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  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Two episodes about focusing on the little things.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ismael Rivera, historian and cultural guide, in front of ancient Aztec ruins in Mexico City. , Credit: Anthony Wallace
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
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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
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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
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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
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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...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: The aftermath of historic protests in Cuba, one year on Thousands of Cubans took to the streets over a year ago. These prot...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 02, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In both Germany and the U.S., the flag can be divisive, eliciting pride in some and unease in others. From patriotism to protest, Jocelyn Robinson ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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This week, we tackle misinformation and misleading narratives about mail in ballots and the 2020 election with New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2020
  • Length: 49:21
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Caption: Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator
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
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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
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Just a moment of watching the daily activities of our national public life reveals that ‘performance’ is consequential — far beyond the confines of...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 57:27
Caption: Dmitry Orlov
Dmitry Orlov joins us again. He is the author of Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects, The Five Stages of Collapse: Sur...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Jun 19, 2016
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Saber and Muzzamil at Saber’s home. She bought a few American flags after 9/11 and put them around  her house, Credit: Renee Gross
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
Caption: Stephen Zunes
Confused about the Middle East? Prof. Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco. For many...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 59:32
Caption: Cat Brooks
Mauro Oliviera, local activist and producer of Smallworldradio.net, co-hosts with me today. Our guest is direct action activist and organizer, Cat...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2015
  • Length: 58:54
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For more than a century, the Rio Grande has been the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But rivers can move.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 2
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Kwame Ture, once known as Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinadad, later moving to the United States at the age of eleven. He would become a lead...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:35
  • Purchases: 1