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.


645 Pieces

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Gaza, Solidarity, and the Movement for Palestinian Liberation
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Demonstrators call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to US military aid to Israel at the Port of Oakland in November 2023., Credit: Brooke Anderson (photo has been cropped from original)
For weeks people around the world have been witness to Israel's deadly assault on Gaza. Today, we uncover the military corporations profiting from ...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
How Ollas Populares fed Buenos Aires through a pandemic (Encore)
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The story of how locals in Buenos Aires came together to feed each other through a pandemic with community kitchens (ollas populares), and how inno...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Promise and Peril of Geoengineering
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Image of Arctic Ice, Credit: Pink floyd88 a, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Modern Parenting...The Latino Way
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Maribel Quezada Smith and Liz Alarcón discuss ways they maintain their children’s latinidad while living in the U.S., and what they’ve changed from...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Inclusion on Purpose
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Caption: Ruchika Tulshyan left and Ijeoma Oluo.
Thought leaders in our nationwide conversation about race and belonging, Ruchika Tulshyan and Ijeoma Oluo discuss Tulshyan’s book, Inclusion on Pur...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Shadow of Nuclear Colonialism
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: The text "The Shadow of Nuclear Colonialism" superimposed on an image of the explosion at 9.0 seconds after the Trinity detonation on July 16, 1945, Credit: Photo Illustration by Lucy Kang, Background image by United States Department of Energy
On today's show, we hear about the impact of nuclear colonialism and the Manhattan Project on the people and places of New Mexico with Myrriah Góme...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
A History of Traditional Root Healing (Encore)
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Left is a Mullein Plant and the author, Michele Elizabeth Lee. , Credit: Anita Johnson
In some parts of the world, traditional herbal remedies are the norm. When we think of natural remedies we tend to think of older generations liv...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Toxic Tracks (encore)
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: The text "Toxic Tracks" on a background of railroad tracks., Credit: Background image by Hands off my tags! Michael Gaida from Pixabay
On today's show, we'll hear an encore of a show from our archives that first aired in April. We'll be looking at the environmental impact of the ra...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
70 Million - Highway Robbery: How a Small Town Traffic Trap Became A Legal Black Hole
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sandra Harris, photographed in her home. , Credit: Amarr Croskey
On today's show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a small town in Alabama, where an eager new police chief, unsuspecting m...

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Mexicans Confronting Racism: Aztec myths to modern stereotypes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ismael Rivera, historian and cultural guide, in front of ancient Aztec ruins in Mexico City. , Credit: Anthony Wallace
Lies the Spanish conquistadors told about the Aztecs have led to racist tropes that still affect brown Mexicans today. Now, brown Mexicans are lead...

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Pandemic and Profit (Encore)
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Caption: Homemade masks made by the Auntie Sewing Squad Alt-text: Four homemade masks made from patterned cloth sitting on top of a fabric cutting mat , Credit: Credit: Mai-Linh Hong
On today's show, we'll revisit the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic by looking at two alternative supply chains for masks during the fallout fro...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 2 (Encore)
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Romantic senior couple celebrating Saint Valentine's Day at home. Woman holding old book and red rose with her husband with wine in background., Credit: shixart1985
We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Criminalized Survival
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Activist, Kim Dadou Brown, Credit: Daniel A. Nelson
In this episode, Natalie Pattillo and Daniel A. Nelson talk with us about their documentary, And So I Stayed. This award-winning film centers three...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Agitation to a System: Trans Resistance in Louisiana
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hands holding up public comment cards in the Louisiana Senate chamber on Pride Day at the Capitol 2023 in Baton Rouge, LA., Credit: Raegan Labat
Louisiana, like many other states, has seen a slew of anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced this legislative session. Sophie Ziegler joins to...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Healing Project: An Abolitionist Story (Encore)
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This week on Making Contact we bring you to "The Healing Project," a multimedia installation that shares stories from incarcerated people about how...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
What the SVB Failure Teaches us About Investment Banking (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: SVB sign in front of Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, California., Credit: Minh Nguyen, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
We talk to John Nichols and Jeet Heer from The Nation about the decisions that led up to the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and why it wasn't just an...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Revolutionary Mothering and Reproductive Justice Encore
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Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs tells the birth story of the book she co-edited with China Martens and Mai'a Williams, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on th...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Powerlands
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Caption: Powerlands
On this week's Making Contact, we feature an extended interview with Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, a queer Diné filmmaker and director of the award-w...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
A History of Development and Disruption
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In a new book, Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and Disruption, author Mitchell Schwarzer explores the origins and lasting impacts of t...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Fight Over the Indian Child Welfare Act Is Not Just A Custody Battle (Encore)
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On the face of it, the legal arguments at the Supreme Court over the Indian Child Welfare Act seem to be a custody battle over Native children and ...

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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