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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Lessons From Defund the Police
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It's been a year since the call to "Defund the Police" rang out through the George Floyd Protests. The idea isn't new - redistributing police funds...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Angelic Troublemaker: Bayard Rustin
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's program we honor Bayard Rustin, one of the most central figures in the African American struggle for Civil Rights and Freedom. Rustin wa...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Where There’s Smoke: Asthma, Wildfires, and Fossil Fuels
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ta’Kira Dannette Byrd, 11-year-old Vallejo girl and Shawntierra Dolton, Ta’Kira’s mother in 2020. , Credit: Lee Romney
We bring you one little girl’s experience in a neighborhood with high asthma rates and other health challenges. We also look at one part of Souther...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Grace Lee Boggs: Sister Revolutionary
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs through the lens of the documentary film, American Revolut...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
George Floyd Anniversary & Reimagining Public Safety: Special YES!/PNS Report
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Minneapolis, MN - May 25 marks the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Floyd's ...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
The Many Faces of Justice: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls of North America (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act awaits a vote in the U.S. Senate, missing and murdered indigenous women and girls continue to ...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Locked Down and Loaded: The 2020 Gun Surge and Violence Prevention (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Tom Nguyen, founder of L.A. Progressive Shooters, at the Route 66 Shooting Park in San Bernardino, CA. March 27, 2021., Credit: Monica Lopez
Regardless of race, gender, or political affiliation, Americans in 2020 bought guns; many, for the first time. In this show, we hear from gun and m...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
The World's Biggest Methanol Refinery (Updated Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked gas projects that would tur...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
70 Million: A Special Court Keeping Native Americans out of Jail
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Courtroom chairs set up in a circle for the Healing to Wellness session that morning, Credit: Greta Rybus
Kirsten made her way out of jail and addiction with the help of a special court on the Penobscot Nation reservation in Maine. There, culture and ju...

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Response: The Fight for Justice after the Grenfell Tower Fire
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On June 14, 2017, a fire started in a 24-story public housing apartment in West London called Grenfell Tower. The fire raged all night and reduced ...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Life During COVID
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: unhappy masked man, Credit: https://snappygoat.com/free-public-domain-images-man_depressed_hoodie_unhappy/rbaXF2P4I275TeGAlqcCb1xcuuBZmgLxsv7PXwyGPcX1.html#,0,0.73b9015dfe5a5122dd72979ddbb7ad50a2964544
The COVID 19 pandemic has transformed all of our lives in some way. But some are feeling the impacts more than others. Take healthcare workers, for...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
September 11th 20 Years Later: Surveillance, Policing, and Torture
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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September 11th, 2021 marks 20 years since the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. Today, we turn our attention not to the tragedy of 9/11 itself, but to 9/11 ...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
It’s Magic: Birth Justice and Black Maternal Health
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Allegra Hill, co-founder of Kindred Space L.A.
Through the work and birth stories of midwife, Allegra Hill, the producers of Re:Work Radio explain how Black midwives in Los Angeles are helping w...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Black Women In History
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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While Black women have played a critical role in the development of the nation, their stories have been mostly overlooked. In the new book, A Black...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
A More Perfect Union: Latinos, Minority Majorities, and Redistricting
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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How will demographic shifts affect redistricting in 2021? Latinos are the second largest ethnic group in the U.S. In California, the Latinos grew ...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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...

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
But Next Time Part 2: From the Ashes
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...

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
70 Million: How Black Women Are Rightfully “Taking Seats at the Table”
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Alesha Monteiro, an advocate to those incarcerated, poses for a photo at the state Capitol in Sacramento, California, Credit: Sara Nevis
Nearly one in two Black women in the US have a loved one who has been impacted by our prison system. On today's episode we look at the many ways B...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
U.S. Anti-Torture History After 9/11
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: "Equal Justice Under Law" & Black Hood & Orange Jumpsuit, Outside The Third Guantanamo Hearing At the Supreme Court (Washington, DC), Credit: Photo by “tacomabibelot”
In today’s program, sociology professor Lisa Hajjar traces the rise and fall of torture after 9/11. She examines the ways in which torture and the ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Re:Work Radio: Trafficked, the Journey of Lester Ramos (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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One of the most common forms of trafficking is labor trafficking. In this episode, Re:Work Radio brings you the story of Lester Ramos and his journ...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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