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In this final episode of four-part series, But Next Time, our guest hosts, Chrishelle Palay and Rose Arrieta take us to Houston to continue the story of the housing-justice organizers fighting for a safer, stronger future.

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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.

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Today’s show is preempted by a special holiday fund drive broadcast. Making Contact will resume its usual schedule on December 22, 2023.

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Today’s show is preempted by a special holiday fund drive broadcast. Making Contact will resume its usual schedule on December 22, 2023.

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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 Israel’s military industrial complex and how the United States has been enabling genocide, through policymaking and the defense industry. But activists are taking aim and taking action. We close with a discussion on the Palestinian liberation movement from an abolitionist perspective.

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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 organization who saw a need in their community and took action during the height of the pandemic. La Casona de Humahuaca transformed their operations to host ollas populares (community kitchens) to help support their community and make it through the toughest parts of COVID together, all the while learning more about their organization and purpose in the community.

We follow that with a conversation with Belen Desmaison, an architect and urbanist who discusses the building of an innovative communal living space with modular food preparation areas in Lima, Peru.

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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 the world. The film follows Indigenous activists in Navajo Nation, Colombia, Mexico, and the Philippines who are fighting back against corporations like Peabody Energy, Glencore, and BHP.

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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 with less than 1,300 residents. From 2018 to 2020, income from traffic fines and forfeitures increased 640%, making up 49% of the towns revenue. In 2019, Brookside saw its first lawsuit that included allegations of racism and police misconduct. It caught national attention for being a predatory speed trap in 2022 and now facing a class-action federal lawsuit.

GUESTS:

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Archibald;

Thank you to our podcast partner, 70 Million, for the story Highway Robbery: How a Small-Town Traffic Trap Became A Legal Black Hole.

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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 burning fossil fuels even if it kills us all. However, it might not be the easy fix we’re hoping for.

We talk to scientists and activists about what geoengineering is and why it could actually be a dangerous way to tackle climate change. We also dive into the moral and ethical questions of testing geoengineering technology on indigenous lands.

GUESTS:

Basav Sen, Climate Justice Project Director at the Institute for Policy Studies

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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 second half, Liz sits down with Latinx parenting coach Leslie Priscilla to talk about her work using an antiracist, anticolonial, and child-centered lens.

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