Making Contact

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A 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 throughout the world. 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.


678 Pieces

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East Orosi's Struggle for Clean Drinking Water
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A person holding a "Justicia para East Orosi" sign, Credit: Sandra Tsang
We visit the town of East Orosi and experience life without safe drinking water. We also take a look at California State Laws that could help commu...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Healing Project: An Abolitionist Story (Encore)
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: The Healing Project, Installation View, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2022., Credit: Photograph by Anita Johnson
Composer, pianist, and vocalist Samora Pinderhughes tells us about The Healing Project. The Healing Project, a fundamentally abolitionist project, ...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caring Relationships: Negotiating Meaning and Maintaining Dignity (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Photo of Alice Wong, Stephanie Guyer-Stevens, Credit: Alice Wong, Stephanie Guyer-Stevens
July is Disability Pride Month, which commemorates the July 26, 1990 anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In honor of the anniversar...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (Encore)
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Book cover of “Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.”, Credit: Macmillan Publishers
Raj Patel & Rupa Marya tell us about their book "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice," an investigation into how our deeply unjust...

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  • Added: Jul 01, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Family Matters: What Helps Black Trans Kids Thrive
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Original Art featuring an illustration of two people of color, an adult comforting/embracing a child/young adult. , Credit: Courn Ahn
As political rhetoric & discriminatory laws contribute to poor mental health among LGBTQ+ kids, researchers study what keeps kids healthy, happy, &...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Book cover for "The Trauma of Caste.", Credit: Penguin Random House
What is caste? According to author Thenmozhi Soundararajan, “caste is suffering. That one’s worth and fate are determined at the moment of birth." ...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Disclose! Divest!: Behind the Fight Over College Endowments
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A child running through the Stanford Divestment Encampment., Credit: Photo by RJ Lozada.
What does it mean to disclose and divest? We take a look at the demands behind the student encampments for Palestine and talk to Kelly Grotke about...

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Borders: What are they good for?
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: White text reading "Borders: What are they good for?" superimposed on top of a greyscale background showing the jagged border between two sides of a sand dune., Credit: Original photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash. Digitally altered by Lucy Kang.
What are borders, and why do we have them? And how is violent border enforcement at the US-Mexico border connected to Israel's brutal assault on Ga...

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  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Art of Healing: Finding Strength Through Frida Kahlo
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Outdoor mural featuring Frida Kahlo, Credit: In Confianza, with Pulso
“In Confianza, with Pulso” producer Anthony Wallace brings us the story of Thania Betancourt Alcazar. A member of “The Phoenix Fridas,” Alcazar di...

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  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jenny Odell and Discovering Life Beyond the Clock (Encore)
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Excerpt from the book cover, reading "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" superimposed on top of orange and pink geological features, Credit: Penguin Random House
This week, we talk to Jenny Odell, about the ideas behind her book Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock and How to Do Nothing: Resistin...

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  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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Uncovering the Refugee Experience & Healing Through Storytelling (Encore)
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: (Left) Wilson Dairy Restaurant (Right) Helen Zia as a baby with mom., Credit: Photo copyright Helen Zia used with permission
This week's episode is about two women, one who fled Shanghai during Mao's Chinese Revolution, and the other who escaped the Bolshevik Revolution a...

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  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Survival for All: Securing Vaccines for the Global South
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Healthcare worker provides COVID-19 vaccination, Credit: World Bank Photo Collection is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
The pandemic exposed stark inequalities around the world, especially in terms of vaccine access, leading to the deaths of untold thousands in the g...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
You Can Still Have An Abortion
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Interactive Map: US Abortion Policies and Access After Roe., Credit: Guttmacher Institute. Accessed 4/15/24.
Access to abortion is increasingly piecemeal and complex in the US. While abortion access volleys within the judicial system, local abortion funds ...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Coast Miwok Peoples, Colonization, and the Preservation of Indigenous History (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A tule elk in Point Reyes in 2015., Credit: Austlee via Wikimedia Commons, under a CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed license. Image is unaltered.
On today's encore episode, dive into the history of Point Reyes National Seashore, an area in northern California known for rugged sweeping beaches...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
America's Black Capital
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Cover of the book, "America's Black Capital", Credit: Hachette Book Group
On this week's episode, we speak with Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar about his latest book, “America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta ...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Origins of Zionism
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Front cover of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine.", Credit: Credit: Macmillan Publishers
In the midst of repeated, outsized, and unprecedented attacks on the people of Gaza, we talk to Rashid Khalidi about his book "The Hundred Years' W...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 02, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
No, COVID Isn’t “Over,” and the Need for Continued Community
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: On an orange background, six black line illustrations depicting: a COVID-19 virus, a face mask, a lung filled with COVID viruses, a person's head tilted back with a nose swab, a swab in a test tube, and a rapid antigen test. In between these illustrations, Credit: Original image by jKartak from Pixabay. Digitally altered by Lucy Kang.
March marks four years since the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health failures and government inaction have forced communities to tak...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Reproductive Justice: The Ongoing Struggle for Bodily Autonomy (Encore)
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Series: Making Contact
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Today we share excerpts from “She's Beautiful When She's Angry,” a documentary about the rise of activism around women’s rights in the late 1960s, ...

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Ethical Dilemma of Geoengineering & Global Warming (Encore)
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Image of Arctic Ice, Credit: Pink floyd88 a via Wikimedia Commons
In an era where climate change is top of mind for all and our futures hang in the balance, scientists think they’ve found a solution: geoengineerin...

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 4
Who’s Afraid of DEI?: Interrogating Gender & Race in the Workplace (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ruchika Tulshyan (left) and Ijeoma Oluo (right).
What does equity really mean? That might be an impossible question to answer objectively, but in this encore episode Ruchika Tulshyan, a workplace ...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3

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