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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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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Where There’s Smoke: Asthma, Wildfires, and Fossil Fuels
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Caption: Ta’Kira Dannette Byrd, 11-year-old Vallejo girl and Shawntierra Dolton, Ta’Kira’s mother in 2020. , Credit: Lee Romney
We bring you one little girl’s experience in a neighborhood with high asthma rates and other health challenges. We also look at one part of Souther...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Angelic Troublemaker: Bayard Rustin
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On today's program we honor Bayard Rustin, one of the most central figures in the African American struggle for Civil Rights and Freedom. Rustin wa...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Lessons From Defund the Police
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It's been a year since the call to "Defund the Police" rang out through the George Floyd Protests. The idea isn't new - redistributing police funds...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Locked Down and Loaded: The 2020 Gun Surge and Violence Prevention
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Caption: Tom Nguyen, founder of L.A. Progressive Shooters, at the Route 66 Shooting Park in San Bernardino, CA. March 27, 2021., Credit: M. Lopez, Making Contact
2020 and the first few months of 2021 are shaping up to be some of the biggest periods ever for firearms sales. In this episode we hear from member...

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  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (Encore)
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Three years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. We bring you a Haymarket Books talk by Ma...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains
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Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette
On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

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  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Domestic Violence in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the UK’s Domestic Abuse Bill (Encore)
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Domestic abuse affects everyone it touches—intimate partners, children, and elders. COVID-19 created new problems for victims of domestic violence ...

  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
70 Million: Where Housing, Not Jails, Is the Answer to Homelessness
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This week on Making Contact, we look at so-called quality of life laws that criminalize unhoused individuals and entangles them in a cycle of pover...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Movement Building and Transnational Freedom Struggles
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Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund t...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Self Evident: Hate Goes Viral
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Caption: Sojung Yi, Charlie Wang and Melissa Borja, Credit: Self Evident
Two incidents of anti-Asian hate — the beating of an elderly grandfather in a San Francisco park and the harassment of a mourning son in a New York...

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2

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