If you’ve ever stepped into a nail salon, you know the smell of a chemical cocktail that hits you like an invisible wall. While consumers may tolerate it during a short visit, the nail salon workers find themselves stewing in a toxic bubble for years. On this edition, we take a look at the health impacts of chemical exposure, the shoddy regulation of cosmetics, and the movement towards greener nail salons.

Asian Health Services Educates Patient Leaders from pauline bartolone on Vimeo.

Nail Salon Workers Speak Up About Chemical Exposure

The amount of nail salons has nearly quadrupled nationwide in the past decade. In California, about two-thirds of nail salon workers are Vietnamese immigrants. In this next segment, Making Contact Producer Pauline Bartolone explores the health impact of chemical exposure on nail salon workers, and what groups are doing to protect them.

Nail Salon Businesses Go Green in Bay Area

Nail salon workers and advocates are pushing hard to change public policy around exposure to toxic chemicals.  But there’s also a movement coming from businesses themselves to make the salons greener and safer for workers and consumers. Correspondent Momo Chang has more.

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Featuring:

Alisha Nga Tran, Patient Leadership Council facilitator, Asian Health Services; Dr. Thu Quach, Epidemiologist, Cancer Prevention Institute of California; My Tong, Associate, California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative; Lam Le, former nail salon worker and cancer survivor; Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins , CEO, Green For All; Jamie Silberberger, Director of Programs and Policy at Women’s Voices for the Earth; Uyen Nguyen, Owner, Isabella Nail Salon; Sarah Vuong , employee at Isabella Nail Salon; Jill Adams , client, Isabella Nail Salon; David Chiu , President of San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Thanks to all of our supporters, to As You Sow‘s Environmental Enforcement Fund and to Spot.us for helping to crowd fund this story.

For more information:

Asian Health Services
Oakland, CA

California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative
Oakland, CA

National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
Washington, D.C.

National Healthy Nail Salon Alliance
Washington, D.C.

The Story of Cosmetics

Women’s Voices for the Earth
Missoula, MT

Music:

P.S. by Chromakey
Warm Sound by Zero 7

The 1973 Roe versus Wade decision was hailed as a victory by many advocates of a woman’s right to choose. But decades later, many young people still lack the resources to make informed choices about sex – choices that could affect the rest of their lives.

On this edition, we bring you a discussion about sex education in schools, federal funding for sex-ed and how advocacy groups and parents are making their voices heard on the issue.

Featuring:

Phyllida Burlingame, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California Sex Education Policy Director; La Rhonda Crosby-Johnson, Bay Area Communities for Health Education Community Engagement Specialist; Gabriela Valle, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice Director of Community Education & Mobilization.

–WEB EXCLUSIVE–

Extended Interview with Phyllida Burlingame, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California Sex Education Policy Director; La Rhonda Crosby-Johnson, Bay Area Communities for Health Education Community Engagement Specialist; and Gabriela Valle, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice Director of Community Education & Mobilization.

For more information:

ACLU of Northern California Sex Ed Program

Advocates for Youth

Bay Area Communities for Health Education

California Latinas for Reproductive Justice

Choosing the Best

The Great American Condom Campaign

Planned Parenthood

RH Reality Check

Articles, Blogs, and Reports:

Resources for Parents and Community Members about Sex Education in California

Study Finds Sex Education Failing in California

Abstinence-only isn’t dead yet

Music:

Tweet feat. Missy Elliott – Oops (Oh My)
LL Cool J feat. LeShaun – Doin It
Salt ‘N’ Pepa – Let’s Talk About Sex

Credit: CHRIS WILKINS/AFP/Getty Images, Rita Daniels

The earthquake in Haiti.  The BP oil spill.  A crumbling US economy and educational system.  And domestic workers in New York receive a historic bill of rights.  We look back at some stories we brought you in 2010, and look ahead to 2011.

