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

Upcoming Supreme Court decisions & stopping Trump's authoritarianism

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

On this edition of Your Call, we continue to open the lines to get your thoughts on this political moment with Lisa Graves, author of the forthcoming book, Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights.
Millions take to the streets to protest Trump's authoritarianism

3 days ago | kalw.org | Rose Aguilar

On this edition of Your Call, we're opening the lines to get your take on this political moment. On Sunday night, authorities arrested Vance Boelter, the alleged gunman who assassinated Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark in their home early Saturday. Authorities say he also shot State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette in their home, but they survived and are in stable condition.
Media coverage of Trump’s war on trans people

6 days ago | kalw.org | Rose Aguilar |Andrew Stelzer

On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we discuss the Trump administration’s attacks on trans peoples’ rights. Reporter Adam Rhodes writes: "The breakneck speed at which the Trump administration has targeted trans people shows no signs of slowing down, even as his earliest anti-trans executive orders face tremendous legal battles and setbacks as courts issue rulings blocking them across the nation.
A week of ICE raids, protests, and military deployments in Los Angeles

6 days ago | kalw.org | Rose Aguilar |Andrew Stelzer

On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we discuss coverage of the mass protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles and beyond. Demonstrations against ICE raids and troop deployments are spreading across the country. According to officials, the raids will continue and the Trump administration is prepared to send National Guard troops to more US cities. Guest:Jeremy Lindenfeld, reporter with Capital & MainResources:Capital & Main: Police Violently Crack Down on L.A. Protests
Celebrating Pride while fighting Trump's anti-LGBTQ policies

1 week ago | kalw.org | Rose Aguilar |Andrew Stelzer

On this edition of Your Call, we continue with KALW Pride week by finding out how LGBTQ+ communities are celebrating and fighting back against the Trump administration's anti-LGBTQ policies. The administration has reduced funding and eliminated entire programs that provide healthcare, mental health, social services and more for LGBTQ+ people. Programs at the state level are also being threatened.
Families search for loved ones rounded up during Trump's ICE raids

1 week ago | kalw.org | Rose Aguilar

On this edition of Your Call, we get the latest on the Trump administration's recent ICE raids in Los Angeles. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a House committee the military will stay in Los Angeles for 60 days. The Pentagon says troop deployment will cost $134 million. Family members whose loved ones have been detained say they have no information on their whereabouts and can't get answers. Reporters and advocates say these public raids are unprecedented.
How to reverse and prevent chronic diseases with a healthy diet

2 weeks ago | kalw.org | Rose Aguilar

On this edition of Your Call, we continue our series on health, chronic disease, cancer, and prevention with Dr. Michael Klaper, a longtime clinician who travels the country to speak with young physicians and other healthcare professionals about the importance of a plant-based or plant-forward diet in clinical practice and integrative medicine.
Social service advocates slam Governor Newsom's proposed budget cuts

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

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the drastic social service cuts included in Governor Gavin Newsom’s budget, which threaten to leave hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Californians including people with disabilities, immigrants, and the elderly, without essential healthcare.
Kids Under Fire In Gaza

2 weeks 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

2 weeks 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.