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Making Contact
Human stories, historical context and dissenting voices you won’t hear elsewhere. Covering movements fighting for important social justice issues of our time. Producers Monica Lopez, Anita Johnston, and Salima Hamirani, join with our community storytelling fellows and freelancers from around the world bring you nuanced, sound-rich radio.
Let’s look behind the headlines to hear intersectional analysis, and stories of hope-filled grassroots community building from our people of color, queer, women and dissenters’ voices. Produced in Oakland and broadcast on 151 stations in the U.S. Canada and Australia.
On today’s show, we sit down with Kev Choice, a classically trained pianist, rapper, composer, and educator who has reshaped the Bay Area music scene. Raised in Oakland with San Francisco roots, Kev blends hip-hop, jazz, soul, and classical music into a unique sound. His latest EP, _All My Love_, explores themes of love, vulnerability, and human connection, with soulful melodies and reflective lyrics capturing the complexities of relationships. Through music and mentorship, Kev uses his platform to inspire change and elevate consciousness.
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Because of the fall of Roe v. Wade, we’re hearing a lot more about adoption as an alternative for women who find themselves with an unwanted pregnancy. Even before the momentous Supreme Court decision, media portrayals of adoption have always painted it as an easy ethical conclusion to a difficult circumstance. But the real, lived experiences of birth parents who give up their children for adoption have never been part of the conversation.
Do birth parents really see adoption as an alternative to abortion? Are they happy with their decision to relinquish their children? It turns out that for the most part, they’re not.
We talk to Samantha Gonzalez, a birth mother, and Gretchen Sisson, author of the book Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood.
GUESTS:
Samantha Gonzalez, a birth mother, and co-founder of Reproductive Justice in Adoption.
Gretchen Sisson, author of “Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood.”
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We’re in the homestretch to Election Day 2024. On today’s show, we dig into election mis- and disinformation and why so much of it is targeting immigrants this year.
GUESTS:
Amber Boydstun, professor and co-chair of the political science department at University of California, Davis.
Jaime Longoria, manager of research and training for the Disinfo Defense League.
Shiu-Ming Cheer, deputy director of immigrant and racial justice at the California Immigrant Policy Center.
The post Media, Disinfo, and Lies About Immigrants in the Race to Election Day appeared first on KPFA.
On the eve of a Presidential election being decided by a handful of swing states, we sit down with two women in Indiana to talk about what it takes to make progress in a place that is largely neglected by the national Democratic Party Machine. Dayna Colbert, Executive Director of the Hoosier Democratic Party, talks about their growing foothold, led by women. And, political podcaster Dana Black talks about how to maintain an authentic voice while working alongside the official Democratic Party.
GUESTS:
Dayna Colbert, Executive Director of Indiana Democratic Party
Dana Black, Political podcaster and public speaker
The post Progressive Women Are Shaping Indiana’s Political Future appeared first on KPFA.
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 wait times. And this isn’t just an inconvenience. People are dying from lack of care. Why is Puerto Rico’s health care system collapsing, and why are doctors fleeing the island?
We take a look at its deeply dysfunctional private medical system and why attempts to fix it and create a universal health care plan on the island are being hindered by Puerto Rico’s status as a U.S. colony. Its massive unpayable debt, held by investors in the U.S., means that it cannot make its own economic decisions, even when it affects the livelihood of poor Puerto Ricans living there. But there might be a fix: getting rid of Puerto Rico’s debt and rethinking its colonial relationship to the U.S.
GUESTS:
- Carolina (pseudonym used for privacy).
- Coral del Mar Murphy Marcos: journalist and author of an article on PR’s health care crisis.
- Paola (pseudonym used for privacy).
- Alberto Medina: Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora.
The post How the Legacy of Colonialism Keeps Puerto Rico’s Healthcare System in Shambles appeared first on KPFA.
On this week’s episode, we speak with Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar about his latest book, America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy. The book chronicles how a center of Black excellence emerged amid virulent expressions of white nationalism, as African Americans pushed back against Confederate ideology to create an extraordinary locus of achievement.
The post America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy (encore) appeared first on KPFA.
It’s been one year since October 7, 2023 and the start of Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza. On today’s show, we hear from journalist Rami Almeghari and other Palestinians about their experiences living through the war. Then, we dive into a conversation with author Norman Solomon about what mainstream coverage of the war is leaving out.
GUESTS:
- Rami Almeghari: Palestinian journalist in Gaza
- Norman Solomon: activist and author of War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine
- Tarneem, Ahmad, and Hamza Jaber: Palestinian siblings from Gaza The post Gaza, one year later appeared first on KPFA.
