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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Manufacturing Terror: The Media's Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Problem
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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After the Boston Marathon bombing, journalists scrambled to identify those responsible for the attack, and their motive. Rolling news and online m...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Surviving Ex-Gay Therapy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The growth of the ex-gay movement in the last two decades gave rise to hundreds of therapy programs aiming to change people’s sexual orientation. B...

Bought by KISU, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KSFR, KVSC, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Does Portland Oregon’s TriMet Unfairly Cut Service for the Poor?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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When you think of modern, green, public transportation, a city that likely comes to mind is Portland, Oregon. Portland has built a reputation worl...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 08:45
Should Buenos Aires’ trains be Re-Nationalized?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The trains of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina are falling apart. A group of train workers and student activists says the problem is that private co...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 08:36
How NYC’s Public Transit Serves the Blind
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Reporter Britta Conroy-Randall took a trip with blind advocate Romeo Edmead to find out how easy to is for him to get around town.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 2
Our Bodies, Our Stories: Reproductive Health Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Woman in Handcuffs, Credit: Thisisbossi
Pregnant women in America’s prisons are being shackled to their beds; others are being sterilized. Correctional institutions claim the policies are...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Women Rising #22: International Anti-Nuclear Activists (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Anti-nuclear demonstration in front of Japanese Diet , Credit: Matthias Lambrecht
For International Women’s Day and the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster listen again as three prominent female activists tell their stor...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Omar Barghouti on How to End Apartheid in Palestine
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Inspired by the campaign to end South African apartheid, Palestinians are leading an international campaign to put economic and political pressure ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Putting the "Eco" Back into Economics with David Suzuki
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: David Suzuki
Author, radio host, and scientist David Suzuki has spent a lifetime working to protect the environment. But he says that work is failing, and a pa...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Not In Our Backyard: Fighting Pollution in Richmond, California
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Richmond, California is one of the lowest-income communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s also one of the most toxic. On this edition, we’ll...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Breaking the Psychological Chains of Slavery (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Breaking the chains of slavery, Credit: empirical_perception
African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jan 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Beats, Rhymes and Laughs: Culture As a Tool for Racial Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Artists and creative people have always used culture as a tool for social change. On this edition, excerpts from a panel on racial justice, culture...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dam Shame: Rivers and Resistance
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A Dam Nice View, The Hoover Dam, Credit: Amyn Kassam
As we look for a solution to global energy problems and a way out of the climate crisis- some are turning to dams and hydroelectric power as a sour...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
In the Shadow of the Wall: From Gaza to Arizona
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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From Palestinian farmers to shootings at the US and Mexico border; living in the shadow of the wall.

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Art is Our Weapon: A Conversation With Climbing Poetree
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Climbing PoeTree in the Making Contact studio, Credit: George Lavender
Alixa and Naima are two poets who together make up Climbing PoeTree, an award winning performance duo. Mixing poetry and politics they seek to use...

Bought by KVSC, KRCB 104.9, KZYX, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2012 Year in Review
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As 2013 approaches, we look at some of the important issues we've covered in 2012: from domestic workers struggling for respect, to the consequence...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life or Death: Ending the Death Penalty
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Escape by Death, Credit: T Woodard
A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty. In 2012 voters had the chance to vote to replace California’s dea...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Michelle Alexander, Associate Law Professor at Moritz School of Law and Author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." , Credit: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Saving or Selling the Planet? REDD, Climate Change and Indigenous Lands
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests
Around the world communities are already facing the impacts of climate change. Now international organizations, like the World Bank, are pushing a...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Room To Breathe: From Chaos to Peace in the Classroom
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Promotional picture from the Video Project, Credit: http://www.videoproject.com/roomtobreathe.html
At overcrowded and underfunded public schools across the country high suspension rates are exacerbating existing achievement gaps. Often, chaos in ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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