Thousands of local social justice organizers, activists and other leaders passed away this year. People doing crucial work in their communities, whose deaths didn’t make the headlines. On this edition of Making Contact, as we do every December, we’ll hear about some of the fallen heroes of 2017.
Featuring:
Dick Gregory, comedian and civil rights activist
Sumiteru Taniguchi, chairman of the Nagasaki Council of A-Bomb Sufferers
Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation executive director
Prudence Nobantu Mabele, President of the Society for Women and AIDS in Africa
Yvette Raphael, South African HIV Activist
Isidro Baldenegro López, farmer and leader of Mexico's Tarahumara people
Randall Gingrich, Tierra Nativa director
Gauri Lankesh, journalist, activist and editor of Lankesh Patrike
Anu Natarajan, former Vice-Mayor of Fremont CA
Corey Dubin, HIV & hemophilia activist and radio journalist
Carl Weixler, president of the committee of 10,000
Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, first female MP in Sudan
Yosra Akasha, Sudanese feminist blogger
Dennis Banks, co-Founder of American Indian Movement (AIM)
Credits:
Host: Andrew Stelzer
Special thanks to: filmmaker David Hoffman, African Women's Development Fund,
Goldman Environmental Prize, The School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University
Voiceover for Sumiteru Taniguchi – Zach Goldberg
Voiceovers for Isidro Baldenegro López – Drake Apablasa
Voiceover for Gauri Lankesh – Jessica Stelzer
Producers: Marie Choi, RJ Lozada, Anita Johnson, Monica Lopez
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Web Editor and Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin
Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker
Special Thanks:
Laura Roan
Jonathan Stenger
Elizabeth Gaynes
Brenda Maietta
Gabriella Kenner
Steuben Vega
For More Information:
Dick Gregory [1]
Gauri Lankesh: Murdered Indian journalist in her own words [2]
Gauri Lankesh Patrike [3]
Isidro Baldenegro--2005 Goldman Prize Recipient [4]
Corey S. Dubin: 1955-2017 A Powerful Voice and Advocate [5]
Interview with Sumiteru Taniguchi, Japanese Citizen, Nagasaki [6]
Western States Legal Foundation [7]
American Indian Movement leader Dennis Banks passes away at the age of 80 [8]
American Indian Movement--AIM [9]
The Pied Piper of the broken-hearted: HIV activist Prudence Mabele [10]
Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim emancipation as a craft [11]
Yosra Akasha [12]
Anu Natarajan [13]
Committee of 10,000 [14]
Tierra Nativa [15]
Positive Women's Network [16]
Yvette Raphael [17]
David Hoffman-Filmmaker [18]
[1] https://dickgregory.com/
[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41170785
[3] http://gaurilankesh.com/
[4] http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/isidro-baldenegro/
[5] https://www.independent.com/news/2017/feb/02/corey-s-dubin-1955-2017/
[6] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/fallout/taniguchitranscript.html
[7] http://www.wslfweb.org/
[8] https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/10/30/american-indian-movement-leader-dennis-b.asp
[9] https://www.aimovement.org/
[10] https://mg.co.za/article/2017-07-12-prudence-mabele-my-guide-to-the-new-south-africa
[11] http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article63328
[12] https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/yosra-akasha
[13] https://www.greenbelt.org/team/anu-natarajan/
[14] http://www.cott1.org/
[15] http://www.tierranativa.org/en/index.php
[16] https://www.pwn-usa.org/
[17] https://www.avac.org/fellow/yvette-raphael
[18] http://www.thehoffmancollection.com/
