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December 22, 2006 Making Contact – December 22, 2006
This week on Making Contact, we profile three courageous human rights advocates: Palestinian-American Huwaida Arraf founded an organization that monitors the Israeli/Palestinian conflict; Maria LaHood is an American lawyer who takes on high profile human rights cases; Argentinian Patricia Isasa is an activist who is bringing to justice those who detained and tortured her in her own country.
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December 15, 2006 Making Contact – December 15, 2006 at 1:30pm
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December 08, 2006 Making Contact – December 8, 2006
Since the passing of the Patriot Act, many things have changed in the U.S.,
and not necessarily for the better.
On this edition, we look at Bush Administration policies that many contend
undermine basic human rights and civil liberties. Has the War on Terror
become a War on Freedom? How much should we give up for this war?
Senior Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Contributing Freelance Producers: Martha Baskin, Melinda Tuhus, Joshua
Emerson Smith
Featuring:
Michael Ratner, president, Center for Constitutional Rights; Joanne Mariner
director of counterterrorism Human Rights Watch; Joshua Colangelo-Byran
attorney for Guantanamo Detainees from Bahrain; George Christian, executive
director, The Library Connection, Inc.; Janet Nocek, executive committee,
The Library Connection, Inc.; Deborah Caldwell-Stone, deputy director,
American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom; Kevin O’Connor,
U.S. attorney for Connecticut; Sharon Adams, National Lawyer’s Guild; Mark
Schlosberg, ACLUNC; Ruth Robertson (Granny Ruth), Raging Grannies; Chris
Bertelli, Office of Homeland Security; Nathan Beranken, Attorney General’s
Office.
For more information:
Center for Constitutional Rights
666 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10012
212-614-6464
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp
Human Rights Watch
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor
New York, NY 10118-3299
212-290-4700
http://www.hrw.org
The Library Connection, Inc.
599 Matianuck Avenue
Windsor, CT 06095
860-298-5322
http://www.libraryconnection.info
American Library Association
50 E. Huron St.
Chicago, IL 60611
800-545-2433
http://www.ala.org
American Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad St., 18th floor
New York, NY 10004
212-519-7829
http://www.aclu.org
National Lawyer’s Guild
1867 Ygnacio Valley Road, #230
Walnut Creek, CA 94598
Northern CA American Civil Liberties Union
39 Drumm Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
http://www.ACLUNC.org
Raging Grannies
http://www.peninsularaginggrannies.org
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December 01, 2006 Making Contact – December 1, 2006
In this special collaboration with Human Rights Watch, we’ll hear stories
from HIV-positive people and activists as to what else needs to be done to
protect the rights and improve the life expectancy of those infected.
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November 24, 2006 Making Contact – November 24, 2006
This week on Making Contact, we profile three courageous women elders:
Australia’s Dr. Helen Caldicott, the premier spokesperson for the worldwide
anti-nuclear movement; Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers
of America; and Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for
organizing a non-violence movement in Northern Ireland.
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November 17, 2006 Making Contact – November 17, 2006
"We act as if there is one definition of good end of life care. And I would
argue there is no one definition. In the end, it¹s going to be many
definitions."
In the American health care system, "good end-of-life care" often supports
the white middle-class, but people of diverse religions, languages and races
often have very different needs and expectations. On this edition, producer
Claire Schoen looks at how miscommunication, stereotyping and racism
influence health care for people of color as they approach death.
Featuring:
Dr. Lavera Crawley, faculty member, Stanford University, The Center for
Biomedical Ethics; Norma del Rio, social worker and bereavement coordinator,
San Francisco Health at Home; Anne Hughes, advanced practice nurse for
palliative care, Laguna Honda Hospital; Tamara Liang, Self Help Homecare;
Evelyn Jordan, president, Florida Coalition on Hispanic Aging; Carmalita
Tursi, director, AARP’s National Diversity Program; Mrs. Sang, Chinese woman
who died of pancreatic cancer; Theresa Kwong, social worker, Self Help; Chui
Lee, nurse, Self Help; Teresa Bowannie, Zuni Home Health Care Agency; Dr.
