A conversation with Dr. Jose Angel Gutierrez, currently a professor and attorney in Dallas, on his recent book "The Making of a Chicano Militant." Gutierrez is the founder of the La Raza Unida Party in 1969, an organization that during the early 70s was instrumental in electing a number of Mexican American candidates to public office.

Guest: Jose Angel Gutierrez, "The Making of a Chicano Militant", University of Wisconsin Press.

Mexican activist Rodolfo Montiel, imprisoned in Mexico for nearly a year, was distinguished with the Goldman environmental award, which includes a fund of 125,000 dlls. Montiel has been protesting for years the degradation of forests, corruption and human rights violations in the Southern Sierra Madre. He was jailed under charges called spurious by human rights groups.

Twenty five years after U.S. forces left Vietnam in defeat, ending a 30-year-long war, veterans of that unpopular war begin returning to their former battleground to find many answers. Vietnam veterans share in this program their remembrances and feelings about the war in South East Asia.

Guests: Charlie Trujillo, Vietnam veteran, author and director of Chusma House publishing house.

An interview with the legendary Mexican singer, composer, poet, and actor Oscar Chávez, one of the foremost promoters of the Latin American new and folk song throughout the continent. This program also features music of Chávez's newly-released CD "Chiapas." The CD is the recording of a Chávez concert earlier this year in the town of Oventic, Chiapas. The proceeds of this CD's sales support a middle school in a Zapatista Indian rebel area.

The legendary Bert Corona, a grassroots activist for labor, civil and human rights, passed away on January 15 leaving a legacy of seven decades of trailblazing work. This program is a repeat of a live conversation on Línea Abierta between Corona and the late Josefina Fierro. They comment on their joint work in the leadership of the Congreso de los Pueblos de Habla Hispana, a national organization of the 1930s and 40s.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel recently visited Los Angeles, where he criticized the U.S. bombing of Iraq, the migrant deaths at the border and the danger of a new Vietnam in Colombia. Correspondent Ruben Tapia has an exclusive interview with the Argentinean human rights activist.

Taped interview: Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Argentinean sculptor, Catholic non-violence and human rights activist, 1980 Nobel Peace Prize recipient

An conversation with judge Cruz Reynoso, vice chair of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, a presidential Medal of Freedom honoree and former judge for California State Supreme Court. He comments on the need to hold public hearings at the U.S.-Mexican border to review complaints of violence and mistreatment against migrants, racial profiling and other issues.

Línea Abierta provides a report on the first celebration of César Chávez day after proclaimed a holiday last year. As part of the state's Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Learning, schools must include instruction on the values of Cesar Chávez and the history of the farm worker movement.

Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the farm workers union, and surviving founding members Trinidad and Lili Orozco share stories of the first days of farm union organizing in the Central Valley. Also, Josefina Hernandez and Ramon Lerma, children of veteran founding members, recount the first years of the movement. The testimonials were recorded during the gathering of farm labor organizers to celebrate the UFW’s 40th birthday. This program is in celebration of National Latino Heritage Month.

A conversation with Dr. Jose Angel Gutierrez, currently a professor and attorney in Dallas, on his book "The Making of a Chicano Militant." Gutierrez is a founder of the La Raza Unida Party in 1969, an organization that during the early 70s was instrumental in electing a number of Mexican American candidates to public office. This is a repeat program, aired now on occasion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday celebrations.

Guest: Jose Angel Gutierrez, "The Making of a Chicano Militant", University of Wisconsin Press, www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress.

A conversation with Dr. Jose Angel Gutierrez, currently a professor and attorney in Dallas, on his book "The Making of a Chicano Militant." Gutierrez is a founder of the La Raza Unida Party in 1969, an organization that during the early 70s was instrumental in electing a number of Mexican American candidates to public office.

The legendary Bert Corona, a grassroots activist for labor, civil and human rights, passed away on January 15 leaving a legacy of seven decades of trailblazing work. This program is a repeat of a live conversation on Línea Abierta between Corona and the late Josefina Fierro.

Mexican émigrés from the state of San Luis Potosí meet in Chicago to work on a legislative bill that would grant political rights to Potosinos living abroad. Organizers of the community forum seek the right to elect governor and have an elected representative in SLP’s state Congress.

Guest: Rogelio Martínez Faz, Asociación de Clubes y Organizaciones Potosinas de Illinois, Chicago.

ALSO, HEALTH CARE FOR ALL. A conversation with Congressman Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX), chair of the Hispanic Congressional Caucus. He calls on Washington to use the multi-billion-dollar tax cuts to help pay for health care needs of Blacks and Latinos, the most uninsured populations.

Human rights activist Rosario Ibarra de Piedra began a new international campaign named Free a Prisoner. The effort seeks to find missing activists arrested during Mexican government’s dirty war of the 1970s. A special federal prosecutor recently requested apprehension orders against top police officials linked to political disappearances in the past.

Guest: Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, president, Comité Eureka, Mexico City.

ALSO, DEMOCRATIC TAX PLAN. Democratic leaders in Congress have unveiled an economic plan that pledges to create tax cuts for working families, tax credits for small businesses and expand unemployment insurance. The plan is announced as fiscally-responsible and pro-jobs, and as an alternative to a plan proposed by President Bush and House Republicans.

Guest: Congressman Xavier Becerra, D-LA, member of the House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee, Washington, DC.

