Tent cities have popped up across the country, from New Jersey to Texas to New Mexico.  Many are starting to build more permanent living structures. So what are the benefits of living in a cluster of tents? And is this part of a real solution to homelessness?

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Special edition of Making Contact with guest Host, Rose Aguilar discussing reproductive health and abortion rights 43 years after Roe v. Wade.

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This is a special encore edition.

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. But it nearly didn’t happen. On this special edition of Making Contact for MLK Day, Gary Younge, author of The Speech talks about Martin Luther King Junior’s Dream and the story behind it.

Special thanks to the New School for use of their recording. 

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Gary Younge, author of The Speech: Martin Luther King Jr’s Dream and the Story Behind It

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Women Rising radio profiles food sovereignty activists from India, Mexico, and Native American communities.

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Robert Neuwirth, author of “Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World”, estimates that more than a billion people—that’s 1 in 7–are squatters.  This week, we visit squats in Venezuela and the Philippines. We find out why squatters aren’t just tolerated, but are crucial to the growth of major cities and national economies.

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Robert Neuwirth, author of “Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World”; Filomena Cinco, Barangay captain of Estero de San Miguel; Luz Sudueste, Urban Poor Associates organizer, William Gonzalez, Gladys Flores, Jacqueline Calderon and Yolimar Noriega, Toree David residents; Andres Antillano,Universidad Central de Venezuela professor & activist for squatters’ rights

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Spectacled Cobra by Simon Mathewson

Night Creeper by Hellenica

Haven by Lee Rosevere

Pensacola Twilight by Lee Rosevere

Grand Caravan by Blue Dot Sessions

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Alicia Garza, Black Lives Matter co-founder; Cat Brooks, Anti Police Terror Project; Antonia Juhasz, Investigative Journalist; Thomas DarDar, United Houma Nation Chief; Mark Miller, Southern Utah University History professor; Sylvia Rivera, Remembering Stonewall oral history project; Michael Schirker, Remembering Stonewall oral history project; Aesha Rasheed, Southerners on New Ground.

Host: Jasmin Lopez

Producers: Laura Flynn, Andrew Stelzer, and Jasmin Lopez

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Web Editor: Kwan Booth

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Ketsa: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/

Ryan Little: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ryan_Little/

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Who remembers the local beat cop, who lives in and really knows the community? Increasingly, police don’t live in the neighborhoods, or even the cities they patrol. But is that a problem? On this edition, should police be required to live in the cities they patrol? Law enforcement agencies around the country are struggling for answers to a question that’s about race, class and geography.

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Ferguson crisis revives debate about residency requirements for police

Most Police Don’t Live In The Cities They Serve

The Thin White Line: Most Cops Don’t Look Like the Residents They Serve

Reexamining Residency Requirements For Police Officers

Residency Requirements: Sometimes a Litigation Issue, More Often a Legislative One

How to Handle Residency Requirements

The Residency Rebellion

Fraternal Order of Police

Using Municipal Residency Requirements to Disguise Pubic Policy

Residency Requirements: A Case of Politics Over Economics

Hagerstown considers incentives to draw police officers to live downtown

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says 53 percent of Detroit’s police force moved out of city after residency rule was lifted

MCCARTHY v. PHILADELPHIA CIVIL SERV. COMM’N

Life of the Law

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This is a special encore edition. We bring you to Alaska’s Tongass Forest, where the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act turned tribes into corporations and sparked a lengthy logging frenzy. In this radio adaptation of the documentary film, Walking in Two Worlds, we meet a Tlingit brother and sister, who are trying to heal both the forest and their native community.

Special thanks to Specialty Studios.

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Wanda Culp & Bob Loescher, Tlinget brother & Sister; Peter Coyote, narrator; Mike Jackson, Tlingit tribal historian; Ernestine Hanlon-Abel, Weaver & Activist; Byron Mallott, Former Seaalaska CEO; Israel Shotridge, Tlingit carver; Tom Thorton, anthropologist; Lydia George, Tlingit Clan Mother; Joe Sebastian, Alaska Fisherman & guide; Deny Bschor, former US Forest Service Regional Forester; John Rowan, Tlingit carver, Richard Nixon, Former President of the United States; Rick Harris, Former Seaalaska Executive VP; Rosita Worl, Seaalaska Board member.

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Covering the movements and organizations fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Andrew Stelzer, George Lavender, Laura Flynn, and Jasmín López.

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In order to reduce prison over-crowding the Justice Department is releasing about 6,000 non-violent inmates early. Darris Young is working to make sure upon release individuals can successfully transition after incarceration. On the Next edition of Making Contact we’ll meet more individuals like Darris who also went to prison, came out and dedicated their life to making a positive difference.

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Frankie V. Guzman, Attorney at the National Center for Youth Law; Frederick Hutson, Founder/CEO Pigeonly; Clemmie Greenlee, founder of the Nashville Peacemakers; and Darris Young, Local Organizer at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

Featuring Music by:

Indian Wells: Alcantara

The Gateless Gate: Endless Grey

Steve Combs: Descent and March

Cousin Silas / Black Hill: Cousin Silas & Black Hill – Sand of the South

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National Center for Youth Law

Ella Baker Center

Nashville Peace and Justice Center

Pigeonly

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