Shows matching ‘youth’
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
On this edition, ‘America, America’ we go to the streets of richmond, california where Jairo’s story takes place to hear how a life altering event could force him hang up his cleats and choose between game he loves people loves.
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
On this edition, Making Contact intern Joaquin Palomino spoke to former gang members, and other mission residents, about gang injunctions, a controversial legal strategy that’s divided the community of San Francisco.
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
In this program, we’ll explore the power of solidarity…from the perspectives of young people in Brooklyn, New York, a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, and a historian and mother who lives in Palestine.
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
On this edition from our Women’s Desk, we hear from three women advocating for comprehensive reproductive health, that include the issues of sex education, HIV and AIDS prevention, housing, educational opportunities, queer-conscious-healthcare, the economic resources to support a child, the right to live free of violence, as well as an analysis of reproductive technologies.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, thousands were sent to live at Renaissance Park, a FEMA run trailer park. Hundreds of families are still stuck there. We hear from youth, women and advocates from “Workers Centers,” organizing to move out.
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Women in the reproductive justice movement seek the basic human right to control their bodies. This includes a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy, and the rights to have a child, and to parent that child. On this edition from our Women’s Desk, we hear from three women advocating for comprehensive reproductive health.
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
On this edition of Making Contact, in a collaboration with KPFA’s Full Circle Apprenticeship Program, we’ll examine how queer identity intersects or collides with racial identity in the activist community.
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
Thousands of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer (LGBTQ) youth are forced out on to the streets, and face harassment, homophobia and even violence. We’ll hear from the LGBTQ community, on the streets, in the schools and outside the system.
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
On this edition, we hear from several U.S. soldiers who made a choice to put their futures on the line. First, by joining the U.S. military, and next by refusing to fight the war in Iraq.
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
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.
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