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Today’s episode of Making Contact is preempted by fall 2024 special fund drive programming.
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Today’s episode of Making Contact is preempted by a 2024 fall fund drive special.
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The attacks on Imane Khelif’s gender at this year’s 2024 Paris Olympics is not new. In fact, the focus on women’s appearance and gender expression goes back to the founding of the Olympics, the minute women entered elite sports.
We talk to Rose Eveleth, host and producer of the podcast Tested, about the history of sex testing in the Olympics; why it existed in the first place; why there’s no easy way to classify the natural, biological variation that exists in human beings; and why we might want to consider new ways of organizing athletes that is less sexist, racist, and more accepting of genders outside of a simple binary.
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The last few years have seen a wave of labor organizing, as it becomes more and more clear to workers that what they do is not expendable but actually the heart of every business. From walkouts to unionization, workers from Starbucks to Amazon to your local coffee shop have come together to build and exercise their power. In this episode, we explore the issues that led people to organize their workplaces, the ins and outs and ups and downs of the process, and the backlash.
On the forefront of the next labor revolution, we visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog, whose staff starts a union. Then we talk to Robert Chlala from the UCLA Labor Center about the rise in unionization efforts among service workers and the social and cultural ethos in a post lockdown country that have led to this new wave of the labor movement.
GUESTS:
Robert Chlala – Assistant Professor, CSU Long Beach & Visiting Researcher at UCLA Labor Center
Jessica Czarnecki, Sydney, Sophie, Kira – Workers at Little Dog Cafe
The post The Rise of the New Labor Movement (encore) appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s episode, we look more closely at two stories that underscore the importance of affordable housing.
First, we’ll examine what the recent Supreme Court ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson means for unhoused people who are living on the streets and how historical disinvestment in affordable and public housing has created our current homelessness wave.
Then, we’ll hear about the fight to legalize and preserve one important type of affordable housing units in New York City – basement apartments – and how the escalating impacts of climate change are making that campaign more urgent than ever.
GUESTS:
Paul Boden, executive director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project
Annetta Seecharran, executive director of Chhaya Community Development Corporation
The post We need affordable housing now! appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s episode, we speak with Bay-Area-based comedian, writer, and actor Karinda Dobbins about the release of her debut comedy album, Black & Blue. In Black & Blue, Karinda shares personal stories, finding humor in the most ordinary moments of her daily life, including her girlfriend’s arbitrary policy on household pests, the changes hipsters have brought to Oakland, and a Black woman’s unique packing list for hiking.
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In part 1 of our series on water in the Central Valley of California we visited a town called East Orosi, which has been fighting for clean water for over 20 years. This week we turn our attention to their sewage system, which is also falling apart. Why has it been so difficult for East Orosi to get clean drinking water and fix its sewage problems?
To answer that question we take a look at the entities that run things like sewage and water in unincorporated towns all across California. They’re called Community Utility Districts. Community Utility Districts are often one of the only forms of self governance in unincorporated towns. But they’re staffed by volunteers, they’re underfunded, and they’re trying to share a vital resource, water, which is also slowly disappearing in the San Joaquin Valley.
We talk about the problems with Community Utility Districts and ways to save them.
GUESTS:
Berta Diaz Ochoa – community member of East Orosi
Janaki Anagha – Director of Advocacy, Community Water Center
Kayla Vander Schuur – Community Development Specialist, Self Help Enterprises
Carlos Sanchez – board member of the East Orosi Community Utilities District
Maricela Mares-Alatorre – Community Solutions Advocate, Community Water Center
The post East Orosi’s Long Struggle for Water (part 2): The Role of Community Utility Districts appeared first on KPFA.
In the late 1990s, psychologist Dr. Joseph Gone, a professor and member of the Aaniiih Gros Ventre tribe, returned home during his doctoral training to the Fort Belknap Reservation in north central Montana. There, he set aside eurocentric concepts of psychology he was learning in school and instead asked tribal members how mental illness is addressed using traditional Indigenous practices. What he learned changed the trajectory of his career. Listen to find out how he helped bring precolonial cultural and spiritual practices into substance use disorder treatment in contemporary Indigenous settings.
GUEST:
Dr. Joseph Gone, psychologist and interdisciplinary social scientist at Harvard University and member of the Aaniiih-Gros Ventre tribal Nation of Montana.
The post Culture and Spirituality as Substance Use Treatment in Indigenous Communities appeared first on KPFA.
East Orosi hasn’t had safe drinking water in over 20 years. The water is full of nitrates, runoff from industrial agriculture, which is harmful to human health. The community has taken action to find a solution, from lobbying at the state capital to working with neighboring towns.
