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June 08, 2018 The Cost of Deportations
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 [1]
La Cafe Red Kat [2]
'Nothing for us here': Deported Guatemalans plan to return to U.S [3].
U.S. embassy cables warned against expelling 300,000 immigrants. Trump officials did it anyway [4]
'Claudia was a good girl. Why did they kill her?' From a Guatemalan village to death in Texas [5]
San Juan Ostuncalco llora a Claudia Patricia Gómez [6]
[1] https://twitter.com/casa_migrantegt
[2] https://www.facebook.com/La-Red-KAT-146005942082895/ https://desgua.org/initiatives/cafe-r-e-d/
[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/nothing-us-here-deported-guatemalans-plan-return-u-s-n858231
[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-embassy-cables-warned-against-expelling-300000-immigrants-trump-officials-did-it-anyway/2018/05/08/065e5702-4fe5-11e8-b966-bfb0da2dad62_story.html?utm_term=.5cbb0e75e59c
[5] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/02/guatemala-texas-rio-bravo-border-claudia-gomez
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GISZnKcl7s
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June 01, 2018 Finding Home: Displacement and Homelessness from Cape Town to California (Encore)
On this edition of Making Contact we go from Cape Town, South Africa to Los Angeles and Oakland, California— three cities grappling with evictions, displacement, and homelessness.

Featuring:
Needa Bee, Oakland-based housing advocate; Messiah Ali, Oakland resident; Tom Waldman, Director of Communications, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority; Flora Harris, C-3 Program Director, St. Joseph Center; Chyheeb Joseph, Outreach Worker, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority; Riyaadh Najaar, pigeon racer who was relocated during Apartheid; Delia Adrian and Shahied Mizenheimer, District 6 residents; Jane Roberts , Blikkiesdorp resident.

Credits
Host: Monica Lopez
Producers: Monica Lopez, Marie Choi, RJ Lozada, Anita Johnson
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Web Editor and Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin
Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker
Contributing Producers: Tony Andrews, Kimon de Greef, Anita Johnson, Monica Lopez

More information
St. Joseph Center
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
“City of Oakland Clears Out The Village Homeless Encampment”, Sam Lefebvre
Wikipedia Page on Blikkiesdorp

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June 01, 2018 Finding Home: Displacement and Homelessness from Cape Town to California (Encore)
On this edition of Making Contact we go from Cape Town, South Africa to Los Angeles and Oakland, California— three cities grappling with evictions, displacement, and homelessness.
Featuring:
Needa Bee, Oakland-based housing advocate; Messiah Ali, Oakland resident; Tom Waldman, Director of Communications, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority; Flora Harris, C-3 Program Director, St. Joseph Center; Chyheeb Joseph, Outreach Worker, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority; Riyaadh Najaar, pigeon racer who was relocated during Apartheid; Delia Adrian and Shahied Mizenheimer, District 6 residents; Jane Roberts , Blikkiesdorp resident.

Credits
Host: Monica Lopez
Producers: Monica Lopez, Marie Choi, RJ Lozada, Anita Johnson
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Web Editor and Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin
Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker
Contributing Producers: Tony Andrews, Kimon de Greef, Anita Johnson, Monica Lopez
More information
St. Joseph Center [1]
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority [2]
“City of Oakland Clears Out The Village Homeless Encampment”, Sam Lefebvre [3]
Wikipedia Page on Blikkiesdorp [4]

[1] https://stjosephctr.org/
[2] https://www.lahsa.org/
[3] https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/tk-web/Content?oid=5104385
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blikkiesdorp
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May 28, 2018 The Ghosts of the Gwangju Uprising (Encore)
On May 18, 1980, the people of Gwangju, South Korea came together for reunification and an end to an era of martial law imposed by U.S.-backed military dictators.  Over the course of ten days, they staged mass protests, battled riot police and soldiers, and were met with brutal repression.  Together, they successfully drove the military out Gwangju and governed the city together.  Their actions changed the course of Korean history.
On today’s Making Contact, we hear from survivors of the Gwangju Uprising about how they took on the tasks of history and the lessons they carry.
Featuring:
Lee Yoon Jung, President of the May Women’s Association
Ahn Sung Rye, Nurse Supervisor at Gwangju Gidok Hospital during the Gwangju Uprising
For more information:

