Making Contact

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An international radio program that links people, vital ideas, and important information

Making Contact is an award-winning, 29-minute weekly magazine/documentary-style public affairs program, heard on more than 190 radio stations in the USA, Canada and South Africa. Making Contact is committed to in-depth critical analysis that goes beyond the breaking news.

Showcasing voices and perspectives not often heard in mainstream media, Making Contact focuses on the human realities of politics and the connections between local and global events, emphasizing positive, creative and grassroots ways to solve problems.

Making Contact's first broadcast was in 1995.


666 Pieces

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Greg Palast on Voter Suppression, and Buying Democracy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Greg Palast, is an investigative reporter and documentary filmmaker. His new film, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: a Tale of Billionaires and Ba...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
Women Rising 32: Nuclear Weapons Abolitionists Part 2
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: 8/9 Nagasaki Day Protest at Livermore Labs, Credit: photo by The Resource Center for Nonviolence rcnv.org via Twitter @RNCV1
Women Rising Radio presents Part Two of our miniseries on global activists fighting for a phase-out of nuclear weapons and energy. Part Two focus...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Native Power: Language, Land, and Water NoDAPL
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Oceti Sakowin Camp, Credit: Bo Hakala
The actions at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline continue, We share interviews from the Voices of Standing Rock. Vincent Medina is a...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Murder of Fred Hampton
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The Murder of Fred Hampton began as a film on Hampton and Illinois Black Panthers, but midway through the shoot, Chicago police murdered Hampton. F...

Bought by WVAS and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Resistance and Resilience: The Cultural Legacy of the Black Panther Party
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Refa Senay
The Black Panther Party combined Black Power’s militancy with socialist ideology, and infused funk music with Franz Fanon’s writings. Their impact...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
Fallen Heroes of 2016
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Thousands of social justice workers and scholars passed away this year. People doing crucial work in their communities, whose deaths didn’t make th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Brightness of Courage: The Fight for Transgender Access to Gender-Specific Spaces
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Parents of transgender children became active in the 2000's
On this edition of Making Contact we look at some of the struggles and victories in the fight for transgender access to gender-specific spaces and ...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2016
  • Length: 45:14
  • Purchases: 1
The Long Ride Home: Get on the Bus, and Incarcerated Families
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ciara G. wakes up at dawn on her way to visit her mother who is currently incarcerated., Credit: R.J. Lozada
The Get on the Bus program provides support and free transportation for children and families throughout California to visit their mothers and fath...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Men, Women, and Guns: Toxic Masculinity in Mass Shootings
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After a mass shooting, two common responses are to examine gun laws and mental health services. In this show, we revisit the tragedy in Isla Vista ...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mirrors of Privilege
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Series: Making Contact
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“Mirrors of Privilege” is a film and conversation guide designed to help bridge the gap between good intentions and meaningful change. From Shakti ...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation”
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On this edition, we hear from Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton Universit...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, XRAY.fm, WRIR, and WXDU


  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
11 Million Undocumented: A Look at Sanctuary and Immigration Policy in the Trump Era
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: View from City Hall, Women's March Los Angeles, 2017, Credit: Monica Lopez
Eleven million. That's the estimated number of people living in the U-S who are undocumented. In this show we'll look to previous administrations t...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Building Resistance: Japanese Imprisonment and the Fight Against a Muslim Registry
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Japanese Internment Camp, Credit: Densho Archives
As President Trump moves to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., we look at two moments where we found ourselves at a similar crossroads. First, th...

Bought by WCPN, KVNF, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Long Distance Revolutionary
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Series: Making Contact
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“Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal” is a film that chronicles the life and revolutionary times of the former death row in...

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  • Added: Feb 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Paris: Responses to Terror, and the Experiment in Mixite
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Paris is in flux. How are Parisians-native and immigrant, still dealing with terrorist attacks? If mixite, or social mixing, provides an answer, wh...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Women Rising Radio 33: With Healers At Standing Rock
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Series: Making Contact
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Women Rising Radio profiles three healer activists, two M.D.'s and an indigenous healer/psychologist, caregivers for the Water Protectors at Standi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KVNF, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Reclaiming Public Schools: Education in the Trump Era
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In this edition of Making Contact, we look at two major changes to statewide curriculum in California, and where schools nationwide may be headed u...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXDU, XRAY.fm, and WRIR


  • Added: Mar 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Cost of War: A Reflection on the United States and Iraq Conflict
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War present at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, GA. , Credit: Photo by flickr user Brooke Anderson.
Almost 4,500 American soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqis have died since the start of the Shock and Awe campaign. Fourteen years later, we asses...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Conscience and Dissent: Values in Media
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Series: Making Contact
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Panelists at the Media Consortium conference discuss the role independent media plays in today’s contentious media landscape.

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Beyond Choice: Organizing for Reproductive Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Loretta Ross, Credit: Speak Out
Loretta Ross, co-founder of SisterSong breaks down the reproductive justice framework; and Tina Reynolds, co-founder and Chair of Women on the Rise...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, XRAY.fm, WRIR, and WXDU


  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4

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