And they may finally have one. New California laws, passed in the last five years, have opened up funding to build water infrastructure in small towns like East Orosi. But even as laws and funding develop, implementation has been challenging.
We visit East Orosi and talk to Berta Diaz Ochoa about what it’s like living without clean drinking water and the solutions on the horizon. This is part one of a two part series.
GUESTS:
Susana De Anda – Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Community Water Center;
Berta Diaz Ochoa -East Orosi community member and organizer;
Cristobal Chavez – member of Community Water Center;
Janaki Anagha – Director of Advocacy, Community Water Center;
Jessi Synder – Director of Community Development, Self Help Enterprises;
Andrew Altevogt – Assistant Deputy Director of the State Water Resources Control Board.
The post East Orosi’s Struggle for Clean Drinking Water appeared first on KPFA.
Composer, pianist, and vocalist Samora Pinderhughes tells us about The Healing Project, a fundamentally abolitionist project, that explores the structures of systemic racism and the prison industrial complex. This story first aired February 2023.
The Healing Project takes action towards abolition with forms such as musical songs, films, community gatherings, live performances, an exhibition, and a digital library of audio interviews. At the center of the project are the intergenerational voices of people across the country, including folks incarcerated in prisons and detention centers. Their stories, experiences, and ideas serve as the foundation for The Healing Project’s vision for societal transformation.
The post The Healing Project: An Abolitionist Story (encore) appeared first on KPFA.
The vast majority of care recipients are exclusively receiving unpaid care from a family member, friend, or neighbor. The rest receive a combination of family care and paid assistance or receive exclusively paid formal care.
Whether you are a paid home care provider, or you rely on personal assistance to meet your daily needs, or you are a family member caring for a loved one, the nature of the working relationship depends on mutual respect and dignity. During this week’s anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, we’ll revisit the dynamic and complex relationship of care receiving and giving.
GUESTS:
- Camille Christian, home care provider and SEIU member
- Brenda Jackson, home care provider and SEIU member
- Patty Berne, co-founder and director, Sins Invalid
- Jessica Lehman, executive director, San Francisco Senior and Disability Action
- Kenzi Robi, president, San Francisco IHSS (In Home Supportive Services) Public Authority Governing Body
- Rachel Stewart, queer disabled woman passionate about disability and employment issues
- Alana Theriault, disability benefits counselor in Berkeley, California
- Ingrid Tischer, director of development, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF)
- Alta Mae Stevens, in-home caregiver
The post Caring Relationships: Negotiating Meaning and Maintaining Dignity (encore) appeared first on KPFA.
Inflammatory diseases are on the rise around the world; when left unaddressed, they can turn chronic. Now, doctors are finally starting to pay more attention. But why and when does a beneficial part of our immune system turn against us?
Raj Patel and Rupa Marya think it has a lot to do with the world we live in. They talk about climate change, ecological devastation, the collapse of our planet and what all that has to do with inflammation. Their thesis: our bodies are a mirror of a deeper disease in society and the environment. But there’s still hope. They point a way back to health via Deep Medicine, which is the quest to reignite our commitment to the web of life and our place in it.
GUESTS:
Tré Vasquez, Co-director/collective member at Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project
Raj Patel, author, academic, journalist, activist
Rupa Marya, author, Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition
The post Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (encore) appeared first on KPFA.
Kids are coming out as LGBTQ+ younger than ever, making their identities more politicized than ever before. Hateful political rhetoric and discriminatory laws are likely contributing to the poor mental health documented among LGBTQ+ kids.
In an effort to combat these struggles, researchers are studying what works to keep kids healthy, happy, and alive. In this episode, we discuss data around what may help prevent suicidality among Black trans youth, and we hear about a program helping parents learn how to support their LGBTQ+ kids by changing their own behavior.
GUESTS:
Dr. Myeshia Price, Associate Professor at Indiana University in the Human Development program within the Department of Counseling & Educational Psychology and Associate Research Scientist with the Kinsey Institute.
Flomichelle Battles, Interim Executive Director of Trans Solutions Research and Resource Center.
Dr. Caitlin Ryan, Director of the Family Acceptance Project.
The post Family Matters: What Helps Black Trans Kids Thrive appeared first on KPFA.
In 2023, Kirin Clawson’s endocrinologist placed a puberty-blocking implant in her arm, a medical intervention that is associated with improved mental health for many trans kids with gender dysphoria. In February, Indiana joined several other conservative states banning this treatment for minors. In the first of a two-part series, we hear from the Clawson family how the ban has impacted their family. Then we hear from psychologist, Dr. Myeshia Price about how all adults in the lives of children can support gender diverse youth, despite increasing discriminatory anti-trans laws aimed at kids.