Featuring:

Pierre Labossierre, Haiti Action Committee; Ansel Herz, independent journalist living in Haiti; Albert Naquin, Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimachas Tribal Chief; Aaron Viles, Gulf Restoration Network Campaign Director; Robert Gorman, Catholic Charities Houma-Thibodaux Executive Director; R.J. Molinair & Clairece Fralou, Gulf Coast residents; Marguerite Higa, parent, organizer of Save Our Schools Hawaii; Ai-Jen Poo, National Domestic Workers Alliance Director; Pat Francois, Domestic Workers United member.

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Making Contact’s Pauline Bartolone speaks with Pierre Labossierre of the Haiti Action Committee:

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Economic Need Keeps Gulf Coast Residents Supporting Big Oil

With their land, traditions, and livelihood all thrown into chaos, and their future in doubt, you might think that the people of Southern Louisiana would be calling for major changes to the way the oil companies do business, or leading the charge for an overall ban on underwater drilling.  But as correspondent Julia Botero reports, the economic realities are much more complicated, and many of those most closely affected by the devastation of the gulf spill, are in fact, not calling for any change at all.

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Hawaii Parents and Students ‘Sit-In’ Against School Furloughs

In Hawaii this past year, the school year was the shortest in the nation because of furloughs every Friday. But in early April 2010, a group of parents called ‘Save Our Schools’ decided they couldn’t stand idly by … literally. They staged a sit in at Governor Linda Lingle’s office, demanding that she take stronger action to end the off days. Listen to their story among this mix of stories about how teachers, students and parents dealt with the crisis in K-12 education.

—WEB EXCLUSIVES—

Extended interview with Ai-Jen Poo

Full-length interview with Ai-Jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers
Alliance, about the successful campaign for a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in New
York State.

Extended interview with Ansel Herz

Full-length interview with Ansel Herz, independent journalist in Haiti, about post-earthquake recovery, foreign aid and debt relief, the UN, and elections in Haiti.

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For More Information:

Act Against Oil-Abolish Offshore Drilling
http://www.actagainstoil.com/

Ansel Herz
www.mediahacker.org

Antonia Juhasz
http://www.tyrannyofoil.org/

Biloxi-Chitimacha Confederation of Muskogees
http://www.biloxi-chitimacha.com/

Catholic Charities Houma-Thibodaux

Houma, LA

Democracy Now’s coverage of earthquake in Haiti
http://www.democracynow.org/tags/haiti_earthquake

Domestic Workers United
http://www.domesticworkersunited.org/
New York, New York

Gulf Restoration Network

New Orleans, LA

Global Exchange Chevron Program

San Francisco, CA

Haiti Action Committee

San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti

http://www.ijdh.org/

Louisiana Bucket Brigade

New Orleans, LA

Louisiana Environmental Action Network

Baton Rouge, LA

Mobilization for Climate Justice

National Domestic Workers Alliance

New York, New York

Rethinking Schools

United States Social Forum

Articles, Blogs, Films, Reports, Other:

“The Fight to Save Public Education”
by Shamus Cooke

Gulf Residents Scared Oil Industry Will Leave: Will We Ever Break Our Abusive Relationship With Oil?

Sierra Club Oil Spill Map

“School Reform We Can’t Believe In”

by Stan Karp, Rethinking Schools

Music:

J-Dilla by Always Find a Way

Zero 7 by Warm Sound

Bounce by Dopestar

* This show was produced and segmented according to the NPR time clock. See below for details and download files*

State budgets are strapped and deep cuts to public programs continue. And no system, perhaps, is on the chopping block more than public education.

University administrations are turning to the private sector. Obama is pushing “Race to the Top.” But teachers, parents and students are resisting budget cuts from the bottom up.

On this special one-hour edition of Making Contact, we’ll hear who bears the burden of budget cuts to education, and the driving forces behind them.

