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.


665 Pieces

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Caption: Bloody Sunday-Selma, Alabama
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...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Felix Smith, Credit: Kerry Klein
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
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A deformed baby duck found at Kesterson NWR, Credit: U.S. Geological Survey
The internet has put whistleblowers in the public eye, and the government’s crosshairs. The world’s biggest institutions are running scared and cra...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Microphone, Credit: Grant https://www.flickr.com/photos/visual_dichotomy/
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 ...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Beck Eldridge, Credit: Laura Flynn
Making Contact partnered with the 2014 National Poetry Slam to produce this special open mic highlighting the power of thoughtful, truth telling, c...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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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...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: War Memorial, Credit: Dixie Lawrence (Creative Commons)
More than 150,000 people sign up for the US military every year. Their reasons for joining vary widely, from those hoping for financial help throug...

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Scrum-1, Credit: Maree Reveley
They say a smart athlete will use their head. But what if using your head cost you everything? That's a question being asked in locker rooms the wo...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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How safe your children are might depend on where you live. Today we hear about how one pesticide has been banned for household use, but affects the...

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  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wall Street during the Panic of 1907, Credit: Wikipedia Commons
From family friends and trusted confidants to the present day, Nomi Prins, journalist and a former managing director of Goldman Sachs, retraces the...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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20 years after the founding of The Zapatistas, the group’s influence has spread far beyond Mexico’s border through music and art. Producer Alejand...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Bos...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Producer Erica Hellerstein takes us on a journey to identity through an ancient medicinal practice known as “curanderismo”.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Miriam Nobre, Credit: http://marchamulheres.files.wordpress.com/
We profile women fighting the expansion of global militarism and violence; Stella Soh, Kathy Kelly, and Miriam Nobre.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
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Reporter Joanne Mar takes us to a middle school in San Francisco that took a chance and moved away from zero-tolerance discipline. The decision has...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 10:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Victims and perpetrators sitting down face to face...it can help heal their wounds, and our society. Incarcerating our way out of crime clearly has...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: At the rodeo , Credit: Vanessa Rancaño
A tight knit group of queer cowboys has found a way to live the country and Western lifestyle in their own way. Producer Vanessa Rancaño brings us...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Outspent 3 to 1 by multinational seed companies, the citizens of Jackson County, Oregon successfully campaigned to ban GMO crops.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2014
  • Length: 07:42
Caption: Seed Academy at Seven Seeds Farm, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
The movement for GMO regulation is going local. And the seed and pesticide companies are fighting back. As part of “What the Fork”, a multi-media...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:59
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As Brazil prepares to host the 2014 soccer World Cup many are questioning the economic, environmental, and social cost of this sporting mega-event....

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  • Added: May 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1