GUESTS:
The Clawson family, including Beth, mother and child health worker; Nathaniel, father and project manager; and their children Kirin, Max, and Izzy.
Dr. Myeshia Price is an Associate Professor at Indiana University in the Human Development program within the Department of Counseling & Educational Psychology and Associate Research Scientist with the Kinsey Institute.
Bradford Barrett is an Indiana State House Representative.
The post Family Matters: How Communities Support Trans Kids in Conservative States appeared first on KPFA.
Caste — one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world — is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is perpetrated against a Dalit person. The average age of death for Dalit women is just 39. And the wreckages of caste are replicated here in the U.S. as well, erupting online with rape and death threats, showing up at work, and forcing countless Dalits to live in fear of being outed.
Dalit-American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan puts forth a call to awaken and act, not just for readers in South Asia, but all around the world. She ties Dalit oppression to fights for liberation among Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective.
Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a Dalit American artist, organizer, technologist, and theorist and the author of The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition. Currently, Thenmozhi is the Executive Director of Equality Labs.
The post The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation appeared first on KPFA.
What does it mean to disclose and divest? We take a look at the demands behind the student encampments for Palestine and talk to Kelly Grotke about endowments. Then, we take a trip back in time with Andrea Pritchett, who was a part of the encampments in the 1980s against South African Apartheid.
The post Disclose! Divest!: Behind the Fight Over College Endowments appeared first on KPFA.
What are borders, and why do we have them? How is violent border enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border connected to Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza? What happens when borders cross living land and communities?
We dig into these questions with the help of Heba Gowayed, sociology professor at CUNY Hunter College and Graduate Center. Then we hear a story about one time when the natural boundary between two countries changed — and what happened to the people caught on the other side.
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Today’s Making Contact is preempted by special spring fund drive programming.
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Today’s Making Contact is preempted by the following:
C.S. Soong interviews Nate Powell about his graphic adaptation of James W. Loewen’s book Lies My Teacher Told Me.
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On this week’s show, we tell the story of two women: one who fled Shanghai during Mao’s Chinese Revolution, and the other who escaped the Bolshevik Revolution and Ukrainian pogroms. We hear the stories they told their families years later and the trauma they held close, in order to allow the next generation to heal.
The post Uncovering the Refugee Experience & Healing Through Storytelling (encore) appeared first on KPFA.
The pandemic exposed stark inequalities around the world, especially in terms of vaccine access, leading to the deaths of untold thousands in the global south. Amid ongoing challenges, activists and scientists continue to push for broader healthcare equity, navigating patent barriers to ensure fairer access to essential medicines.
GUESTS:
Fatima Hassan – Human rights lawyer and founder of Health Justice Initiative
Piotr Kolczynski – EU Health Policy & Advocacy Advisor for The People’s Vaccine Alliance
Achal Prabhala – Researcher and coordinator of the AccessIBSA project
Petro Terblanche – Managing Director of Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines
The post Survival for All: Securing Vaccines for the Global South appeared first on KPFA.
How does anyone make sense of abortion access these days? On today’s show, we sit down with All Options Pregnancy Resource Center in Bloomington, Indiana to talk about what’s changed since Indiana’s full abortion ban went into effect last August. We learn about ways folks are getting access to abortion pills, what to expect from a self-managed abortion, and about the case in the Supreme Court now — whether the pill Mifepristone will still be legal to use for abortions, even in states where abortion care is protected.
GUESTS:
Dr. Melissa Madera – Founder of Abortion Diary Podcast, Choix Telehealth team member, Researcher on Project SANA team, Special Projects Consultant for Plan C Pills
Jessica Marchbank – State Programs Manager at All Options Pregnancy Resource Center in Bloomington, Indiana
The post You Can Still Have An Abortion appeared first on KPFA.
The history of Point Reyes National Seashore, one of the most iconic national parks in northern California, is a story about how the forces of colonialism changed and now continue to shape the fate of public lands in the United States and the campaigns waged to fight back and protect Indigenous land.
On today’s show, we dive into this story, considering the legacy left by the waves of colonization that violently upended the lives of the Coast Miwok peoples who lived there, and one Indigenous woman’s struggle to preserve her family history.
Guest:
Theresa Harlan (Kewa Pueblo/Jemez Pueblo), adopted daughter of Elizabeth Campigli Harlan (Coast Miwok), founder and executive director of The Alliance for Felix Cove
The post The Coast Miwok Peoples, Colonization, and the Preservation of Indigenous History (encore) appeared first on KPFA.
