KPFA - Making Contact

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  • Sacrifice Zones – Part 1 (Encore)
    [1]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.
    Sacrifice Zones was funded by the Regional Arts and Culture Council and the Puffin Foundation.
    Original music was composed and performed by Barbara Bernstein and Floating Glass Balls. 
    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
    Staff Producers: Anita Johnson, Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, R.J. Lozada
    Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
    Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin
    Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker
    For More information:
    Sightline Institute  http://www.sightline.org/ [2]
    350.org [3] Seattle  http://350seattle.org/ [4]
    350.org [3] PDX  https://350pdx.org/ [6]
    Audubon Society of Portland http://audubonportland.org/ [7]
    Audubon Washington http://wa.audubon.org/ [8]
    Climate Solutions  https://www.climatesolutions.org/ [9]
    Columbia Riverkeeper  http://columbiariverkeeper.org/ [10]
    Earthjustice http://earthjustice.org/ [11]
    Friends of the Columbia Gorge https://gorgefriends.org/ [12]
    Friends of the Earth http://www.foe.org/ [13]
    Friends of the San Juans  http://sanjuans.org/ [14]
    The Lands Council https://landscouncil.org/ [15]
    Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility  http://www.oregonpsr.org/ [16]
    Sierra Club Washington State Chapter  http://www.sierraclub.org/washington [17]
    Sierra Club Oregon Chapter  http://oregon2.sierraclub.org/chapter [18]
    Washington Conservation Voters https://wcvoters.org/ [19]
    Washington Environmental Council  https://wecprotects.org/ [20]
    Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility https://www.facebook.com/WashingtonPSR/ [21]
    [1] https://kpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/oil-train-in-gorge-1024x683.jpg
    [2] http://www.sightline.org/
    [3] http://350.org/
    [4] http://350seattle.org/
    [5] http://350.org/
    [6] https://350pdx.org/
    [7] http://audubonportland.org/
    [8] http://wa.audubon.org/
    [9] https://www.climatesolutions.org/
    [10] http://columbiariverkeeper.org/
    [11] http://earthjustice.org/
    [12] https://gorgefriends.org/
    [13] http://www.foe.org/
    [14] http://sanjuans.org/
    [15] https://landscouncil.org/
    [16] http://www.oregonpsr.org/
    [17] http://www.sierraclub.org/washington
    [18] http://oregon2.sierraclub.org/chapter
    [19] https://wcvoters.org/
    [20] https://wecprotects.org/
    [21] https://www.facebook.com/WashingtonPSR/
    1 hr
  • Jeff Chang on Revolutions in Seeing and Being

    “From almost every kind of responsibility and tie from engagement and from faith. So the artist–our task is to move ourselves and the rest of us in the opposite direction. Toward more engagement, towards stronger ethics, toward a social that’s open and inclusive to all toward seeing each other in full, to challenge us to recognize the debts, and yes, the reparations that we owe to each other.”

    Jeff Chang offers ideas to reinforce the importance of art and artists in today’s sociopolitical climate. Chang presented a keynote address for the Art and Race conference, that took place at Oakland Impact Hub earlier this year.

    Featuring:  

    Jeff Chang, Historian, Author of We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, Who We Be: The Colorization of America, and other books.

    Credits 

    Host/Producer: R.J. Lozada

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

    Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

    Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin

    Development Associate: Vera Thykulsker

    Special Thanks: Ashara Ekundayo, Christina Orticke, and tech team Zochi and Shah from Oakland Impact Hub

    For More information:

    Art and Race Conference: A Convergence of Provocation, Strategy, and Beauty

    Umber Magazine

    Omi Gallery

    Oakland Impact Hub

    Jeff Chang

    The post Jeff Chang on Revolutions in Seeing and Being appeared first on KPFA.

    9 min
  • Jeff Chang on Revolutions in Seeing and Being
    “From almost every kind of responsibility and tie from engagement and from faith. So the artist--our task is to move ourselves and the rest of us in the opposite direction. Toward more engagement, towards stronger ethics, toward a social that's open and inclusive to all toward seeing each other in full, to challenge us to recognize the debts, and yes, the reparations that we owe to each other.”
    Jeff Chang offers ideas to reinforce the importance of art and artists in today’s sociopolitical climate. Chang presented a keynote address for the Art and Race conference, that took place at Oakland Impact Hub earlier this year.
    Featuring:  
    Jeff Chang, Historian, Author of We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, Who We Be: The Colorization of America, and other books.
    Credits 
    Host/Producer: R.J. Lozada
    Producers: Anita Johnson, Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, R.J. Lozada
    Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
    Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin
    Development Associate: Vera Thykulsker
    Special Thanks: Ashara Ekundayo, Christina Orticke, and tech team Zochi and Shah from Oakland Impact Hub
    For More information:
    Art and Race Conference [1]: A Convergence of Provocation, Strategy, and Beauty
    Umber Magazine [2]
    Omi Gallery [3]
    Oakland Impact Hub [4]
    Jeff Chang [5]
    [1] http://www.artandrace.com/
    [2] https://www.umbermagazine.net/
    [3] https://oakland.impacthub.net/omi-gallery/
    [4] https://oakland.impacthub.net/
    [5] http://jeffchang.net/
    1 hr
  • Mrs. Hamer, Echoes

    Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, spoke words that are all too relevant today.  Mrs Hamer would have turned 100 years old on October 6th 2017. Today on Making Contact, you’ll hear archival recordings, and excerpts from a powerful new film featuring Fannie Lou Hamer’s contemporaries– themselves now elders.  You’ll hear about the context of her life, and the lives of other sharecroppers in Mississippi from a seldom heard film produced for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC.

    Featuring:

    • Amzie Moore, SNCC, The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
    • Sharecroppers
    • Fannie Lou Hamer
    • Dorie Ladner and Heather Booth , Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
    • Reverend Leslie McLemore, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

      • Music Credits:

      Music from Robin Hamilton’s film by Mathew Prins, Josh Kramer, Fred Capo, Cinquequarti, ArtTune Tech, Pond 5 Music

      Original Music by Lisa E. Williams

      Fannie Lou Hamer – Sweet Honey in the Rock

      Prelude 1 – Chris Zabriskie

      Caravan – Blue Dot Session

      Ergo Phizmiz

      Cory Gray

       Photo Credit: Fannie Lou Hamer, Howard University Library Systems

       Credits:

      This Little Light of Mine: the Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer, soon-to-be released film by Robin Hamilton

      Paul Richards at Estuary Press and the films Dream Deferred and produced by his late father Harvey Richards

      Claude Marks and Freedom Archives

      Colin Edwards and Mary Edwards

      Shawn Dellis at Pacifica Archives

      Keith McMillian at Jackson State University

      Dr. Guha Shankar at the Library of Congress Folklife Center

      Dr. Sade Turnipseed and her Cotton Pickers of America Monument and Interpretive Center

      Making Contact Host: Anita Johnson

      Editing Assistant: Emily Harris

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

      Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

      Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin

      Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker

      For More information:

      Fannie Lou Hamer http://fannielou.com/

      The post Mrs. Hamer, Echoes appeared first on KPFA.

      9 min
    • Mrs. Hamer, Echoes
      Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, spoke words that are all too relevant today.  Mrs Hamer would have turned 100 years old on October 6th 2017. Today on Making Contact, you’ll hear archival recordings, and excerpts from a powerful new film featuring Fannie Lou Hamer’s contemporaries-- themselves now elders.  You’ll hear about the context of her life, and the lives of other sharecroppers in Mississippi from a seldom heard film produced for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC.
      Featuring:
      Amzie Moore, SNCC, The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
      Sharecroppers
      Fannie Lou Hamer
      Dorie Ladner and Heather Booth , Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
      Reverend Leslie McLemore, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
      Music Credits:
      Music from Robin Hamilton’s film by Mathew Prins, Josh Kramer, Fred Capo, Cinquequarti, ArtTune Tech, Pond 5 Music
      Original Music by Lisa E. Williams
      Fannie Lou Hamer – Sweet Honey in the Rock
      Prelude 1 – Chris Zabriskie
      Caravan – Blue Dot Session
      Ergo Phizmiz
      Cory Gray
       Photo Credit: Fannie Lou Hamer, Howard University Library Systems
       Credits:
      This Little Light of Mine: the Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer, soon-to-be released film by Robin Hamilton
      Paul Richards at Estuary Press and the films Dream Deferred and produced by his late father Harvey Richards
      Claude Marks and Freedom Archives
      Colin Edwards and Mary Edwards
      Shawn Dellis at Pacifica Archives
      Keith McMillian at Jackson State University
      Dr. Guha Shankar at the Library of Congress Folklife Center
      Dr. Sade Turnipseed and her Cotton Pickers of America Monument and Interpretive Center
      Making Contact Host: Anita Johnson
      Editing Assistant: Emily Harris
      Staff Producers:  Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, Anita Johnson, R.J. Lozada
      Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
      Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin
      Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker
      For More information:
      Fannie Lou Hamer http://fannielou.com/ [1]
      [1] http://fannielou.com/
      1 hr
    • Language Is Life, Land Is Sacred

      Making Contact’s Community Storytelling Fellow Vincent Medina is a Chochenyo Ohlone Native American who is a part of a young generation working to revitalize the Chochenyo language for future generations.  Making Contact’s Community Storytelling Fellow Isabella Zizi is a young native-american environmentalist shaped by the 2012 Chevron Refinery Explosion and by her indigenous women elders in the Refinery Corridor Healing Walks in the Bay Area of California.

