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Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter... But Really Do by Melinda Blau

Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution by Caroline Fraser

Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age by William Powers

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes

Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats by Gwynne Dyer

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire by Robert Perkinson

The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan by Dahr Jamail

America and the Pill by Elaine Tyler May

Casino Jack and the United States of Money: Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff and the Buying of Washington by Peter H. Stone

The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-aged Mind by Barbara Strauch

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, the investigative news website Wikileaks revealed 92,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, including evidence of widespread civilian casualties, to the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Speigel. While some are calling it the biggest leak in intelligence history, others say the documents expose nothing new about the war. How did the news media cover the new information? And what is Wikileaks and how will it change investigative reporting? We'll also discuss the latest news on the BP disaster.

We'll be joined by The Guardian's Nick Davies, who reported extensively on the leaked documents, independent journalist Rick Rowley, who just returned from six weeks in Afghanistan, Time's Jerusalem chief Tim McGirk, and journalist Dahr Jamail, who is continuing to cover the disaster in the Gulf for IPS and others. Join the conversation live at 11am or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Nick Davies, a reporter with The Guardian and bestselling author of Flat Earth News, on falsehood and distortion in the media.

Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist, author, and blogger who currently writes for the Inter Press Service, Le Monde Diplomatique, and many other outlets. He authored Beyond the Green Zone; his stories have also been published with The Nation, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, Al-Jazeera, the Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, and the Independent.

Richard Rowley, an independent journalist with Big Noise Films, who just returned from a six-week trip to Afghanistan where he was embedded with a U.S. Marine division in Marjah.

Tim McGirk, Time Magazine's Jerusalem Bureau Chief

COMING UP
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07.30.10 Media Roundtable

Huff Post: WikiLeaks Media Reaction -- A Frenzy of Frantic Yawning

Wikileaks

Eric Michael Johnson, Huffington Post: Analysis of Civilian Casualties in WikiLeaks Afghan File Reveals Media Bias

Julian Assange, Washington Post: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange on Afghanistan war documents

Time: The Middle East Blog

Dahr Jamail, Truthout: BP Response Workers Report Low Morale, Lack of Pay, Sickness

Dahr Jamail, IPS: BP Oil Poisons the Gulf of Mexico's Food Chain

Politico: Holder: DOJ probing Wikileaks Afghan leak

Nick Davies, The Guardian: Afghanistan war logs: Story behind biggest leak in intelligence history

New York Times op-ed: A Secret Archive of What We Already Know

Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper, New York Times: Leaks add to pressure on White House over Strategy

John Goetz and Marcel Rosenbach, Der Speigel: Is WikiLeaks a Blessing or Curse for Democracy?

Tom Hayden, The Nation: Despite WikiLeaks Revelations, Congress Votes for War Funding

07.29.10 What is today's political pulse on immigration?

Huffington Post: Meg Whitman: I Do Support Arizona Law... for Arizona

ACLU Arizona

Border Action Network

California Immigrant Policy Center

Warren Institute--UC Berkeley School of Law

La Frontera Times

Imagine 2050

Immigration Impact

Multi-American

Tucson Citizen: Border Sheriff Drops Endorsement of John McCain over SB1070

LA Times: Injunction puts parts of Arizona's SB 1070 on hold

Tucson Citizen: Was SB 1070 worth it? Commentary

07.28.10 What happens to hospitals -- and patients -- when their budgets get cut?

Clarion Ledger: Where will they go? Facilities closing, downsizing amid financial cutbacks

Monterey County Herald: CHOMP plans deep cuts to budget

California Healthline: County Requests State Aid After Diverting Funds for Hospital

The California Report--KQED: A Hospital At Risk

California Watch: California emergency rooms average 274-minute waits

07.27.10 How can we take on our vast secret government?

Washington Post: Top Secret America

The Atlantic: The Post Covers Spy Town

True/Slant: On the Washington Post's 'Top Secret America'

The Nation: Corporate Media Discover Private Spies. In Other News, No WMD in Iraq

Salon.com: The WikiLeaks Afghanistan leak

WikiLeaks

NY Times: In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks 'Transparency'

NY Times: The War Logs: An archive of classified military documents offers an unvarnished view of the war in Afghanistan

