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.

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It’s Magic: Birth Justice and Black Maternal Health
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Caption: Allegra Hill, co-founder of Kindred Space L.A.
Through the work and birth stories of midwife, Allegra Hill, the producers of Re:Work Radio explain how Black midwives in Los Angeles are helping w...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WXDU


  • Added: Sep 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
September 11th 20 Years Later: Surveillance, Policing, and Torture
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September 11th, 2021 marks 20 years since the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. Today, we turn our attention not to the tragedy of 9/11 itself, but to 9/11 ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXDU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Life During COVID
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: unhappy masked man, Credit: https://snappygoat.com/free-public-domain-images-man_depressed_hoodie_unhappy/rbaXF2P4I275TeGAlqcCb1xcuuBZmgLxsv7PXwyGPcX1.html#,0,0.73b9015dfe5a5122dd72979ddbb7ad50a2964544
The COVID 19 pandemic has transformed all of our lives in some way. But some are feeling the impacts more than others. Take healthcare workers, for...

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


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Response: The Fight for Justice after the Grenfell Tower Fire
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On June 14, 2017, a fire started in a 24-story public housing apartment in West London called Grenfell Tower. The fire raged all night and reduced ...

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


  • Added: Aug 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
70 Million: A Special Court Keeping Native Americans out of Jail
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Courtroom chairs set up in a circle for the Healing to Wellness session that morning, Credit: Greta Rybus
Kirsten made her way out of jail and addiction with the help of a special court on the Penobscot Nation reservation in Maine. There, culture and ju...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WXDU


  • Added: Aug 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The World's Biggest Methanol Refinery (Updated Encore)
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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
Locked Down and Loaded: The 2020 Gun Surge and Violence Prevention (Encore)
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Tom Nguyen, founder of L.A. Progressive Shooters, at the Route 66 Shooting Park in San Bernardino, CA. March 27, 2021., Credit: Monica Lopez
Regardless of race, gender, or political affiliation, Americans in 2020 bought guns; many, for the first time. In this show, we hear from gun and m...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
The Many Faces of Justice: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls of North America (Encore)
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As reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act awaits a vote in the U.S. Senate, missing and murdered indigenous women and girls continue to ...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
George Floyd Anniversary & Reimagining Public Safety: Special YES!/PNS Report
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Minneapolis, MN - May 25 marks the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Floyd's ...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
Grace Lee Boggs: Sister Revolutionary
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On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs through the lens of the documentary film, American Revolut...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2

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