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Downloadable files:

Billboard (:59)

Newshole (5:00)

Segment A (12:25 min)

Segment B (23:51 min)

Segment C (16:42 min)

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Featuring:

David Lyell, substitute teacher and participant in the ‘March for California’s Future’; Naomi Spencer, parent, Ypsilanti, M.I.; Marguerite Higa, parent, organizer of Save Our Schools Hawaii; Scott Paulin, principal, Potter Valley, C.A. school district; Keith Canova, music teacher, Potter Valley, C.A.; Kevin Paren-chini, parent and teacher, Potter Valley, C.A.; Maria Johnson, coordinator, Potter Valley Community Center; Lisa Oden, parent, Potter Valley, C.A.; Amy Silva, parent, Potter Valley, C.A.; Meredith Randall, vice president of education and student services at Mendocino Community College; Stan Karp, editor, Rethinking Schools. Zachary Levenson, UC Berkeley Graduate School student and TA; Mark G. Yudof, University of California President; Laura Nader, UC Berkeley professor; Bob Meister, UC Santa Cruz professor; Wael Elasady, Portland State University student & protest organizer; Jonathan Sanford, PSU’S student body president; Jim Francesconi, Oregon State Board of Higher Education Vice President; Zaki Bucherest, PSU student activist; Adam Sanchez, PSU graduate student & primary school teacher; Christopher Newfield, PhD, UC Santa Barbara Professor & author of ‘Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class’.

Some audio in this show was excerpted from the film “Occupied Berkeley: The Taking of Wheeler Hall” produced by David Martinez and Brandon Jourdon.

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Parents, Teachers and Students Respond to Cuts in K-12 Education

Lately, it seems almost no state is safe from budget cuts to K-12 education. Furloughs, teacher layoffs, and school closings. Producer Pauline Bartolone gathered stories from those affected in Hawaii, Michigan and California.

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Rural School Districts Get Creative on Furlough Days

Furloughs aren’t just a problem for Hawaii schools… Districts in more than a dozen states have cut back to a four day school week. Some Rural districts are dealt a double financial blow from state cuts and declining enrollment. While parents in the story we just heard want to end furloughs – and fast – one small town in Northern California has come up with creative ways to supplement their new found free time. From Mendocino County, Christina Aanestad has more.

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Stan Karp on Rethinking Federal Policy

We’ve heard about the cuts and about how people are trying to rise above them. But what about the roots of the crisis? What are the policies that enable these hardships? To get some perspective, Making Contact producer Andrew Stelzer spoke with an Editor at the magazine Rethinking Schools.

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Beyond Wheeler: UC Voices for Education as a Public Good

The University of California system is known around the world as one of the most successful models of publicly-funded higher education. In 1960, UC President Clark Kerr spearheaded the groundbreaking California master plan for higher education, seeking to make a quality education accessible to all. Yet some 50 years later, some say the foundation of public education is being dismantled through fee hikes and corporate funding.  Making Contact’s Pauline Bartolone has more about UC Berkeley folks who are trying to stand in the way of privatizing what was meant to be public.

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Portland State University, Inc. 

Like other states across the country, Oregon is struggling with the question of how to fund higher education in a time of massive budget cuts.  The Portland State University PSU, has increased class sizes, and made deep cuts to student programs and teacher pay. But recently PSU’s president proposed a new model to solve the university’s budget woes: incorporation. Jenka Soderberg from KBOO has more.

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Author Offers a History of the Privatization of Public Education

From raising fees to privatizing entire universities, nationwide, there is a variety of ways that privatizing public college education is taking place. As we’ve heard, the dismantling of California’s public system has been going on for decades.  Dr. Christopher Newfield wrote a whole book about it. He’s a Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara and author of ‘Unmaking the Public University: the Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class.” He’s currently in France where he’s working for the Education Abroad Program for the University of California.

For more information:

Center on Education Policy
Washington, DC

Civil Rights Project (UCLA)
Los Angeles, CA

March for California’s Future
Central Valley, CA

Philadelphia Student Union
Philadelphia, PA

Rethinking Schools
Milwaukee, WI

Save Our Schools Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii

National Education Association
Washington, DC

Portland State University
Portland, OR

Save Cal Now
Berkeley, CA

Solidarity Alliance

Articles, Blogs, Films, Reports, Other:

Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards
A report by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project

‘School Reform We Can’t Believe In’
An article by by Stan Karp, Rethinking Schools, Spring, 2010

‘The Fight to Save Public Education’
An article by Shamus Cooke, Counterpunch, March 8, 2010

‘Detroit: A Model for Nationwide Assault on Public Education’
An article by Joe Kishore, World Socialist Web Site, March 19, 2010

