Making Contact

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Making Contact, is an award-winning, 29-minute weekly magazine/documentary-style public affairs program heard on over 160 radio stations in the USA, Canada and elsewhere. Making Contact is committed to in-depth critical analysis that goes beyond the breaking news. - Ordinary people talk about how public policy affects their daily lives, families and communities, and share positive ways to solve problems. - Most shows are “evergreen” – can be played any time. See years of archived documentaries are available. - Excellent production quality and customer service.

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Making Contact 
669 Pieces

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

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Uncovering the Refugee Experience & Healing Through Storytelling (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: (Left) Wilson Dairy Restaurant (Right) Helen Zia as a baby with mom., Credit: Photo copyright Helen Zia used with permission
This week's episode is about two women, one who fled Shanghai during Mao's Chinese Revolution, and the other who escaped the Bolshevik Revolution a...

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  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Book cover for "The Trauma of Caste", Credit: Penguin Random House
In this episode we talk to Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan about the well and alive issue of caste-based discrimination and her cal...

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  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Survival for All: Securing Vaccines for the Global South
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Healthcare worker provides COVID-19 vaccination, Credit: World Bank Photo Collection is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
The pandemic exposed stark inequalities around the world, especially in terms of vaccine access, leading to the deaths of untold thousands in the g...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
You Can Still Have An Abortion
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Interactive Map: US Abortion Policies and Access After Roe., Credit: Guttmacher Institute. Accessed 4/15/24.
Access to abortion is increasingly piecemeal and complex in the US. While abortion access volleys within the judicial system, local abortion funds ...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Coast Miwok Peoples, Colonization, and the Preservation of Indigenous History (Encore)
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: A tule elk in Point Reyes in 2015., Credit: Austlee via Wikimedia Commons, under a CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed license. Image is unaltered.
On today's encore episode, dive into the history of Point Reyes National Seashore, an area in northern California known for rugged sweeping beaches...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
America's Black Capital
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Cover of the book, "America's Black Capital", Credit: Hachette Book Group
On this week's episode, we speak with Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar about his latest book, “America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta ...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Origins of Zionism
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Series: Making Contact
Caption: Front cover of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine.", Credit: Credit: Macmillan Publishers
In the midst of repeated, outsized, and unprecedented attacks on the people of Gaza, we talk to Rashid Khalidi about his book "The Hundred Years' W...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
No, COVID Isn’t “Over,” and the Need for Continued Community
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: On an orange background, six black line illustrations depicting: a COVID-19 virus, a face mask, a lung filled with COVID viruses, a person's head tilted back with a nose swab, a swab in a test tube, and a rapid antigen test. In between these illustrations, Credit: Original image by jKartak from Pixabay. Digitally altered by Lucy Kang.
March marks four years since the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health failures and government inaction have forced communities to tak...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Reproductive Justice: The Ongoing Struggle for Bodily Autonomy (Encore)
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Series: Making Contact
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Today we share excerpts from “She's Beautiful When She's Angry,” a documentary about the rise of activism around women’s rights in the late 1960s, ...

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Who’s Afraid of DEI?: Interrogating Gender & Race in the Workplace (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ruchika Tulshyan (left) and Ijeoma Oluo (right).
What does equity really mean? That might be an impossible question to answer objectively, but in this encore episode Ruchika Tulshyan, a workplace ...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3

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