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The Way Home
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Healing Garden, Credit: Amy Gastelum
What does food mean to identities struggling against colonialism and displacement? First, we visit the Blackfeet Nation in Montana as members of In...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We present the documentary, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, a reflection on the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, bet...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
But Next Time Part 1: Toward the Fire
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As fires ravaged California's world-famous wine country in 2017,a community radio station, emergency dispatcher, and tenant organizers helped the m...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Deep: Rising Sea Levels and Corporate Control of Water (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this episode of Making Contact, we look at the privatization of our earth’s most precious resource – water. People around the world have been or...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
A Code To Live By in Appalachia
From: Mary Helen Miller
Caption: The Presbyterian church in Vardy, Tennessee, was a community center for some Melungeon families. , Credit: Mary Helen Miller
The Melungeons were a mixed-race group in southern Appalachia with an elusive history. Now some Melungeon descendants are looking to DNA testing fo...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WTJU


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 16:56
  • Purchases: 2
Silenced
From: War News Radio
Caption: An Iraqi man reads a newspaper in Baghdad., Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Jan 15, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
How We Survive: Sprouting Up in Empty Breadbaskets
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The irony of food poverty in California’s agriculturally rich Central Valley and a look at community gardens popping up in food deserts. We also ex...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Tapped Out: Clean Water in Peril (1-hour version) with Newshole
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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From a grassroots toxic canal clean up to a long-standing watershed war, we’ll hear from U.S. water stewards across the country. They’re people wor...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and WRPI


  • Added: Oct 16, 2009
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Immigrant Families Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In a special collaboration between “Feet in Two Worlds,” we hear the story of an immigrant family torn apart after an immigration raid in Phoenix, ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Oct 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Neither Here Nor There: Bhutanese Refugees in the U.S.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thousands of Nepali speaking refugees from Bhutan are coming to North America. Correspondent Adelaide Chen takes us on a journey with these new arr...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
Haiti's Dark Secret: The Restavecs
From: Rachel Leventhal
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Josimene is ten years old. She is one of Haiti's 300,000 restavecs, or child slaves. While her parents were promised she'd be educated if they sen...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2009
  • Length: 12:57
"Prison Town, USA"
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In our special collaboration with public televison?s P.O.V., Directors Katie Galloway and Po Kutchins take us to ?Prison Town, USA? and explore how...

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Jul 17, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
My T-Shirt Says it All
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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UC Berkeley graduate student, Jacob Fenston, talks with three T-shirt designers who use the garments as a way to fight racism, communicate cultural...

Bought by KGOU, KUT-HD, KGOU, and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support (Part III)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In the last of our three-part series, A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support, we?ll hear from experts offering an insiders view on the continui...

  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
America, America
From: Making Contact
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We go to the streets of Richmond, California. and meet Jairo, a 17- year old boy who dreams of playing professional soccer--those plans are put on ...

Bought by KUNM and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (Part II)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This is the second of a three-part series, 'A Crisis of Care,' a look inside California's prison health care system. We'll hear how a state-sancti...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (Part I)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This is the first of a three-part series, "A Crisis of Care," a look inside California's prison health care system. In this first show, "Gina's Sto...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
"Rhythms of Zapata"
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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UC Berkeley graduate student, Alejandro Reyes, takes us to East Los Angeles, where a number of Chicano artists inspired by the Zapatistas have been...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
Mothers, Migrants and Maids of Honor
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Through their own words, we pay tribute to the many working women of color who are struggling for acceptance, recognition and their rights.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 07, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: The Music House
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A portrait of the very musical Baka pygmies of Cameroon and the Music House built with royalties from recordings of their music made by British mus...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 20, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4