All Pieces for Making Contact

 
Reckonings: From Health Insurance Spin Doctor to Truth Teller
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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What happens when a health insurance PublicRelations executive confronts the consequences of his spin? Dive into one man's odyssey from health insu...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Don't Let Them See You Bleed: PERIOD
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Today's show examines the feminist movement through the lens of period activism. We will look at aspects of women’s health and social justice that ...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pollution Solutions
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Kern River Oil Field; view from Panorama Park in Bakersfield, on the blufftop across the river. This is the most densely developed oilfield in California, and the fifth-largest producer (as of 2006) in the US., Credit: Antandrus – Wikipedia administrator, link to license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Megafarms and oil & gas producers are some of the worst polluters in California’s Central Valley. We’ll hear how Valley residents are pushing back....

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Symbols of Resistance Part Two: A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chican@ Movement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: film cover art, Credit: Freedom Archives
Our radio adaptation of the film Symbols of Resistance: A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chican@ Movement, offers a reflection on the untold stories...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Oct 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
Symbols of Resistance Part One: A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chicano Movement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: film cover art, Credit: Freedom Archives
Our radio adaptation of the film Symbols of Resistance: A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chicano Movement, offers a reflection on the untold stories...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
70 Million: How Bail Shackles Women of Color
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Tamiki Banks’ life was turned upside down when her husband was arrested, leaving her the sole breadwinner and caregiver to their twins. More than t...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Beyond Recognition: The Ohlone
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Corrina Gould, Credit: Sogorea Te Land Trust and Planting Justice
Our radio adaptation of the film Beyond Recognition by Underexposed films, "After decades struggling to protect her ancestors’ burial places, a Nat...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Women Rising. Migrations: Standing in Solidarity With the Desperate
From: Making Contact
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Women Rising Radio chronicles the rise of three different movements to advocate for immigrant rights in the USA, and to support immigrants and refu...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Guns and Restraining Orders
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: An altar in front of the Isla Vista deli where Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez was shot in 2014., Credit: Monica Lopez
Despite the recent increase in mass shootings, the majority of gun injuries and deaths are in fact a result of suicides, homicides, and domestic vi...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
The World’s Largest Methanol Refinery (and the fight to stop it)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Claudia Riedener has lived in Tacoma since 1998, and is co-founder of the grassroots environmental group Redefine Tacoma., Credit: (photographer unknown)
Special for Climate Week: Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked g...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bio Hackers versus Big Pharma: Tackling the Rising Cost of Insulin
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As the cost of insulin continues to skyrocket patients are dying from trying to ration their medication. It's an extreme example, but not unusual -...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Decarcerated with Danielle Sered: Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Courtesy of the Decarcerated Podcast, host Marlon Peterson hosts a live conversation with Common Justice founder Danielle Sered. Sered’s New Book,...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Pushout
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Port Chicago Sailors: Separate and Unequal
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Freddie Meeks, sailor in the disaster at weapons shipping depot in Port Chicago, Calif., holds a picture of himself as a young seaman July 14, 1994. He died in 2003. , Credit: (AP Photo/Chris Pizzelo)
Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
From Juneteenth to Reparations: The Freedom Promise of Unfinished Resolve
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day, is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the Unite...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 14
Dana Frank on the Long Honduran Night
From: Making Contact
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June 2019 marks ten years since then President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted in a military coup. In this program, Dr. Dana Frank, author ...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
Hidden in plain sight: Rebecca Gordon on Torture
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We think of enhanced interrogation as being a new invention - a kind of torture in use only since 9/11. But Rebecca Gordon disagrees. In this episo...

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  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs through the lens of the documentary film, AMERICAN REVOLUT...

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  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Disability: Our Culture Ourselves
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Dorian Taylor waits for bus in Seattle, Credit: Mona Yeh
People with disabilities or disabled people? “Disability: Our Culture Ourselves”— in this episode we discuss disability, culture and identity fr...

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  • Added: May 13, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The End of Time: Aging in America
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sharitta Barry and her daughter Ashley Hunter, Credit: JoAnn Mar
In this episode we explore racial disparities in end-of-life care: How mistrust keeps many African Americans away from hospice. And later we examin...

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  • Added: May 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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