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This week is the five year anniversary of Black lives matter. We hear from Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and the author of the new book, WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORIST: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, a meaningful, empowering account of strength and resilience.

In this conversation, hosted by long-time organizer Cat Brooks, we hear Patrisse Cullors’ insights on Black Liberation, Police Terrorism and the criminalization of Black activism in America.

WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORIST takes an intimate look at Cullors’ time growing up in Van Nuys, California, surrounded by a devoted family and supportive friends. She weaves her experiences into the larger picture of how predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods are under constant systemic attack. From an unrelenting and hostile police presence, to disproportionate punitive action, to lack of basic social and medical services, Cullors explains how lack of personal security and dignity makes daily life an act of survival.

Featuring

Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and Cat Brooks, co-founder Anti Police -Terror Project

Host: Anita Johnson

Producers: Monica Lopez, Salima Hamirani, and Anita Johnson.

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Web Editor and Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin

Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker

Photo Credits Patrisse Cullors website. http://patrissecullors.com

For More information:

Patrisse Khan- Cullors website

http://patrissecullors.com

An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter   https://www.ted.com/talks/alicia_garza_patrisse_cullors_and_opal_tometi_an_interview_with_the_founders_of_black_lives_matter

A founder of Black Lives Matter answers a question on many minds: Where did it go?

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-patrisse-cullors-black-lives-matter-2017-htmlstory.html

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From Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time to Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu, Afrofuturism is gaining popularity. Filmmaker and author Ytasha Womack more defines Afrofuturism as “the intersection between black culture, technology, liberation and the imagination, with some mysticism thrown in, too,”

On this episode of Making Contact, authors Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, and Jewelle Gomez discuss the role of history and politics in their work. They also talk about the monsters that haunt their stories and the importance of imaging the future.

Special thanks to the San Francisco Public Library for recording. Thanks for music from Anitek.

Featuring

Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, and Jewelle Gomez, Authors; John Jennings, Panel Host

More Information:

Jewelle Gomez http://www.jewellegomez.com/bio.html

Nalo Hopkinson http://nalohopkinson.com/index.html

Nnedi Okorafor, http://nnedi.com/

https://www.dclibrary.org/node/57845

What The Heck Is Afrofuturism?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-broadnax-afrofuturism-black-panther_us_5a85f1b9e4b004fc31903b95

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We go back to the night in June 1969 at the New York City Stonewall Inn that sparked the LGBT rights movement. On today’s show we’ll hear about the day that galvanized a generation and the continued fight for LGBT civil rights. The first Pride parades took place in June 1970 marking the 1st anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Michael Schirker and David Isay bring us an oral history Remembering Stonewall: The Birth of a Movement. Editor at large of the Huffington Posts’ Gay Voices Michelangelo Signorile says while there have been a series of recent wins for the LGBT rights movement, bigotry remains a daily reality for many. At a  New America NYC forum Signorile spoke with June Thomas, Culture Critic and Editor of Outward, Slate’s LGBTQ Section about what he calls “victory blindness”. It’s a central theme in his new book, titled “It’s Not Over, Getting to Beyond Tolerance Defeating Homophobia and Winning True Equality.”

Special thanks to Pacifica Radio Archives for “Remembering Stonewall: The Birth of a Movement” produced by David Isay for Pacifica Radio http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org

Special thanks to New America NYC for It’s Not Over: Winning True Equality https://www.newamerica.org/nyc/its-not-over-2/

Featuring: President Barack Obama, Geane Harwood, Bruce Merrow, Sylvia Rivera, Deputy Inspector Seymor Pine, Red Mahoney; Joan Nestle, founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archive; Randy Wicker; Jim Fouratt, yippie leader and helped found the Gay Liberation Front; Howard Smith, reporter for the Village Voice; Martin Boyce aka Miss Martin, Rudy; Mama Jean; Michelangelo Signorile host of the Michelangelo Signorile Sirius XM, editor at large of the Huffington Posts’ Gay Voices, and author of It’s Not Over, Getting Beyond Tolerance Defeating Homphobia and Winning True Equality; and June Thomas, Culture Critic and Editor of Outward, Slate’s LGBTQ section.

More information:

Remembering Stonewall: a radio documentary on the birth of a movement / narrated by Michael Schirker and produced by David Isay.

Soundportraits: Remembering Stonewall full transcripts

Brain Pickings: After Stonewall: The First-Ever Pride Parades in Vintage Photos

Columbia: Stonewall and Beyond: Lesbian and Gay Culture

The Pacifica Radio/UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transsexual History

New America NYC: It’s Not Over: Winning True Equality

Huffington Post, Gay Voices: Michelangelo Signorile On ‘It’s Not Over’ And The Future Of The LGBT Movement

Think Progress: 9 States With Anti-Gay Laws That Aren’t That Different From Russia’s

Time: How Gay Rights Won in Indiana

The Leadership Conference: LGBT Civil Rights

HuffPost, Gay Voices: As the Wedge Turns: Is a Federal LGBT Civil Rights Act Actually Feasible in the Near Future?

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This week, Making Contact looks at California’s fight over rent control. The stage is set for a political battle between two polar world views. Is housing a human right, or is real estate property an investment commodity where you just need to insure your property and get discounts? And where on that continuum is California’s common ground? 

