All Pieces for Making Contact

 
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
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Re:Work Radio: Trafficked, the Journey of Lester Ramos
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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One of the most common forms of trafficking is labor trafficking. In this episode, Re:Work Radio brings you the story of Lester Ramos and his journ...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bad Math: the Risks of Artificial Intelligence
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We think of Artificial Intelligence as being the stuff of science fiction movies, set far in the future. But it's already having an impact on our l...

Bought by WKMS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WVAS


  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
70 Million: In Miami, Jailing Fewer, Treating More
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Justin Volpe, peer specialist at the Criminal Mental Health Project, delivers medication to program participants in Miami., Credit: Daniel Rivero
Jails in Miami-Dade County double as de facto mental health facilities. But Miami-Dade’s Criminal Mental Health Project has become a national model...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Reckonings with Lewis Wallace
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Lewis Wallace was a reporter at Marketplace. You may have heard his voice on the Marketplace Morning Report with David Brancaccio. That was until h...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Choice, Church and State: Poland, Ireland, the USA : Women Rising 37
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Abortion and reproductive rights for women are being fought over across the globe. Women Rising Radio visits with key organizers of the Polish Wome...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Legacy of Mistreatment
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Darryl Lester (Larry P.) and wife Cecilia in their Tacoma home., Credit: Lee Romney
African American students across the country are much more likely than any other student group to be placed in special education. This week, we hea...

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
70 Million: How New Orleans could set a new course for bail reform
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Adrian Caliste, lead plaintiff in Caliste v. Cantrell in New Orleans., Credit: Sonia Paul
New Orleans could become the battleground for bail reform. Reporter Sonia Paul digs into how an ongoing lawsuit, pretrial consequences of bail, and...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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I Am Not Your Negro (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
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Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Afrofuturism: Imagination and Humanity, Ytasha Womack
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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According to Ytasha Womack, use of the imagination for self-development and social change is one of the greatest tenets of Afrofuturism. This show ...

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spare the Kids, Dr. Stacey Patton
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Dr. Stacey Patton
We speak with author Dr. Stacey Patton about her book, Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Won't Save Black America. The book examines the unique cultural...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Future of Abolition: Mark Lamont Hill, Michelle Alexander and Vonya Quarles
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Michelle Alexander, Mark Lamont Hill and Vonya Quarles discuss the modern prison abolition movement, what's changed in the past ten years, and the ...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Far Right and Antifa (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Pavlos Fyssas, Greek anti-fascist rapper who was killed in 2013 by self-professed member of the Golden Dawn Party
This episode explores the past and present of the far right and anti-fascism. We begin with the murder investigation of anti-fascist rapper, Pavlos...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Abortion Beyond Clinics Pt. 1: Call Jane
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Heather Booth, founder of the Jane Collective, Credit: from the documentary about her by Lilly Rivkin.
In a special 2 part program by Making Contact we explore new safe at-home abortion options and the growing movement for "self-managed abortions.”

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  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
70 Million: Undocumented immigrants are tethered to ICE, and private companies
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Floricel Liborio Ramos in Northern California., Credit: 70 Million
A handful of companies are making millions off of ankle monitors strapped to undocumented immigrants in ICE custody. The makers pitch the monitors...

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Book Art, Credit: Paul Kivel
We speak with author Paul Kivel about his book, Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. The discussion offers a framework f...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fallen Heroes of 2018
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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There were thousands of organizers, activists and local social justice leaders around the world who died in 2018. As we do every December, we brin...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
In the Shadow of the Volcano: Guatemala's Unequal Disaster
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thousands of Guatemalans are recovering from the eruption of a volcano called Fuego - Spanish for "fire" - which took place in the summer of 2018. ...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
Michael Eric Dyson on Trump, Truth, and Race
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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America’s unwillingness to assess the ugly truth about systemic inequality has created a perpetual sinkhole of denial. A reality that existed long ...

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million - Reform Activists and a New DA Find Common Ground
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A bail bonds agency welcomes business next door to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. A federal judge recently ruled the county’s bail practices unconstitutional. , Credit: Ruxandra Guidi
70 Million reporter, Ruxandra Guidi, chronicles how activists and reformers are succeeding in cutting the jail population, diverting drug arrests, ...

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2

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