All Pieces for Making Contact
Some call it a new civil rights movement. Others simply call it “black lives matter”. We hear a conversation about waging strategic non-violence be...
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- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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This is a special ENCORE edition. Before it was legal in the United States, some doctors would risk arrest to provide women with access to safe abo...
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- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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You’ve heard of Hip-Hop, but what about Krip-Hop? That’s the name for the international movement of disabled artists, poets, musicians, and MCs. On...
- Added: Jan 25, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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How can a woman determine how she is perceived by the world, and even by herself? On this edition, we hear stories of women who are using their bo...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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Gary Younge, author of "The Speech" talks about Martin Luther King Junior's Dream and the story behind it.
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- Added: Jan 02, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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On this show we bring you an update on some of the stories we’ve covered this year. We’ll go to a protest to talk to advocates calling for an end t...
- Added: Dec 17, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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Fossil fuels are a trillion dollar industry but environmentalists say they have a plan to pull the plug on the industry: divestment. The campaign t...
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- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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Over 6,000 migrant deaths were recorded on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico between 1998 and 2013. This documentary travels to the desert ra...
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- Added: Nov 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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A 20th anniversary edition of Making Contact. We hear the story of the program’s creation by volunteers, and how this little radio show became part...
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- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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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...
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- Added: Nov 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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The United States has embarked on a bombing campaign targeting Islamic State forces inside Iraq and Syria. Independent producer Reese Erlich report...
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- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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In her new book: “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate”, Naomi Klein argues that while it’s too late to stop climate change, we can ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
The last mass lynching in the U.S. took place back in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia. The case remains open, but one group stages an annual re-enactment i...
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- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 08:59
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It’s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise di...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Kesterson Wildlife Refuge had a little known problem back in 1982: selenium contamination was leading to birth defects and death in fish and birds....
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- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 16:03
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The internet has put whistleblowers in the public eye, and the government’s crosshairs. The world’s biggest institutions are running scared and cra...
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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What do our voices say about us? On this edition we explore voice and identity. We'll hear from someone who nearly lost their voice as well as the ...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Making Contact partnered with the 2014 National Poetry Slam to produce this special open mic highlighting the power of thoughtful, truth telling, c...
- Added: Sep 22, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
One in three women will have an abortion in her lifetime, yet in pop culture accurate portrayals of real people’s stories are rare. In this show we...
- Added: Sep 17, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2