Help Us Meet Our Challenge Match! (December 2010)
“I cried when I heard Making Contact airing my poetry and interview. I have been searching for a place where I can tell my story – as a Black woman, as an ex-prisoner, and as an artist and teacher in Ohio. Making Contact is that outlet for me and others like me.”  -Angelina Jackson

Give to the Future You Want to Create (December 2010)
This year, give to the future you want to create. When you donate to Making Contact, you support free radio programs that highlight positive solutions and community organizing that makes a difference.

To Be Hopeful in Hard Times (November 2010)
The recent elections underscore the importance of Making Contact. Through our radio programming, we help cut through the spin of corporate media.

Recent Shows: From Hydro-fracking to Police Accountability (August 2010)

From Arizona’s anti-immigrant racial profiling law to the BP oil catastrophe, we’re responding with programs that go beyond the headlines, focusing on the voices of communities in resistance. Please listen and let us know what you think! Comment on our website and Facebook page, and send us your story ideas.

Mini Social Forum in Portola Valley (July 2010)
Highly energized by the networking, hope and determination at the recent US Social Forum in Detroit, Making Contact is bringing that spirit back home.

Spring 2010 (April)

Making Contact is going to Detroit this June to share skills at the Allied Media Conference, and to broadcast the grassroots voices converging for the U.S. Social Forum (USSF). Detroit is a harbinger city that exposes our deindustrialized economy, yet illuminates the resiliency of our communities to build sustainable systems out of the rust and rubble.

Winter 2010 (February)
This year started with a jolt and our heads are swirling with voices from Haiti. We hope our program, “The Crisis Made in Haiti,” fosters conversations between you and the Making Contact community. Also, our team created new tools for you to engage with online. Check them out.

Fall 2009 (November)

News these days creates a state of dysphoria, and Making Contact is an antidote to Fox “News” and fragmented progressive information. In the past few months, we reported on single-payer health care and launched How We Survive, a series about communities finding solutions and confronting unjust systems during this economic decline.

Summer 2009 (August)
In August, we released, “How We Survive: Resisting Foreclosures” – full of voices that are changing the terms of the foreclosure crisis. Upcoming editions of How We Survive will explore alternative economies, immigrants and the recession, and global responses to the economic crisis.

Spring 2009 (March)
Celebrate International Women’;s Day. Raise Women’s Voices of Hope and Change! Making Contact’s Women’s Desk brings you radio programs lifting women’s voices in March, and all year ‘round.

Winter 2009 (January)

People’s desire for change is palpable. Our country faces tremendous challenges — as well as opportunities. Making Contact amplifies the voices of people who are fighting for justice in their communities.

Spring 2008 (May)
What do Elections, Immigration, Mother’s Day and Prisons have in common?, On the immigration front we continue our work with movement builders, Starting in June, we will be producing and distributing monthly radio versions of the TV production, Live From Main Street with Laura Flanders, Tena Rubio, host of Making Contact has toiled for months on a mutli-part documentary, A Crisis of Care.

Winter 2007 (December)
Pre-Election programs with Laura Flanders?, Making Contact recognized with two awards!, What’s cooking for upcoming radio programs, Support independent media.Read me

Spring 2007 (May)
Time for Human Rights, US Social Forum – Get on the Bus!, Voices of Dissent against an Unjust War, Katrina and Immigrant Workers, From the Women’s Desk, You Make This Possible, Thank You to Our Volunteers!, Recent Releases.Read me

Fall 2006 (October)
Powerful New Programs on Prison Issues, Speaking Out About Water Injustice, Katrina Uncovers: The Work Continues, You Make This Possible, Thank You to Our Volunteers!, Recent Releases. Read me

Summer 2006 (July)
The Magic of Radio Comes from Listeners Like YOU!, Our Senior Producer Wins Katrina Media Fellowship, YOU Are Making Contact! Coming Soon With Your Help. Read me

Spring 2006 (March)
A Program in Progress: Bombing Alaska, National Radio Project in the Classroom – Making Contact Programs: Rich Resources for Change, Katrina Uncovers: Going to New Orleans, Making Connections: The Heart and Power of this Work, You Make This Possible, Thank You to Our Volunteers!, Recent Releases, Upcoming Programs. Read me

Fall 2005 (October)
Issues Katrina has Blown Open, The Web is Outta Site!, Podcasting, Welcome New Board and Staff, Recent Releases, Upcoming Programs. Read me

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