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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...

Bought by WXDU and WFHB


  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We talk to Raj Patel and Rupa Marya about their book "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice."

Bought by KMUN and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
(2023-01-04 Holiday Re-Air) How do we take a breath? Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ UNDROWNED
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Are you drowning? The start of the school year can be stressful for parents, teachers and students. And this year hasn’t been smooth sailing for ma...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
How to Hold Back the Ocean
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Maurice Bailey at Shell to Shore collection in Athens GA, Credit: Claire Reynolds
More and more coastal communities want to build sea walls to prevent catastrophic flooding because of rising sea levels. But do they work? We talk ...

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


  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
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...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Future of Energy is Indigenous: Water Protectors v.s. Enbridge's Line3 Pipeline
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As Canadian oil giant Enbridge defies orders to shut down their dangerous Line 5 pipeline in Michigan, indigenous environmental activists gain mome...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KWMR, and KVNF


  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The World's Biggest Methanol Refinery (Updated Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked gas projects that would tur...

Bought by WXDU and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
A Million Scorched Joshua Trees
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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It's almost the Great Conjunction and we've been on the run, on the road, rambling around. It was time to visit the devastation on Cima Dome, where...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Justice: A new way of Thinking about the Most Basic Stuff of Life
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Food justice is the notion that everyone should have access to healthful food as well as the opportunity to grow, market and serve it. It’s also th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Environment Injustice As Usual During Pandemic
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode, Laura speaks with grassroots environmental organizers Cindy Donis and Laura Cortez from East Yard Communities for Environmental Ju...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
Women of Color Lead the Way
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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At the 2019 Progressive Strategy Summit members of Congress and progressive change makers came together to build a movement that won’t only win bac...

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


  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Special Report: Making Buffalo Our City
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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How do you revitalize a city without gentrifying it? In this episode of the Laura Flanders Show, Laura goes to Buffalo, New York, where years of po...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The World’s Largest Methanol Refinery (and the fight to stop it)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Claudia Riedener has lived in Tacoma since 1998, and is co-founder of the grassroots environmental group Redefine Tacoma., Credit: (photographer unknown)
Special for Climate Week: Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked g...

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


  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Commoning Our Cities: Mary Miss, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Reinventing our cities and re-enchanting the world. Who gets a say in designing where they live? We visit artist Mary Miss's organization, The Cit...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Feb 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Travel Options for the Collapse
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Response: Uneven Burns
From: Making Contact
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In the aftermath of Northern California’s Tubbs Fire in 2017, undocumented families found support outside of traditional disaster service agencies ...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Nov 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Heat of the Moment: Sea Level Rise
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Climate change is here affecting weather conditions and sea levels. In India it's also having a more surprising influence on the country's tigers. ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Women Rising 26: A Ride on the People’s Climate Train
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In September of 2014, Women rising radio rode the People’s Climate train coast to coast, with over 200 activists heading to New York City to join t...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
“Being Black and Green: African-Americans & the Environment” (encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Oakland, CA Scraper krew, Credit: flickr user vkdir
African-Americans are helping to lead the environmental movement. We take you to a resettlement community in North Carolina, sustainable farms in W...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Aug 13, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
Farming Underwater: Steve Mello’s Story
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Farmer Steve Mello has put down roots in “The Delta” in central California. But climate change is threatening the levees which protect Delta farms....

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Cities Underwater: Venice and New Orleans Seek Solutions
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Two historic jewels: New Orleans & Venice, Italy are struggling to plan for sea level rise, in cities that already routinely flood because of quest...

Bought by WZEN.org and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2