Making Contact

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An international radio program that links people, vital ideas, and important information

Making Contact is an award-winning, 29-minute weekly magazine/documentary-style public affairs program, heard on more than 190 radio stations in the USA, Canada and South Africa. Making Contact is committed to in-depth critical analysis that goes beyond the breaking news.

Showcasing voices and perspectives not often heard in mainstream media, Making Contact focuses on the human realities of politics and the connections between local and global events, emphasizing positive, creative and grassroots ways to solve problems.

Making Contact's first broadcast was in 1995.


666 Pieces

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Beyond Recognition: The Ohlone
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Corrina Gould, Credit: Sogorea Te Land Trust and Planting Justice
Our radio adaptation of the film Beyond Recognition by Underexposed films, "After decades struggling to protect her ancestors’ burial places, a Nat...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WMPG, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KALW


  • Added: Oct 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Guns and Restraining Orders
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: An altar in front of the Isla Vista deli where Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez was shot in 2014., Credit: Monica Lopez
Despite the recent increase in mass shootings, the majority of gun injuries and deaths are in fact a result of suicides, homicides, and domestic vi...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bio Hackers versus Big Pharma: Tackling the Rising Cost of Insulin
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As the cost of insulin continues to skyrocket patients are dying from trying to ration their medication. It's an extreme example, but not unusual -...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Decarcerated with Danielle Sered: Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Courtesy of the Decarcerated Podcast, host Marlon Peterson hosts a live conversation with Common Justice founder Danielle Sered. Sered’s New Book,...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Pushout
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Port Chicago Sailors: Separate and Unequal
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Freddie Meeks, sailor in the disaster at weapons shipping depot in Port Chicago, Calif., holds a picture of himself as a young seaman July 14, 1994. He died in 2003. , Credit: (AP Photo/Chris Pizzelo)
Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
From Juneteenth to Reparations: The Freedom Promise of Unfinished Resolve
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day, is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the Unite...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 14
Hidden in plain sight: Rebecca Gordon on Torture
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We think of enhanced interrogation as being a new invention - a kind of torture in use only since 9/11. But Rebecca Gordon disagrees. In this episo...

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  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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...

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  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Disability: Our Culture Ourselves
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Dorian Taylor waits for bus in Seattle, Credit: Mona Yeh
People with disabilities or disabled people? “Disability: Our Culture Ourselves”— in this episode we discuss disability, culture and identity fr...

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  • Added: May 13, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The End of Time: Aging in America
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sharitta Barry and her daughter Ashley Hunter, Credit: JoAnn Mar
In this episode we explore racial disparities in end-of-life care: How mistrust keeps many African Americans away from hospice. And later we examin...

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  • Added: May 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Re:Work Radio: Trafficked, the Journey of Lester Ramos
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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One of the most common forms of trafficking is labor trafficking. In this episode, Re:Work Radio brings you the story of Lester Ramos and his journ...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bad Math: the Risks of Artificial Intelligence
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We think of Artificial Intelligence as being the stuff of science fiction movies, set far in the future. But it's already having an impact on our l...

Bought by WKMS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WVAS


  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
70 Million: In Miami, Jailing Fewer, Treating More
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Justin Volpe, peer specialist at the Criminal Mental Health Project, delivers medication to program participants in Miami., Credit: Daniel Rivero
Jails in Miami-Dade County double as de facto mental health facilities. But Miami-Dade’s Criminal Mental Health Project has become a national model...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Reckonings with Lewis Wallace
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Lewis Wallace was a reporter at Marketplace. You may have heard his voice on the Marketplace Morning Report with David Brancaccio. That was until h...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fantastic Negrito and The Last Days of Oakland
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Eric Arnold, Credit: Fantastic Negrito at the UC Theater in Berkeley, Ca
In the last three years, Fantastic Negrito, an Oakland-based black roots revivalist has gone from busking at bus stops to winning a Grammy and tour...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Choice, Church and State: Poland, Ireland, the USA : Women Rising 37
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Abortion and reproductive rights for women are being fought over across the globe. Women Rising Radio visits with key organizers of the Polish Wome...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Legacy of Mistreatment
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Darryl Lester (Larry P.) and wife Cecilia in their Tacoma home., Credit: Lee Romney
African American students across the country are much more likely than any other student group to be placed in special education. This week, we hea...

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
70 Million: How New Orleans could set a new course for bail reform
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Adrian Caliste, lead plaintiff in Caliste v. Cantrell in New Orleans., Credit: Sonia Paul
New Orleans could become the battleground for bail reform. Reporter Sonia Paul digs into how an ongoing lawsuit, pretrial consequences of bail, and...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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