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Lies the Spanish conquistadors told about the Aztecs have led to racist tropes that still affect brown Mexicans today. Now, brown Mexicans are lead...
Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and WFHB
- Added: Aug 22, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
This week on the show:
It's gloves off as Turkey's presidential election goes to a second round.
Hopes fade of finding those still missing months...
- Added: May 18, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week
25 years of peace, but will Biden's call for a return to power-sharing in Northern Ireland be answered?
Turks are still feeling the pinc...
- Added: Apr 13, 2023
- Length: 58:59
This week on the show:
Hungary votes to let Finland into NATO, but what about Sweden?
Home at last: what lies in store for Norway’s Islamic State...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 59:00
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...
Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Oct 26, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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...
Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The central questions guiding this podcast episode are this: What role should schools play regarding policies, instruction, and classroom discussio...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 49:59
This week on the show: Sex traffickers target Ukrainian refugees.Ukrainian cultural heritage becomes a casualty of war. Is Turkey becoming a back-...
- Added: Mar 31, 2022
- Length: 58:59
John Wood Jr. is National Ambassador for Braver Angels, volunteer citizens committed to respectful dialog and depolarization. He invokes elements ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 54:29
This week we take a look at Canada and its history of Black enslavement. Canada, our northern neighbor, is rarely mentioned when we talk about the ...
Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Feb 08, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
An interview with Harold Holzer, author of "The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media--from the Foundi...
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 24:26
Red, blue, rich, poor, country, city, left or right. Chances are you probably fall into one of those categories. And you may be quite happy where y...
Bought by KWMR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
In her new book, Carceral Capitalism, poet and scholar Jackie Wang confronts mass incarceration in the US by delving into the processes that feed i...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 01:03:54
Rents in San Francisco have exploded in recent years; by now, the metropolis in Northern California has overtaken New York as the most expensive ci...
- Added: May 15, 2019
- Length: 31:54
Art organizations and sponsorship dollars have gone hand in hand for decades. But with backlash and protests over donors ethics, should cultural in...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: May 09, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
What is it like to be Muslim nowadays in the Midwest, the so-called Heartland of the US? And how does that reality connect to the one in Germany? O...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KRZA
- Added: Apr 17, 2019
- Length: 15:29
- Purchases: 2
The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 59:25
Private prisons in the South capitalized on the loophole in the 13th Amendment. In American Prison Shane Bauer takes us into Winn Correctional Cent...
Bought by WWNO
- Added: Oct 17, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
We’ll say goodbye to the “Red Scare Next Door” in Evansville, Indiana and travel East to the Green Mountains of Vermont where it turns out that eve...
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 58:01
Doing away with the death penalty is usually thought of as a liberal cause, and the arguments are often about the morality of executing someone, or...
- Added: Feb 09, 2018
- Length: 16:26
KUER's Nicole Nixon has been looking into the sexual dynamics at Utah's State House. She spoke with some of the women--legislators and lobbyists--...
- Added: Jan 29, 2018
- Length: 18:00
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: Dec 10, 2017
- Length: 29:00
On this edition of Making Contact we present, The Struggle Inside: The Murder of George Jackson, a program about the modern anti-prison movement.
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
