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Redefining Human Rights:
The Case for Food, Health Care & Housing

post thumbnail Monday, February 15th, 2010

Are food, housing, and health care human rights? A round table discussion about the right to healthy food, the right to housing, and the right to healthcare. Do Americans have these, and if not, what’s standing in the way?


‘Hyde-ing’ the Right to Choose

post thumbnail Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Stupak, the Hyde Amendment, and religion. We take a look at some of the threats to abortion access, more than thirty-five years after Roe V. Wade legalized a woman’s right to have an abortion.


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

post thumbnail Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

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.


Many Voices for a Single-Payer System

post thumbnail Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Advocates take a stand for a single-payer health care system for all. They say a public plan that cuts out for-profit insurers is the only way to fix our health care woes.


Election ‘08: Can Politics and Healthcare Mix?

post thumbnail Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

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


For Us, By Us. Health Care after Katrina

post thumbnail Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Hurricane Katrina was one of the most destructive disasters in U.S. history for human lives and destroyed property. And while a full three years have passed since the storm, New Orleans and the surrounding region are still in a state of “rebuilding”. How does this ongoing state of recovery translate into the daily lives of the city’s marginalized populations? We talk to activists and visionaries from the New Orleans Women’s Health Clinic who are reinventing their community’s health and wellness landscape.


When Your Back’s Against the Wall, You Gotta Dance: On the Frontlines of Reproductive Justice

post thumbnail Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Women, particularly poor and homeless women, young women and women of color, across the nation are struggling with access to quality comprehensive reproductive health services.


A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support

post thumbnail Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

In the last of our three-part series, A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support, we’ll hear from experts offering an insiders view on the continuing health care crisis in California’s prisons.


A Crisis of Care: Gina’s Story (Part 2)

post thumbnail Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

On the second of our three-part series, ‘A Crisis of Care,’ a look inside California’s prison health care system, we continue ‘Gina’s Story.’


A Crisis of Care: Gina’s Story (Part 1)

post thumbnail Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

This is the first of a three-part series, ‘A Crisis of Care,’ a look inside the prison health care system in the state of California, where we learn about ‘Gina’s Story’ within the prison system.



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