ElectionWatch ’04
ElectionWatch ’04: in-depth analysis of election-year issues
ElectionWatch ’04 was the first Making Contact program of each month, leading up to and beyond the November elections. ElectionWatch ’04 promoted fully informed participation in the democratic process. Each program focused on a single issue, some that the candidates were addressing and some that they were not. ElectionWatch ’04 clarified the connections between the main topic and related issues – links that are often missing from conventional news sources.
ElectionWatch 04 The Final Choice
Wednesday, October 27th, 2004
On this edition we take a look at an international mission to observe the U.S. elections, look at the impacts of a decade-long Republican-controlled Congress, and hear about an effort in the hip hop movement to persuade young voters to go to the polls.
ElectionWatch 04 Systems Failure (encore edition)
Wednesday, October 13th, 2004
On this edition, we take a look at the disenfranchisement of African Americans in Florida, the debate over electronic voting machines, and Electoral College reform in the state of Colorado.
ElectionWatch 04 Swinging the States
Wednesday, October 6th, 2004
On this edition, we hear from former federal employees who jeopardized their careers to expose official wrongdoing and hear about Daniel Ellsbergs latest whistleblowing activities.
Election Watch 04: Working Hard for Change
Wednesday, September 1st, 2004
On this edition, we explore the economic anxieties driving voters such as access to health insurance, affordable childcare, and livable wages.
ElectionWatch 04 Systems Failure
Wednesday, August 4th, 2004
On this edition, we take a look at the disenfranchisement of African Americans in Florida, the debate over electronic voting machines, and Electoral College reform in the state of Colorado.
ElectionWatch 04: All the News Thats Fit to Buy
Wednesday, July 7th, 2004
On this edition, well take a look at how media companies have failed the public interest by influencing the political process and well hear from media critic and author Robert McChesney, who says the medias complicity with the government impacts the health of democracy in the United States.
ElectionWatch 04: Progressive Strategies
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004
On this edition, well hear from three such activists: Reverend James Forbes, senior minister of the Riverside Church in New York City; political commentator Jim Hightower, and author and activist Arianna Huffington who all spoke at the Take Back America conference held in Washington D.C. in June 2004.
ElectionWatch 04: War on Terror
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004
On this ElectionWatch 04 edition, we take a look at how communities most impacted by Bushs war on terror will vote in the upcoming 2004 elections and see how the Patriot Act and the war in Iraq are playing a role in the election year.
ElectionWatch 04: Hip Hop and Elections
Wednesday, May 5th, 2004
On this ElectionWatch 04 edition of Making Contact we take a look at how grassroots activists within the hip hop community view the political process, and how they are using hip hop to organize around the November elections and beyond.
ElectionWatch 04: Taxonomics: Federal Tax Cuts and the Budget Deficit
Wednesday, April 7th, 2004
On this edition of ElectionWatch 04, we take a look at how Bushs tax cuts impact the economy, state budgets, and small businesses.
ElectionWatch 04 Home Economics: Women and Voting
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004
On this edition of Making Contacts ElectionWatch04- a monthly special from the National Radio Project- we explore the pre-election concerns of a variety of women, including women in labor unions, Latina immigrants and unmarried women as powerful voting blocs.
ElectionWatch 04 Youth Vote: Mobilizing from the Grassroots
Wednesday, February 4th, 2004
On this edition of Making Contacts ElectionWatch 04-a monthly special from the National Radio Project-we conduct a roundtable discussion with young activists and grass-roots organizers about youth voting behavior and efforts to mobilize young people around the 2004 presidential elections.
Wednesday, January 7th, 2004
On this edition of Making Contacts ElectionWatch 04, a monthly special from the National Radio Project, we take a look at Medicare and prescription drugs.
ElectionWatch 04 The Texas Two-Step: Bush, Corporate Cash, and Environmental Rollbacks
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2003
On this edition of Making Contact the second of our monthly ElectionWatch 04 series- we take a look at how the oil, gas, mining and electric utilities industries have influenced the Bush Administrations environmental policies and the impact on communities located near industrial facilities.
ElectionWatch 04: Participation and the Common Good
Wednesday, November 5th, 2003
On this edition of Making Contact we take a look at democracy in action. We speak with tenants rights activists in the San Francisco area who are fighting for affordable housing.