Bruce Finke, consultant, Zuni Home Health Care Agency; Reverend Frank
Jackson, Faith Presbyterian Church; Regina Dyer, African-American woman who
died of breast cancer; Dr. Richard Payne, director, Duke University
Institute for Care at the End of Life.
Senior Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Contributing Freelance Producer: Claire Schoen
For more information:
ACCESS Workshop on Culturally Competent End of Life Care
1351 24th Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94122
800-240-7266
www.access2eolcare.org
VISIONS Inc.
48 Juniper Street
Roxbury, MA 02119
617-541-4100
http://www.visions-inc.org
Self Help for the Elderly Home Care & Hospice
407 Sansome Street
San Francisco, CA 94111-3122
415-677-7600
[email protected]
http://www.selfhelpelderly.org/
Zuni Home Health Care Agency
P.O. Box 339
1203 B State HWY 53
Zuni, NM 87327
505-782-5544
[email protected]
http://www.ashiwi.org/
North General Community Hospital
Harlem Palliative Care Network
1879 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10035
212-423-1431
http://www.vnsny.org
Heart-to-Heart
http://www.hearttoheartradio.org
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November 10, 2006 Making Contact – November 10, 2006
Americans can¹t afford health care. In the last four years, the cost has
increased more than 70 percent. Right now, more than 46 million people don¹t
have health insurance and that number continues to rise. The U.S. is the
only industrialized nation that does not guarantee universal health care.
As costs of insurance spiral out of control and the government continues to
pour money into Iraq, many people wonder how they are going to survive the
health care crisis in this country. Joshua Smith is an uninsured freelance
journalist, who traveled across the country to find out what others are
saying about the state of health care in the U.S.
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November 03, 2006 Making Contact – November 3, 2006
The evangelical right gets a lot of airtime on cable, radio, television and
in the mass media in general. But, a lot of the messages you hear are
distilled for a mainstream audience. So what’s really being said behind the
scenes? This week, Abby Scher takes us behind the scenes to the "Values
Voter Summit" in Washington, DC, where leaders of the Christian right
gathered to talk about gay marriage, abortion, and terrorism. With the
upcoming elections, evangelical right leaders say there are two wars America
is fighting: terrorism and the war for values.
Scher, editor of Public Eye, a publication that monitors the activities and
agenda of the Christian right, attended the summit in September 2006, along
with dozens of other liberal activists.
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October 27, 2006 Making Contact – October 27, 2006 at 1:30pm
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October 20, 2006 Making Contact – October 20, 2006
David Korten and The Great Turning
You wouldn’t have expected David Korten to raise any doubts about the global
economy and its ability to solve poverty and environmental damage if you
knew him in the 1980s. At that time, he was working for the U.S. Agency for
International Development, touting the benefits of international investment
in South East Asia. Then something changed.
Far from creating universal prosperity, Korten observed that the economic
models of the organizations he worked for were producing devastating
consequences for people and planet. In 1992 he wrote "When Corporations Rule
the World," his deeper examination of economic models that serve the
interests of wealthy people who are in the position to profit from global
corporations and financial markets.
His most recent book is, "The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth
Community." Korten argues that corporate consolidation of power is merely a
contemporary manifestation of what he calls "Empire." By Empire, he means,
"the organization of society by hierarchies of domination grounded in
violent chauvinisms of race, gender, religion, nationality, language, and
class." He says that as a result, our society is unraveling, whether you
look at climate change, dwindling fossil fuel supplies, environmental
degradation, or an unfair global economic system. According to Korten, we
cannot avoid the unraveling. We can, however, turn a potentially terminal
crisis into a new opportunity.
In May 2006, Korten spoke to an audience at the First Congregational Church
in Oakland, California, about why he thinks we’re on the cusp of a major
shift from a world dominated by economic values to one that embraces human
values.
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