2015
Making Contact
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These 29 min. programs are from Making Contact - radio stories and voices to take action

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Date
Program
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Creation
Date
1/7/15,
1/14/15
Lesley Phillips, Sharena Thomas, Nikki Anjenique, Rick Rocha, Olivia Moy, Wolleen Jones, Terry Woodard,
Jason Murphy, Tracy Chin, Rob Thrower, Brian Murphy, Regina Harris Gilliard, Johnna Watson, Benjamin Bowser:

Race to an Emergency-examining 911 responses Pt. 1
1/2/15
1/21/15 Lesley Phillips, Sharena Thomas, Nikki Anjenique, Rick Rocha, Olivia Moy, Wolleen Jones, Terry Woodard,
Jason Murphy, Tracy Chin, Rob Thrower, Brian Murphy, Regina Harris Gilliard, Johnna Watson, Benjamin Bowser:

Race to an Emergency-examining 911 responses Pt. 2
1/6/15
1/28/15 Gary Younge: A Dream Remembered?: Martin Luther King Jr and the Grassroots Civil Rights Movement 1/13/15
2/4/15 Neda Topaloski, Xenia Chernyshova, Galia Ackerman, Catherine King, Yolando Y'Netta Harbin-Venson, Jenny "Diva" Davis:
My Body My Message: women's bodies as tools of self-empowerment
1/20/15
2/11/15 Leroy Moore, Joy Elan: You've heard of Hip-Hop, but what about Krip-Hop? 1/27/15
2/18/15 Dorothy Fadiman: Motherhood by Choice not Chance 3/11/14
2/25/15 David Hartsough, Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru.Sekou: From Montgomery to Ferguson 2/10/15
3/4/15 Ryan Gabrielson, Walidah Imarisha, Kristian Williams, Kent Ford, Shirley Isadore, Joyce Harris, Baruti Artharee, Percy Hampton:
Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Black and White
2/17/15
3/11/15 Robert Neuwirth, Filomena Cinco, Luz Sudueste, William Gonzalez, Gladys Flores, Jacqueline Calderon, Yolimar Noriega, Andres Antillano:
Squatters: Intruders or Innovators?
2/24/15
3/18/15 Dr. Ann Aurelia Lopez: Women Rising 27: Ann Lopez on the reality of farm workers in the US and Mexico 3/3/15
3/25/15 Kevin Lewis, Linwood Laughy, Borg Hendrickson, Andrew Nikiforuk, Bob Skinner, Annick Smith, Bob Gentry, Steven Hawley,
David James Duncan, Zack Porter, Steve Seninger, Spider McKnight:
Fighting Goliath (Part 1)
3/10/15
4/1/15 Kevin Lewis, Linwood Laughy, Borg Hendrickson, Andrew Nikiforuk, Bob Skinner, Annick Smith, Bob Gentry, Steven Hawley,
David James Duncan, Zack Porter, Steve Seninger, Spider McKnight:
Fighting Goliath (Part 2)
3/17/15
4/8/15 Maria Mercelin, Michael Healey, Monica Lopez, Lionel Teller, Rosibel Lope, Jairo Carrilon, David Quintana,
Benjamin Lanzas, Juana Juarez, Osvaldo Navas, Antonio Granados:
The Controversial Nicaragua Canal
3/31/15
4/15/15 Pranabes Sanyal, Amit Mallick, Tushar Kanjilal, Mohammed Sheikh Gafur, Sugata Hazra, Ainun Nishat,
Shafiqul Islam, Sheikh Nural Ala, Atiq Rahman, Daniel Grossman:
Heat of the Moment: Sea Level Rise
4/7/15
4/22/15 Antonia Juhasz, Monique Verdin & Beau Verdin, David Gauthe, Thomas DarDar, Mark Miller, Mel Evans:
BP Five Years Later: Deepwater Horizon and the Cost of Oil
4/14/15
4/29/15 Chris Cuadrado, Lindsay Stone, Jared Paul, Caitlin Clark, Queen T: The Power of Poetry 4/21/15
5/6/15 William Morocho, Jaime Mantilla, Carlos Ochoa Hernandez, Rosental Alves, Romel Jurado, Gustavo Ruiz, Edwin Canche Pech,
Adrian Lopez Ortiz, Marcela Zendejas, Courtney Radsch:
States of Censorship: Journalism Under Attack
4/28/15
5/13/15 Alicia Garza, Cephus Johnson, Grace Anderson: #BlackLivesMatter: Alicia Garza on the Origins of a Movement 5/5/15
5/20/15 Rochelle Robinson, Kimberly Smith, Gabrielle Rae Travis, Margaret Prescod, Mirna Aracely Tuz Acosta, Neyi Amparo Cime Arceo:
Not Throw Away Women: Black and Indigenous Women Disrupt Violence
5/13/15
5/27/15 Dustin Barfield, Chris Clark, Josh Francis, Annie Hsieh, Russ Toll, William Treseder, Heidi Toll:
Returning Home: From War Fighter to Student
5/19/15
6/3/15,
6/10/15
Wanda Culp, Bob Loescher, Peter Coyote, Mike Jackson, Ernestine Hanlon-Abel, Byron Mallott, Israel Shotridge, Tom Thorton,
Lydia George, Joe Sebastian, Deny Bschor, John Rowan, Richard Nixon, Rick Harris, Rosita Worl:
Walking in Two Worlds
5/26/15
6/17/15 Mya Byrne, Kathe Perez, Samuel Sennott, Bob Segalman, April Bryant, Hannah Simpson, Nika Jewell, Tela Love:
Voice Recognition: Does how we sound determine who we are?
6/9/15
6/24/15 Nicole Rocke, Kyle Lafferty, Linda Bryant, Benita Miller, Lorraine Jacobs, Yolanda Vasquez, Adriane Fugh-Berman,
Bill Grimm, Susan Bullard, David Arrendondo, Dr. Edmund Levin, Nancy Forster, April Rene Sanders, Kyle Sporleader:

