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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Dam Shame: Rivers and Resistance
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A Dam Nice View, The Hoover Dam, Credit: Amyn Kassam
As we look for a solution to global energy problems and a way out of the climate crisis- some are turning to dams and hydroelectric power as a sour...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
In the Shadow of the Wall: From Gaza to Arizona
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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From Palestinian farmers to shootings at the US and Mexico border; living in the shadow of the wall.

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Art is Our Weapon: A Conversation With Climbing Poetree
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Climbing PoeTree in the Making Contact studio, Credit: George Lavender
Alixa and Naima are two poets who together make up Climbing PoeTree, an award winning performance duo. Mixing poetry and politics they seek to use...

Bought by KVSC, KRCB 104.9, KZYX, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2012 Year in Review
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As 2013 approaches, we look at some of the important issues we've covered in 2012: from domestic workers struggling for respect, to the consequence...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life or Death: Ending the Death Penalty
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Escape by Death, Credit: T Woodard
A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty. In 2012 voters had the chance to vote to replace California’s dea...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Michelle Alexander, Associate Law Professor at Moritz School of Law and Author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." , Credit: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Saving or Selling the Planet? REDD, Climate Change and Indigenous Lands
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests
Around the world communities are already facing the impacts of climate change. Now international organizations, like the World Bank, are pushing a...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Room To Breathe: From Chaos to Peace in the Classroom
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Promotional picture from the Video Project, Credit: http://www.videoproject.com/roomtobreathe.html
At overcrowded and underfunded public schools across the country high suspension rates are exacerbating existing achievement gaps. Often, chaos in ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Women Rising #22: International Anti-Nuclear Activists
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Anti-nuclear demonstration in front of Japanese Diet, Credit: Matthias Lambrecht
With nuclear power back on the agenda, three prominent female activists tell their stories: Kaori Izumi was part of the grassroots campaign to shu...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, WXDU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Electoral College's Dirty History
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Akhil Reed Amar
Yale University Law & Political Science Professor Akhil Reed Amar says the electoral college discourages voting, lessens the power of the states, a...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Education Not For Sale
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Around the world, students have been taking to the streets. They’re opposed to rising tuition fees and cuts to education. On this edition, we’ll ...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Oct 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
ACORN Descendents Keep Their Traditions, While Fighting Foreclosures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As the 2009 ACORN scandal quickly unfolded and funding started to dry up, the groups’ members and organizers had to jump ship. Many formed new loc...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Life, Death, and Rebirth of ACORN
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It took 40 years to build ACORN, but just a few months to bring it down. Local organizers are trying to rebuild, but how is ACORN’s absence affect...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
The Penalty is Exile: How Immigration and Criminalization Collide
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Immigration Reform Rally 2010, Credit: Anuska Sampedro
Under President Obama more than 1 million people have been deported from the United States. Immigration officials claim that many of those being d...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
Microfinance: How it Lost its Way and Betrayed the Poor
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mwahija Magoti – Kariakoo, Dar es Salaam, Credit: http://www.bot-tz.org
Hugh Sinclair, the author of Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic, in conversation with KALW radio host Rose Aguilar. Sinclair tells the story of...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Can Chicago Factory Occupiers Form a Co-op?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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One Chicago factory became a flashpoint back in 2008, when workers occupied the floor for days in protest. Now, those same employees are trying to...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 07:48
Co-ops that Work Together, Survive Together: Arizmendi Bakery
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ariizmendi Fourth Street, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
In some parts of the United States, there are virtually no co-ops. So many of those co-ops that do exist feel a special responsibility to support ...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 08:02
Growing Pains at The World's Largest Co-op?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Mondragón Corporation includes everything from banking to bike factories, nano-technology to rabbit farming. Its a corporate dream—but this cor...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 09:43
Making it Our Business: Co-ops on the Rise
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ariizmendi Fourth Street, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
The global economic situation is causing more people to consider worker owned businesses. We go from Chicago, where workers are trying to take over...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Buying Power: Corporate Money in Politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Job Creators, Credit: Brad Kayal
It began with an on-air rant by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli. It became a major political movement, with elected representatives on Capitol Hill....

  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 29:01

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