On this week’s episode, we speak with Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar about his latest book, America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy. The book chronicles how a center of Black excellence emerged amid virulent expressions of white nationalism, as African Americans pushed back against Confederate ideology to create an extraordinary locus of achievement.
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In this episode, Gaza-based reporter Rami Almeghari talks with Rashid Khalidi, Historian and Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, about his book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. They discuss the very early history of the zionist movement in Palestine and Khalidi’s argument that it was, from the start, a settler-colonial endeavor.
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March marks four years since the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health failures and government inaction have forced communities to take matters into their own hands. On today’s show, we look at two groups steeped in the values of community care: the Auntie Sewing Squad and Pandemic Solidarity for the Long Future.
GUESTS:
Kristina Wong – founder of the Auntie Sewing Squad
J Mase III – organizer with Pandemic Solidarity for the Long Future
Gata – organizer with Pandemic Solidarity for the Long Future
The post No, COVID Isn’t Over, and the Need for Continued Community appeared first on KPFA.
Today we share excerpts from “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a documentary filled with stories that still resonate today as women face new challenges around reproductive rights and sexual violence. The documentary tells the stories of the activists of the Women’s Liberation Movement that gained traction in the late 1960s and led to social and policy changes that set women on a path towards equality and reproductive justice. It also addresses the intersections of race and gender and the experiences of the Black women who were integral to this movement. Ultimately, this film is about activists, those who inspire, organize, and revolutionize the world by changing the standards and broadening what we think is possible.
The post Reproductive Justice: The Ongoing Struggle for Bodily Autonomy (encore) appeared first on KPFA.
What does equity really mean? That might be an impossible question to answer objectively, but in this encore episode Ruchika Tulshyan, a workplace inclusion expert, and Ijeoma Oluo, a thought leader on race in America, discuss the subtle and overt ways white supremacy and anti-Blackness impact our experiences at work.
GUESTS:
Ruchika Tulshyan – Inclusion strategist, speaker and author of the bestseller Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work.
Ijeoma Oluo – Speaker and writer, author of the New York Times bestseller, So You Want to Talk About Race.
The post Who’s Afraid of DEI? : Interrogating Gender & Race in the Workplace (encore) appeared first on KPFA.
This week’s show is preempted by special fund drive programming.
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Today’s episode is preempted by special KPFA Winter Fund Drive programming.
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On this special fund drive show, Brian Edwards-Tiekert talks with David Walker about Frederick Douglass and about the history of the Black Panther party.
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Today, we continue celebrating Black history and heritage with a special encore episode honoring an often forgotten civil rights figure, Bayard Rustin. The organizer of the 1963 march on Washington, Rustin was a trusted advisor to labor leader A. Phillip Randolph and to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As a gay man, a pacifist, and a practitioner of nonviolence, Rustin dedicated his life to racial equality, economic justice, and ending warfare. This episode combines film excerpts, insightful interviews, and speeches from this important contributor to the civil rights movement, who envisioned and organized for the best future.
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When Oklahoma passed a law limiting discussion of race in classrooms, Tulsa activist Kristi Williams rallied the community to create Black History Saturdays. Now, she says entire families are learning who they are by knowing where they come from.
GUESTS:
Kristi Williams – Tulsa activist and Founder of Black History Saturdays
Bracken Klar – Co-Executive Producer of Focus: Black Oklahoma, Vice-President of Tulsa’s Tri-City Collective
Carlos Moreno – member of Tulsa’s Tri-City Collective, journalist and author of The Victory of Greenwood and A Kid’s Book About the Tulsa Race Massacre
The post Tulsa’s Black History Saturday School appeared first on KPFA.
Black Wall Street, or the historically Black neighborhood Greenwood, Oklahoma is the site of a once prosperous, thriving, Black community. It is also the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a violent attack waged by white supremacists, killing hundreds of residents and leveling homes and businesses.
In this, second episode of our three-part Black History Month series, we discuss how the community rebuilt. In fact, Greenwood’s economic heyday came 20 years later, in the 1940s. Then came the 1950s-60s, when Urban Renewal projects gave the city of Tulsa federal funds to buy out Black landowners. This loss of ownership undercut Greenwood’s very existence. Now, Greenwood Okies, pulling from their history, are building Tulsa’s future, despite continued discrimination.