Gwangju Diary: Beyond Death, Beyond the Darkness of Age by Lee Jae Eui  http://eng.518.org/sub.php?PID=0401&page=&category=&searchText=&searchType=&action=Read&idx=583

March of The Beloved, Zoom In Korea  http://www.zoominkorea.org/march-beloved/

May 18 Gwangju Peoples Uprising, Korean Resource Center of Los Angeles http://krcla.org/en/history/may18
A Taxi Driver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbUwOP9HZQk
Stirrings of Resistance https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/stirrings-of-resistance-the-progressive.pdf
The Legacy of the Gwangju Uprising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNPlj0vArCg&feature=youtu.be

May 18 Memorial Foundation http://eng.518.org/

Music Credits:
+rain – Jio Im
우리의 소원은 통일 (Our Wish is Reunification) for Piano based on B.W. Ahn – Young Jo Lee
What Were We Holding Onto – Jio Im
March of the Beloved for News Tapa – Yojo and Ruben
July – Jio Im
1983 Song for News Tapa – Sulpa
Photo Credit:
May 18 Memorial Foundation
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May 28, 2018 The Ghosts of the Gwangju Uprising (Encore)
On May 18, 1980, the people of Gwangju, South Korea came together for reunification and an end to an era of martial law imposed by U.S.-backed military dictators.  Over the course of ten days, they staged mass protests, battled riot police and soldiers, and were met with brutal repression.  Together, they successfully drove the military out Gwangju and governed the city together.  Their actions changed the course of Korean history.
On today’s Making Contact, we hear from survivors of the Gwangju Uprising about how they took on the tasks of history and the lessons they carry.
Featuring:
Lee Yoon Jung, President of the May Women’s Association
Ahn Sung Rye, Nurse Supervisor at Gwangju Gidok Hospital during the Gwangju Uprising
For more information:
Gwangju Diary: Beyond Death, Beyond the Darkness of Age by Lee Jae Eui  http://eng.518.org/sub.php?PID=0401&page=&category=&searchText=&searchType=&action=Read&idx=583 [1]
March of The Beloved, Zoom In Korea  http://www.zoominkorea.org/march-beloved/ [2]
May 18 Gwangju Peoples Uprising, Korean Resource Center of Los Angeles http://krcla.org/en/history/may18 [3]
A Taxi Driver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbUwOP9HZQk [4]
Stirrings of Resistance https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/stirrings-of-resistance-the-progressive.pdf [5]
The Legacy of the Gwangju Uprising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNPlj0vArCg&feature=youtu.be [6]
May 18 Memorial Foundation http://eng.518.org/ [7]

Music Credits:
+rain - Jio Im
우리의 소원은 통일 (Our Wish is Reunification) for Piano based on B.W. Ahn - Young Jo Lee
What Were We Holding Onto - Jio Im
March of the Beloved for News Tapa - Yojo and Ruben
July - Jio Im
1983 Song for News Tapa - Sulpa
Photo Credit:
May 18 Memorial Foundation
[1] http://eng.518.org/sub.php?PID=0401&page=&category=&searchText=&searchType=&action=Read&idx=583
[2] http://www.zoominkorea.org/march-beloved/
[3] http://krcla.org/en/history/may18
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbUwOP9HZQk
[5] https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/stirrings-of-resistance-the-progressive.pdf
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNPlj0vArCg&feature=youtu.be
[7] http://eng.518.org/
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May 04, 2018 Protecting People and Water in Mexico City
Clean, fresh water is one of our most precious natural resources. This week Making Contact contributor Maria Doerr looks at what is being done to safeguard the watersheds of Mexico City— the natural water systems that provide water to one of the largest metropolises in the world.
Featuring:
Jürgen Hoth, Conservation International Mexico; Dr. Marisa Mazari, researcher at Sustainable Sciences Lab, Institute of Ecology, UNAM; Community members of Coajomulco and Nepopualco; Filiberto Torres Gonzalez and Juan Manuel Cárdenas Gómez of CBTA 71; Celia Sánchez González and Mireya Sánchez Mendoza of the San Bernabé Ocotepec Ecological Park.
For more information:
Conservation International web site
https://www.conservation.org
UN Global Compact – What Do “Water Scarcity”, “Water Stress”, and “Water Risk” Actually Mean?
https://ceowatermandate.org/posts/water-scarcity-water-stress-water-risk-actually-mean/
Mexico City’s Water Crisis – From Source to Sewer, by Jonathan Watts
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/12/mexico-city-water-crisis-source-sewer
Music Credits:

Monplaisir
Radio Jarocho and Zenen Zefrino Huervo
Image Credit: by Maria Doerr
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May 04, 2018 Protecting People and Water in Mexico City
[caption id="attachment_287058" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] [1] Image Credit: by Maria Doerr[/caption]
Clean, fresh water is one of our most precious natural resources. This week Making Contact contributor Maria Doerr looks at what is being done to safeguard the watersheds of Mexico City— the natural water systems that provide water to one of the largest metropolises in the world.
Featuring:
Jürgen Hoth, Conservation International Mexico; Dr. Marisa Mazari, researcher at Sustainable Sciences Lab, Institute of Ecology, UNAM; Community members of Coajomulco and Nepopualco; Filiberto Torres Gonzalez and Juan Manuel Cárdenas Gómez of CBTA 71; Celia Sánchez González and Mireya Sánchez Mendoza of the San Bernabé Ocotepec Ecological Park.
For more information:
Conservation International web site
https://www.conservation.org [2]
UN Global Compact - What Do “Water Scarcity”, “Water Stress”, and “Water Risk” Actually Mean?
https://ceowatermandate.org/posts/water-scarcity-water-stress-water-risk-actually-mean/ [3]
Mexico City’s Water Crisis - From Source to Sewer, by Jonathan Watts
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/12/mexico-city-water-crisis-source-sewer [4]
Music Credits:
Monplaisir
Radio Jarocho and Zenen Zefrino Huervo
Image Credit: by Maria Doerr
[1] https://kpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_8880-1.jpg
[2] https://www.conservation.org/
[3] https://ceowatermandate.org/posts/water-scarcity-water-stress-water-risk-actually-mean/
[4] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/12/mexico-city-water-crisis-source-sewer
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April 27, 2018Specters of Attica: Reflections from Inside a Michigan Prison Strike
On September 9, 2016, prisoners across the U.S. went on strike. In Michigan’s low security Kinross prison, workers assigned to kitchen duties refused to report to their shifts. Hundreds gathered to protest in the prison yard. The strike spread like a prairie fire. Nationally, 24,000 prisoners participated, making it the largest prisoner labor strike in U.S. history.
In this episode of Making Contact, four men who were imprisoned at Kinross report on the unlivable conditions, the moments in which the strike took shape, and the retaliation that rained down on them in its wake. We also hear from outside organizers on why it’s important to learn from prison rebellions, and how a persistent force organizing in the spirit of Abolition is rattling walls and cages to make prisons obsolete.
Special thanks to Rustbelt Abolition Radio, Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity, and the IWW’s Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee.

Featuring:
Ahjamu, Baba X, Harold, and Fred, prisoners at Kinross Correctional Facility in 2016
Ben Turk, IWW Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee
Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood in the Water
Credits
Hosts: Alejo Stark, A Maria
Episode Producers: Alejo Stark, A Maria, Marie Choi
Producers: Monica Lopez, Marie Choi, RJ Lozada, Anita Johnson
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Web Editor and Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin
Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker
The interviews with Ahjumu, Baba X, Harold, and Fred were originally recorded for Michigan’s Kinross Prison Strike: Reflections from Inside by Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity and Rustbelt Abolition Radio.
Music Credits:
Today’s show also included original music and sound by Bad Infinity and DJ Liveleaks.
For More information
Michigan’s Kinross Prison Strike: Reflections from Inside
https://michiganabolition.org/kinrossvoices/
Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity (MAPS)
https://michiganabolition.org/
Rustbelt Abolition Radio
https://rustbeltradio.org/
Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) of the IWW
https://incarceratedworkers.org/
Striking A Blow: An Audio Documentary on the September 9, 2016 National Prison Strike
https://vimeo.com/196384989
BOOK: Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/178182/blood-in-the-water-by-heather-ann-thompson/9781400078240/
AUDIO: The Attica Rebellion
https://www.freedomarchives.org/struggle_inside_Sept.html
FILM: Attica
http://atticathefilm.com/About_Attica.html
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April 27, 2018 Specters of Attica: Reflections from Inside a Michigan Prison Strike
On September 9, 2016, prisoners across the U.S. went on strike. In Michigan’s low security Kinross prison, workers assigned to kitchen duties refused to report to their shifts. Hundreds gathered to protest in the prison yard. The strike spread like a prairie fire. Nationally, 24,000 prisoners participated, making it the largest prisoner labor strike in U.S. history.
In this episode of Making Contact, four men who were imprisoned at Kinross report on the unlivable conditions, the moments in which the strike took shape, and the retaliation that rained down on them in its wake. We also hear from outside organizers on why it’s important to learn from prison rebellions, and how a persistent force organizing in the spirit of Abolition is rattling walls and cages to make prisons obsolete.
Special thanks to Rustbelt Abolition Radio, Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity, and the IWW’s Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee.