‘Budget Cuts Dimming Bright Futures‘
By Laura Christmas, Tampa Bay Online

CUNY Campaign to Defend Education (CCDE)

‘Occupied Berkeley: The Taking of Wheeler Hall’
by Brandon Jourdon and David Martinez

Professor Christopher Newfield Blog

Recession Realities in Higher Ed (Blog)
By Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus University of Illinois at Springfield

Reclamations Journal

Remaking the University (Blog)

Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class
A book by Christopher Newfield

Music:

Airs Above Your Station by Kinski
Warm Sound by Zero 7
P.S. by Chromakey

Plus more from Chromakey

Chicago May Day March

This June, the second ever US Social Forum will be held in Detroit, Michigan. Activists, organizers and concerned citizens from all over the country will be coming together to brainstorm about how to unite their movements, and how to respond to the problems of 2010. On this edition, we look at how Domestic Workers got organized at the last US Social Forum. We also ask–what can we learn from the fall and rise of one of America’s great industrial cities–Detroit?

Featuring:

Pat Francois and Barbara Young, Domestic Workers United members; Beatriz Herrera, POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights) organizer; Donaji Lona, POWER Women Workers’ Project organizer; Ai Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United co-founder; Marcia Lee, Boggs Center and Hush House organizer; Lydia Wylie-Kellerman, international community organizer; Malik Yakini, Detroit Black Food Security Network Chairman; Adele Nieves, US Social Forum Communications Coordinator; Jon Blount, Detroit Summer Program Coordinator; Ben Chodoroff, The Hub of Detroit co-founder; Invincible, Hip Hop Artist and Detroit Summer mentor; Adrienne Marie Brown, US Social Forum National Coordinator and Allied Media Conference board member;

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Domestic Workers Alliance builds for USSF

It’s been 3 years since the first US Social Forum in Atlanta; so organizers are just starting to see some of the long term possibilities.  Key to the forums success is whether it can help unite local campaigns, and create a large coordinated national social justice movement.

One group that’s been taking that step is domestic workers.  In 2007, they formed a new National Domestic Workers Alliance. Andrew Stelzer has more.

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Detroit Prepares to Host

Detroit resident Erica Class talks to some community leaders, and brings us her view about what’s happening in Detroit, and what the social forum’s host city has in store for those who’re coming to town.

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For more information:

Allied Media Conference
Detroit, MI

Boggs Center
Detroit, MI

Building Bridges on WBAI
New York, NY

Community News Production Institute

Detroit Black Food Security Network
Detroit, MI

Detroit Summer
Detroit, MI

Detroit Women of Color International Film Festival
Detroit, MI

Domestic Workers United
New York, NY

The Hub of Detroit
Detroit, MI

Hush House
Detroit, MI

National Domestic Workers Alliance
San Francisco, CA

People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) & Women Workers Project
San Francisco, CA

United States Social Forum
Detroit, MI

Articles, Blogs, Films, Reports, Other:

‘Breath of Hope’ by FLYP Media
A Multimedia Site about Detroit

‘On the 2010 Social Forum’
A blog entry by Cindy Wiesner

‘Domestic Workers Win Montgomery Protections’
An article by Katherine Shaver, Washington Post, July 21, 2008

Live Arts Media Project CD: Rising Up From the Ashes–Chronicles of a Dropout
A website where you can find this CD by LAMP

‘The forum in a Nutshell’ by Adrienne Marie Brown
A blog by Adrienne Marie Brown

Music:

Climax (Instrumental) by Slum Village
Selfish (Instrumental) by Slum Village
Tainted Love (Instrumental) by Slum Village
Get Ya Paper (Instrumental) by Fat Killahs
Hello Detroit by Sammy Davis Jr.
Renaissance State of Mind by Ro Spit and Monica Blaire
We Almost Lost Detroit by Gil Scott-Heron
Freedom Schoolin by Namaste Brown and El-iqaa

Child's letter to HI Gov. Lingle

State budgets are strapped and deep cuts to public programs continue, putting public education on the chopping block. On this edition, we continue our series, How We Survive with a look at the crisis in K through 12 education. While the Obama administration pushes states to “Race to the Top,” teachers, parents, and students are resisting budget cuts from the bottom up.