Guests:
Bracken Klar – Co-Executive Producer of “Focus: Black Oklahoma,” Vice-President of Tulsa’s Tri-City Collective
Carlos Moreno – member of Tulsa’s Tri-City Collective, journalist, and author of The Victory of Greenwood and A Kid’s Book About the Tulsa Race Massacre
Trey Thaxton – CEO and Founder of Goldmill Co. and Greenwood Ave.
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In the first of our three-part series leading up to Black History Month, we discuss how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Race Massacre. We hear from KalaLea, host of the critically acclaimed podcast Blindspot: Tulsa Burning. This series tells the story of the rise of Greenwood, a prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, also known as Black Wall Street.
We also hear from Bracken Klar and Carlos Moreno of Tulsa’s Tri-City Collective and the radio show Focus: Black Oklahoma, produced in partnership with KOSU. They discuss current efforts to better understand not just the tragedy of the event but also the success of the neighborhood before and after the attack.
The post Uncovering the History of the Massacre of Black Wall Street (encore) appeared first on KPFA.
Oppenheimer swept the Golden Globes, but what did it leave out? We talk with Myrriah Gómez, author of the book Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos, about the impact of nuclear colonialism on New Mexico. Then we dig into how nuclear testing during the Cold War led to dangerous and lasting contamination in the Marshall Islands and San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.
The post Nuclear Colonialism and the Story “Oppenheimer” Didn’t Tell appeared first on KPFA.
The problem in America is, America’s been in denial about its problems. And that’s a problem.
America doesn’t have a race problem, in reality we’ve had catastrophes visited on Black people. Catastrophes visited on Indigenous brothers and sisters. Catastrophes visited on Latino brothers and sisters. Catastrophes visited on working people. Catastrophes visited on women of all colors. We can go on and on.
This week on Making Contact, we bring you a talk from noted author, scholar, and self-described intellectual freedom fighter, Dr. Cornel West speaking at the Guild Theater in Sacramento, California in 2023. In his discussion, West uses America’s music legacy as a way to explore catastrophic conditions brought on by our denial of the funk, seen through the impacts of racism on the nation’s health.
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On the forefront of the next labor revolution, we visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers are starting to organize a union. Then we talk to Robert Chala from the UCLA Labor Center about the rise in unionization efforts among service workers.
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In this final episode of four-part series, But Next Time, our guest hosts, Chrishelle Palay and Rose Arrieta take us to Houston to continue the story of the housing-justice organizers fighting for a safer, stronger future.
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Today in Houston, Texas, we meet a group of moms who stand up for local housing policies that keep families of color trapped in unsafe homes for years. Then we hear from leaders in Puerto Rico who have been resisting and rebuilding in the wake of ongoing disaster.
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Today’s show is preempted by a special holiday fund drive broadcast. Making Contact will resume its usual schedule on December 22, 2023.
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Today’s show is preempted by a special holiday fund drive broadcast. Making Contact will resume its usual schedule on December 22, 2023.
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For weeks, the world has been witness to Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza. Today, we uncover the military corporations profiting from the war, and we highlight the activism in every corner of the world in support of Palestine. We’ll get insight on the conditions on the ground in Gaza before zooming out to look at Israel’s military industrial complex and how the United States has been enabling genocide, through policymaking and the defense industry. But activists are taking aim and taking action. We close with a discussion on the Palestinian liberation movement from an abolitionist perspective.
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Today’s show tells the story of how locals in Buenos Aires came together to feed each other through a pandemic with community kitchens and how innovative architecture can facilitate communal living and modular food preparation.
We travel to Buenos Aires with reporter Rosina Castillo who immerses us in the culture of a local community arts organization who saw a need in their community and took action during the height of the pandemic. La Casona de Humahuaca transformed their operations to host ollas populares (community kitchens) to help support their community and make it through the toughest parts of COVID together, all the while learning more about their organization and purpose in the community.
We follow that with a conversation with Belen Desmaison, an architect and urbanist who discusses the building of an innovative communal living space with modular food preparation areas in Lima, Peru.
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On this week’s Making Contact, we bring you a special encore of an episode that first aired in June: an extended interview with Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, a queer Din 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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Brookside is a small town in Alabama where police used a civil war-era state loophole to create a traffic ticketing nightmare for residents and generate piles of cash for the local government. After years of abuse, the people are fighting back.
Just 20 minutes north of Birmingham on Interstate 22, Brookside is a working-class town with less than 1,300 residents. From 2018 to 2020, income from traffic fines and forfeitures increased 640%, making up 49% of the towns revenue. In 2019, Brookside saw its first lawsuit that included allegations of racism and police misconduct. It caught national attention for being a predatory speed trap in 2022 and now facing a class-action federal lawsuit.
