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Making Contact
"Making Contact" digs into the story beneath the story—contextualizing the narratives that shape our culture. Produced by Frequencies of Change Media (FoC Media), the award-winning radio show and podcast examines the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground, building a more just w...
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The Ethical Dilemma of Geoengineering & Global Warming (Encore)
As we head into an ever warming world, some experts and politicians are embracing a possible solution to climate change called geoengineering. Theoret...
Powerlands (Encore)
On this week's Making Contact, we feature an extended interview with Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, a queer Diné filmmaker and director of the award-winn...
The Coast Miwok Peoples, Colonization, and the Preservation of Indigenous History (Encore)
Dive into the history of Point Reyes National Seashore, one of the most iconic parks in northern California, with us. Known for rugged sweeping beache...
28-26 "Mexicans Confronting Racism: Aztec myths to modern stereotypes"
There's an idea in Mexico that racism doesn't exist, that all Mexicans are "mestizo" – a homogenous blend of Spanish and indigenous. But cultural work...
Juristac and the Amah Mutsun: Indigenous Resistance and Regeneration (Encore)
In this episode, we take a deep dive into Indigenous resistance against extractivism and the forces behind climate change. We'll look at an underrepor...
Thirsting for Justice (Part 2): East Orosi's Long Struggle for Water: The Role of Community Utility Districts (Encore)
Last week, we visited a community in California's Central Valley called East Orosi, which has been fighting for clean water for over 20 years. This we...
Thirsting for Justice (Part 1): East Orosi's Struggle for Clean Drinking Water (Encore)
In 2012, the state of California declared water a human right. Yet nearly 400 water systems don't meet the state's drinking water standards. In the Ce...
Reclaiming Indianapolis's Black History from Urban Roots (encore)
Today we head back to Indianapolis with the podcast Urban Roots.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Ms. Jean Spears was a young mother and burgeoning prese...
A Making Contact Pride Show! (encore)
To celebrate Pride Month, we have a special show featuring stories from the Making Contact archives. We'll revisit the Stonewall Uprising with the 198...
Staying in the Fight with Ijeoma Oluo, from In the Meanwhile
In this special guest episode from the podcast In the Meanwhile, co-hosts Marcus Harrison Green and Nora Kenworthy sit down with author and activist I...
Mabuhay: Welcome to Little Manila in Queens (Encore)
For AAPI Heritage Month, we bring you an encore of our 2023 episode "Seeing Signs." With help from the Queens Memory Podcast, we'll learn about "Littl...
Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental Health at the Root of Activism (encore)
Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health. The issues these activists work on...
Radical Therapy (Encore)
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we bring you a story at the intersection of therapy, healing and social justice. We'll hear about one thera...
A History of Traditional Root Healing (Encore)
In some parts of the world, traditional herbal remedies are the norm. When we think of natural remedies we tend to think of older generations living i...
How the Legacy of Colonialism Keeps Puerto Rico's Healthcare System in Shambles (Encore)
Almost half of Puerto Rico's doctors have fled the island over the past decade, leading to a lack of specialists and treatment and incredibly long wai...
Well Nourished: How Mutual Aid is Transforming Food Security for Single Moms in Ohio (Encore)
Federal food programs, like WIC, face big changes coming out of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. Meanwhile, a single moms c...
The Calling (Encore)
For Black Maternal Health Week, we celebrate the important work that Black midwives do in their communities. In this week's show, we'll hear a convers...
Indigenous Intervention: Using Culture in Indigenous Substance Abuse Treatment (Encore)
In the late 1990s, psychologist Dr. Joseph Gone, a professor and member of the Aaniiih Gros Ventre tribe, returned home during his doctoral training t...
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (Encore)
On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs (27 June 1915-5 October 2015).
Through the lens of the...
Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment from Lost Women of Science (Encore)
Dr. Flemmie Kittrell was a Black home economist whose research in the field of early childhood education shaped the way we think about child developme...
Buried History: The Woman Who Created the Home Pregnancy Test
In 1965 Margaret Crane was a young designer creating packaging for a pharmaceutical company when a scientist gave her a tour of the lab. Looking at th...
Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, America's First Black Female Public Health Pioneer (Encore)
Dr. Rebecca Crumpler was the first Black woman to become a physician in the United States. Working in the aftermath of the Civil War, she made immense...
I Am Not Your Negro (Encore)
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examinatio...
Remembering Fred Hampton (Encore)
Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of Ham...
Giving Bayard Rustin His Flowers (Encore)
On today's show, we take a look at the life and legacy of a central organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, Bayard Rustin. Rustin was an openly gay...
A Dream Remembered? Martin Luther King Jr and the Grassroots Civil Rights Movement (Encore)
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th 1963, at the March on Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of the most famous speeche...
Origin Story: Making Contact | 30th Anniversary Capsule
From its birthplace in an Oakland cafe in 1994 to the Battle in Seattle, international reporting projects, and a deep commitment to social justice jou...
The Cost of Deportations | 30th Anniversary Capsule
About two million Guatemalans live in the US. But, half of those here lack legal status, and tens of thousands of Guatemalans are deported back to the...
In the Shadow of the Wall: From Gaza to Arizona | 30th Anniversary Capsule
In dozens of countries around the world, millions of people live beside border walls. These heavily militarized and closely watched areas can be dange...
Trade Shifts: Reflections on the Seattle WTO Protests | 30th Anniversary Capsule
On November 30th, 1999, tens of thousands of people shook the streets of Seattle, Washington, in protest of the World Trade Organization. The WTO symb...
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story
In 2019 a well known romance writer began tweeting about other writers in her community and concerns about racism. It led to a huge reckoning within a...
Family Matters: How Communities Support Trans Kids in Conservative States (Encore)
In 2023, Kirin Clawson's endocrinologist placed a puberty-blocking implant in her arm, a medical intervention that is associated with improved mental...
How The First Home Pregnancy Test Was Born (Encore)
In 1965 Margaret Crane was a young designer creating packaging for a pharmaceutical company when a scientist gave her a tour of the lab. Looking at th...
Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment from Lost Women of Science (Encore)
Dr. Flemmie Kittrell was a Black home economist whose research in the field of early childhood education shaped the way we think about child developme...
Disability Visibility: Celebrating the Voice of Alice Wong
This episode honors the life and legacy of Alice Wong (Mar 27, 1974-Nov 14, 2025). We start the show with the Making Contact segment she produced in 2...
Exposed Part 2: the Human Radiation Experiments at Hunter's Point from SF Public Press
In Episode 2 of "Exposed" from our friends at San Francisco Public Press, we explore a little-known chapter in San Francisco's nuclear era: human exp...
Exposed Part 1: the Human Radiation Experiments at Hunter's Point from SF Public Press (Encore)
Today we present the first half of a two-part radio documentary from our friends at SF Public Press, "Exposed," opening a window into the little-known...
Kev Choice: Love, Growth, and the Power of Music (Encore)
We sit down with Kev Choice, a classically trained pianist, rapper, composer, and educator, who has reshaped the Bay Area music scene. Raised in Oakla...
The Way Home (Encore)
To mark Indigenous People's Day, we'll hear two stories about communities working with food to revitalize identity and ancestry. First, we speak to Ma...
Criminalized Survival (Encore)
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, so we are revisiting a show from our archives about criminalized survival, the criminal justice...