The daughter of cotton sharecroppers in Texas, Chávez-Thompson labored as a farm worker, joined the labor union movement and eventually rose through the ranks of the AFL-CIO to become the first person of color and the first woman elected to Executive Vice-President of the AFL-CIO in 1995. This is an interview on current topics.

Linda Chavez-Thompson. The daughter of cotton sharecroppers in Texas, Chávez-Thompson labored as a farm worker, joined the labor union movement and eventually rose through the ranks of the AFL-CIO to become the first person of color and the first woman elected to Executive Vice-President of the AFL-CIO in 1995. This is an interview on current topics.

A leading student activist in the 60s, and co-founder of La Raza Unida political party in 1970, José Angel Gutiérrez joins this edition to comment on the controversy raised by conservative politicians in California about the past affiliation of Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante to MECHA, a Chicano student advocacy organization.

A leading student activist in the 60s, and co-founder of La Raza Unida political party in 1970, José Angel Gutiérrez joins this edition to comment on the controversy raised by conservative politicians in California about the past affiliation of Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante to MECHA, a Chicano student advocacy organization. The concept of Aztlán is also discussed, coinciding with the celebrations of Latino and Mexican-American cultural identity.

ALSO, SEN. TOM DASCHLE. An interview with Sen. Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota), leader of the Democratic Minority in the Senate. In this conversation, Sen. Daschle comments on activities to remember 9-11, President Bush' request for 87 billion for Iraq, the defeat of a Republican plan to reform overtime pay, longer detention periods for immigrants, and the probe of 9-11 in Chile.

TEXAS-JALISCO SIMULCAST: CHOCOLATE CAR AMNESTY. Mexico approved a vehicle amnesty to legalize imports and register an estimated 3 million chocolate cars, as the unlicensed, illegally-imported cars are called. This binational radio program, broadcast in conjunction with the three-station network of Radiarte in Guadalajara, features representatives from Jalisciense émigré groups in Texas and federal treasury officials in charge of the car amnesty program in Western Mexico.

Guests: Rosalba Santibañez, President, Clubes Jaliscienses, San Antonio, Texas; Jesus Gonzalez Martinez, coordinador, Atencion al Contribuyente, Secretaria de Finanzas; Armando Sojo Garza Aldape, Delegado federal en Jalisco, Secretaria de Economia; Jose Guzman Torres, subdirector, Promocion al Comercio Exterior, Secretaria de Economia; Monica Martinez, subdirectora, Servicios y Asuntos Juridicos, Secretaria de Economia; Roberto Argueta, subdirector, Servicios al Publico, Secretaria de Economia.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

MEXICO’S ABSENTEE BALLOTS. This week, Mexico begins a new stage in the process to allow Mexicans living abroad to vote in the 2006 elections. Consulates and other diplomatic missions are now offering application forms for the estimated four million Mexican voters who may be interested in enrolling to receive absentee ballots. This is a follow-up news report on this issue.

Guests: Patricio Ballados, coordinator, Vote for Mexicans Abroad, Instituto Federal Electoral, Mexico City; Dr. Roberto Rosas, member of Advisory Council, Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior, professor of law, St.Mary's University, San Antonio, TX.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

AMOXTLI SAN CE TOJUAN. This bilingual documentary includes a collection of ancient stories and songs about origins and migrations from peoples from throughout the continent. The documentary demystifies the notion that Mexicans are aliens in the U.S. Peoples who descend from the Mexican-Uto-Nahuatl language family have been living and traveling throughout the continent for centuries.

Guests: Filmmakers and syndicated columnists Roberto Rodriguez and Patricia Gonzales, Madison, WI; http://hometown.aol.com/xcolumn/myhomepage/; Dr. Cecilio Orozco, researcher of the Mexica Sun Stone and Utah’s archeological sites, Fresno, CA.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

SMOG AND BAD WEATHER. Hurricane Katrina, one of the worst storms of the past 100 years, has added fuel to the debate on global warming. Some warn that as the planet gets more polluted and warmer, more violent weather can be expected. Still, federal authorities are using Katrina to undermine the Clean Air Act, including limits on toxic emissions, say congress members. This program also includes discussion on an energy bill that gives a green light to more gasoline refineries.

Guest:

Adriana Quintero, spokesperson, Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, CA.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

EDICIÓN DESDE PUERTO RICO. Un encuentro con Wanda Colón Cortés, conductora en WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, quien ofrece entrevistas y comentarios en vivo sobre sucesos informativos con un énfasis en temas acerca de las mujeres y la paz en la región del Caribe.

GUADALAJARA SIMULCAST: MIGRANT REMITTANCES, THE ÉMIGRÉ BALLOT. This edition “Sin Fronteras” is a monthly simulcast with the three-station network of Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y TV in Guadalajara. Most migrant workers send their remittances to Mexico using money transfer institutions that charge high fees for transaction. In response, the Federal Reserve Banks and the Banco de México are launching Directo a México, a Spanish-language campaign designed to help U.S. banking customers send more affordable next banking-day remittances to Mexico. This program also explores other banking services targeting migrant consumers. This program also gives an update on the campaign to encourage Mexican émigrés to register to vote and apply to get an absentee ballot for the landmark presidential election of 2006.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

CALIFORNIA SPECIAL ELECTION. Voters in California are preparing for a special election on Nov. 8. This program features a debate on two controversial propositions championed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Prop. 74 seeks to make harder for a teacher to get tenure and job security and Prop. 75 would restrict public employee unions from using money for political contributions.