GUESTS:
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Archibald;Brookside residents Sandra Harris and Ashley;
Alabama Appleseeds Research Director Leah Nelson;
Birmingham criminal and civil rights lawyer Bill Dawson, head of the Jefferson County Public Defenders
Thank you to our podcast partner, 70 Million, for the story Highway Robbery: How a Small-Town Traffic Trap Became A Legal Black Hole.
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As we head into a ever warming world, some experts and politicians are embracing a possible solution to climate change called geoengineering. Theoretically geoengineering could slow down climate change, stop it, and maybe even remove carbon from the air. It sounds like the perfect answer in for a global political system that just can’t stop burning fossil fuels even if it kills us all. However, it might not be the easy fix we’re hoping for.
We talk to scientists and activists about what geoengineering is and why it could actually be a dangerous way to tackle climate change. We also dive into the moral and ethical questions of testing geoengineering technology on indigenous lands.
GUESTS:
Basav Sen, Climate Justice Project Director at the Institute for Policy Studies
Dr. Steven Zornetzer, Vice-Chair, Governing Board of Arctic Ice Project
Panganga Pungowiyi, organizer for the nonprofit Indigenous Environmental Network in Alaska
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How do you decide what kind of parent you want to be? Our friends at Pulso Podcast, Maribel Quezada Smith and Liz Alarcón, discuss ways they maintain their children’s cultural identity as Latinos while living in the U.S. They also touch on what they have changed from how their immigrant parents raised them. In the second half, Liz sits down with Latinx parenting coach Leslie Priscilla to talk about her work using an antiracist, anticolonial, and child-centered lens.
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Dive into the history of Point Reyes National Seashore with us, an area in northern California known for rugged sweeping beaches and tule elk. We’ll recount the history of this land and the waves of colonization that violently upended the lives of the Coast Miwok peoples who lived there — and one Indigenous woman’s struggle to preserve her family history.
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In this special encore edition of Making Contact, we present Saltwater Soundwalk: Indigenous Audio Tour of the Seattle Coast. Produced by Jenny Asarnow and Rachel Lam, this rhythmic, watery audio experience, streams of stories that ebb and flow, intermixing English with Coast Salish languages. Indigenous Coast Salish peoples continue to steward this land and preserve its language, despite settler colonialism, industrialization, and gentrification. Part story, part sound collage, this piece is scored entirely with the sounds of the waters and animals who live in and around the Salish Sea.
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On today’s show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a small town in Alabama, where an eager new police chief, unsuspecting motorists, and a state-mandated loophole converged to create a nightmare for local residents”and generate piles of cash for the local government.
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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 an organization called the Romance Writers of America, which is still unfolding. And although the online debate seemed to be isolated to a specific community of romance writers and their fans, it was really a microcosm of what’s been happening all over the US. We learn all about romance novels and how newer writers are changing the norms of the genre, and giving it a political power it’s never had before. And, we talk about what it means for organizations to change as they grapple with questions of race, including organizations such as ours, at Making Contact. The post The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 2 (Encore) – Making Contact – August 11, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
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 an organization called the Romance Writers of America, which is still unfolding. And although the online debate seemed to be isolated to a specific community of romance writers and their fans, it was really a microcosm of what’s been happening all over the US. In this episode we learn all about romance novels and how newer writers are changing the norms of the genre, and giving it a political power it’s never had before. And, we talk about what it means for organizations to change as they grapple with questions of race. The post THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY: RACE AND THE FUTURE OF THE LOVE STORY PART 1 (ENCORE) – Making Contact – August 4, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Covering the movements, issues and people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang. Sign up for program alerts and sneak peeks from Making Contact at: http://ow.ly/1FkV30aq1z2 The post Special Fund Drive Programming – Making Contact – July 28, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
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This week we hear from artist Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes about The Healing Project, an abolitionist art exhibition. The work explores the structures of systemic racism, particularly the prison industrial complex in the U.S. and takes multiple forms including music, films, community gatherings, and live performances. A digital library of audio interviews centers the project. The stories, experiences, and ideas from intergenerational individuals across the country, including folks who are incarcerated form the foundation for The Healing Projects vision for societal transformation. The post The Healing Project: An Abolitionist Story (Encore) – Making Contact – July 14, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
The Silicon Valley Bank collapse brings with it memories of the wider 2008 economic crisis. Jeet Heer and John Nichols from The Nation join us to discuss the 2018 bank deregulations that set the stage for this moment and the risky investment strategy at the bank itself. They argue that bailout and FDIC’s role in the collapse could set the stage for a dangerous economic future. The post What the SVB Failure Teaches us About Investment Banking – Making Contact – July 7, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