Featuring:

David Lyell, substitute teacher and participant in the ‘March for California’s Future’; Naomi Spencer, parent, Ypsilanti, M.I.; Marguerite Higa, parent, organizer of Save Our Schools Hawaii; Scott Paulin, principal, Potter Valley, C.A. school district; Keith Canova, music teacher, Potter Valley, C.A.; Kevin Paren-chini, parent and teacher, Potter Valley, C.A.; Maria Johnson, coordinator, Potter Valley Community Center; Lisa Oden, parent, Potter Valley, C.A.; Amy Silva, parent, Potter Valley, C.A.; Meredith Randall, vice president of education and student services at Mendocino Community College; Stan Karp, editor, Rethinking Schools.

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Parents, Teachers and Students Respond to Cuts in K-12 Education

Lately, it seems almost no state is safe from budget cuts to K-12 education. Furloughs, teacher layoffs, and school closings. Producer Pauline Bartolone gathered stories from those affected in Hawaii, Michigan and California.

—

Rural School Districts Get Creative on Furlough Days

Furloughs aren’t just a problem for Hawaii schools… Districts in more than a dozen states have cut back to a four day school week. Some Rural districts are dealt a double financial blow from state cuts and declining enrollment. While parents in the story we just heard want to end furloughs – and fast – one small town in Northern California has come up with creative ways to supplement their new found free time. From Mendocino County, Christina Aanestad has more.

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Stan Karp on Rethinking Federal Policy

We’ve heard about the cuts and about how people are trying to rise above them. But what about the roots of the crisis? What are the policies that enable these hardships? To get some perspective, Making Contact producer Andrew Stelzer spoke with an Editor at the magazine Rethinking Schools.

For more information:

Center on Education Policy
Washington, DC

Civil Rights Project (UCLA)
Los Angeles, CA

March for California’s Future
Central Valley, CA

Philadelphia Student Union
Philadelphia, PA

Rethinking Schools
Milwaukee, WI

Save Our Schools Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii

Articles, Blogs, Films, Reports, Other:

Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards
A report by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project

‘School Reform We Can’t Believe In’
An article by by Stan Karp, Rethinking Schools, Spring, 2010

‘The Fight to Save Public Education’
An article by Shamus Cooke, Counterpunch, March 8, 2010

‘Detroit: A Model for Nationwide Assault on Public Education’
An article by Joe Kishore, World Socialist Web Site, March 19, 2010

Music:

Airs Above Your Station by Kinski
Warm Sound by Zero 7
P.S. by Chromakey

Plus more from Chromakey

On November 18, 2009, Students faculty and staff at UC Berkeley protested tuition fee increases by the UC Board of Regents. Photo courtesy MCT, via dailytitan.org

State budgets are strapped and deep cuts to public programs continue.  No system is on the chopping block more than public education. On this edition, we continue our series, How We Survive. This week? It’s a time of crisis in higher education. And as administrators cast an eye toward privatization, students are mobilizing for change, and a voice in the system.

Featuring:

Zachary Levenson, UC Berkeley Graduate School student and TA; Mark G. Yudof, University of California President; Laura Nader, UC Berkeley professor; Bob Meister, UC Santa Cruz professor; Wael Elasady, Portland State University student & protest organizer; Jonathan Sanford, PSU’S student body president; Jim Francesconi, Oregon State Board of Higher Education Vice President; Zaki Bucherest, PSU student activist; Adam Sanchez, PSU graduate student & primary school teacher; Christopher Newfield, PhD, UC Santa Barbara Professor & author of ‘Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class’.

Some audio in this show was excerpted from the film “Occupied Berkeley: The Taking of Wheeler Hall” produced by David Martinez and Brandon Jourdon.

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Beyond Wheeler: UC Voices for Education as a Public Good

The University of California system is known around the world as one of the most successful models of publicly-funded higher education. In 1960, UC President Clark Kerr spearheaded the groundbreaking California master plan for higher education, seeking to make a quality education accessible to all. Yet some 50 years later, some say the foundation of public education is being dismantled through fee hikes and corporate funding.  Making Contact’s Pauline Bartolone has more about UC Berkeley folks who are trying to stand in the way of privatizing what was meant to be public.