      Featuring:  

      Vincent Medina, Chochenyo Ohlone, Language and Culture Activist, Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow

      Gabriel Medina, Chochenyo Ohlone
      Dottie Galvan, Chochenyo Ohlone Elder
      Cathy G., Chochenyo Ohlone Elder
      Isabella Zizi, Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow,  Idle No More SF Bay Organizer, Youth Director Earth Guardians Bay Area
      Alison Ehara Brown, Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty Signer, Idle No More SF Bay Founder
      Daniel Adel, California Student Sustainability Coalition Online Communications Coordinator
      Rich Lohman, Healing Walk Volunteer
      Patricia St. Onge, Idle No More SF Bay Nafsi Ya Jamii
      Donovin Keomanee, Healing Walk Monitor/Volunteer

      Credits 

      Host: R.J. Lozada

      Producers: Vincent Medina, Isabella Zizi

      Laura Flynn, R.J. Lozada, Monica Lopez, Anita Johnson, Marie Choi

      Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

      Web Editor and Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blazin

      Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker

      For More information:

      Refinery Corridor Healing Walks


      Salon: If we stopped emitting greenhouse gases right now, would we stop climate change?

      The New York Times : E.P.A. Moves to Rescind Contested Water Pollution Regulation

      The post Language Is Life, Land Is Sacred appeared first on KPFA.

      9 min
    • Language Is Life, Land Is Sacred
      [1]Making Contact's Community Storytelling Fellow Vincent Medina is a Chochenyo Ohlone Native American who is a part of a young generation working to revitalize the Chochenyo language for future generations.  Making Contact's Community Storytelling Fellow Isabella Zizi is a young native-american environmentalist shaped by the 2012 Chevron Refinery Explosion and by her indigenous women elders in the Refinery Corridor Healing Walks in the Bay Area of California.
      Featuring:  
      Vincent Medina, Chochenyo Ohlone, Language and Culture Activist, Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow
      Gabriel Medina, Chochenyo Ohlone
      Dottie Galvan, Chochenyo Ohlone Elder
      Cathy G., Chochenyo Ohlone Elder
      Isabella Zizi, Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow,  Idle No More SF Bay Organizer, Youth Director Earth Guardians Bay Area
      Alison Ehara Brown, Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty Signer, Idle No More SF Bay Founder
      Daniel Adel, California Student Sustainability Coalition Online Communications Coordinator
      Rich Lohman, Healing Walk Volunteer
      Patricia St. Onge, Idle No More SF Bay Nafsi Ya Jamii
      Donovin Keomanee, Healing Walk Monitor/Volunteer
      Credits 
      Host: R.J. Lozada
      Producers: Vincent Medina, Isabella Zizi
      Laura Flynn, R.J. Lozada, Monica Lopez, Anita Johnson, Marie Choi
      Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
      Web Editor and Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blazin
      Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker
      For More information:
      Refinery Corridor Healing Walks [2]
      Salon: If we stopped emitting greenhouse gases right now, would we stop climate change? [3]
      The New York Times : E.P.A. Moves to Rescind Contested Water Pollution Regulation [4]
      [1] https://kpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Language-is-live.jpg
      [2] https://www.facebook.com/RefineryHealingWalks/
      [3] http://www.salon.com/2017/07/07/if-we-stopped-emitting-greenhouse-gases-right-now-would-we-stop-climate-change_partner/
      [4] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/climate/epa-rescind-water-pollution-regulation.html?smid=fb-share
      1 hr
    • Women Rising Radio: Rescuing The Isolated and Displaced, Women of Doctors Without Borders

      Most of the world simply has no health care… vast tracts of land and vast populations of people don’t have doctors  –  or at best must make great efforts to reach medical care.  In addition, masses of displaced people and refugees – over 100,000,000 at last count – desperately need to be rescued from their desperate situations.  Doctors Without Borders, Medecins Sans Frontieres in French (MSF) is on the ground providing quality medical care to those in need across the world.  A few of these healers tell the stories of their work in the field.  