Guests:

Sen. Liz Figueroa, Democrat, Fremont, CA; Jesus Arredondo, spokesperson, Join Arnold campaign, Sacramento, CA.

TEXAS EDITION – THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER INDICTMENT. A federal grand jury probing a CIA leak indicted a top official in yet another political blow to the already embattled White House. The criminal charges have renewed the debate on the reasons behind the war in Iraq. How is this Washington scandal being followed in Texas, the president’s territory?

Guests:

Gabriel Rodriguez Nava, editor, U.S. and International Section, RUMBO newspapers, San Antonio, TX; Carlos Guerra, columnist, San Antonio Express News, San Antonio, TX.

ALSO, 2000 DEAD. The death toll for U.S. troops in the Iraq war reached 2,000. A number of those fatalities are from Texas. A relative of a soldier and a columnist join this edition to comment on the impact of this tragic landmark figure on the hometowns of fallen soldiers in Texas, the second state with the largest body count in the nation.

Guests:

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

EVE OF CALIFORNIA SPECIAL ELECTION. On the eve of California’s special election ballot, this program provides basic information about the ballot and answers voters concerns. It also discusses information about campaign finances, the publicity war, the promises of political reform and other topics.

Guests: Moni Flores-Bauer, community relations coordinator, Guía Fácil para el Votante, Oakland, CA; Antonio González, president, William C. Velázquez Institute and South West Voter Registration and Education Project, Los Angeles.

ELECTION-DAY REPORT. In this election-day edition, correspondents file news reports from the ballot box on voter turnout and the projected impact of the Latino vote.

Guests: Manuel Ocano, correspondent, San Diego, CA; Luis Arritola, contributor, Los Angeles, CA; Marcelo Gaete, senior director of programs, National Association of Latino Elected and Designated Officials, Los Angeles, CA.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

TEXAS EDITION – CRIMINAL OR SCAPEGOAT? The Mexican driver charged with negligent homicide in the deaths of 23 retirement home patients evacuated from Hurricane Rita, is expected to be released after a Grand Jury declined to indict him. The passengers died after the bus caught fire and exploded. Family members charge that the undocumented immigrant is now being made a scapegoat in this disaster-related tragedy. The Mexican government took Robles' legal defense and a representative comments on the story.

Guest: Ademir Olguin, press attache, Mexican Consulate, Houston, TX.

TRIAL AGAINST HUMANITARIANS. Humanitarian aid groups are urging federal authorities to drop charges of transporting undocumented immigrants against two college students. Shanti Sellz and Daniel Strauss were arrested on July while taking to emergency care in Tucson three Mexican undocumented immigrants who had been lost in the desert. Advocates say the government is penalizing life-saving Good Samaritan work.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

RESTRICTIVE HOUSING REFORMS – Legislation approved by the U.S. House forbids non-profit agencies that work on federally-funded low-income housing projects from engaging in any voter registration or voter participation work. Housing and civil rights groups are opposing the anti-voter provisions.

Guest: Walkiria Pool, Asset Development Specialist, Community Development and Housing, National Council of la Raza, Washington, DC.

ALSO, MIGRANT HOMES. A conversation with California assemblymember Juan Arámbula and Anibal Hernandez, leading member of Housing California, on efforts to fund and build migrant worker housing, including a bond measure for affordable homes and emergency shelters, and the Joe Serna Jr. fund for farm worker housing.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

TEXAS EDITION - THE BINATIONAL VOTE. For the first time in history, Mexicans living abroad will be able to vote in Mexico’s presidential elections, but time is running out for millions. Will the Mexican government be able to register millions in a matter of weeks? Línea Abierta crosses the border to air live from a special voter registration center in Ciudad Juárez set up to help register migrant voters who travel from the U.S.

WALLS AND BRIDGES. The U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez, the largest in the world, has ignited protests from Mexican border residents who complain of arbitrary rejections to their applications for “laser visas,” the cards that allow border residents to travel into the U.S. This program airs the day when President Bush visits the Border Patrol headquarters in El Paso, to announce his support to a large "virtual", high-tech wall along the border.

Guests: Raul Carreon, President, Organizacion Fronteriza de Rechazados de Visas Laser, Ciudad Juarez; Jose Luis Flores, Consejo Ciudadano por el Desarrollo Social, Ciudad Juarez; Pilar Ramirez, Centro de Derechos Humanos del Migrante, Ciudad Juarez; Hernan Ortiz, Organizacion Popular Independiente, Ciudad Juarez.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

TEXAS-GUADALAJARA EDITION: THE MIGRANT VOTE – To help migrants participate in the upcoming presidential election, Mexican elections officials are setting up a number of mobile voter registration centers in states that receive the largest number of visitors for the holidays. Also, special centers along the U.S./Mexico border seek to register visitors as they pass through the major border ports. This program analyzes issues such as the lack of informational campaigns, access to voter registration, mailing registered letters and other hurdles that the migrant voter has to overcome to be able to vote in Mexico. The program is part of the monthly series “Sin Fronteras,” a live simulcast with the three-station network Radiarte in Guadalajara, the heart of Western Mexico.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

