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.


665 Pieces

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Brightness of Courage: Regulating Gender in Public Spaces (Encore Edition)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this encore edition of Making Contact we look at some of the struggles and victories in the fight for transgender access to gender-specific spac...

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  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Liberation Theology: A March to Freedom
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Series: Making Contact
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Liberation Theology: A March to Freedom explores the conceptual framework of liberation theology. We will examine why Liberation Theology, with its...

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  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Poetic Address to the Nation
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Series: Making Contact
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The Poetic Address to the Nation, brought together poets to speak powerfully against the current administration. Featuring Cam Awkward, Guillermo G...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Look at Labor Organizing, and Worker and Immigrant Rights
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In this edition of Making Contact, we look at how workers are organizing outside of labor unions and where traditional labor could be headed.

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Spies of Mississippi
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Spies of Mississippi is a journey into the world of informants, infiltrators, and agent provocateurs in the heart of Dixie. Directed and produced b...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Beyond Choice: Organizing for Reproductive Justice
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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...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Conscience and Dissent: Values in Media
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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
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
Reclaiming Public Schools: Education in the Trump Era
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Series: Making Contact
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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...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Women Rising Radio 33: With Healers At Standing Rock
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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...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
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...

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  • Added: Feb 11, 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...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation”
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Series: Making Contact
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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...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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 ...

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  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
The Long Ride Home: Get on the Bus, and Incarcerated Families
From: Making Contact
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
Brightness of Courage: The Fight for Transgender Access to Gender-Specific Spaces
From: Making Contact
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
Fallen Heroes of 2016
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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...

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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