On this week's Making Contact, we bring you a special encore of an episode that first aired in June. We'll hear an extended interview with Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, a queer Diné filmmaker and director of the award-winning documentary Powerlands, Powerlands traces how multinational energy corporations extract resources and profits while displacing and harming Indigenous communities around the world. The film follows Indigenous activists in Navajo Nation, Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines who are fighting back against corporations like Peabody Energy, Glencore and BHP.

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Featuring:

Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, an award-winning queer Diné filmmaker and director of Powerlands

Making Contact Team:

• Host: Lucy Kang
• Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang
• Executive Director: Jina Chung
• Engineer: Jeff Emtman

This episode includes excerpts from the documentary film Powerlands. Music: Documentary by Music_Unlimited

Learn More:

• Making Contact homepage
• Powerlands