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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.

In the early 1990s, when conservative talk radio and hosts like Rush Limbaugh were gaining massive popularity, a group of journalists in San Francisco banded together to create a radio show that gave listeners a progressive perspective on current events. “Making Contact” aired in 1995 as a 10-week experiment that has now grown into a podcast and a weekly radio show distributed to over 150 stations nationwide. “Making Contact” is an award-winning radio show and podcast, produced by Frequencies of Change Media (FoC Media), that digs into the story beneath the story—contextualizing the narratives that shape our culture. Featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews, we cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground, building a more just world.


12 Pieces

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In this week's show, we take a look at the health, environmental and financial costs of coal that fall to people living nearby. With the help of ou...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: "Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party" [https://www.flickr.com/photos/36521980095@N01/52743460491] , Credit: by danxoneil, licensed under CC BY 2.0
On today’s Making Contact, our friends from the podcast, Kerning Cultures, bring us “Black Panthers in Algeria.” It’s the story of when Elaine Mokh...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Myrtle Cook of Canada (left) winning a preliminary heat in the women's 100 metres race at the VIIIth Summer Olympic Games / Myrtle Cook (à gauche), du Canada, remportant une éliminatoire pour l'épreuve du 100 mètres femmes, aux VIIIe Jeux Olympiques d'été, Credit: Library and Archives Canada, PA-150994 / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, PA-150994
We talk to Rose Eveleth, host of the podcast Tested, discuss the history of sex testing in the Olympics, the challenges in classifying natural biol...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Brunswick cafe, Little Dog, where workers organized a union., Credit: Alex Spear, Bowdoin Orient
We visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers start to organize a union and, we talk to Robert Chlala from the UCLA Labor Center ...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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On today's episode, we look more closely at two stories that underscore the importance of affordable housing. First, we'll examine what the recent ...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Karinda Dobbins, Credit: Jennifer Graham
On this week's episode, we speak with Bay Area based comedian Karinda Dobbins about the release of her debut comedy album, Black & Blue.

  • Added: Aug 13, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: A person holding a “Justicia para East Orosi” sign., Credit: Sandra Tsang
This week we head back to East Orosi, California, and we take a deep dive into the organizations that run basic services in unincorporated areas al...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Yellow tipi in grassland set against blue sky with mountains in the background in Blackfeet tribal Nation, Montana., Credit: Joseph Gone
Psychologist and Aaniiih Gros Ventre tribal member, Dr. Joseph Gone, talks about his efforts to apply precolonial cultural and spiritual practices ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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We visit the town of East Orosi and experience life without safe drinking water. We also take a look at California State Laws that could help commu...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: The Healing Project, Installation View, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2022. , Credit: Photo by Anita Johnson of work by Samora Pinderhughes
Composer, pianist, and vocalist Samora Pinderhughes tells us about The Healing Project. The Healing Project, a fundamentally abolitionist project, ...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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July is Disability Pride Month, which commemorates the July 26, 1990 anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In honor of the anniversar...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2024
  • Length: 29:00