A statewide initiative, if approved, would allow local governments to create their own rent control laws. In this episode, we go to one of California where there is no limit as to how high rents may be raised.  Later we’ll go to Los Angeles for a look at how that city’s police policies are affecting homeless encampments. 

Featuring:

Mike Van Gorder, Naeiri Khachaekian, and John Bagdzhyan, Glendale Tenants Union; Frank Broccolo, commercial litigator; Glendale renters and landlords; General Dogon, Los Angeles Community Action Network; Tiffany Jones, david Garcia, “Jacob”, homeless encampment residents; Ace Katano, public defender; Alisa Orduña, senior advisor on homelessness, City of Santa Monica; Danielle Dupuy, UCLA researcher; Dominic Choi, LAPD homeless coordinator Commander; Maria Foscarinis, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty; Victor Hinderliter, LAHSA associate director. 

Credits:

Contributing Producer: Carla Green

Host and segment producer: Monica Lopez

Staff Producers: Anita Johnson, Monica Lopez, Salima Hamirani

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Audience Engagement Manager: Sabine Blaizin

Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker

Music Credits:

“Fater Lee”, Black Ant  (open)

“Subway Instrumental Version”, David Szesztay (credits)

For More information:

More U.S. households are renting than at any point in 50 years – Pew Research Center

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/07/19/more-u-s-households-are-renting-than-at-any-point-in-50-years/

Affordable Housing Act

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Local_Rent_Control_Initiative_(2018)

Glendale Tenants Union

http://www.glendaletenants.org/

Tenants United Santa Ana

https://www.facebook.com/TuSantaAna/

Uplift Inglewood Coalition

https://www.facebook.com/upliftinglewood/?hc_ref=ARSYYkG0CI1mXhYN1MOCzw_Ol0vmnbJ9Ku1HRlRj7Qa9YwQjZpcU4_yuDGEvvblocj8&fref=nf

Los Angeles Community Action Network

http://cangress.org/

Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority

https://www.lahsa.org/

UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Housing/Pages/HousingIndex.aspx

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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged “by teachers, administrators, and the justice system “and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. In her book, Morris shows how, despite obstacles, stigmas, stereotypes, and despair, black girls still find ways to breathe remarkable dignity into their lives in classrooms, juvenile facilities, and beyond.

Featuring:

Dr. Monique W. Morris

Credits:

Making Contact Producer: Anita Johnson

Staff Producers: Anita Johnson, Monica Lopez, Salima Hamirani

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Audience Engagement Manager: Sabine Blaizin

Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker

Thank You’s and Credits: Monique W. Morris, Ph.D

Music Credits:

Show opener: Quiet Orchestra – My Friend

Show close: Blue Dot Sessions – Grand Caravan

For More information:

https://www.moniquewmorris.me/

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/poverty-inequality-center/project-on-marginalized-girls/trauma-informed-learning-network/

https://thenewpress.com/books/pushout

https://nwlc.org/resources/stopping-school-pushout-overview-and-key-findings/

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/poverty-inequality-center/

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The Cost of Deportations looks at deportation through the lens of one Central American nation that sends migrants north— Guatemala. 

About two million Guatemalans live in the US. But, half of those here lack legal status, and tens of thousands of Guatemalans are deported back to their country each year.

Thus, the question arises… are the countries these migrants left prepared for an influx of returnees?

This week, journalist Maria Martin explores that and other questions— including whether some Guatemalans still plan to migrate north, even given the hardening of immigration policy in the US.

Featuring:

Carlos Lopez, Casa del Migrante Guatemala; Martin, Juan Sebastian, Rodolfo, and Hicer – Guatemalans who have migrated and been deported, or who have attempted to migrate to the US; Lisbeth Gramajo, anthropologist at Rafael Landivar University; Willie Barreno, chef and founder of Cafe Red Kat; Fredy Lopez, San Pedro Credit Cooperative; Don Julio, Q’anjobal Maya elder; Don Sebastian Gaspar, business owner; Father Mauro Verzeletti, director Casa del Migrante Guatemala and El Salvador;  Father Dionisio, pastor of San Pedro Catholic Church; Marvin Otzcoy, Guatemalan Fraternity of Northern Nevada.

Credits:

Episode Producer & Reporter: Maria Martin

Making Contact Producer: Monica Lopez

Staff Producers: Anita Johnson, Monica Lopez, Salima Hamirani

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Audience Engagement Manager: Sabine Blaizin

Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker

Thank You’s and Credits: Reporting made possible by a grant from FIJ— the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Voice Overs by Miguel Estrada, Claude Marks, Jesús Hermosillo, Joel Ulloa, Max Ferrin, Glenn Ontiveros, Ruxandra Guidi, Jonathan Lawson, and Chris Stehlik.

Music Credits:

“Assobio”, Z Trigueiros

“Saez”, Z Trigueiros

“Phased”, Z Trigueiros

“Fater Lee”, Black Ant  (open)

“Rise”, Meydan (credits)

For More information:

Casa del Migrante – Guatemala

La Cafe Red Kat

‘Nothing for us here’: Deported Guatemalans plan to return to U.S.

U.S. embassy cables warned against expelling 300,000 immigrants. Trump officials did it anyway

‘Claudia was a good girl. Why did they kill her?’ From a Guatemalan village to death in Texas

San Juan Ostuncalco llora a Claudia Patricia Gómez

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