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The vast majority of care recipients are exclusively receiving unpaid care from a family member, friend, or neighbor. The rest receive a combination of family care and paid assistance, or exclusively paid formal care.

Whether you’re a paid home care provider, or rely on personal assistance to meet your daily needs, or a family member caring for a loved one, the nature of the working relationship depends on mutual respect and dignity. On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll explore the dynamic and complex relationship of care receiving and giving.

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Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong asks, how do people with disabilities who rely on personal assistance negotiate their relationships with the people that assist them? And how does that inform their sense of independence or interdependence with others? In this next story from the San Francisco Bay Area, Wong searches for answers.

http://www.prx.org/pieces/176039-choreography-of-care

A Lifetime of Caregiving: Mom and Uncle Harold

Most often family members are the ones that step up and provide care when a parent or loved one needs it. According to the Family Caregiver Alliance, 78 percent of care beneficiaries receive assistance from a family member, friend, or neighbor. Alta Mae Stevens is 87 years old. From the moment she married she’s been caring for one person or another. Her daughter Stephanie Guyer-Stevens talks to her about what a lifetime of caregiving has meant to her.

http://www.radioproject.org/sound/2016/MakingCon_160413_a_lifetime_of_caregiving.mp3

http://www.prx.org/pieces/176040-a-lifetime-of-caregiving-mom-and-uncle-harold

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Is whitelash enough of an explainer for the rise of President-elect Donald Trump?

Is it rigorous enough to blame the people who didn’t show up to vote for our impending collective struggle under this administration?

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Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation,” assistant professor of African American Studies at Princeton University

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Host: R.J. Lozada

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 KPFA for hosting and recording Dr. Taylor’s speech.

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Podcast: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Lives Matter and Black Liberation, Who Makes Cents?

“Achieving Black Liberation: A Conversation With Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor”, Truthout

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “What About Racism”, Jacobin

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “How We Get Free”, Jacobin

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Black Faces in High Places”, Jacobin

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “No More Eric Garners”, Jacobin

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Organizing Fergusons”, Jacobin

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Poverty and the Tailspin of Culture”, Jacobin

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On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th 1963, Martin Luther King Jr delivered one of the most famous speeches of all time.

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Mirrors of Privilege is a remarkable and engaging  film that explores stories from white men and women about their journeys in overcoming issues of unconscious bias and entitlement. From Shakti Butler, director of “Cracking the Codes: The System of Inequity” and “The Way Home: Women Talk About Race in America,” “Mirrors of Privilege” is a must-see for all people who are interested in justice, spiritual growth and community making. This film advances the argument that with transformative learning, a dialogue for learning, changing, healing, and undoing race-based oppression can begin. It features the experiences and stories of White women and men who are social justice advocates. They have worked to gain insight into what it means, as White people, to challenge notions of race, racism, culture and White identity development in the United States. Their shared reflections speak to the denial, defensiveness, guilt, fear and shame often related to these issues and show how these responses can be replaced with solid commitments towards racial justice.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KYJl0PECv8

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When a mass shooting erupts in our town or city, two common and reasonable responses are to re-examine gun laws and mental health services. But if mass shootings were solely about the shooter’s mental health, why are they primarily committed by men? In this episode of Making Contact we revisit the tragedy in Isla Vista and one survivor who’s using his experience as a way to talk about toxic masculinity, mass shootings, and interpersonal violence.

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Siavash Zoohori, former UCSB student; Kylie Scarlet, former UCSB student Vice President; Vice President of the United Stated, Joe Biden; Dr. Deborah Hoffman, Dept. of Counseling, University of Maryland; Henry Yang, Chancellor, UC Santa Barbara; Sheriff Bill Brown, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department.

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Boys ’N’ Guns

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