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Faith and reproductive justice: we rarely hear these words in the same sentence.  Instead, we associate faith with the belligerent protester outside an abortion clinic or sex ed curriculums that shame young women for their sexuality.

But what if faith could fuel a movement that supports women and families in having real choices over their lives and their bodies?

On this week’s Making Contact, we head to the crossroads of faith and the struggle for reproductive justice.  We’ll hear from people like Dr. Willie Parker, Toni Bond Leonard, and Katie Zeh, who are making these visions a reality.

Featuring:  

Credits

Host: Vera Tykulsker

Episode Producer: Vera Tykulsker

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

Special thanks to Center for American Progress for allowing us to broadcast excerpts of the “At the Intersection of Faith and Reproductive Justice”, a panel that took place in Washington D.C. July 2017.

Thanks also to the Mary Wohlford Foundation.

More information

VIDEO: At the Intersection of Faith and Reproductive Justice, panel by the Center for American Progress in Washington D.C. July 2017

Dr. Willie Parker

ReWire articles by Toni Bond Leonard

Katey Zeh

Making Contact, Beyond Choice: Organizing for Reproductive Justice

Making Contact, The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars

Making Contact, Our Bodies, Our Stories: Reproductive Health Behind Bars

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Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.

Featuring:

Film Participants include: James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Dick Cavett, Marlon Brando, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and many more.

Host: Anita Johnson

Staff Producers: Anita Johnson, Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, R.J. Lozada

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Audience Engagement Manager: Sabine Blaizin

Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker

Thank You’s and Credits: Master filmmaker Raoul Peck, Magnolia Pictures, and Amazon Studios.

For More information:

http://www.iamnotyournegrofilm.com/

http://www.magnoliapictures.com/

https://studios.amazon.com/

I Am Not Your Negro on YouTube

James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1612194001/braipick-20

Interview with James Baldwin on Sexuality – Richard Goldstein

photo credit: Allan Warren – James Baldwin picture. Not the film cover.

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November 8 marks one year since Donald Trump won the US presidency. One year later, Gallup puts the President’s approval rating at 33 percent, an all-time low. We at Making Contact reflect on his solid win in the electoral college, his resounding loss of the popular vote, and the year that is drawing to a close.

The Poetic Address to the Nation was an event that brought together poets to speak out and against the current administration. The event featured poets Cam Awkward, Guillermo Gomez Peña, Michelle ‘Mush’ Lee, and many others to share pieces from immigration, to trans violence, to activism. Making Contact is rebroadcasting an abridged version of the event produced by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture.

Featuring:

Young, Gifted & Black, Hadeel Ramadan, Michelle ‘Mush’ Lee, Guillermo Gomez Peña, Cam Awkard, Chinaka Hodge, Tassiana Willis. Thank You’s and Credits: “The 2017 Poetic Address to the Nation was produced by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in partnership with U.S. Department of Art and Culture”.

For More information:

The 2017 Poetic Address to the Nation #PSOTU2017

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Covering the movements, issues and people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, RJ Lozada and Anita Jonhson.

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Since 2003 a rash of proposals have surfaced in communities throughout the Northwest to export vast amounts of fossil fuels to Asian markets via Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. If these plans go through the Northwest would become home to the largest oil terminal in North America, the largest coal export facility in North America, and the largest methanol refinery in the world.]

This week we present Part One of Sacrifice Zones (encore edition). It’s the first in a two-part series on the pressure to transform a region of iconic landscapes and environmental stewardship into a global center for shipping fossil fuels. Bernstein investigates how proposals for petrochemical development in the Pacific Northwest threatens the region’s core cultural, social, and environmental values.

Credits: 

Sacrifice Zones was written, narrated and produced by Barbara Bernstein.

Special thanks to Dan Serres, Eric de Place, Carol Newman, Peter Seigel, Steve Early, KMUN Coast Community Radio, Melissa Marsland, Jerry Mayer, Jan Zuckerman and Bill Bigelow.

Making Contact Host: Monica Lopez

For More information:

Sightline Institute  http://www.sightline.org/

350.org Seattle  http://350seattle.org/

350.org PDX  https://350pdx.org/

Audubon Society of Portland http://audubonportland.org/

Audubon Washington http://wa.audubon.org/

Climate Solutions  https://www.climatesolutions.org/

Columbia Riverkeeper  http://columbiariverkeeper.org/

Earthjustice http://earthjustice.org/

Friends of the Columbia Gorge https://gorgefriends.org/

Friends of the Earth http://www.foe.org/

Friends of the San Juans  http://sanjuans.org/

The Lands Council https://landscouncil.org/

Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility  http://www.oregonpsr.org/

Sierra Club Washington State Chapter  http://www.sierraclub.org/washington

Sierra Club Oregon Chapter  http://oregon2.sierraclub.org/chapter

Washington Conservation Voters https://wcvoters.org/

Washington Environmental Council  https://wecprotects.org/

Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility https://www.facebook.com/WashingtonPSR/

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