deaths as reported by the US Interior Departmentlast year.
How are you reflecting five years after the murder of George Floyd?

1 week ago | kalw.org | Rose Aguilar

On this edition of Your Call, we're marking the five-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by speaking with Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, co-authors of His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice. We'll discuss George Floyd's life and the intense backlash to the racial justice uprising after his death.
Biden's aggressive prostate cancer diagnosis, testing & treatment

1 week ago | kalw.org | Rose Aguilar |Nina Kissinger

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Former President Biden’s advanced prostate cancer diagnosis. Since announcing his illness, President Biden has been met with widespread speculation and unfounded claims despite the fact that he was following standard screening guidelines during his presidency, which advise PSA screening to be stopped for men over the age of 70 (Biden is currently 82).
Uncuffed empowers people in prison to tell their own stories

2 weeks ago | kalw.org | Rose Aguilar

On this edition of Your Call, we speak with Greg Eskridge, founding member of the Uncuffed radio show. On July 23, 2024, Eskridge was released from San Quentin prison after serving 30 years and 25 days. A few months later, he began working full-time as Uncuffed’s first leadership fellow. We'll learn more about his work on the inside and outside and we'll discuss the power of giving people in prison the tools to tell their own stories. Guest: Greg Eskridge, leadership fellow with Uncuffed
How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back

2 weeks ago | kalw.org | Rose Aguilar

On this edition of Your Call, Professor Joan Williams discusses her new book, Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back. She says the far-right manipulates class anger to undercut progressive goals and liberals often play into their hands. She says if liberals want to win, they must change the class dynamics driving US politics.
Trump strips Afghans and Venezuelans of deportation protections

2 weeks ago | kalw.org | Rose Aguilar |Nina Kissinger

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Trump's inhumane and discriminatory deportation policies. The same day the Trump Administration welcomed a group of 49 white South Africans to the US, they terminated temporary protected status for over 9,000 Afghan refugees. Yesterday, the Supreme Court allowed the administration to end temporary protected status granted by the Biden administration for over 350,000 Venezuelans.
The Trump cuts have already 'devastated promising cancer research'

3 weeks ago | kalw.org | Rose Aguilar

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the Trump administration's cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest funder of cancer research, providing about $8 billion in grants annually to medical centers, universities, and others.
Trump budget cuts would shut down suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth

3 weeks ago | kalw.org | Rose Aguilar

Live now on Your Call, we discuss a Trump administration budget proposal that would eliminate funding for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services, a federal program that provides emergency crisis support to LGBTQ+ youth considering suicide. This crisis lifeline, which is funded through the Department of Health and Human Services, has taken more than 1.2 million calls, texts, and chats since 2022.