YO SOY JOAQUIN. Agustin Lira, singer and co-founder of El Teatro Campesino in 1965 in Delano, keeps the Chicano movimiento songs and theater tradition alive in the San Joaquin valley. Lira, Patricia Wells and members of Teatro de La Tierra are working on a dramatization of Rodolfo Corky Gonzales' epic poem "Yo Soy Joaquin". Some of Lira's songs have recently been captured in the album "Rolas de Aztlan", a CD celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Delano Grape Strike. Lira and Wells speak about their recent work, which includes an autobiography by the co-founder of the particular theater genre focused on farm workers struggles.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Meet Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, who brings interviews and commentary on news developments with an emphasis on issues about women and peace in the Caribbean basin. Listeners are encouraged to call in.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

TEXAS EDITION – ILLEGAL RE-ENTRY. Growing numbers of immigrants are ending up in U.S. jails after a federal law made it a crime for deported immigrants to re-enter the U.S. without a permit. As denials of admission and deportations at the border continue to increase, more and more immigrants are expected to face harsher prison terms. Carlos Spector-Calderón hosts this edition from El Paso, TX.

Guest:

William Maynard, public defender, El Paso, TX.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

DIABETES ON THE RISE. This simulcast with the twelve-station network of Radio Michoacán in Morelia explores the latest on diabetes. As Mexico joins the U.S. on the top spot of obese countries, chronic diseases take a higher toll. Diabetes, the most common disease associated with overweight, is on the rise in Mexico and the U.S., especially among children. Experts comment on those factors in the social environment that generate obesity and diabetes and what can individuals and societies do to stem the epidemics.

Guests:

Dr. Rosalba Ruiz, Diabetes Health Coordinator, Pan American Health Organization, El Paso, TX; Dr. Juan Angel Rivera Dommarco, Founding director, professor of nutrition, School of Public Health, Cuernavaca, MX.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

TEXAS-GUADALAJARA SIMULCAST: ÉMIGRÉS BALLOT. While 3 million Mexican émigrés were estimated to be eligible to vote under Mexico’s new voting laws, only about 55 thousand Mexican émigrés applied for absentee ballots in July’s presidential election. This program looks into the results of a recent opinion poll on the matter. It also discusses efforts to ensure émigré voters cast their ballot and receive reliable campaign information. This is a special simulcast with the three-station network of Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión in Guadalajara, in Western Mexico.

Guests:

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

A TROUBLING VISIT. In recent days, two agents who identified themselves as part of an anti-terrorist agency paid a visit to Dr. Miguel Tinker Salas, a professor of Latin American history at Pomona College. They wanted to know about his politics and alleged links to the Venezuelan government. College officials see the police action as an intrusion that could have a chilling effect in free academic life.

Guests:

Dr. Miguel Tinker Salas, professor of Latin American history/Chicano Studies, Pomona College, Los Angeles; Steve Whitmore, spokesperson, Los Angeles County Sheriff Department.

WALKOUT. The cable network HBO Films is presenting Walkout, a film that tells the true-life story of the Chicano high school student uprising in East Los Angeles in 1968. This is a brief announcement and sounds of the trailer of the movie, directed by film makers Edward James Olmos and Moctesuma Esparza.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

TEXAS EDITION – SENATE CONTINUES WORK ON IMMIGRATION. Senators working on an immigration bill set a vote for Monday on proposals that deal with the status of undocumented immigrant workers. Under pressure from the Republican leadership, the committee’s chairman demanded more time to complete an immigration reform package. This program reports on the issue and on an emerging group of youth from Houston who are getting together to urge passing of legislation to legalize undocumented students.

Guests:

Joseph Reina, director for Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Dallas, TX; Tatiana Medina, college student, organizer of demonstration for Dream Act, Houston, TX.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments.

MEXICO EDITION. Host Martha Elena Ramírez and the “Voz Pública” program continue a tradition of civic radio journalism. Ramírez hosts this edition live from Mexico City, providing as usual news and interviews from Mexico and voices from participant listeners.

MEGA-DEMONSTRATION. Los Angeles was the site of the largest immigrant-rights rally in recent history. Nearly a million demonstrators packed the streets of downtown Los Angeles urging the U.S. Senate to pass a reform that protects the civil rights of millions of immigrants. Ruben and Wendy Tapia attended the mega-demonstration and provide an extensive report.

FARMWORKERS IN THE SOUTH. In North Carolina, migrant workers who pick cucumbers were exposed to hazardous conditions in the farms. They didn’t receive breaks to drink water or transportation to go out of the fields. Tobacco workers often suffered “green sickness” from being exposed to the nicotine in the plants. A historic agreement between a labor group and the main growers association promises to change life conditions in the fields. It allows workers to unionize, demand health care and workers’comp, decent wages, and other benefits. How is this agreement working?

Guests:

IMMIGRATION EDITION – PANEL OKS WORK-VISA PLAN. The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee completed in recent hours an immigration reform bill that includes visas for undocumented immigrants and guest workers. The legislation is now in the hands of the full Senate, which is expected to begin debates this week. Attorney Rosalba Piña interviews Vanessa Cardenas, a spokesperson for the National Immigration Forum in Washington, DC, and Senator Ken Salazar, Democrat for Colorado about these topics and answers listeners calls to provide legal advice.

TEXAS-GUADALAJARA EDITION – BUSH IN MEXICO. President Bush travels this week to Cancun to meet with President Fox of Mexico and Prime Minister Harper of Canada. They are scheduled to discuss a partnership for continental security and common prosperity. In this program, experts in Guadalajara comment on how the meetings is seen in Mexico and guests in El Paso provide the view from analysts North of the border. This is a simulcast with the three-station network of Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión in Guadalajara, in Western Mexico.