In the mid 1990s, the Reproductive Justice movement was formed by Black and indigenous women as a response to the limitations of the “reproductive rights” movement. Movement leaders argue, “rarely do we find ourselves fighting for just one aspect of reproductive justice such as abortion rights” – SisterSong. Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, scholar and writer, joined us to talk about her book Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines, her experience being a teenager during the formation of the Reproductive Justice Movement and what she’s reading now to inform this moment. The post Revolutionary Mothering and Reproductive Justice – Making Contact – June 30, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
On this week’s Making Contact, we feature an extended interview with Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, a queer Din 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. The post Powerlands – Making Contact – June 23, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Long Description: This week on Making Contact, we bring you a story of urban planning and how race has shaped American cities. In a new book, Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption, Author Mitchell Schwarzer explores the origins and the lasting impacts of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oakland’s built environment. Schwarzer, an architectural and urban historian, pulls from his experience as a city planner, and educator to tell the story of a city divided. The post A History of Development and Disruption – Making Contact – June 16, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
It’s a lesser-known case in the docket for the Supreme Court, but if The Indian Child Welfare Act is overturned, it could have massive implications for the laws that govern Indigenous sovereignty in the United States. We talk with author and activist Rebecca Nagle about the case of Baby O and the Librettis and how their story led to Halaand v. Brakeen. But, we also investigate the money and interests behind the lawsuit. There’s a lot at stake. Maybe even the very nature of tribal laws, which were enshrined in the constitution itself. Though there are real Native children at the heart of the lawsuit, the overturning of ICWA is not just a custody battle. Covering the movements, issues and people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang. Sign up for program alerts and sneak peeks from Making Contact at: http://ow.ly/1FkV30aq1z2 The post The Fight Over the Indian Child Welfare Act Is Not Just A Custody Battle (ENCORE) – Making Contact – June 9, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Federal food programs, like WIC, face big changes coming out of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. Meanwhile, a single moms collective in Ohio holds it down for the single pregnant and parenting people in their community. Motherful’s resource pantry serves their 325-strong membership out of a garage three times a week. We talk to members and founders to learn what’s it’s like to participate, how it all started and where food justice is headed for them now and in their wildest dreams. The post Well Nourished: How Mutual Aid is Transforming Food Security for Single Moms in Ohio – Making Contact – June 2, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
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Grand juries are supposed to safeguard against the government charging people with a crime when it lacks sufficient evidence. But because prosecutors control what happens in grand jury proceedings, they almost always get an indictment. That is, unless the accused is a police officer. This week on Making Contact, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a case of police brutality in Dallas that evaporated after going before a grand jury in an edited version of “Grand Juries, The Black Box of Justice Reform?”
Featuring
- Parker Nevilles, Jantzen Verastique, Dondi Morse – protestors targeted by police
- Ric Simmons, Professor, The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law
- Roger Rudloff, police officer
- Unidentified Police Officer
- David Henderson, civil rights attorney
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The Silicon Valley Bank collapse brings with it memories of the wider 2008 economic crisis. Jeet Heer and John Nichols from The Nation join us to discuss the 2018 bank deregulations that set the stage for this moment and the risky investment strategy at the bank itself. They argue that bailout and FDIC’s role in the collapse could set the stage for a dangerous economic future.
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Since Roe V. Wade was overturned last summer, it’s harder than ever to access abortion services. But it’s never been easy in the rural midwest and southern states, even when Roe was the law of the land. We sat down with staff at All Options Pregnancy Resource Center in Bloomington, Indiana to talk about how they handle an increase in need for funding the rising cost of abortion.
They do a lot, but there’s one thing they can’t do. They can’t talk to clients about self-managed abortion, even though experts at the World Health Organization say it’s safe and effective.
While abortion is debated in the American court system, we talk with researcher Dr. Melissa Madera to learn about the ways folks are getting access to abortion pills, what to expect from a self-managed abortion and what people should know about the risk of criminalization.
Featuring:
- Dr. Manjulaa Narasimhan: Scientist, Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization
- Dr. Melissa Madera: Founder of Abortion Diary Podcast, Choix Telehealth team member, Researcher on Project SANA team, Special Projects Consultant for Plan C Pills
- Jessica Marchbank: State Programs Manager at All Options Pregnancy Resource Center in Bloomington, Indiana
- Loretta Ross: Activist, Public Intellectual, Professor, Calling In movement maker, Co-founder of Sister Song, A Godmother to reproductive justice & survivor advocate
- Wes: Bloomington resident and volunteer at All Options Pregnancy Resource Center
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