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Archive for 2002


House of Cards: The Affordable Housing Crisis

Wednesday, October 16th, 2002

Nowhere in the United States can a full-time minimum wage worker afford to rent a two bedroom apartment. This is the conclusion, for the fourth year in a row, of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.


Unwrapping Plastic: A Look at Food and Beverage Containers

Wednesday, October 9th, 2002

On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the production, use, and disposal of plastic food and beverage containers.


Prisoners of Conscience: Civil Disobedience and the S.O.A.

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2002

On this program we take a look at the School of the Americas, and a broad-based movement of human rights activists and religious groups that’s organizing to shut down the institute.


Growing Doubts: Corporate Control of Agriculture

Wednesday, September 25th, 2002

On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the plight of family farmers.


Leading the Way: Post 9/11 Student Activism

Wednesday, September 18th, 2002

On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at an emerging anti-war movement and some of the challenges students face in this post 9/11 era. This program is the second in a two-part series that was produced in collaboration with Foreign Policy in Focus, a co-sponsor of the First Monday Project 2002.


Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorists

Wednesday, September 11th, 2002

On this edition of Making Contact we take a look at this and other questions, as we examine civil liberties in this post-9/11 era. This program is the first in a two-part series that was produced in collaboration with Foreign Policy in Focus, a co-sponsor of the First Monday Project 2002.


Warnings from the Coal Fields

Wednesday, September 4th, 2002

On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the impacts of a common practice in the coal industry known as “mountain top removal.”


Tapping the Market: Privatizing the World’s Water Supply

Wednesday, August 28th, 2002

On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at water privatization in South Africa, Ghana, Bolivia, and the United States.


Ripple Effects: Consequences of the U.S. War on Terrorism

Wednesday, August 21st, 2002

There have been many intended and unintended consequences of what the U.S. government calls the War on Terrorism.


In the U.S. Cross Hairs: Iraq and the Threat of War

Wednesday, August 14th, 2002

On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at U.S. policy on Iraq, its impacts on the Iraqi people, and whether the U.S. is justified to go to war there.



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