Failing Our Youth: An Inadequate Foster Care System
6/17/15
7/1/15 Lori Baker, Eduardo Canales, Elias: Deadly Divide: Migrant Death on the Border 6/23/15
7/8/15 Bodily Safety: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Police Shootings 7/1/15
7/15/15 President Barack Obama, Geane Harwood, Bruce Merrow, Sylvia Rivera, Seymor Pine, Red Mahoney, Joan Nestle,
Randy Wicker, Jim Fouratt, Howard Smith, Martin Boyce, Rudy, Mama Jean, Michelangelo Signorile, June Thomas:

Beyond Stonewall: The Push for LGBT Civil Rights
6/3/15
7/22/15 Why We Owe: David Graeber on the Origins of Debt 7/15/15
7/29/15 Sandra Steingraber: Living Downstream-creating a world free of cancer causing toxics 7/22/15
Broadcasting from Midvale Heights
10/11/15 Rochelle Robinson, Kimberly Smith, Gabrielle Rae Travis, Margaret Prescod, Mirna Aracely Tuz Acosta, Neyi Amparo Cime Arceo:
Not Throw Away Women: Black and Indigenous Women Disrupt Violence
9/9/15
10/14/15 Ross McKenzie, Ross McKenzie's mother and sister, Gwen Olsen, Laura Delano, Robert Whitaker,
Dr. Charles Whitfield, Dr. Peter Levine:
Bipolarized: Rethinking Mental Illness
9/2/15
10/18/15 Ruth Messinger, Amber Khan, Zainab Salbi, Emerita, Martha Karnga: WOMEN RISING RADIO XXVIII: Global Communitya 10/7/15
10/21/15 Abate Teferi, Daniel Kassa, Leilani Chan, Shaan Dasani, Elyse Dinh, Kenesha Hemmings, Joshua Lamont, Marcos Najera,
Ova Saopeng:
Global Taxi Driverb
9/30/15
10/25/15 Alicia Garza, Cephus Johnson, Grace Anderson: #BlackLivesMatter: Alicia Garza on the Origins of a Movement9/15/15
10/28/15 Luis Medina, Jose Monterrubio, Jose Torres-Tama, Robert Green, Beck Cooper:
Changing Communities, Imminent Threats: Katrina's Legacy
8/27/15
11/1/15 Steven Greenhouse, Ann Boger, Rick McGahey, Tsedeye Gebreselassie, David Gray:
Full time Struggle, Part time Work: Making a living post recession
7/29/15
11/4/15 Reverend Tyrone Edwards, Tyrone Brooks, Clifford Kuhn, JT Johnson, Allen Secher, Jerel James, Tamia Adkinson,
August Tinson, Gary May:
Thwarting Democracy, the Battle for Voting Rights
8/5/15
11/4/15 Lewis Moody, Dr Michael Grey, Peter Robinson, David Barnes: Concussions: Your Brain or the Game?c 10/28/15
11/8/15 Angela Walker, Neena Satija, Daisy Gonzalez, Vicente Lara, Horacio Amezquita:
Not a Drop to Drink: our dwindling access to clean drinking water
8/12/15
11/11/15 Gordon Brown, Monta Kevin Tindall, Jerry Elster, Tom Gorham, Barry Krisberg, Debra Mendoza:
Getting Out: the journey out of prison
8/25/15
11/15/15 Kim Harley, Isabel Arrollo, Jennifer Sass, Tracey Brieger, Marina Gomez, Brian Jimenez-Gomez, Margaret Reeves, Valerie Bengal,
Brett Knupfer, Marcy Mock, Casimira Salazar, Cynthia Fernandez, Brett McFadden, Mary Ellen Kustin:
Pesticides on the Playgroundd
8/26/14
11/18/15 Frankie V. Guzman, Frederick Hutson, Clemmie Greenlee, Darris Young: Resurrected: Formerly Incarcerated Change-Makers 11/11/15
11/22/15 Mamokoena Malaka , Malilamo Mafwa. Elizabeth Mabothile, Lillian Nalwoga, Constant Kasonga, Cameron Clark,
Ozell Johnson, Darryl Ray Poole, Louis Wright, Dr. Erica Fletcher:
Mutual Support: We do it Together
11/18/15
11/25/15 Stanley Nelson, Eric Arnold: The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 11/4/15
11/29/15 Landon Goodwin, Aicha al Azzouzi, Salma al Azzouzi, Charles Gachanga Gichonge, Antony Makau,
Richard Munene, Sally Roever, Malati Gadgil:
Invisible Workers, Laboring in the Shadows
10/21/15
12/2/15 Officer Charles Stone, Sergeant Mildred Oliver, Chief Sean Whent, Bob Nash, Yvette Thierry, John Penny,
Andrew Flowers, Anthony Jackson, Terrence Allen:
The Elusive Neighborhood Cop
12/2/15
12/6/15 Wanda Culp & Bob Loescher, Peter Coyote, Mike Jackson, Ernestine Hanlon-Abel, Byron Mallott, Israel Shotridge, Tom Thorton,
Lydia George, Joe Sebastian, Deny Bschor, John Rowan, Richard Nixon, Rick Harris, Rosita Worl:
Walking in Two Worlds

(repeated from 6/3/15 and 6/10/15)
11/25/15
12/9/15 Matt Knox, Ed & Dave, Huey Newton, Tamu Mcfalls: Guns: An American Tradition 10/14/15
12/13/15,
12/16/15
Jessie Nieblas, Liza Fuentes, Natalie, Dr. Susan Wicklund, Claudia Scheider: Abortion Access and Eroded Rights 12/9/15
12/20/15,
12/23/15
Grace Lee Boggs, Danny Schechter, John Warshow, Emiliano Amor Mataka, Hashem Al-Azzeh,
Juan Evans, Hank Williams, Shannon Williams, Dori Maynard:
Fallen Heroes 2015
12/16/15
12/27/15,
12/30/15
Alicia Garza, Cat Brooks, Antonia Juhasz, Thomas DarDar, Mark Miller, Sylvia Rivera, Michael Schirker, Aesha Rasheed:
Looking Back Moving Forward: 2015 Year in Review
12/23/15

aAired again at 4:29 pm on 11/11/15 due to a programming error.
bAired again at 4:31 pm on 10/28/15 due to a programming error.
cThis extra program aired at 4:30 pm due to a programming error.
dThis program also aired at 4:33 pm on 10/21/15 due to a programming error.
Making Contact 2014