Synopsis
Media that helps build a movement
Episodes
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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
21/06/2017 Duration: 29minOn this edition of Making Contact, we present Dr. Ibram X. Kendi discussing his latest book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Stamped offers a deeply researched, provocative narrative that is a comprehensive history of anti-Black racist ideas—their origins, and how they became founding principles in our nation’s institutions.
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Sacrifice Zones Pt. 2
13/06/2017 Duration: 28minOn this edition of Making Contact, we present the final installment in a two-part series on the pressure to transform a region of iconic landscapes and environmental stewardship into a global center for shipping fossil fuels.
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Sacrifice Zones - Part 1
06/06/2017 Duration: 28minOn this edition of Making Contact, we present the first in a two-part series on the pressure to transform a region of iconic landscapes and environmental stewardship into a global center for shipping fossil fuels.
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The Fraught Process Towards Peace: Colombia and the Philippines
31/05/2017 Duration: 29minTwo of the longest running armed rebellions on opposites sides of the world, the FARC in Colombia and the NDFP in the Philippines are vying for peace but several elements-government, paramilitary, and drugs, make it all but impossible.
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(ENCORE) Brightness of Courage: The Fight for Transgender Access to Gender-Specific Spaces
24/05/2017 Duration: 28minOn this edition of Making Contact we look at some of the struggles and victories in the fight for transgender access to gender-specific spaces and programs.
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Liberation Theology: A March to Freedom
17/05/2017 Duration: 29minLiberation Theology: A March to Freedom explores the conceptual framework of liberation theology. We will examine why Liberation Theology, with its focus on political activism, is resonating with communities hungry for social justice.
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The Long Ride Home: Get on the Bus, and Incarcerated Families ENCORE
13/05/2017 Duration: 29minThe Get on the Bus program provides support and free transportation for children and families throughout California to visit their mothers and fathers in prison.
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The Poetic Address to the Nation
02/05/2017 Duration: 29minThe Poetic Address to the Nation, brought together poets to speak powerfully against the current administration. Featuring Cam Awkward, Guillermo Gomez Peña, Michelle ‘Mush’ Lee,Chinaka Hodge, and many others.
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A Look at Labor Organizing, and Worker and Immigrant Rights
26/04/2017 Duration: 28minIn this edition of Making Contact, we look at how workers are organizing outside of labor unions and where traditional labor could be headed.
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Spies of Mississippi
18/04/2017 Duration: 29minSpies of Mississippi is a journey into the world of informants, infiltrators, and agent provocateurs in the heart of Dixie. Directed and produced by Dawn Porter and executive produced by LOOKS TV and Martina Haubrich. The film tells the story of a secret spy agency formed by the state of Mississippi to preserve segregation and maintain “the Mississippi way of life,” white supremacy, during the 1950s and ‘60s. The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission (MSSC) evolved from a predominantly public relations agency to a full-fledged spy operation, spying on over 87,000 Americans over the course of a decade.
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Beyond Choice: Organizing for Reproductive Justice
12/04/2017 Duration: 29minWhat would it take to have real choices about our bodies? Loretta Ross, co-founder of SisterSong breaks down the reproductive justice framework; and Tina Reynolds, co-founder and Chair of Women on the Rise Telling HerStory, shares how a group of formerly incarcerated women came together to fight for the right to give birth to and raise children in healthy and safe environments.
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Not Throw Away Women: Black and Indigenous Women Disrupt Violence ENCORE
04/04/2017 Duration: 28minApril is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. On today’s show we’re exploring how some women have been dehumanized to the point of indifference. We’ll learn how one community is undoing the silence around the violence women of color face. We’ll also hear about how serial killers were able to hunt down mostly Black women for three decades in South Los Angeles. Then we’ll take you to the Yucatan where pregnant indigenous women struggle under a health care system failing to provide proper medical care.
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Conscience and Dissent: Values in Media
29/03/2017 Duration: 29minPanelists at the Media Consortium conference discuss the role independent media plays in today’s contentious media landscape.
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The Cost of War: A Reflection on the United States and Iraq Conflict
22/03/2017 Duration: 29minGiven Trump's massive military budget proposal and the 14th Anniversary of the United States war in Iraq, we bring you this program from our archives with the voices of U.S. Soldiers and Iraqis reflecting on the costs of war.
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Reclaiming Public Schools: Education in the Trump Era
14/03/2017 Duration: 29minIn this edition of Making Contact, we look at two major changes to statewide curriculum in California, and where schools nationwide may be headed under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
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Women Rising Radio 33: With Healers At Standing Rock
08/03/2017 Duration: 29minWomen Rising Radio profiles three healer activists, two M.D.'s and an indigenous healer/psychologist, caregivers for the Water Protectors at Standing Rock, and witnesses to the violence of police, sheriffs and private security forces hired by Energy Transfer Partners - the fossil fuel giant building the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Paris: Responses to Terror, and the Experiment in Mixité
01/03/2017 Duration: 29minParis is in flux. How are Parisians-native and immigrant, still dealing with terrorist attacks? If mixite, or social mixing, provides an answer, what does that look like, especially when immigrant, capitalist, and the hip are housed together?
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Long Distance Revolutionary
22/02/2017 Duration: 28min“Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal” a film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of the former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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Building Resistance: Japanese Imprisonment and the Fight Against a Muslim Registry
13/02/2017 Duration: 29minAs President Trump moves to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., we look at two moments where we found ourselves at a similar crossroads. First, the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans 75 years ago. Then, how people fought to stop the Muslim registry after 9/11.
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11 Million Undocumented: A Look at Sanctuary and Immigration Policy in the Trump Era
08/02/2017 Duration: 28min11 million. That's the estimated number of people living in the US who are undocumented. In this show we'll look to previous administrations to see how former Presidents treated people who were undocumented, and how immigrant movements of the past responded.