Whether it is still election day in the US of A or beyond, you will want to listen to this remarkable interview with Rose Aguilar, award-winning, Native American journalist, on how we got here and where we may be going. Aguilar is host of the morning news and analysis program, “Your Call,” which airs live every weekday from KALW studios at 10 am PT around the nation and right here at KSQD.
Aguilar has been a journalist and researcher for decades. She has interviewed presidential candidates, senatorial candidates and some of the best journalists, scientists and thought leaders in the nation and from around the world. Her coverage of the war and genocide in Gaza, Israel and the region has been thorough and heart breaking.
In this episode, Ami Chen Mills and Rose Aguilar discuss:
- How Rose cannot get the overturn of Roe v. Wade out of her mind and the women we are not hearing from
- The power of older women in this election
- Right-wing polls and media responsibility
- The new media environment, silos and how we got here
- What is wrong with the Democratic Party?
- Racism and sexism in the US electorate
- Poverty and inequality in the US
- Covering Gaza/Israel and Palestine. What doctors have said
- Third Party candidates and the electoral college
- Does Rose support Kamala Harris?
- Is Biden progressive at all on climate? What might surprise you
- Disinformation and “Conspirituality”
- Project 2025 (Rose produced run a multi-week series on it)
Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular Media Roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named “Your Call” the best public affairs program in the Bay Area. In 2017, The Nation magazine named it the most valuable local radio show.
Rose has written for Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, Truthout, The Nation, and AlterNet. In 2014, Flyaway Productions turned her Nation cover story about older homeless women into a dance performance.
She’s a member of the Native American Journalists Association and mentor-editor for The OpEd Project, an organization that works to increase the range of voices we hear in the media. In 2005, Rose took a six-month road trip through the so-called red states to learn about why people vote the way they do (or not). She wrote about her journey in Red Highways: A Journey into the Heartland.
Resources:
Democracy Forward’s People’s Guide to Project 2025
Nikole Hannah Jones and the Democracy Summit
Tim Alberta, Staff Writer for the Atlantic, on Trump and his plans
Noted by caller: Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for Palestinian Occupied Territories
Sent by a listener via email: Books for Understanding Fascism
George Seldes, Facts and Fascism (1943)
Walter Laqueur, Fascism: Past, Present, and Future (1996)
James D. Forman, Fascism (1974)
John Weiss, The Fascist Tradition (1967)
Zeef Sternhell, The Birth of Fascist Ideology (1994)
Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1969)
