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Looking Back, Moving Forward: Making Contact’s 2009 Year in Review

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Two wars continued, the economy remained in freefall, and as hardship ensued, people crafted creative solutions. We look back at some of the most compelling stories we brought you during 2009, and find out where things are headed for 2010.


Cracking the Coup in Honduras

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Independent producer Chris Thomas takes us to the streets of Honduras to look at the roots of a long-standing conflict between a powerful oligarchy and the poor and dispossessed majority.


Election ‘08: Can Politics and Healthcare Mix?

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On this edition, we hear how Democratic activists have been pushing their party to make health care a priority for all. And we’ll hear a first hand account of how regular citizens led a movement and won their battle for universal health care in the San Francisco


Live From Main Street Ohio: Will Your Vote Count?

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This year Ohio is again a crucial swing state, and it remains to be seen whether changes in voting laws there and in other states will make the process better or worse for citizens who want to cast their votes.


Parental Notification: Protecting Our Youth?

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We hear from a group in California that says a proposition requiring parental notification before abortion threatens the health, safety and rights of young women, especially communities of color and immigrant communities. We also visit Texas where both parental notification and consent laws have transformed the ways young women handle unexpected pregnancies.


Battle for Bolivia

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President Evo Morales nationalized foreign corporations and distributed the revenue to the poor. Now he’s pushing a new constitution that will weaken the power of the country’s traditional economic elite. But the conservative, pro-business opposition forces have blown up gas pipelines and murdered pro-government peasants, trying to provoke a civil war. How will the struggle turn out?


Live From Main Street in Denver: So You Say You Want Change?

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Laura Flanders hit the streets of Denver at the Democratic National Convention to find out what real, sustainable change looks like.


Live From Main Street: Getting Heard this Election Season

post thumbnail Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Live from Main Street takes us to the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota where we explore what it takes to get heard this election year in the era of big media and diminished civil liberties.


Local Democracy: Building From the Bottom Up

post thumbnail Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Grassroots leaders from emerging democracy movements speak out about how to create democracy in the U.S. It all starts, they say, within their own communities.


Last Stand for Choice in Mississippi (encore edition)

post thumbnail Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

On this edition, with mid-term elections upon us, Making Contact’s Sarah Olson takes a closer look at the Mississippi women fighting for reproductive justice as they try to save the one remaining abortion clinic in the state.



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