Guests:

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. This radio service provides news and interviews of interest for Mexicans on both sides of the border.

MICHOACAN SIMULCAST: IMMIGRATION BILL DEBATES AND MORE. This monthly simulcast with the twelve-station network of Radio Michoacán addresses the showdown on immigration reform in the Senate floor. Also, guests talk about hidden provisions in the Specter bill that would exclude millions from legalization. A legislator in Morelia also comments on efforts to open spaces for public representation for Mexican émigrés. He also comments on efforts to encourage Mexican émigrés to get involved in the upcoming election process in Mexico.

Guests:

Ariadna Renteria Torres, supervising attorney, Westchester Hispanic Coalition, New York, NY; Arnoldo Garcia, senior program associate, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Oakland, CA; Jesus Martinez, state legislator, Congress of Michoacan, Morelia.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. This program provides news and interviews on the recently approved Radio and Television Law. Called Televisa's Law after the most powerful TV network, the law is criticized as favoring corporate and monopolic interests.

Guests:

Dr. Salvador Landeros, professor, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Lillian Lieberman, film maker, Mexico City.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

TEXAS EDITION – THE NEXT LEGISLATIVE SEASON. Carlos Spector Calderón hosts this edition from El Paso, TX, to comment on the repercussions of the marches around the state, the outlook for immigration reform in the upcoming congressional session, the shifting public attitudes towards immigrants, and the role the current debate and mobilizations around immigrants is expected to play in this year’s mid-term elections.

Guests:

Alfredo Carvajal, editor, Diario Al Día, Dallas, TX; Domingo García, LULAC, Dallas, TX; Betty Camargo, Red Fronteriza de Derechos Humanos, El Paso, TX; Agustina Juárez, Red Fronteriza de Derechos Humanos, Houston.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. This radio service provides news and interviews of interest for Mexicans on both sides of the border.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

TEXAS EDITION – TEXANS STANCE TOWARDS LEGALIZATION. Romanita Matta, representative of Senator John Cornyn, a conservative Republican from Texas, comments on the recent compromise immigration bill reached in the Senate. Cornyn is among the staunchest opponents of legalization programs and has strongly criticized the measure. Marisol Pérez, an immigrant advocate from MALDEF, joins this edition to debate Cornyn’s position.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. This radio service provides news and interviews of interest for Mexicans on both sides of the border.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. This radio service provides news and interviews of interest for Mexicans on both sides of the border.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

TEXAS EDITION – IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ACTIVISM: YESTERDAY AND TODAY. Carlos Spector Calderón joins this edition from El Paso, TX, to give a retrospective account of the efforts and events in the past three decades that paved the way and led to the historic high tide of mass demonstrations in recent weeks.

Guests:

Maria Jimenez, veteran immigrant organizer, professor at University of Houston, Houston, TX; Ruben Solis, organizer, South West Worker Union, San Antonio, TX.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. This radio service provides news and interviews of interest for Mexicans on both sides of the border.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

TEXAS EDITION – THE PROTESTS: WHAT’S NEXT. After massive protests across the nation, reform activists discuss how to keep the momentum going and translate it into a civil rights movement. Carlos Spector-Calderón hosts this edition from El Paso, TX, to discuss plans about unifying the protests and get citizens to the ballot box.

Guest:

Samuel Schmidt, political scientist, college professor, humorist, columnist, El Paso, TX.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. This radio service provides news and interviews of interest for Mexicans on both sides of the border.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. This radio service provides news and interviews of interest for Mexicans on both sides of the border.

TEXAS EDITION – SENATE VOTE WATCH. Carlos Spector Calderón hosts this edition from El Paso, TX. Congressional leaders comment on the debate about building a border wall, the legalization plan, and a number of provisions in the Senate’s immigration bill that would exclude applicants from legalizing. Also, this edition gives news on lobbying efforts by immigrant advocacy groups on Capitol Hill.

Guests:

Sen. Robert Menendez, Democrat, New Jersey; Flavia Jiménez, policy analyst, National Council of La Raza, Washington, DC; Marisela García, National Network for Immigrants and Refugee Rights, Chicago, IL.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. This radio service provides news and interviews of interest for Mexicans on both sides of the border.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

TEXAS-GUADALAJARA SIMULCAST: THE FIRST BALLOTS. This is the monthly edition of “Sin Fronteras,” a simulcast with the three-station network of Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión in Guadalajara. Mexican émigrés began mailing the first absentee ballots to vote in Mexico’s July 2nd presidential election. This is a report on the glitches of the absentee voting process. In addition, contributor Carlos Spector-Calderón from El Paso, TX, gives an analysis on the future for the immigration bill in the joint Senate-House negotiating meeting after statements by chief negotiator James Sensenbrenner against any "path to citizenship."

Guests:

Patricio Ballados, coordinator, Vote of Mexicans living Abroad, Instituto Federal Electoral, Mexico City; Rogelio Castillo Betancourt, director, Instituto Federal Electoral, Jalisco; Salvador Garcia, president, Federacion de Clubes Jaliscienses, presidente del Consejo de Federaciones Mexicanas, Los Angeles.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

OAXACANS IN CALIFORNIA. Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz, from Southern Mexico, visits California on the heels of the assassination of a well-known migrant leader in his native Mixtec homeland. Migrant groups in California are holding protests denouncing the dismal human rights record in that impoverished state.

