New Orleans Now: Immigrants, Labor Rights and the Human Cost of Rebuilding an American City – Part 1
On this edition, we hear from the immigrants themselves and from the people on the ground trying to help them.
Queer Youth Identities (encore edition)
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.
Women Rising XII: International Changemakers Journalists in the Crosshairs
In this program we profile three independent women journalists, unbought and unbossed.
Last Rights: Respecting Diversity at the End of Life (encore edition)
On this edition, producer Claire Schoen looks at how miscommunication, stereotyping and racism influence health care for people of color as they approach death.
Mothers, Migrants and Maids of Honor
On this edition, through their own words, we pay tribute to the many working women of color who are struggling for acceptance, recognition and their rights.
Border Stories: On the Frontlines of the Immigration Debate (encore edition)
On this edition, people who’ve risked their lives to enter the U.S. undocumented share their personal stories of why they came, and what they hope for their futures and the future of immigrants in this country.
New Orleans Now: Rebuilding and Defending the Versailles Vietnamese Community
On this edition, correspondent Ngoc Nguyen takes us to Versailles. As the community struggles to rebuild, they face yet another threat to their homes, history and way of life.
Left Forum: Forging A Radical Future
On this edition, we hear selections from the opening panel of the Left Forum, recorded March 9, 2007. The 2007 Left Forum was subtitled: ‘Forging a Radical Political Future,’ but creating leftist vision in today’s world generated some questions: is ‘reform’ alone the best that leftists can hope for? if not, what are steps to deep economic, and social transformation, kinds of organizations needed bring about real change?”
Who Would Jesus Tax?
On this edition, we talk with a single mom and a tax fairness advocate to debunk some myths about how wealth is created and what people can do to change tax policy.
The Color of Wealth (encore edition)
Author and organizer Meizhu Lui was a kitchen worker for 20 years, and she rose through the labor ranks to become president of her local union. Now she’ executive director of United for a Fair Economy, a non-partisan group that raises awareness about the damaging consequences of concentrated wealth and power in the United States.
