Making Contact

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“Making Contact” digs into the story beneath the story—contextualizing the narratives that shape our culture. Produced by Frequencies of Change Media (FoC Media), the award-winning radio show and podcast examines the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground, building a more just world through narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the environment, labor, economics, health, governance, and arts and culture.

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Making Contact 
687 Pieces

Produced by Frequencies of Change Media (FoC Media), “Making Contact” is an award-winning radio show and podcast that digs into the story beneath the story—contextualizing the narratives that shape our culture.

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Making Contact (Automated Delivery) 
12 Pieces

Produced by Frequencies of Change Media (FoC Media), “Making Contact” is an award-winning radio show and podcast that digs into the story beneath the story—contextualizing the narratives that shape our culture.

Pieces

240925: Tackling the Intimate Partner Violence to Prison Pipeline, 9/25/2024
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact (Automated Delivery)
Caption: Criminalized Survivor Nikki Addimando during her trial in 2020. , Credit: Daniel A. Nelson
Journalist and IPV survivor Natalie Pattillo talks us through headway in the fight for justice for criminalized survivors of intimate partner viole...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Tackling the Intimate Partner Violence to Prison Pipeline
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Criminalized Survivor Nikki Addimando during her trial in 2020. , Credit: Daniel A. Nelson
Journalist and IPV survivor Natalie Pattillo talks us through headway in the fight for justice for criminalized survivors of intimate partner viole...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
240918: Crosswinds: The Cost of Coal , 9/18/2024
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Series: Making Contact (Automated Delivery)
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In this week's show, we take a look at the health, environmental and financial costs of coal that fall to people living nearby. With the help of ou...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Crosswinds: The Cost of Coal
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Series: Making Contact
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In this week's show, we take a look at the health, environmental and financial costs of coal that fall to people living nearby. With the help of ou...

Bought by WETS and WFHB


  • Added: Sep 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
240911: The Black Panthers in Algeria , 9/11/2024
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Series: Making Contact (Automated Delivery)
Caption: "Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party" [https://www.flickr.com/photos/36521980095@N01/52743460491] , Credit: by danxoneil, licensed under CC BY 2.0
On today’s Making Contact, our friends from the podcast, Kerning Cultures, bring us “Black Panthers in Algeria.” It’s the story of when Elaine Mokh...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
The Black Panthers in Algeria
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: "Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party" [https://www.flickr.com/photos/36521980095@N01/52743460491], Credit: by danxoneil, licensed under CC BY 2.0.
On today’s Making Contact, our friends from the podcast, Kerning Cultures, bring us “Black Panthers in Algeria.” It’s the story of when Elaine Mokh...

Bought by WETS, KMUN, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
240904: The Problematic History of Gender Testing at the Olympics , 9/4/2024
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Series: Making Contact (Automated Delivery)
Caption: Myrtle Cook of Canada (left) winning a preliminary heat in the women's 100 metres race at the VIIIth Summer Olympic Games / Myrtle Cook (à gauche), du Canada, remportant une éliminatoire pour l'épreuve du 100 mètres femmes, aux VIIIe Jeux Olympiques d'été, Credit: Library and Archives Canada, PA-150994 / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, PA-150994
We talk to Rose Eveleth, host of the podcast Tested, discuss the history of sex testing in the Olympics, the challenges in classifying natural biol...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
The Problematic History of Gender Testing at the Olympics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Myrtle Cook of Canada (left) winning a preliminary heat in the women's 100 metres race at the VIIIth Summer Olympic Games / Myrtle Cook (à gauche), du Canada, remportant une éliminatoire pour l'épreuve du 100 mètres femmes, aux VIIIe Jeux Olympiques d'été, Credit: Library and Archives Canada, PA-150994 / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, PA-150994
We talk to Rose Eveleth, host of the podcast Tested, discuss the history of sex testing in the Olympics, the challenges in classifying natural biol...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WETS


  • Added: Sep 03, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
240828: The Rise of the New Labor Movement (Encore) , 8/28/2024
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact (Automated Delivery)
Caption: Brunswick cafe, Little Dog, where workers organized a union., Credit: Alex Spear, Bowdoin Orient
We visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers start to organize a union and, we talk to Robert Chlala from the UCLA Labor Center ...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
The Rise of the New Labor Movement (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Brunswick cafe, Little Dog, where workers organized a union., Credit: Alex Spear, Bowdoin Orient
We visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers start to organize a union and, we talk to Robert Chlala from the UCLA Labor Center ...

Bought by KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, and WETS


  • Added: Aug 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3

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