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November 13, 2015 Resurrected: Formerly Incarcerated Change-Makers
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.
Featuring:
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
More information
National Center for Youth Law
Ella Baker Center
Nashville Peace and Justice Center
Pigeonly
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November 06, 2015 The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
2016 marks 50 years since the founding of the Black Panther Party-a group that’s took the world by the storm, but is still widely misunderstood. There’s a new documentary film that’s trying to set the record straight. On this edition of Making Contact, journalist Eric Arnold talks with Stanley Nelson, director of The Black Panthers, Vanguard of the Revolution.
Featuring:
Stanley Nelson, Director of Black Panthers: vanguard of the Revolution; Eric Arnold, journalist
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October 30, 2015 Concussions: Your Brain or the Game?
This is a special encore edition. They say a smart athlete will use their head. But what if using your head cost you everything? That’s a question being asked in locker rooms the world over. Whether it’s boxing, hockey, or soccer, it seems that head injuries are finally being taken seriously. In the United States, lawsuits brought by players, as well as a body of scientific evidence, has lead to growing awareness about the impact American football has on players’ brains. And now a similar debate has kicked off across the Atlantic among players and fans of the sport that American football evolved from: rugby. On this special edition of Making Contact, producer Luke Eldridge brings us to the UK to hear Concussions: Your Brain or the Game?
Featuring:
Lewis Moody, former rugby player; Dr Michael Grey, motor neuroscience physiologist at the University of Birmingham; Peter Robinson, father of Ben Robinson; David Barnes, Rugby Director of the Rugby Players’ Association in England.
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October 23, 2015 Invisible Workers, Laboring in the Shadows
Millions of people around the world work in jobs that aren’t formally recognized or afforded legal protections typical of wage earning jobs. They’re often not even thought of as legitimate work.
On this edition of Making Contact, we’re going to meet people making work where there is no work for them. From recyclers, to border couriers, to waste pickers, we’re exploring the informal labor sector and what some are doing to gain greater recognition, protections, and rights.
Featuring:
Landon Goodwin, recycler and pastor and also featured in documentary Dogtown Redemption; Aicha al Azzouzi border courier; Salma al Azzouzi, Aicha’s oldest daughter; Charles Gachanga Gichonge, creator of the Mustard Seed Courtyard clean-up campaign; Antony Makau, Dandora resident; and Richard Munene Dandora restaurant owner; Sally Roever , Urban Policy Director for Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), and Malati Gadgil of KKPKP.
Host: Laura FlynnContributing Producers: Thalia Beaty, Maggy Donaldson, and Beenish AhmedProducers: Laura Flynn, Andrew Stelzer, and Jasmin LopezWeb Editor: Kwan Booth
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Featured Music: Blue Dot Sessions: Lesser Gods of Metal, Tyrano Theme, and Pavement Hack
Tours: Enthusiast
Salomé Lego Playset: La Lutte, Comme Experience Intérieure
Janneh: Humajataritee
More information:
Dogtown Redemption
Concern Worldwide: Trash and Tragedy, the impact of garbage on human rights in Nairobi City
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing
SWaCH (Solid Waste Collection and Handling or, officially, the SWaCH Seva Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit, Pune)
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October 16, 2015 WOMEN RISING RADIO XXVIII: Global Community
Ever since the presidential campaign of 2008, there’s been a lot of interest in what community organizers do… Women Rising Radio 28 profiles global community organizers – whose work is based in their compassion and common sense, and whose organizing is making a worldwide impact.
Featuring
Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service (USA); Amber Khan, Women For Women International (USA); Zainab Salbi, Emerita, Women For Women International (USA); Martha Karnga, Executive Director, Bassa Women’s Development Association, (Liberia)
Host: Sandina Robbins
Producer: Lynn Feinerman
Audio Engineer: Stephanie Welch
Web Editor: Kwan Booth
More Info:
Women for Women
American Jewish World Service
BAWODA Liberia
Women Rising Radio
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October 09, 2015 Guns: An American Tradition
Love em or hate em, they’re an ever present part of American culture. And they’re not going away anytime soon. On this edition, we talk guns…from the shooting range, to the black panthers, to red state America. The people behind the trigger are probably not who you’d assume.
Featuring:
Matt Knox, gun owner; Ed & Dave, gun owners; Huey Newton, Black Panther; Tamu Mcfalls, former member of the communist party
More information:
Black Panther Party history
Communist Party USA
Gun Control ProCon
Buying Your First Gun and Learning How to Shoot
National Rifle Association
Mass Shootings Are Preventable
How teachers are funding gun companies against their will
Reducing Gun Violence in America

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September 11, 2015 Not Throw Away Women: Black and Indigenous Women Disrupt Violence (Encore)
This is a special encore edition.
On today’s show we’re exploring how some women have been dehumanized to the point of indifference. We ll learn how one community is undoing the silence around the violence women of color face. We ll also hear about how serial killers were able to hunt down mostly Black women for three decades in South Los Angeles. Then we ll take you to the Yucatan where pregnant indigenous women struggle under a health care system failing to provide proper medical care.
Featuring:
Rochelle Robinson, Making Contact Fellow; Kimberly Smith; Gabrielle Rae Travis, Her Resilience Community Outreach Coordinator; Margaret Prescod founder of Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders and host of KPFK s Sojourner Truth; Nick Broomfiled;

