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 Pandemic, Loss and Racial Inequity
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Caption: Jorge Garza has created an Azteca pop series based on front line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic., Credit: Jorge Garza
Up next on Making Contact we turn our attention to those Americans who are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus fallout. According to the CDC, Blac...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
The Deep: Rising Sea Levels and Corporate Control of Water (Encore)
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On this episode of Making Contact, we look at the privatization of our earth’s most precious resource – water. People around the world have been or...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
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Three years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. We bring you a Haymarket Books talk by Ma...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
#SayHerName: Black Women, Police Violence and Abolition
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Caption: #SayHerName, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
2020 will marked six years since the #SayHerName movement was created. Today, the deaths of Black women and girls at the hands of law enforcement s...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Electoral College’s Dirty History (Encore)
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Given the election, and the difference between popular votes and electoral votes, we revisit our show on the Electoral College. It’s history in the...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Election 2020 Special: More Than a Vote
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Voting in one of the most momentous presidential elections in the nation’s history is over. The morning after polls closed nearly 136 million ballo...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Fighting for the Ballot: Race and Voter Suppression in the 2020 Election
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Voter suppression and its target’s aren’t new phenomena. People of color and the poor have always been dissuaded from voting. We take a look at how...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental Health at the Root of Activism (Encore)
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Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health. Self-care becomes a “selfless ac...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Unblock the Vote 2020
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On this episode, we'll explore felon disenfranchisement and the battle to restore the voting rights of people on parole. We will also turn our atte...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
70 Million: Voting from Jail is a Right, and Now a Reality in Chicago
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Caption: Talman Anderson votes in the Illinois presidential preference primary from the Cook County Jail, Credit: Photo by Pamela Kirkland
A year ago, Illinois passed a law requiring all jails to ensure that pre-trial detainees have an opportunity to vote. Chicago’s Cook County Jail wa...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Women Rising Radio: Women Challenge Capitalism
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Women Rising Radio #40 explores the global women's movement to resist the violence and greed of capitalism. A women-led village in Kurdish Syria e...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Domestic Violence in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the UK’s Domestic Abuse Bill
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Caption: October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Domestic abuse affects everyone it touches—intimate partners, children, and elders. COVID-19 created new problems for victims of domestic violence ...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wolves at the Well: The Corporate Grab of Public Water
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Caption: Columbia River Valley from the Oregon Shore towards Washington, Credit: Chris Light, Wikimedia Commons
Water is critical to maintaining the balance of life. Some corporations claim ownership of fresh water sources to bottle and sell for profit. Other...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Essential: Gig Workers and COVID-19 ENCORE
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Gig Workers, driver's for app companies such as Lyft and Uber, are struggling during COVID-19. They're considered essential workers, so they can st...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Frontline East LA: The Chicano Moratorium 50 Years Later
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Caption: Chicano Moratorium march, Aug. 29, 1970., Credit: Courtesy of Joe Razo and the publication La Raza.
Fifty years ago, 30,000 people peacefully protested the disproportionate number of Latinos dying on the frontlines in Vietnam. The August 29th Chic...

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Activism and The Fight for Black Trans Lives
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On this episode of Making Contact, we will look at transgender activism and the call for inclusion and intersectionality in the movement for Black ...

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  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Re:Work: [No] Child Left Behind
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Caption: Phal Sok - Youth Justice Coalition, Credit: Re:Work Radio
We often see children as innocents who need love, support, and stability. But not all young people are nurtured this way. Too often youth from marg...

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental Health at the Root of Activism
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Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health. Self-care becomes a “selfless ac...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Thin Black Line: Press Freedom, Repression, and Surveillance
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Caption: A U.S. Park Service Police Officer takes video of spectators observing an incident in which the USPP had kettled a group of people at 12th and L NW in Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day, 2017. , Credit: Douglas Fron
Journalists have been violently targeted by police and arrested alongside demonstrators at Black Lives Matter protests across the country. In this ...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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The Deep: Rising Sea Levels and Corporate Control of Water
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Caption: water vendor, Credit: wikimedia commons
On this episode of Making Contact, we will look at the privatization of our earth’s most precious resource – water. We will look at the ways people...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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