      Featuring:

      Canada’s Dr. Sarah Giles, the one doctor aboard the MSF ship Aquarius rescuing refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean sea from Africa and the Middle East.  Spain’s Dr. Estrella Lasry worked in the field in Central African Republic and the Congo, then took on the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. US/San Marino nurse Melanie Capiccioni treats malnutrition, first in South Sudan and then in Uganda.  And Kenya’s Neema Kaseje brings her skills in surgery to pregnant women and survivors of violence in Africa.  

      Credits:

      Producer:  Lynn Feinerman

      Host: Sandina Robbins

      Audio:  Stephanie Welch

      Audio Credits:

      Vice News,  Doctors Without Borders, Cassandra Wilson “Shelter from the Storm”

      Image Credits:

      Doctors Without Borders

      For More Information:

      http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org

      http://www.humanium.org/en/world/right-to-health/

      http://www.womenrisingradio.com

      http://www.who.int/universal_health_coverage/un_resolution/en/

      https://www.amnestyusa.org/news/

      The post Women Rising Radio: Rescuing The Isolated and Displaced, Women of Doctors Without Borders appeared first on KPFA.

      9 min
    • Women Rising Radio: Rescuing The Isolated and Displaced, Women of Doctors Without Borders
      [1]Most of the world simply has no health care... vast tracts of land and vast populations of people don't have doctors  -  or at best must make great efforts to reach medical care.  In addition, masses of displaced people and refugees - over 100,000,000 at last count - desperately need to be rescued from their desperate situations.  Doctors Without Borders, Medecins Sans Frontieres in French (MSF) is on the ground providing quality medical care to those in need across the world.  A few of these healers tell the stories of their work in the field.  
      Featuring:
      Canada's Dr. Sarah Giles, the one doctor aboard the MSF ship Aquarius rescuing refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean sea from Africa and the Middle East.  Spain's Dr. Estrella Lasry worked in the field in Central African Republic and the Congo, then took on the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. US/San Marino nurse Melanie Capiccioni treats malnutrition, first in South Sudan and then in Uganda.  And Kenya's Neema Kaseje brings her skills in surgery to pregnant women and survivors of violence in Africa.  
      Credits:
      Producer:  Lynn Feinerman
      Host: Sandina Robbins
      Audio:  Stephanie Welch
      Audio Credits:
      Vice News,  Doctors Without Borders, Cassandra Wilson “Shelter from the Storm”
      Image Credits:
      Doctors Without Borders
      For More Information:
      http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org [2]
      http://www.humanium.org/en/world/right-to-health/ [3]
      http://www.womenrisingradio.com [4]
      http://www.who.int/universal_health_coverage/un_resolution/en/ [5]
      https://www.amnestyusa.org/news/ [6]
      [1] https://kpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Doctors-without-Borders.jpg
      [2] http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
      [3] http://www.humanium.org/en/world/right-to-health/
      [4] http://www.womenrisingradio.com/
      [5] http://www.who.int/universal_health_coverage/un_resolution/en/
      [6] https://www.amnestyusa.org/news/
      1 hr
    • Staying Rooted: Community Focused Economic Models, Cooperative Housing, and the New Economy Coalition

      Collective housing, cultural co-ops, land trusts, community banks are community-rooted enterprises that empower those that have been excluded from traditional economic institutions. Solidarity economy models exercised throughout the country are becoming viable solutions towards sustainable and economically just living.

      Today we’re visiting community-rooted enterprises where people are rethinking power and participation in their lives. Collective housing and cultural co-ops, land trusts and community banks are providing fundamental shifts in our workplaces, living spaces, and economic understanding of local communities.

      This program was produced with support from the New Economies Reporting Project, funded with a grant from the Park Foundation.

      Featuring:  

      Eri Oura – Cycles of Change, The Bikery

      Devi Peacock – Peacock Rebellion, Liberating Ourselves Locally

      Harper Bishop – Open Buffalo

      Julia Ho – Solidarity Economy St. Louis

      Iya Ifalola Omobola – Cooperation Jackson

      Amara Enyia – Public Policy Expert

      Credits 

      Host: R.J. Lozada

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

      Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

      Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin

      Development Associate: Vera Thykulsker

      Special thanks to Rachel Dickson for recording panelists in Chicago.

      For More information:

      New Economy Coalition

      Open Buffalo

      Solidarity Economy St. Louis

      Cooperation Jackson

      Amara Enyia Website

      Liberate 23rd Ave

      Liberating Ourselves Locally (LOL)

      Sustaining Ourselves Locally (Oakland SOL)

      Cycles of Change/The Bikery

      The post Staying Rooted: Community Focused Economic Models, Cooperative Housing, and the New Economy Coalition appeared first on KPFA.

      9 min

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