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Portland State University, Inc. 

Like other states across the country, Oregon is struggling with the question of how to fund higher education in a time of massive budget cuts.  The Portland State University PSU, has increased class sizes, and made deep cuts to student programs and teacher pay. But recently PSU’s president proposed a new model to solve the university’s budget woes: incorporation. Jenka Soderberg from KBOO has more.

—

Author Offers a History of the Privatization of Public Education

From raising fees to privatizing entire universities, nationwide, there is a variety of ways that privatizing public college education is taking place. As we’ve heard, the dismantling of California’s public system has been going on for decades.  Dr. Christopher Newfield wrote a whole book about it. He’s a Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara and author of ‘Unmaking the Public University: the Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class.” He’s currently in France where he’s working for the Education Abroad Program for the University of California.

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For more information:

National Education Association
Washington, DC

Portland State University
Portland, OR

Save Cal Now
Berkeley, CA

Solidarity Alliance

Articles, Blogs, Films, Reports:

‘Budget Cuts Dimming Bright Futures‘
By Laura Christmas, Tampa Bay Online

CUNY Campaign to Defend Education (CCDE)

‘Occupied Berkeley: The Taking of Wheeler Hall’
by Brandon Jourdon and David Martinez

Professor Christopher Newfield Blog

Recession Realities in Higher Ed (Blog)
By Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus University of Illinois at Springfield

Reclamations Journal

Remaking the University (Blog)

Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class
A book by Christopher Newfield

People outside UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall while it was occupied by 43 students opposed to what they call a privatization of the UC system. Source: oaklandnorth.net

The University of California system is known around the world as one of the most successful models of publicly-funded higher education. In 1960, UC President Clark Kerr spearheaded the groundbreaking California Master Plan for Higher Education, seeking to make a quality education accessible to all. Yet some 50 years later, some say the foundation of public education is being dismantled through fee hikes and corporate funding.  Making Contact’s Pauline Bartolone has more about folks at UC Berkeley who are standing in the way of privatizing what was meant to be a public.

Some audio in this segment was excerpted from the film “Occupied Berkeley: The Taking of Wheeler Hall” produced by David Martinez and Brandon Jourdon.

Sgt. Jose Delao (left) and Sgt. Luis Green prospect for new recruits outside a San Leandro, Calif. supermarket. Source: Justin Beck

The United States military has recently been pouring millions of tax dollars into recruitment efforts in an attempt to counteract well-publicized, Iraq war-influenced, recruitment dropoffs.

We’ll examine several of these efforts, including a new military ad campaign aimed not only at teens, but at parents; an inside perspective at how Army recruiters fill the ranks; and counter-recruitment efforts in high schools. We’ll also hear about a student-based effort to help other teens make informed choices.

For a free listener packet on military recruitment and counter-recruitment, please call us toll-free at 800-529-5736.

Featuring:

David Sweabe, vice president Mullen Advertising; Cathy Chan, student, Oakland Military Institute; Crystal Adair, academic success coordinator, Oakland Military Institute; Bruce Holaday, superintendent, Oakland Military Institute;Cadet Sergeant Ralph Gomez, student, Oakland Military Institute; Susan Quinlan, volunteer, Youth Empowerment School; Jen Lowe, youth organizer, Code Pink; Ruby Butler, junior, Youth Empowerment School; Zamil Bonner, counter-recruiting campaign volunteer, Youth Empowerment School; Staff Sergeant Jose Delao, recruiter, U.S. Army; Staff Sergeant Luis Green, recruiter, U.S. Army; John Davis, junior, San Leandro High School; Rosa Yost, Safeway employee.

This week’s host: Tena Rubio. Contributing producers: Justin Beck and Sarah Olsen.

For more information:

Mullen Advertising, Inc. – Wenham, MA

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors - Oakland, CA

The Youth Empowerment School – Oakland, CA

Oakland Military Institute – Oakland, CA

U.S. Army Recruiting

Institute for Public Accuracy - Washington, D.C