Featured music:
Blue Dot Sessions, Farsical Slow Driver
Trans Alp, Gnossienne N1
Blue Dot Sessions, Tanguedo
Black Ant, Fater Lee
Blue Dot Sessions, Inside the Origami Violin
Broke For Free, Night Owl
Phour Trakk, Long Transfer
Trans Alp, Gnossienne N3
Kai Engel, Written in Ink
Archival Footage:
AP, New Sketches of California Serial Killer, December 18, 2009
ABC News, Grim Sleepers Mysterious Photos
More information:
Her Resilience https://www.facebook.com/herresilience/timeline
Kimberly Robertson’s obituary http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dallasmorningnews/obituary.aspx?pid=170694312
Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders https://www.facebook.com/blackcoalitionfightsback
Sojourner Truth Radio http://www.sotrueradio.org/
HBO Tales of the Grim Sleeper http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/tales-of-the-grim-sleeper#/
LA Weekly, Grim Sleeper Returns: He’s Murdering Angelenos, As Cops Hunt His DNA http://www.laweekly.com/news/grim-sleeper-returns-hes-murdering-angelenos-as-cops-hunt-his-dna-2155416
The Grim Sleeper timeline http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/260246/Grim-Sleeper-Investigation-Timeline#vars!date=1985-07-10_14:46:16!
Nick Broomfield http://www.nickbroomfield.com/
Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer, A.C. http://semillas.org.mx
Accountability in Maternal and Reproductive Health: Experiences from Civil Society from India, Mexico, and Nigeria http://semillas.org.mx/pdf/maternal_health.pdf
Femicide in Mexico: Mapping of Silence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31G1MQzKhPY&feature=youtu.be
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September 04, 2015 Bipolarized: Rethinking Mental Illness
Ross McKenzie was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but after 15 years on Lithium, he wasn’t getting any better. He decided to take matters into his own hands, get off the drug, and find out why so many people are being told they have mental illnesses. This week on Making Contact, we bring you an abridged version of the film Bipolarized; Rethinking Mental Illness, chronicling McKenzie’s journey.
Special thanks to Specialty Studios
Featuring:
Ross McKenzie, diagnosed with Bipolar disorder; Ross McKenzie’s mother and sister; Gwen Olsen, former pharmaceutical rep; Laura Delano, psychiatry survivor; Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America; Dr. Charles Whitfield, trauma recovery specialist; Dr. Peter Levine, founder of Somatic Experiencing
More information:
http://www.bipolarizedthemovie.com/
Gwen Olsen, the Rx Reformer
Laura Delano
Mad in America
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
American Psychiatric Association DSM-5
Dr. Charles Whitfield
Peter Levine-Somatic Experiencing
Specialty Studios
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August 28, 2015 Getting Out
Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Boston. On this edition, producer Aaron Mendelson followed ex-prisoner Kevin Tindall on his journey out of prison.
Special thanks to Claire Schoen and the University of California Berkeley, School of Journalism.
Featuring:
Gordon Brown, ex-prisoner; Monta Kevin Tindall, ex-prisoner; Jerry Elster, ex-prisoner; Tom Gorham, Program Director Options Recovery Services; Barry Krisberg, Director of Research and Policy and Lecturer in Residence at Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, UC Berkeley; Debra Mendoza, former parole officer, consultant
More information:
San Quentin State Prison
Pathways To Resilience
Impact Hub Oakland
How is Life Outside After Being in Prison for Over 20 Years?
After prison building a new life means more than just doing right

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August 21, 2015 Changing Communities, Imminent Threats: Katrina’s Legacy
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Southern Gulf Coast. Ten years later, it s estimated there are nearly 100,000 fewer African Americans living in the city of New Orleans. Drawn by reconstruction work, the number of Latino immigrants has nearly doubled. Reconstruction after Hurricane Katrina drew thousands of people from India, Brazil, Mexico, Honduras, and other Latin American countries. Workers were charged with pulling dead bodies from abandoned homes and rebuilding New Orleans. But the influx of migrant workers also increased immigration crackdowns.
On this edition of Making Contact, we talk to residents about how the city has transformed since Hurricane Katrina and the resulting friction.
Featuring:
Luis Medina, immigrant reconstruction worker; Jose Monterrubio, immigrant reconstruction worker; Jose Torres-Tama, artist; Robert Green, Lower 9th Ward resident; Beck Cooper, Director of the Lower 9th Ward Living Museum.
More information:
After Hurricane Katrina, a look at New Orleans’ uneven recovery among its neighborhoods
Katrina: The debris/Missing
15 photos to remember Katrina
The Voices of Hurricane Katrina
These workers came from overseas to help rebuild after Hurricane Katrina and were treated like prisoners
Tomamos las calles: New Orleans Blocking Roads at ICE
Voice from the Storm
The Black Scholar
NOLA: Crawfish and Cowboys
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