2:00 PM PACIFIC TIME: Fridays
Covering the movements, the issues, and the people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang.
Today in Houston, Texas, we meet a group of moms who stand up for local housing policies that keep families of color trapped in unsafe homes for years. Then we hear from leaders in Puerto Rico who have been resisting and rebuilding in the wake of ongoing disaster.
Today’s show is preempted by a special holiday fund drive broadcast. Making Contact will resume its usual schedule on December 22, 2023.
Today’s show is preempted by a special holiday fund drive broadcast. Making Contact will resume its usual schedule on December 22, 2023.
For weeks, the world has been witness to Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza. Today, we uncover the military corporations profiting from the war, and we highlight the activism in every corner of the world in support of Palestine. We’ll get insight on the conditions on the ground in Gaza before zooming out to look at … Continued
Today’s show tells the story of how locals in Buenos Aires came together to feed each other through a pandemic with community kitchens and how innovative architecture can facilitate communal living and modular food preparation. We travel to Buenos Aires with reporter Rosina Castillo who immerses us in the culture of a local community arts … Continued
On this week’s Making Contact, we bring you a special encore of an episode that first aired in June: an extended interview with Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, a queer Din filmmaker and director of the award-winning documentary Powerlands. Powerlands traces how multinational energy corporations extract resources and profits while displacing and harming Indigenous communities around … Continued
Brookside is a small town in Alabama where police used a civil war-era state loophole to create a traffic ticketing nightmare for residents and generate piles of cash for the local government. After years of abuse, the people are fighting back. Just 20 minutes north of Birmingham on Interstate 22, Brookside is a working-class town … Continued
As we head into a ever warming world, some experts and politicians are embracing a possible solution to climate change called geoengineering. Theoretically geoengineering could slow down climate change, stop it, and maybe even remove carbon from the air. It sounds like the perfect answer in for a global political system that just can’t stop … Continued
How do you decide what kind of parent you want to be? Our friends at Pulso Podcast, Maribel Quezada Smith and Liz Alarcón, discuss ways they maintain their children’s cultural identity as Latinos while living in the U.S. They also touch on what they have changed from how their immigrant parents raised them. In the … Continued
Dive into the history of Point Reyes National Seashore with us, an area in northern California known for rugged sweeping beaches and tule elk. We’ll recount the history of this land and the waves of colonization that violently upended the lives of the Coast Miwok peoples who lived there — and one Indigenous woman’s struggle … Continued
