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 Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later (Updated)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The End of Student Debt: Free College and Debt Strikes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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44 million Americans hold over 1.6 trillion dollars of student debt and the cost of higher education continues to skyrocket. This unpayable debt ca...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WMMT


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Kimberlé Crenshaw: Intersectionality
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Kimberlé Crenshaw, Credit: Annabel Clark
Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw defined the concept of intersectionality 30 years ago. She developed that framework to understand how identities s...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Say Their Names: George Floyd and the Movement to Uplift Black Lives
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Minneapolis Rally, May 29, 2020, Credit: Rebecca McDonald, BFresh Productions
The movement to uplift Black lives and to defund and dismantle police departments has grown to a point where it cannot be ignored. We’ll hear from ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mrs. Hamer, Echoes (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, spoke words that are all too relevant today. Today on Making Contact, you’ll hear archival recordings, and ex...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Data Boom! Rana Foroohar on Surveillance Capitalism
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rana Foroohar
The biggest tech companies generate enormous wealth and power by harvesting information about people. It’s called surveillance capitalism. This epi...

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Texts Not Jails! Before and After Covid-19 via 70 Million
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Covid-19 has transformed jails and prisons into death traps. How are some communities jailing less people in the first place. After someone is arre...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Essential: Gig Workers and COVID-19
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: May 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...

Bought by KOSU and KVSC


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Two Revolutions, Many Secrets
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Left: Wilson Dairy Restaurant Right: Helen Zia as baby with mom
In the midst of our dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s hard to imagine what stories we will ultimately tell our children and grandchildren. T...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
COVID-19 Pandemic Capitalism and Bonds
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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By mid-April over 22 million Americans had filed for unemployment benefits. And it’s unclear whether jobs and businesses that people left behind wi...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
On the Brink: Homelessness before and during COVID-19
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Most of us have a home to shelter in place during COVID -19. But what about the homeless? We take a look at life on the street before COVID-19, fol...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Witch Hunts and Enclosures: Bodies, Land and Women
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Silvia Federici
Today, witch hunts are still happening, in places like East Timor, India and Cambodia. Federici, who never really left the subject of witch hunts, ...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
COVID-19 and Lessons from the Spanish Flu
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Glenbow Flu 1918
In 1918, humanity faced a deadly global pandemic-- the Spanish Flu. How did those who lived a century before us respond to the crisis, and what we ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bio Hackers versus Big Pharma: Tackling the Rising Cost of Insulin (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, many Americans are worried about their health insurance. The cost of treating the illness, if a patient en...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
The Great Divide: Racism, Wealth Inequality, and Elections
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ian Haney López, Credit: YouTube
On this edition of Making Contact, acclaimed author Ian Haney López talks about his new book - Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Women Rising Radio: Election Protection and Democracy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Virginia voter gets election materials from polling station worker before voting in US presidential election, Nov. 8, 2016., Credit: D. Block / VOA (Public Domain)
Election protection is increasingly seen as a critical issue in the US. From gerrymandering and voter purges, to precinct closures and problems wit...

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


  • Added: Mar 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Who Bombed Judi Bari?, explores Judi Bari’s bold activism to save the Redwood Forest in the face of corporate gre...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bad Math: the Risks of Artificial Intelligence (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We think of Artificial Intelligence as being the stuff of science fiction movies, set far in the future. But it's already having an impact on our l...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:03
The Response: Reimagining Paradise in an Age of Disruption
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week on Making Contact, we bring you a story about resilience and rebuilding after a megafire decimated parts of Northern California. This is ...

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


  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3

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