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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Mutual Support: We do it Together
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Al Sasser
We hear about systems of mutual support; where peers coping with similar struggles like HIV, mental health issues and surviving prison step into th...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Elusive Neighborhood Cop
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Increasingly, police don’t live in the neighborhoods, or even the cities they patrol. But is that a problem? Law enforcement agencies around the ...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
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Abortion Access and Eroded Rights
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In 1973 the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade established the legal right to abortion in the United States. Since then, state legislative and executiv...

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fallen Heroes of 2015
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Juan Evans
Thousands of local social justice organizers passed away this year. People doing crucial work in their communities, whose deaths didn t make the he...

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  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
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Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2015 Year in Review
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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From the Fight for 15 campaign to the Syrian refugee crisis, the past year was full of news headlines that were tough to keep up with. Making Conta...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Women Rising 29: Food Sovereignty
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Kanyon Sayers-Roods
Women Rising radio profiles food sovereignty activists from India, Mexico, and Native American communities.

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Abortion Access Under Attack
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Special edition of Making Contact with guest Host, Rose Aguilar discussing reproductive health and abortion rights 43 years after Roe v. Wade.

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tent Cities: When Society Fails to House
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Nicklesville--Seattle, Credit: Sara Bernard
Tent cities have popped up across the country, from New Jersey to Texas to New Mexico. Many are starting to build more permanent living structures....

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Nicklesville Pushes Seattle Towards Acceptance of Tent Cities
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Nicklesville, Credit: Sara Bernard
Seattle is one of the only cities in the nation to have passed an ordinance formally sanctioning tent cities. A lot of that success can be chalked ...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:13
  • Purchases: 2
We Are the Bomb: Boots Riley and Dave Zirin Talk Activism and Politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Boots RIley, Credit: http://nycsocialist.org/
Boots Riley—activist, author, and “The Coup” front man is interviewed by Edge of Sports blogger Dave Zirin

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Recovery and resilience after the Valley Fire
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hwy 175 between Cobb and Middletown, Credit: Laura Flynn
In California, the four year drought has created perfect conditions for fires. 2015 has proven to be one of the worst years with more than 300,000 ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 11:34
Fire fighters respond to psychological after effects of Typhoon Haiyan
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Firefighters in Tacloban, Philippines , Credit: Aurora Almendral
On November 8, 2013, the Philippines was hit with the strongest storm ever to make landfall in recorded history. Typhoon Haiyan left a wake of deat...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 1
Returning to the Rockaways, after superstorm Sandy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Rockaway Peninsula in Queens New York was one community devastated by Sandy. Making Contact’s Andrew Stelzer brings us this story about how res...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 10:15
After Disaster: Picking up the pieces in an age of climate change
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hwy 175 between Cobb and Middletown, Credit: Laura Flynn
On this edition of Making Contact we explore the social and psychological costs of climate change, and the weight of inaction.

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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China’s Reproductive Regime: Mei Fong & Barbara Demick on China’s one child policy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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China correspondent Gady Epstein in conversation with author and New America Fellow Mei Fong and journalist Barbara on China’s one child policy.

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Women Rising 30: International Slavery and Human Trafficking
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Series: Making Contact
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Women Rising Radio #30 profiles women fighting slavery, trafficking and forced labor globally.

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Life, Breath, and Toxics: Lethal Negligence of Northeast and South L.A.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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From Norco, Louisiana to Flint, Michigan to Los Angeles, California - environmental racism is real. On this edition of Making Contact, we look at p...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Unstoppable: The Fight for 15
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Series: Making Contact
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Low paid workers tell the story of the “Fight for 15,” the exploding nationwide movement for fair wages.

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caring Relationships: Negotiating Meaning and Maintaining Dignity
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Alana Theriault, disability benefits counselor in Berkeley, California and Alice Wong, Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow, Credit: Alice Wong
Whether you’re a paid home care provider, or rely on personal assistance to meet your daily needs, or a family member caring for a loved one, the n...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Choreography of Care
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ingrid Tischer, director of development, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF) and Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong, Credit: Alice Wong
Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong asks, how do people with disabilities who rely on personal assistance negotiate their relationships with ...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 11:33

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