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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 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
Disinformation, polarization, growing economic inequality, attempts to undermine elections and the rights of women and racial minorities—all of the...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK
- Added: Sep 09, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
In a two-part series, we look at how COVID-19 has torn through prisons and how organizers are trying to push state and local governments to release...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Mar 16, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
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
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
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
As a follow-up to last week’s program, “The Elected Coup,” tonight we confront The Authoritarian Creep.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 58:15
- Purchases: 1
As we head into the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, a local group says “NO, in Thunder”: No to the erosion of civil liberties and the...
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 58:35
As anti-Muslim rhetoric has increased, members of the Muslim Community of Western Suburbs in Canton, Michigan are becoming more politically involve...
Bought by XRAY.fm, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 3
From the Department of Poetic Justice, here at The River Is Wide , we offer an original composition, titled 'LIMBO'. There is such confusion and f...
- Added: Apr 02, 2016
- Length: 03:25
Dr Robert Jensen on his latest book “Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialog,”
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 28:07
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 08:48
- Purchases: 1
In politics, arrogance can be hired, purchased or -in volunteer organizations- a gratuity that comes with volunteer labor.- or elected. In Maine ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2014
- Length: 05:14
In the 1950’s and 1960’s American citizens and the stalwart among them who were brave enough to run for political office had to learn to live with...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 06:04
Left Forum Friday, May 30, 2014 Plenary with
Cornel West, Immortal Technique, Marina Sitrin, and Stanley Aronowitz;
- Added: Jun 14, 2014
- Length: 01:39:12
We talk about the Pope and his recent visit to Israel. We include informative Middle-Eastern political evaluation and discussion.
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 53:53
Expert canoe paddlers know that a predictable sign that swimming is imminent when the canoe starts to tip in rough water is the grabbing of the can...
- Added: Apr 21, 2014
- Length: 06:03
