Making Contact

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An international radio program that links people, vital ideas, and important information

Making Contact is an award-winning, 29-minute weekly magazine/documentary-style public affairs program, heard on more than 190 radio stations in the USA, Canada and South Africa. Making Contact is committed to in-depth critical analysis that goes beyond the breaking news.

Showcasing voices and perspectives not often heard in mainstream media, Making Contact focuses on the human realities of politics and the connections between local and global events, emphasizing positive, creative and grassroots ways to solve problems.

Making Contact's first broadcast was in 1995.


666 Pieces

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The Power of Poetry
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Beck Eldridge, Credit: Laura Flynn
Making Contact partnered with the 2014 National Poetry Slam to produce this special open mic highlighting the power of thoughtful, truth telling, c...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Voice Recognition
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Microphone, Credit: Grant https://www.flickr.com/photos/visual_dichotomy/
What do our voices say about us? On this edition we explore voice and identity. We'll hear from someone who nearly lost their voice as well as the ...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Blowing the Whistle, Paying the Price
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A deformed baby duck found at Kesterson NWR, Credit: U.S. Geological Survey
The internet has put whistleblowers in the public eye, and the government’s crosshairs. The world’s biggest institutions are running scared and cra...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Blowing the Whistle on a Poisoned Marsh
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Felix Smith, Credit: Kerry Klein
Kesterson Wildlife Refuge had a little known problem back in 1982: selenium contamination was leading to birth defects and death in fish and birds....

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 16:03
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Thwarting Democracy, the Battle for Voting Rights
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Bloody Sunday-Selma, Alabama
It’s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise di...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Reenacting The Last Mass Lynching in the U.S.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The last mass lynching in the U.S. took place back in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia. The case remains open, but one group stages an annual re-enactment i...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 1
Changing Everything: Naomi Klein on Capitalism and Climate Change
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In her new book: “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate”, Naomi Klein argues that while it’s too late to stop climate change, we can ...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Islamic state, Kurdistan, and the new U.S. war in Iraq
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Karkuk kurdistan Oil, Credit: Jan Sefti
The United States has embarked on a bombing campaign targeting Islamic State forces inside Iraq and Syria. Independent producer Reese Erlich report...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Women Rising 26: A Ride on the People’s Climate Train
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In September of 2014, Women rising radio rode the People’s Climate train coast to coast, with over 200 activists heading to New York City to join t...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Making Contact’s 20th Anniversary
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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A 20th anniversary edition of Making Contact. We hear the story of the program’s creation by volunteers, and how this little radio show became part...

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Deadly Divide: Migrant death on the Border
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: One of the few remaining unknown markers left in the county cemetery in Falfurrias, Texas, Credit: Brandon Thibodeaux
Over 6,000 migrant deaths were recorded on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico between 1998 and 2013. This documentary travels to the desert ra...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Divest: Pulling the Plug on Fossil Fuels
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Student divestment campaigners at CU Boulder, Credit: Hannah Leigh Myers
Fossil fuels are a trillion dollar industry but environmentalists say they have a plan to pull the plug on the industry: divestment. The campaign t...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fallen Heroes of 2014
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Yuri Kochiyama, Credit: Bob Hsiang
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...

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  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2014 Year in Review
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Protest at Levi Stadium before 49ers game against the "Washington NFL team", Credit: Laura Flynn
On this show we bring you an update on some of the stories we’ve covered this year. We’ll go to a protest to talk to advocates calling for an end t...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Dream Remembered?: Martin Luther King Jr and the Grassroots Civil Rights Movement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Gary Younge, author of "The Speech" talks about Martin Luther King Junior's Dream and the story behind it.

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 14
My Body, My Message
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Femen North America, Credit: Femen North America
How can a woman determine how she is perceived by the world, and even by herself? On this edition, we hear stories of women who are using their bo...

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  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Krip Hop
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Leroy Moore
You’ve heard of Hip-Hop, but what about Krip-Hop? That’s the name for the international movement of disabled artists, poets, musicians, and MCs. On...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Motherhood by Choice not Chance ENCORE
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This is a special ENCORE edition. Before it was legal in the United States, some doctors would risk arrest to provide women with access to safe abo...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
From Montgomery to Ferguson
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, Credit: http://www.apbspeakers.com/
Some call it a new civil rights movement. Others simply call it “black lives matter”. We hear a conversation about waging strategic non-violence be...

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Deadly Force: Police Shootings
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Police Lights, Credit: JJ https://www.flickr.com/photos/tattoodjay/4172577749/in/photolist-7mHxZF-ntjU6o-BA5dw-4YVuiR-4oxk3p-9WvKAJ-6aAVL8-4TriEc-9RxFf5-cX9PJ7-9FWBUQ-9iVSZY-3JGAkJ-aA7muZ-5Z6ysn-NajHv-97f5km-7NV3qB-dhhs8s-fjfh3-9Ra8Si-nZLv2P-HjZTJ-hrc2rF-cbcHJ5-bW6YvQ-4kV4bM-7y
Why are so many of those killed by police young people of color? A recent ProPublica investigation found that a young black male is at twenty one t...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2

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