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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70 Million: Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles and how they ...

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Fallen Heroes 2022
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thousands of social justice leaders in communities all over the world passed away this year. We're closing out the year, as we usually do, with in...

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  • Added: Dec 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Two Revolutions, Many Secrets (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Wilson Dairy Restaurant / Helen Zia as baby with Mom Bing
In the midst of our stress and trauma dealing with the sometimes harsh realities of life, its hard to imagine what stories we will ultimately tell ...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The A-Word
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Series: Making Contact
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This week, we explore an often-overlooked issue in the Arab world; racism towards Black Arabs. In this episode, Kerning Culture reporter Ahmed Twai...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Well Nourished: How Mutual Aid is Transforming Food Security for Single Moms in Ohio
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Members of the single moms collective, Motherful, gather for a photo, Credit: Motherful
Ohio's single mom collective, Motherful, shows what it's like when pregnant and parenting people make decisions for themselves.

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Way Home (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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What does food mean to identities struggling against colonialism and displacement? First, we visit the Blackfeet Nation in Montana as members of In...

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Post-Roe Abortion Access from The Response Part 2
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Digital Security Best Practices by Digital Defense Fund, Credit: Hazel Mead
Mutual aid efforts to provide pregnancy prevention and medical abortion in post-Roe southern United States.

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Post-Roe Abortion Access from The Response Part 1
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Series: Making Contact
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Our friends from the podcast The Response bring us their piece Abortion Access and Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Landscape, plus a quick updat...

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ollas Populares- Lessons from Lockdowns
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Neighbors line up for a hot meal at La Casona de Humahuaca's olla popular during pandemic lockdowns.
Groups all over Latin America turn to the age-old practice of communal cooking to feed citizens during pandemic lockdowns. A Buenos Aires arts orga...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million: Tribal Land, Banishment, Rehabilitation and Re-Entry
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Series: Making Contact
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This week on Making Contact - with assistance from our podcast partners, 70 million - we head to the state of Alaska, where rising violent crime an...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
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Series: Making Contact
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We talk to Raj Patel and Rupa Marya about their new book "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice."

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Revolutionary Mothering and Reproductive Justice
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Series: Making Contact
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In today's episode, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs tells the birth story of the book she co-edited with China Martens and Mai'a Williams, Revolutionary M...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Viva Brother Nagi from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
The Response: Heatwaves and Energy Poverty in the Mediterranean
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We visit southern Europe with our partners at The Response podcast to see how communities are tackling the problem of energy poverty.

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
70 Million – Forget Reform, They Want Abolition
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mike Milton at the Freedom Community Center in St. Louis, MO., Credit: Joe Martinez
This week on Making Contact we're taking you to St. Louis, Missouri with the Podcast 70 Million to learn about the city's ongoing efforts to re-ima...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Way Home
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Healing Garden, Credit: Amy Gastelum
What does food mean to identities struggling against colonialism and displacement? First, we visit the Blackfeet Nation in Montana as members of In...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Hunger Strike! How Immigrant Taxi Drivers Took on City Hall
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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New York City taxi drivers were drowning in debt because they had to buy their licenses from the city. We join our friends at the podcast Self-Evid...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Escape to Cairo from Kerning Cultures
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Series: Making Contact
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This week, we bring you a story from our partner Kerning Cultures about Patrice Lumumba’s children, and their escape to Cairo.

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
How to Hold Back the Ocean
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Maurice Bailey at Shell to Shore collection in Athens GA, Credit: Claire Reynolds
More and more coastal communities want to build sea walls to prevent catastrophic flooding because of rising sea levels. But do they work? We talk ...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
70 Million: When "Bail Reform" Isn't
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Series: Making Contact
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This week on Making Contact we look at Bail Reform in the state of Texas with the help of our podcast partners 70 Million. For conservative lawmake...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2

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