Featuring:
Ahjamu, Baba X, Harold, and Fred, prisoners at Kinross Correctional Facility in 2016
Ben Turk, IWW Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee
Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood in the Water
Credits
Hosts: Alejo Stark, A Maria
Episode Producers: Alejo Stark, A Maria, Marie Choi
Producers: Monica Lopez, Marie Choi, RJ Lozada, Anita Johnson
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Web Editor and Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin
Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker
The interviews with Ahjumu, Baba X, Harold, and Fred were originally recorded for Michigan’s Kinross Prison Strike: Reflections from Inside by Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity and Rustbelt Abolition Radio.
Music Credits:
Today’s show also included original music and sound by Bad Infinity and DJ Liveleaks.
For More information
Michigan’s Kinross Prison Strike: Reflections from Inside
https://michiganabolition.org/kinrossvoices/ [1]
Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity (MAPS)
https://michiganabolition.org/ [2]
Rustbelt Abolition Radio
https://rustbeltradio.org/ [3]
Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) of the IWW
https://incarceratedworkers.org/ [4]
Striking A Blow: An Audio Documentary on the September 9, 2016 National Prison Strike
https://vimeo.com/196384989 [5]
BOOK: Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/178182/blood-in-the-water-by-heather-ann-thompson/9781400078240/ [6]
AUDIO: The Attica Rebellion
https://www.freedomarchives.org/struggle_inside_Sept.html [7]
FILM: Attica
http://atticathefilm.com/About_Attica.html [8]
[1] https://michiganabolition.org/kinrossvoices/
[2] https://michiganabolition.org/
[3] https://rustbeltradio.org/
[4] https://incarceratedworkers.org/
[5] https://vimeo.com/196384989
[6] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/178182/blood-in-the-water-by-heather-ann-thompson/9781400078240/
[7] https://www.freedomarchives.org/struggle_inside_Sept.html
[8] http://atticathefilm.com/About_Attica.html
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April 20, 2018Daze of Justice
Daze of Justice is the intimate story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes on a journey back into Cambodia’s killing fields, only this time not as victims but as witnesses determined to resurrect the memory of their loved ones before the UN Special Tribunal prosecuting the Khmer Rouge. Only Daze of Justice takes us beyond the Killing Fields. The women must not only find the courage to remember their past, they also face an unexpected and agonizing predicament when they come face to face with Phang, the son of Kaing Guek Eav (Alias “Duch”), one of Pol Pot’s most notorious torturers. And in the process, on the margins of the UN tribunal, the seekers become the source of Justice. The women not only generate a vocabulary for reclaiming the past but pave a path that extends the promise of redemption to future generations.

Featuring:
Marie Chea, Khmer Rouge Survivor
Sophany Bay, Khmer Rouge Survivor
Sarem Neou, Khmer Rouge Survivor
Leakhena Nou, Phd. Medical Sociologist, Associate Professor, CSU Long Beach
Pheng, Khmer Rouge Survivor
Michael Siv, Filmmaker, Khmer Rouge Survivor

Credits:
Host: RJ Lozada
Producers: Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, Anita Johnson, R.J. Lozada
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin
Development Associate: Vera Thykulsker
Voices: Jessica Antonio, RJ Lozada, Julian Jaravata, Lisa Rudman, Monica Lopez, Anita Johnson, John Tyler Laureta, Roger Habon, Tyler Trumbo

For More Information:
Daze of Justice, Film Website
Cambodia Tribunal Monitor
Article: Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Mission Accomplished?
Article, Counterpunch: Who Supported the Khmer Rouge?
Article, Jacobin: Nixon and the Cambodian Genocide
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