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.


641 Pieces

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The Pseudo-Science of Whiteness: Biology as a Social Weapon (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting white supremacy in the U.S. She...

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  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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re:Work - Redemption
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Series: Making Contact
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This episode explores the story of Billy Taing, a Cambodian refugee who got caught up in the US criminal justice system at a young age.

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Operation Boulder from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Since 9/11, US governmental agencies have poured millions of dollars into spying on Arabs, Muslims and Arab Americans. Their surveillance has chang...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Unequal Justice: the Criminalization of Black Youth
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Nearly two thirds of all children in the U.S. juvenile justice system are kids of color. That’s according to a report by the Children’s Defense Fun...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
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70 Million: When a State Treats Drug Addiction Like a Health Issue, Not a Crime
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Miracles Club
A year ago, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize drug possession. The goal is to reverse some of the negative impacts of the War on Drugs...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Elizabeth Hernandez and other tenants protest rent hike , Credit: Alliance for Californians for Community Empowerment Action
While wages have flatlined for most working class people, rents have reached new highs, leaving most people struggling. But it’s not just in the US...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Generation Putin, Ten Years Later
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sasha Krizhanofsky reads his 1990 letter to Jessica Partnow in Korsun-Shevchenkivs'kyi, Ukraine, 2012.
This week, Making Contact’s Jessica Partnow offers a look at the state of Russian youth activism from 2012 to today. She revisits her reporting fro...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Juristac and the Amah Mutsun: Indigenous Resistance and Regeneration
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The Amah Mutsun Ohlone are fighting to save their most sacred Indigenous site — a place called Juristac. Contributors Robert Raymond and Della Dunc...

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Medical Apartheid and the COVID-19 vaccines (Encore)
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Series: Making Contact
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The world is struggling to contain COVID-19, as variants continue to emerge in countries where the virus is spreading unchecked, killing thousands....

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Encore)
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We present the documentary, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, a reflection on the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, bet...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Re:Work Soul Force, Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rev. James Lawson Jr., Credit: Reed Hutchinson
On Dec. 11, 2021, the UCLA Labor Center’s historic MacArthur Park building was officially named the UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center, in...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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70 Million: Taking Mental Health Crises Out of Police Hands
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Asantewaa Boykin, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, program director for MH First Sacramento, and an ER nurse, poses for a photo at her home in Sacramento., Credit: Photo by Sara Nevis.
Police encounters during a mental health crisis have a greater chance of turning deadly if you're Black. New response mechanisms bypass law enforce...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
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70 Million: An Effort to Hold Prosecutors Accountable
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A legal matrix that incentivizes criminal convictions can motivate unethical prosecutors to bend or break the rules. In New York, a group of law pr...

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Re:Work Radio: Stranded
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Indian migrant workers flee during the 2020 national lockdown., Credit: Re:Work Radio, a project of the UCLA Labor Center.
When India went into lockdown in 2020, millions of jobs disappeared and tens of millions of migrant workers struggled to get home, often on foot. M...

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  • Added: Dec 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fallen Heroes 2021
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In our annual Fallen Heroes episode, we share words of inspiration from, and about some lesser-known grassroots activists who passed away in 2021.

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Best of Making Contact, 2021
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In this special year-end episode, Making Contact producers and staff turn the spotlight on some the best shows they aired in 2021.

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Medical Apartheid and the COVID-19 vaccines
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The world is struggling to contain COVID-19, as variants continue to emerge in countries where the virus is spreading unchecked, killing thousands....

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  • Added: Dec 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
But Next Time, Episode 4: Higher Ground
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: BNT in Houston Tour Interview Ericka Bowman, Credit: Leah Mahan
When communities face the aftermath of catastrophes, what does it take to ensure that the next time will be different? In Houston, it takes a city ...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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But Next Time, Episode 3: Rising Waters
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jaime is speaking to members of the National Low Income Housing Coalition about the 12 Moms initiative., Credit: But Next Time
In cities around the globe community organizers and direct service agencies are often the first line of response when a climate fueled natural disa...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million: Where Juvenile Detention Looks More Like Hanging Out
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Paul Hancock, Hannah Wilkinson and Victor Chavez stand in front of basketball hoops outside of The Loft, St. Johns, Ariz., Credit: Photo Credit_ Amy Martin
There’s a place in rural St. Johns, Arizona, where teens who have encounters with officers of the law can play pool, make music, and get mentored i...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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