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Making Contact – Living Downstream

Renowned biologist Sandra Steingraber has made fighting environmentally induced cancers her lifes work. Steingraber’s book, Living Downstream, has been turned into a movie chronicling a year in her life trying to create a world free of cancer causing toxics.  On this edition, we hear excerpts of the documentary film, Living Downstream. Special thanks to The … Continued


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Making Contact – Room To Breathe: From Chaos to Peace in the Classroom ENCORE

At overcrowded and underfunded public schools across the country high suspension rates are exacerbating existing achievement gaps. Often, chaos in the classroom is to blame, keeping students from concentrating on their classes. On this edition we’ll hear excerpts from Russell Long’s film “Room to Breathe” which takes us to a middle school in San Francisco, … Continued


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Making Contact – Low Power (Radio) to the People

Have you ever wanted to run your own radio station? Well, this October, the government agency responsible for administering America’s airwaves, is giving you and your neighbors…the opportunity to create your own low-power FM radio station. It could result in hundreds or thousands of new radio stations across the US, and could radically change the … Continued


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Making Contact – August 9, 2013

The official Day to Commemorate Agent Orange is August 10th and marks the start of the US military’s decade of massive chemical warfare in Vietnam in 1961. On this edition: combat, chemicals, and corporations. We’ll look at the multigenerational legacy of Agent Orange — a toxic defoliant used by the United States military in the … Continued