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One in three women will have an abortion in her lifetime, yet in pop culture accurate portrayals of real people s stories are rare. In this show we hear about representations of abortion and reproductive decision-making in popular culture, and why those stories really matter.

Featuring:
Samara Azam-Yu, Executive Director at ACCESS Women s Health Justice; Alicia Walters, Movement Building Director at Forward Together; Ratema Uch, youth activist at Forward Together; Gretchen Sisson, sociologist at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at the University of California San Francisco.

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Who’s watching you? Nowadays it seems everyone wants to get their hands on our personal data. From the FBI to the welfare department, to some of the country’s biggest retailers. On this edition, we take a closer look at the world of surveillance.

Featuring:  

Hasan Elahi, artist and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland; Charles Duhigg, New York Times journalist and author of “The Power of Habit”; Jodie Berger, public benefits lawyer; John Gilliom, Professor of Political Science at Ohio University; Kaaryn Gustafson, welfare lawyer and University of Connecticut teacher.

For More Information:

Tracking Transience 

FBI here I am! (Hasan Elahi TED talk) 

Giving the FBI what it wants

How Companies Learn Your Secrets

Parents Voices

Surveillance Self Defense Project

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More than 150,000 people sign up for the US military every year. Their reasons for joining vary, from those hoping for financial help through college, to others looking to follow in the footsteps of parents or grandparents. In recent years getting into the military has gotten harder, but getting out may be tougher. On this edition of Making Contact we’ll hear radio adaptations of Michelle Mason’s film, “Breaking Ranks,” produced by Screen Siren Pictures and the National Film Board of Canada and of “Deserter” by Rick Rowley, from Big Noise Films and PM Press.

Featuring:
Jeremy Hinzman, Kyle Snyder, Joshua Key, Ryan Johnson, Brandon Hughey, US military personnel who refused to return to Iraq; and Sergeant Brian Jensen, military recruiter.

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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 how rugby is dealing with the issue of head injuries.

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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Is your children’s schoolyard routinely sprayed with pesticides? How safe your children are might depend on where you live. Today we hear about how and why one pesticide has been banned for household use, but affects the health of farmworkers and their children. Children’s health is especially fragile–so why aren’t we protecting them?  

This program received funding from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

Featuring:  

Kim Harley, Center for Environmental Research in Children’s Health associate director; Isabel Arrollo, El Quinto Sol de America organizer; Jennifer Sass, Natural Resources Defense Council senior scientist; Tracey Brieger, Californians for Pesticide Reform co-director; Marina Gomez, Brian Jimenez-Gomez, CHAMACOS research participants; Margaret Reeves, Pesticide Action Network senior scientist; Valerie Bengal, family physician and UC San Francisco clinical professor; Brett Knupfer, Ohlone Elementary School principal; Marcy Mock, Ohlone special education teacher; Casimira Salazar, Ohlone migrant education teacher; Cynthia Fernandez, Ohlone 2nd grade teacher; Brett McFadden, Pajaro Valley Unified School District chief business officer; Mary Ellen Kustin, Environmental Working Group policy analyst.

For More information:

CHAMACOS (Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas) study 

 El Quinto Sol de America 

Californians for Pesticide Reform

Pesticide Action Network North America

National Resources Defense Council

Fund for Investigative Journalism

Resources and reports:

California pesticide use reporting

“Agricultural Pesticide Use Near Public Schools in California,” Apr. 2014, California Environmental Health Tracking Program

Ohlone School pesticide monitoring news, Sept. 2013

Integrated pest management of citrus, University of California, Riverside

Coalition letter to California Department of Pesticide Regulation, Jan. 2014

“Chlorpyrifos Preliminary Human Health Risk Assessment,” Jun. 2011, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency

“Evidence on the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity of Chlorpyrifos,” Sept. 2008, California Environmental Protection Agency

Chlorpyrifos health effects, Apr. 2012, U.S. EPA’s Scientific Advisory Panel

Human oral toxicity study for chlorpyrifos, Kisicki et al 1999

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Nomi Prins, journalist and a former managing director of Goldman Sachs, discusses her book All the Presidents’ Bankers, the hidden alliances that drive American power. Prins retraces the relationship between American financiers and presidents stretching more than a century. From family friends, trusted confidants to the present day; how the relationship has deteriorated and presidents have lost control of the economy.

Special thanks to Pirate TV for the original recording from June 17, 2014.

Featuring:

Nomi Prins, journalist and author of “All the Presidents’ Bankers, the hidden alliances that drive American power.”

Host this week: Laura Flynn

Series Producers: Andrew Stelzer, Laura Flynn, George Lavender, Jasmin Lopez

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Web Editor: Kwan Booth

Organizational Volunteers: Barbara Barnett

For More information:

Nomi Prins 

Pirate Television: All the Presidents’ Bankers 

Articles:

Smithsonian: The Copper King’s Precipitous Fall, Augustus Heinze dominated the copper fields of Montana, but his family’s scheming on Wall Street set off the Panic of 1907

Smithsonian: The Financial Panic of 1907: Running from History, Robert F. Bruner discusses the panic of 1907 and the financial crisis of 2008

Washington Post: The Federal Reserve was created 100 years ago, this is how it happened

NerdWallet: The Glass-Steagall Act Explained

Bloomberg: “Combined profit at the six largest U.S. banks jumped last year
to the highest level since 2006, even as the firms allocated more than $18
billion to deal with claims they broke laws or cheated investors.”

Videos & Multimedia:

Artist: Scott Joplin

Song: Maple Leaf Rag

Source: Internet Archive

Artist: The Platters

Song: I’ll Get By

Source: Internet Archive

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