Cruelty for Profit: How Private Companies Built the Immigrant Prison Industrial Complex
This week we're discussing private ownership of immigration detention facilities. The same companies that run private, for-profit prisons ar...
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20 of 875 episodesNobody Told Them: Veterans and the Broken Handoff
Veterans leave the military having earned health care, education benefits, and job training. What almost nobody tells them is that none of i...
Passing the Torch to Pacifica
For over 30 years, Making Contact has been bringing you grassroots voices and context, to better understand the world and the people who are...
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. Raise...
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 geoengineerin...
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...
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 sweep...
Mexicans Confronting Racism: Aztec Myths to Modern Stereotypes (Encore)
There's an idea in Mexico that racism doesn't exist, that all Mexicans are "mestizo" – a homogenous blend of Spanish and indigenous. But cul...
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...
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 year...
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....
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 p...
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 wi...
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...
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 ab...
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 activist...
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...
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 generation...
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 incredibl...
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 sin...