Guests:

Rufino Domínguez, president, Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales, Fresno, CA; Filemón López, organizador, Asociación Cívica Benito Juárez; host, La Hora Mixteca, Fresno, CA.

SIMULCAST WITH MICHOACÁN: THE SWING VOTE. This is a simulcast with the twelve-station network of Radio Michoacán in Morelia. In this program, Mexican analysts discuss the dispute for the vote in key states for the upcoming presidential election. A U.S. analyst also states that the migrant agenda is in the backburner of the presidential campaigns.

Guests:

Dr. Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, sociology professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Santiago Heyser Beltrán, researcher, Universidad de Zamora, columnist, Morelia.

TEXAS EDITION – CORRIDOS. Carlos Spector Calderón hosts this edition from El Paso, TX. The renowned group Los Tigres del Norte have been invited to comment on the new boom of contemporary orridos or ballads that sing about immigrants hardship and resistance. Spector also comments on the deployment of the first National Guard troops to the border area.

Guest:

Jorge Hernández, musical director, Los Tigres del Norte, San José, CA.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. In this live interview, Gabriel Sánchez Díaz, director of Presencia Ciudadana, AC, comments on the threat of electoral fraud, the negative campaigns, and the announced agreement of civility among the major political parties.

THE MEXICAN ÉMIGRÉS: WILL THEY COUNT? Mexican presidential campaigns are having few appeals to voters living abroad. Are presidential candidates underestimating the influence of the émigré workers on their families back home? Is there interest by Mexican émigrés in the July 2 election?

Guests:

Claudia Sheinbaum, spokesperson, Por el Bien de Todos/PRD Coalition, Mexico City; David Ayón, researcher and director of Project U.S.-Mexico Focus, The Center for the Study of Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. This radio service provides news and interviews of interest for Mexicans on both sides of the border.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the “Voz Pública” series from Mexico City. She interviews professor Lourdes Fournier, and her students from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Xochimilco. They conducted an opinion poll about voting preferences and links with émigré families.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

MEXICO’S VOTE. Two weeks before the election, this program focuses on the final preparations for election day, the climate among the electorate and the heated campaigns.

Guest:

Dr. Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, researcher, professor, Universidad Nacional Auónoma de México, columnist, Mexico City.

DIRTY WAR PROBE. A human rights researcher raises serious questions about the probe being conducted by a special prosecutor in Mexico on government crimes of the past forty years.

Guest:

Kate Doyle, Director, Mexico Project, National Security Archive, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

LOS ANGELES: SCHOOL REFORM. A conversation with assemblyman Fabián Núñez (D-Los Angeles), leader of the Assembly, about the agreement on a reform package for the Los Angeles schools. The agreement was reached with Mayor Antonio Villarraigosa and the teachers unions.

TEXAS-GUADALAJARA EDITION – MEXICO’S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN FINAL DAY. Today is the final day for political campaigning in Mexico. This program provides a report on the final campaign stops and a review of migrant issues in the presidential hopefuls platforms. It also gives a report on the early voting by Mexican émigrés who are sending their ballots by mail as well as other ways émigrés help influence the vote back home. This is a simulcast with the three-station network of Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión in Guadalajara, in Western Mexico.

Guests:

Patricio Ballados, coordinator, Vote of Mexicans Living Abroad, Instituto Federal Electoral, Mexico City; Juan Benavente, Mexican citizen who voted by mail, Visalia, CA.

MEXICO EDITION – VOZ PÚBLICA. Martha Elena Ramírez continues this special extended edition. The Voz Pública host talks with election experts.

Guests:

Jaime Cárdenas Gracia, former council member, Instituto Federal Electoral, Mexico City; Lilian Lieberman, Yaocihuat, AC.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the Voz Pública series from Mexico City. She talks with campaign reporters, explores voting trends and opinions from voters in Mexico City, and plans by local civic groups to monitor the election.

Guests:

Clara Jusidman, Incide Social AC, Mexico City; Enrique Velasco, radiojournalist, professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana; Guadalupe Ramírez, photo reporter, assigned to Calderon campaign; Octavio Nava, photo reporter, assigned to López Obrador campaign.

MEXICO: PRE-ELECTION PLANS. Who can vote? Who is doing what to help get the Mexican émigré vote out? What are the émigré voting trends? How the voting system works? These are some of the questions discussed with election officials and migrant leaders in this special news hour.

Guests:

Alberto Avilés, coordinator, Los Angeles group, Advisory Board, Instituto de Mexicanos en el Exterior; Armando García, leader, Redes Migrantes, Los Angeles; José Jacques Medina, Citizen observers of the Vote from Abroad – sección Los Angeles, PRD, Ciudad de México; Lourdes Granillo, Coordinator, Registro Federal de Electores para el Voto en el Extranjero, Instituto Federal Electoral, Mexico City.

MEXICO: PRE-ELECTION PLANS. Pollsters and journalists are being invited to discuss the issues at stake and the races to follow on Sunday’s election. Campaign financing, election costs and the role of the mass media are also explored. It will also report on plans by international observers to conduct election monitoring to document voting violations.

Guests:

Sergio Aguayo, professor, researcher, Colegio de México, columnist, Mexico City; Ted Lewis, founding director, Mexico Program, Global Exchange, San Francisco, CA; international observer, Mexico City; Daniel Lund, pollster, researcher, MUND Americas, Mexico City; Enrique Velasco, retired professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, veteran radiojournalist, contributor.

