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February 05, 2016 Failing Our Youth: An Inadequate Foster Care System (Encore)
Nicole Rocke, former foster youth; Kyle Lafferty, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy: Linda Bryant, Clinical Professor at New York University’s School of Social Work; Benita Miller, Deputy Commissioner of Family Permanency Services at the Administration of Children’s Services; Lorraine Jacobs, caseworker; Yolanda Vasquez, former foster youth; Adriane Fugh-Berman, Pharmacology Professor at Georgetown University’s Medical Center; Bill Grimm, Attorney at National Center for Youth Law; Susan Bullard; DAVID ARREDONDO, Child psychiatrist; Dr. Edmund Levin, at the Lincoln Child Center; Nancy Forster, Therapist at the Lincoln Child Center; April Rene Sanders, former foster youth and recipient of AB12; Kyle Sporleader, Statewide Legislative Coordinator for California Youth Connection (CYC).
Music:
Quiet Orchestra, My Friend
Jahzzar, Siesta
Jahzzar, The Flowers Are Still Standing
Poor Alexei, The Long Goodbye
Cory Gray, Build a View
More information:
Drugging Our Kids – Full documentary:
http://webspecial.mercurynews.com/druggedkids/
California Youth Connection
Chapin Hill at the University of Chicago:
Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth
Chapin Hill at the University of Chicago:
Findings from the California Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study (CalYOUTH)
National Conference of State Legislatures:
Extending Foster Care Beyond 18
California Fostering Connections to Success: Resource page
California Department of Social Services:
California Fostering Connections to Success Act (AB12) Extending Foster Care Benefits Fact Sheet
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January 29, 2016 Tent Cities: When Society Fails to House
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?
Featuring:
Eric Tars, Sr. Attorney with The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty; Jack Tefari, John Reese, Ibrahim Mubarak, Doug, Dignity Village residents; Will, John Derrig, Asa Yoe, Chris Semrau, Nicklesville residents; Sharon Lee, Low Income Housing Institute executive director; Eric Evinowskis, Pinellas Hope facilities manager; Rocco Mariano, Laura Letziati, James Stockstill, Pinellas Hope clients
More information
Low Income Housing Institute
Dignity Village
Nicklesville
Pinellas Hope
National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
Welcome Home: The Rise of Tent Cities in the United States
Hoovervilles
Tent cities: Seattle’s unusual approach to homelessness
Street Roots
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January 22, 2016 Abortion Access Under Attack
Special edition of Making Contact with guest Host, Rose Aguilar discussing reproductive health and abortion rights 43 years after Roe v. Wade.
Featuring:
Corrine Rivera-Fowler, deputy director of COLOR, the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights; Carol Joffe, professor at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco and author of “Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Cost of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us.”
Credits
Host: Rose Aguilar
Producers: Laura Flynn and Jasmin Lopez
Contributing Producer: Lisa Rudman
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Web Editor: Kwan Booth
Song: Alcantara by Indian Wells
Photo: CC / by Steve Rhodes “Clinic defense of Planned Parenthood in San Francisco”
More information
COLOR (Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights)
UCSF, Bixby Center
“Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Cost of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us”
RH Reality Check:

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January 15, 2016 A Dream Remembered?: Martin Luther King Jr and the Grassroots Civil Rights Movement ENCORE
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.
Featuring:
Gary Younge, author of The Speech: Martin Luther King Jr’s Dream and the Story Behind It
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January 08, 2016 Women Rising 29: Food Sovereignty
Women Rising radio profiles food sovereignty activists from India, Mexico, and Native American communities.
Featuring:
Vandana Shiva, founder of Navdanya; Adelita San Vicente Tello, founder of Semillas de Vida; Sage La Pena, Native American, ethno- botanist and food sovereignty activist; Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Native American youth educator.
More information:
Navdanya
fundación semillas de vida
The Women’s Herbal Symposium of Northern California I Who are the Teachers
Kanyon – Portfolio
https://www.organicconsumers.org
TPP Fine Print: Biotech Seed Companies Win Again | Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/
What drove a Korean farmer to kill himself in Cancun?
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January 01, 2016 Squatters: Intruders or Innovators (ENCORE)
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.
Featuring:
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
Host: Andrew Stelzer
Producers: Andrew Stelzer, Laura Flynn, George Lavender, Jasmin Lopez
Contributing Producers: Andrew Rosati, Aurora Almendral
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Web Editor: Kwan Booth
Organizational Volunteers: Barbara Barnett
Music:
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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December 25, 2015 Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2015 Year in Review
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
Music:
Ketsa: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/
Ryan Little: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ryan_Little/
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December 04, 2015 Making Contact – The Elusive Neighborhood Cop
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.
Featuring:
Officer Charles Stone, Sergeant Mildred Oliver, Chief Sean Whent, Oakland police dept.; Bob Nash, retired Nashville Tennessee police commander; Yvette Thierry, Safe Streets Strong Communities founder; John Penny, Southern University of New Orleans Criminology Professor; Andrew Flowers, 538.com quantitative editor; Anthony Jackson, Oakland resident; Terrence Allen, University of Texas at Austin assistant professor.
Featuring Music by:
The Brain
http://huseyinthebrain.bandcamp.com/
More information
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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November 27, 2015 Walking in Two Worlds ENCORE
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.
Featuring:
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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November 20, 2015 Making Contact – November 20, 2015
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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