07.26.10 Is it time to reform Prop 13?

Close the Loophole

Close the Loophole Town Hall
Tuesday, July 27, 6-7:30pm
Laney College Student Center, Oakland
(1 block East of Lake Merritt BART station)

Phil Marshal, East Bay Express: Reforming Prop 13

Meghan McCarty, Bay Citizen: Prop 13's New Apporach

Thomas D. Elias, Mercury News: Prop 13 Finally Gets Serious Look

David Bohnett, Huffington Post: On Prop 13 -- Time to Amend and Correct

Daniel Weintraub, New York Times: Mothers' Eyes See Trouble with Tax Roll

San Francisco Bay Gaurdian: Ammiano Reviving Prop 13 Reform

07.23.10 Media Roundtable

Washington Post: Top Secret America

Democracy Now: Tim Shorrock Asks Why It Took the Washington Post So Long to Investigate the US Intelligence System

Liz Cox Barrett, Columbia Journalism Review: It's Morning in Top Secret America

Alex Kane, FAIR: Washington Post Sheds Light on Secret Government but Alt Media Were There First

The New York Times: A Look at The Washington Post's Top Secret America

Ryan Chittum, Columbia Journalism Review: Covering the Historic Financial Reform Bill

Andy Kroll, Mother Jones: Wall Street Reform's Biggest Winners and Losers

Andy Kroll, Mother Jones: BP: From Oil Spilling to Financial Reform Killing

Shahien Nasiripour, Huffington Post: Financial Reform Bill Passes: Banks Keep Derivatives Units, Volcker Rules Softened; House-Senate Conference Passes Financial Reform Bill After Marathon Session

Tim Shorrock's website

07.22.10 What's life like as a hotel worker today?

Marc Norton, BeyondChron: Hotel Workers, Guests Only "Pawn in Their Game"

Beyond Chron: 2009: Year of Hope and Struggle for SF Hotel Workers

People's World: Hyatt workers protest in San Francisco

Change.org: Hotel Workers Bravely Ask People to Boycott Their Own Hotels

Boycott these properties (a list of hotels)

Hotel Workers Rising: July 22: Workers in 15 cities take on Hyatt and its billionaire owners.

SF Appeal: Hotel Workers' Demonstration Could Mess Up Your Commute Tomorrow Afternoon

Center for Law and Social Policy: When Restaurant and Hotel Workers Don't Have Paid Sick Days, It Hurts Us All

SFIndyBay.org: Commemoration of The 1980 SF Hotel Workers Strike & The Zim's Restaurant Workers Struggle

07.21.10 How should we interact with strangers?

Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter... But Really Do by Melinda Blau

Book website: Consequential Strangers

KidPower

Christine Carter PhD, Huffington Post: Talking to Strangers (and Other Things That Bring Luck)

Live Science: Why We 'Play Nice' With Strangers

Innovate on Purpose: Relying on the kindness of strangers

American Scientist: An interview with Paul Seabright

07.20.10 How can we save our planet's animal species from extinction?

Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution by Caroline Fraser

Carolyn Jones, SF Chronicle: Mission blue butterfly returns to Twin Peaks

Center for Biological Diversity

Rewilding the World

Bagheera

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN): Wildlife In A Changing World -- An analysis of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

IUCN: Red List

New York Review of Books: Why We Must Bring Back the Wolf

SF Gate, Review: 'Rewilding the World,' by Caroline Fraser --

Arkive--Images of Life on Earth

International League of Conservation Photographers: A Climate for Life

07.19.10 Should we be afraid of increasing debt?

Ezra Klein, Washington Post: Do Conservatives Care About the Deficit? Do Democrats?

Christopher Hayes, The Nation: Deficits of Mass Destruction

Mike Konczal, Washinton Post: W is written into our historic memories, as well as our federal budget

Donna Smith, Reuters: US Deficit Reduction Painful, Commission Chiefs Warn

Arthur Delaney, Huffington Post: Voters Say To Hell With Deficit Reduction, Help the Unemployed

Bloomberg: IMF's Cottarrelli says countries need medium term deficit plans

Minnesota Public Radio: Economic Recovery: Stimulus vs. Deficit

Economist Mom

The Concord Coalition

The Roosevelt Institute

Rortybomb (Mike Konczal's Blog)

