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.


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Squatters: Intruders or Innovators?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We visit squats in Venezuela and the Phillipines, and find out why squatters around the world aren’t just tolerated...they are crucial to the growt...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Women Rising 27: A Farm Worker Advocate
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Strawberry field in Watsonville, California , Credit: SGrace via Flickr
We follow Dr. Ann Aurelia Lopez as she shows us the reality of farm workers' lives in the United States and Mexico. Dr. Lopez founded the Center fo...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interview Robert Neuwirth, author of “Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World”
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Robert Neuwirth, Credit: kris krüg
Interview with Robert Neuwirth author of "Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World." He estimates that more than a billion people--tha...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 13:43
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The Worlds’ Tallest Squat Faces Evictions
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: View of Torre de David, Credit: JoséMa Orsini
Reporter Andrew Rosati takes us to what's known as the world's tallest squat, the Torre de David, in Venezuela to see how the residents there are d...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 05:21
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Philippine Squatters Use Their Political Weight to Win Permanent Homes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Squatters' settlement along a Manila, Philippines waterway , Credit: Aurora Almendral
Reporter Aurora Almendral visits one squatter settlement in the Philippine and finds out how one community leveraged their political power into hom...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 1
Coffee: Trouble Brewing?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It’s the second most-traded commodity in the world after oil but how much do you think about your cup of coffee? From coffee farmers in Colombia to...

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Controversial Nicaragua Canal
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nicaragua plans to build a $50 billion canal to connect the Caribbean and Pacific. Supporters argue it will create more than 250,000 jobs. But smal...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Heat of the Moment: Sea Level Rise
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Climate change is here affecting weather conditions and sea levels. In India it's also having a more surprising influence on the country's tigers. ...

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
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BP Five Years Later: Deepwater Horizon and the Cost of Oil
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Louisiania bayou
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, not everyone is “back to normal.” On this edition, we follow BP’s trail fro...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
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Houma Tribe Fights for their Existence 5 Years After BP
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Reporter Anna Simonton takes us down to Southern Louisiana, where the Houma people have been battling BP--and the entire oil industry--for decades,...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 11:49
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Antonia Juhasz on BP and the Gulf, 5 years After Deepwater Horizon
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Making Contact's Andrew Stelzer speaks with author, analyst, and oil industry expert Antonia Juhasz. She's been following BP since even before the ...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 16:04
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Keeping Big Oil out of Big Art
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We go to BP’s corporate hometown, London England. For the past decade, going back even before the gulf coast spill, a coalition of artists has been...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 09:17
  • Purchases: 1
States of Censorship: Journalism Under Attack
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Imprisonment, oppressive laws, and harassment of journalists - these are just a few means of censorship around the world. The use of these repressi...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
#BlackLivesMatter: Alicia Garza on the Origins of a Movement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza tells the story of how that phrase, and the movement came to be.

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Not Throw Away Women: Black and Indigenous Women Disrupt Violence
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today’s show we’re exploring how some women have been dehumanized to the point of indifference. We’ll learn how one community is undoing the sil...

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  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
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Normalizing Violence Puts Black Women’s Lives at Risk
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Making Contact’s fellow Rochelle Robinson brings us this story exploring how violence against women, especially women of color, is so pervasive tha...

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  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 1
Not Throw Away Women: How Serial Killers Stalked Black Women in South Los Angeles
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Margaret Prescod, Credit: Laura Flynn
In the 1980s in South Los Angeles more than a dozen black women were murdered. Many of these women’s bodies were found in parks, alleyways, and dum...

  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 08:31
Maternal Matters: Indigenous Women in the Yucatan Challenge Violence and Indifference
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Emiliano rests in Neyi's kitchen., Credit: Jasmin Lopez
In Mexico an indigenous woman is three times more likely to die during childbirth or postpartum than a non indigenous woman. Both culture and gover...

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  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 2
Returning Home: From War Fighter to Student Veteran
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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What is it like to be a student who has fought in a war? Producers at The Stanford Storytelling Project’s podcast, State of the Human asked six Sta...

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  • Added: May 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Walking in Two Worlds
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In this radio adaptation of the documentary film, Walking in Two Worlds, We meet a Tlingit brother and sister in Alaska’s Tongass Forest, where the...

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  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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