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.


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Toxic Tracks (encore)
From: Making Contact
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
From: Making Contact
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: 5
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)
From: Making Contact
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)
From: Making Contact
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: 4
Agitation to a System: Trans Resistance in Louisiana
From: Making Contact
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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Series: Making Contact
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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
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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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Series: Making Contact
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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
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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Series: Making Contact
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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
Well Nourished: How Mutual Aid is Transforming Food Security for Single Moms in Ohio (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Members of the single moms collective, Motherful, gather for a photo. , Credit: Motherful
Ohio's single mom collective, Motherful, shows what it's like when pregnant and parenting people make decisions for themselves.

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  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Queens Memory Podcast- Seeing Signs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: The "Little Manila" Mabuhay mural, represents welcome, best wishes and life. It greets you in bright yellow on a sky-blue field on the wall of Amazing Grace Restaurant, evoking the taste and fragrance of the Filipines. Calamansi fruits and sampaguita blos, Credit: Jake Hofileña
This episode is from the Queens Memory Podcast, a project archiving stories from Queens, New York. “Little Manila” is a Filipino enclave dating ba...

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  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Nakba: 75 Years On
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Palestinians fleeing from their villages as Israeli troops approach on October 30, 1948., Credit: David Eldan, National Photo Collection of Israel, Government Press Office, under the digital ID D275-120
This week marks the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, or the "catastrophe" in Arabic. It refers both to the events starting in late 1947 when Zionist ...

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  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:56
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million: GRAND JURIES, THE BLACK BOX OF JUSTICE REFORM?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ric Simmons, law professor at The Ohio State University, in the hallway of Moritz College of Law in Columbus, Ohio, Credit: Eli Hiller
On today's show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a case of police brutality in Dallas that evaporated after going before ...

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  • Added: May 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
What the SVB Failure Teaches us About Investment Banking
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Caption: "SBV" sign in front of Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, California., Credit: Photo 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: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Self-Managed Abortion: Medicine of the Future?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: The diaper distribution room at All Options Pregnancy Resource Center in Bloomington, IN. , Credit: Amy Gastelum
Abortion access is piecemeal and complex in the US. And while access to abortion volleys among the court system, the organization PlanCPills.org he...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Toxic Tracks
From: Making Contact
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 be looking at the environmental impact of the rail industry and hear from people in two communities currently impacted by ra...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KMUN


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3

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