Summer Reading List - 2010

Book Title	Author
A Short History of Nearly Everything	Bill Bryson
Alive at The Village Vanguard: My Life in and Out of Jazz	Lorraine Gordon
Animal Vegetable Miracle	Barbara Kingsolver
Big Hair and Plastic Grass	Dan Epstein
Book of Elsewhere	Jacqueline West
Buddhism Without Beliefs	Stephen Batchelor
Confession of a Buddhist Atheist	Stephen Batchelor
Cutting For Stone	Abraham Verghese
Daring Spectacle	Mark Morford
Dicey's Song	Cynthia Voigt
El Hombre Que Amaba A Los Perros (The man who loved dogs)	Leonardo Padura
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle	Chris Hedges
Five Skies	Ron Carlson
For The Wind	Corey Doctorow
Furious Improvisation	Susan Quinn
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba	T.J English
Homecoming	Cynthia Voigt
Hunger Games	Susan Collins
Lies My Teacher Told Me	James W. Loewen
Little Brother	Corey Doctorow
Manhood For Amateurs	Michael Chabon
Mocking Jay	Susan Collins
Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill	Ricki Ott
Olive Kitteridge	Elizabeth Strout
The Creature from Jekyll Island	G. Edward Griffin
The End of Food	Paul Roberts
The Family	Jeff Charlotte
The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy
The Imperfectionists	Tom Rachman
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake	Aimee Bender
The Passage	Justin Cronin
Prodigal Summer	Barbara Kingsolver
The Professor and Other Writings	Terry Castle
The Queen Mother	William Shawcross
The Return	Roberto Bolano
The Savage Detectives	Roberto Bolano
The Secret	Anonymous Bosch
The Watchman's Rattle	Rebecca D. Costa
The Wave	Susan Casey
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade of America	Douglas Brinkley
The Yellow Light Bookshop	Lewis Buzbee
Wisdom of Crowds	James Surowiecki
An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas	Diane Wilson
Write That Book Already!	Sam Barry & Kathi Kamen Goldmark

07.16.10 Media Roundtable

Trenton Daniel, Miami Herald: Blind violinist struggles to rebuild Haiti in his own way

Trenton Daniel, Miami Herald: Nowhere to go, so Haiti's displaced residents stay in squalid camps

Dahr Jamail's reports from New Orleans

Mother Jones: Robbing New Orleans to Pay for BP's Spill

Mother Jones: "They Just Don't Know Who They're Messing With"

Riki Ott: BP, Government Downplay Public Health Risks from Oil and Dispersants (Photos)

Valeria Fernandez's reports from Phoenix

Valeria Fernandez, New America Media: Domestic Violence Victims Silenced by SB1070

Valeria Fernandez, New America Media: Hope Comes to Immigrants in Arizona

Harpers: Tea party in Sonora: For the future of G.O.P. governance, look to Arizona

07.15.10 What can we learn from the Gulf oil disaster?

5pm Protest against #BP @ the Helios Energy Research Facility corner of Shattuck & Hearst in Berkeley. Info from Code Pink

Riki Ott & Diane Wilson report back tonight at 7:00 in Berkeley
The David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way in Berkeley

Riki Ott's website

Review of Diane Wilson's Book: An Unreasonable Woman

Diane Wilson bio

Riki Ott, Huffington Post: From the Ground: BP Censoring Media, Destroying Evidence

Change.org: Don't Let 9/11 Health Problems Repeat In The Gulf

BP Makes Me Sick

07.14.10 What's on your summer reading list?

New York Review of Books

Green Apple Books

San Francisco Public Library

Collaborative Summer Library Program

BookReview.com

07.13.10 How do you live a good life in the digital age?

Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age by William Powers

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier's website

William Powers' website

07.12.10 Who is on the debt panel?

Economic Policy Institute

Jeff Faux, The Hill: "Myths about the federal budget deficit"

David Lightman, McClatchy: "No full Social Security benefits until age 70?"

Steven Thomma, McClatchy: "Obama's budget deficits to rise from wars, recession"

Dan Balz, Washington Post: "Debt commission chiefs give gloomy fiscal outlook"

Trudy Lieberman, CJR: "Secrecy at the Deficit Commission: Note to the media: It's past time for a little sunshine here"

Summer Reading List - 2010

Book Title

Author