MEXICO: ELECTION DAY I. Correspondents file news reports on voter turnout from Mexico City, Tijuana, Ciudad Acuña, Guadalajara, Morelia, Oaxaca, and other major Mexican cities.

MEXICO: ELECTION DAY II. This edition airs opinion polls that provide insights on voters who voted early in the day. Who is voting and why?

MEXICO: ELECTION DAY III. A review of key races to the Mexican Congress and news reports from battleground states. Also, this segment features more opinion polls from voters and news reports from correspondents.

MEXICO: ELECTION DAY IV. News, analysis and commentary on election day developments.

MEXICO: WHAT’S NEXT. Analysts from Michoacán and the U.S. are invited to comment on the political outlook for the near future in Mexico. Differences and similarities with the 2000 presidential election are also explored. This is a special simulcast with the twelve-station network of Radio Michoacán.

MEXICAN ELECTION RESULTS. This program is part of the monthly simulcast series with the twelve-station network of Radio Michoacán in Morelia. Co-hosts of this binational edition review headline stories in Michoacán and around México and encourage listeners to interact on the election results and the message sent by the Mexican voters.

TEXAS EDITION – INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES. Former state comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn and country music singer Kinky Friedman are running as independent candidates in the Texas gubernatorial race and have began to split the Republican vote. Veteran activist Jose Angel Gutiérrez, co-founder of La Raza Unida Party, comments on these and other electoral developments.

REDRAWN DISTRICTS REJECTED. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected part of the Texas congressional redistricting plan arguing that the new political map violated the rights of Latino voters. Civil rights group MALDEF, group that challenged the electoral map, has been invited to comment the decision.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the Voz Pública series from Mexico City. Ramírez interviews congressman Agustín Rodríguez Fuentes, (PRD) who is also president of the Union of Workers of UNAM. He calls for the electoral court to probe the voting results. Listeners joined in with split opinions about the challenges to the polling and the climate of uncertainty.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this special election edition. In this program, the news director explains Radio Bilingüe’s civic journalism, a database expert interprets the election’s preliminary results, and a high official of the oppositionist PRD talks about their call for a legal probe and mass mobilizations.

CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS. House Republican leaders are conducting legislative hearings along the border in response to the immigration bill sent by the Senate. The hearings are announced as a public consultation about the vulnerability of the border to international terrorism. This program coincides with the day of the public hearing in Laredo.

Guest:

Rep. Henry Cuellar, Democrat, Laredo, TX.

VOTING RIGHTS ACT RENEWAL. Conservative members of Congress blocked action to renew and restore the Voting Rights Act. Civil rights groups are urging Congress to complete work on reauthorizing the landmark act, which is set to expire next year.

Guests:

Lydia Camarillo, vicepresident, South West Voter Registration and Education Project, San Antonio, TX; Peter Zamora, legislative staff attorney, MALDEF, Washington, DC.

DOLORES HUERTA: THE MARCH CONTINUES. This is a conversation with Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union and civil rights pioneer. Huerta is organizing a march for higher salaries in California’s Central Valley. She is also announcing plans for a boycott against Kimberly Clark, a company co-owned by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, author of anti-immigrant legislation.

ALSO, INITIATIVE 946 FAILS. Tomás Villlanueva, a decades-long farm worker organizer and current candidate to the Washington state senate, talks about Initiative 946, a failed measure that would have restricted public services for undocumented residents. Sponsors of the initiative failed to raise enough signatures to make the initiative qualify for the November ballot in Washington. The former farm worker also talks about his uphill campaign to unseat an entrenched state senator from the Yakima valley.

ROSENDA MATAKA. A former migrant farm worker, Rosenda Mataka is now an active force in the environmental movement of Northern California. Mataka organized against the burning of tires and plans to import medical waste to develop a Stanislaus facility into the largest of its kind in the state. She is currently organizing community-based groups to help reduce pesticides in the air. This is a pre-taped interview.

ALSO, PESTICIDE VICTIMS IN COURT. Almost 30 farm workers who got sick after being exposed to pesticide drift are suing a grower and the pesticide application company. Plaintiffs and company representatives are invited to comment. Farm worker Erika Arellano and attorney Silas Sawver from California Rural Legal Assistance talk about the lawsuit. Representatives from the companies that are targetted by the lawsuit were not available for this program.

TEXAS EDITION – BELEN ROBLES. From El Paso, TX, Carlos Spector-Calderón hosts this interview with Belen Robles, first woman elected to the highest leadership position with the League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest Latino organization. A resident from El Paso, Robles also comments on the recent election of another Texan woman, unionist Rosa Rosales, to chair the League of United Latin American Citizens. Robles also comments on the immigration debate and non citizen immigrant soldiers and naturalization applications in the military.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the Voz Pública series from Mexico City. She provides news and analysis on the contested Mexican presidential election.

LATINOS FEEL EMPOWERED. A national survey shows that Latinos believe discrimination has increased since the start of the congressional debate on immigration. They also feel more energized and empowered after the pro-immigrant marches.

Guest:

Robert Suro, director, Pew Hispanic Center, Washington DC.

MEXICO: VOTE BY VOTE. Hundreds of thousands gathered in Mexico City’s main plaza urging a vote recount in the recent presidential election. Opposition candidate López Obrador charges the voting was rigged with fraud. This is an analysis about the problems during the election process.

Guests:

Silvia Alonso, director, Alianza Cívica, Mexico City; Ted Lewis, founding director of Mexico program, Global Exchange, San Francisco, CA; election observers.

TEXAS EDITION – NATIONAL DAY OF ADVOCACY. Hundreds of Latino elected officials from around the country are planning to visit Washington, DC, to have meetings with members of Congress urging for a legalization plan. Host Carlos Spector-Calderón talks with Efrain Escobedo, director of voter engagement for NALEO Educational Fund about this and other activities to increase the number of Latino voters.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the Voz Pública series from Mexico City. Ramírez offers an interview with a top representative of the opposition, who comments on his party's challenges to the contested Mexican presidential election.

Guest:

Gerardo Fernández Noroña, spokesperson, Partido de la Revolucion Democratica, Mexico City.

MARCH IN CHICAGO. Thousands of immigrants and their supporters marched through downtown Chicago, territory of influence of Congressional Republican leader Dennis Hastert. Demonstrators renewed their call for a legalization plan. News correspondent Irma Lopez files a report and attorney Rosalba Pina, co-organizer of the march, comments on the outcome of the demonstration.

ALSO, EDUARDO GALEANO. Renowned Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano gives his views on national borders and free trade, and immigration and criminalization of migrants. This interview was recorded during a recent visit of Galeano to Oakland, CA.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the Voz Pública series from Mexico City. She continues her special coverage on the contested Mexican presidential election.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

SINALOA SIMULCAST. This is a first simulcast with Radio UAS in Culiacán, in Northwest Mexico. Professor Tomás Saucedo Carreño, a talk show host, joins this edition to comment on the rallies related to the Mexican presidential election, and other topics.

TEXAS EDITION – ALCOHOL AND GREEN CARDS. The summer season is a time for barbeque parties and cold drinks. But non-citizens beware. Too much alcohol could bring more than a hangover. Green-cards may wake up to face the reality of a permanent loss of residency in the U.S. Attorney Carlos Spector-Calderon, host of this edition from El Paso, talks about the impact of DUIs and other alcohol-related behaviors on the status of immigrant residents. Spector also answers listener’s questions on immigration procedures.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the Voz Pública series from Mexico City. The civic journalist brings a full report on the mass gathering in Mexico City’s main plaza demanding a new count of the ballots in the presidential election. Listeners comment on the massive demonstrations and traffic stoppages headed by the opposition presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this extended edition of the Voz Pública series at the time marked by political tension after the announcement by the federal electoral tribunal, TRIFE, to resolve the possibility of an election recount within the next 24 hours. Analyst Alberto Arroyo provides possible scenarios of either a full or a partial recount. Listeners talk about their perceptions on what could or should happened after the TRIFE offers its verdict.

PUERTO RICO EDITION. Wanda Colón Cortés, the host in WRTU, Radio Universidad in San Juan de Puerto Rico, comments on current news developments in the Caribbean basin.

TEXAS EDITION – ROSA ROSALES. Host Carlos Spector-Calderón interviews the newly elected president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, Rosa Rosales. The long-time grassroots activist, a former unionist, talks about her agenda in pressing areas such as immigration policy and workers rights, as the new head of the oldest Latino Organization.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the Voz Pública series from Mexico City. She provides news and analysis on the challenged results of the Mexican presidential election and the civil disobedience acts called by opposition candidate López Obrador.

EDICIÓN DESDE PUERTO RICO. Wanda Colón Cortés, conductora en WRTU, Radio Universidad de San Juan de Puerto Rico, presenta entrevistas y comentarios sobre sucesos del momento en la cuenca del Caribe.

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this extended edition of the Voz Pública series from México City. The program offers an outlet for listeners to express their views and concerns on the tense political scenario awaiting the final decision of the courts on the challenged presidential elections, more than a month after the race. Opposition candidate López Obrador charges the voting was rigged with fraud, while hundreds of thousands have gathered during the past few weeks in Mexico City’s main plaza urging a vote recount. Analysts are being invited to comment.

EDICIÓN TEXAS: NUEVA PROPUESTA MIGRATORIA REPUBLICANA. El conductor Carlos Spector-Calderón comenta una nueva reforma migratoria propuesta por dos legisladores republicanos. Los legisladores dicen que están tratando de crear consenso entre las propuestas migratorias emanadas de ambas cámaras legislativas. ¿Es esta nueva iniciativa viable o sólo atizará más la polémica dentro del debate migratorio?

MEXICO EDITION. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of the Voz Pública series from Mexico City. Listeners comment on an interview with Sen. Dulce Maria Sauri, a top leader of Partido Revolucionario Institucional. Sen. Sauri calls on President Fox to show restrain and moderation when dealing with protests by the opposition movement. She criticized the use of police force against demonstrators who staged a sit in in Congress.

ARELLANO GETS SUPPORT FROM DOLORES HUERTA: LIVE BROADCAST. Host Rosalba Piña broadcasts live from the Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago, where Elvira Arellano, an immigrant mother, is challenging orders of deportation. Dolores Huerta, the veteran farm worker and civil rights leader, paid a visit to the church to express public support for Arellanos's fight to stay in the U.S. Piña provides a live account of developments in the third day of Arellano's act of civil desobedience.

Guests:

Elvira Arellano, founder, United Latino Family, a group that advocates for undocumented parents of children who are U.S. citizens, Chicago; Dolores Huerta, pioneer of the civil-rights movement, Chicago; Emma Lozano, executive director, Centro Sin Fronteras, Chicago.