No, COVID Isn’t “Over,” and the Need for Continued Community
…your local mask bloc and others of us in this community on the impacts of COVID and long COVID and how to best protect yourself. People are really just trying to live in a reality that frankly is just no longer sustainable. J Mase III: I think also what’s really important about that is, I think people assume that when you’re immunocompromised, you get like a big announcement at your door that says like, you are immunocompromised now, right? The r…
Part 1 of The Pandemic Inside: COVID-19 and Prisons
…ossly overcrowded. So throughout much of the 20th century, much of the late 20th century and up until 2009, our prison system overall was at two hundred percent capacity. So, we actually had twice as many people as the prison is equipped to hold. And then one of the outcomes of that was that it was impossible to give people minimal health care. So, people were getting sick. They weren’t seeing doctors for months and sometimes years. The pharmacy,…
Part 1 of The Pandemic Inside: COVID-19 and Prisons (Encore)
…ossly overcrowded. So throughout much of the 20th century, much of the late 20th century and up until 2009, our prison system overall was at two hundred percent capacity. So, we actually had twice as many people as the prison is equipped to hold. And then one of the outcomes of that was that it was impossible to give people minimal health care. So, people were getting sick. They weren’t seeing doctors for months and sometimes years. The pharmacy,…
Part 2 of The Pandemic Inside: COVID-19 and Prisons (Encore)
…ve been targeting Gavin Newsom for months trying to pressure him to act on COVID 19 in prisons and they continue to hold rallies about mass releases as the pandemic wears on. Salima Hamirani: We want to end our piece by talking about the fate of people who gain their freedom during the pandemic. Because even if prisoners are not released on a mass scale, people are being let go almost daily. James King: Like, even in a world where we do not have a…
Part 2 of The Pandemic Inside: COVID-19 and Prisons
…ve been targeting Gavin Newsom for months trying to pressure him to act on COVID 19 in prisons and they continue to hold rallies about mass releases as the pandemic wears on. Salima Hamirani: We want to end our piece by talking about the fate of people who gain their freedom during the pandemic. Because even if prisoners are not released on a mass scale, people are being let go almost daily. James King: Like, even in a world where we do not have a…
The Pandemic, Loss and Racial Inequity
…rnia’s population, but have accounted for nearly 57 percent of the state’s COVID cases and 48 percent of its COVID deaths. Making Contact producer Monica Lopez looks at the impact of the pandemic on West Coast farmworkers in 2020. Monica Lopez Luci Cruz lives on California’s central coast. She works in the strawberry fields as a farm worker and is a mother of four. Like many single moms, she does what she can to support her family. But when we spo…
Life During COVID
Making Contact · Life During COVID The COVID 19 pandemic has transformed all of our lives in some way. But some are feeling the impacts more than others. Take healthcare workers, for example: As the United States surpasses 38 million COVID-19 cases and 637,000 deaths as of August 28th, 2021, many healthcare workers continue to be overloaded by caring for COVID-19 patients. Globally, COVID-19 has presented unique challenges, leading to increased m…
Best of Making Contact 2021
…That’s radioproject.org. We’ll be right back. [music] MONICA: With two COVID surges in 2021 from Delta and now the Omicron variant, the pandemic continues to affect every part of our lives. Here’s Making Contact producer Anita Johnson. ANITA: In 2021 I produced a show titled Life during COVID that looks at the many ways the pandemic transformed our lives from physical and mental health challenges to struggling to find or maintain housing and…
COVID-19 Pandemic Capitalism and Bonds
…nd payout. (wall street trading bell ringing) You’ve been listening to COVID 19 Pandemic Capitalism. And Bonds on Making Contact. Special thanks to Haymarket Books, The Leap, Debt Collective and the Democratic Socialists of America for allowing us to air excerpts from their Covid + Capitalism series. To hear the full conversation, log on to radio project.org. THE Making Contact Team is executive director Lisa Rudman, producers Monica Lopez,…
Medical Apartheid and the COVID-19 vaccines
…ccine Alliance People’s Vaccine Alliance, Take Action Free the Vaccine For COVID 19 Doctor’s Without Borders, Medecins Sans Frontiers I-MAK AccessIBSA project Knowledge Network for Innovation and Access to Medicines Transcript Salima Hamirani: I’m Salima Hamirani. And on today’s Making Contact: Race for the Vaccine: It’s a date with destiny tonight a race that could make history. As rich countries hurry to protect their own people from COVID-19, t…
Medical Apartheid and the COVID-19 vaccines (ENCORE)
…ccine Alliance People’s Vaccine Alliance, Take Action Free the Vaccine For COVID 19 Doctor’s Without Borders, Medecins Sans Frontiers I-MAK AccessIBSA project Knowledge Network for Innovation and Access to Medicines Transcript Salima Hamirani: I’m Salima Hamirani. And on today’s Making Contact: Race for the Vaccine: It’s a date with destiny tonight a race that could make history. As rich countries hurry to protect their own people from COVID-19, t…
On the Brink: Homelessness Before and During COVID-19
…her segment by taking a look at how homeless communities are dealing with Covid 19. And for that, we got in touch with Candace Elder, executive director of the East Oakland Collective. So, Candace, how are people you’re working with, particularly the homeless, responding to Covid 19? Candace Elder: They are responding as best as they can. Curbside communities have experienced sanitation issues before Covid 19., this lack of access to showers,…
Broadcast Files Archive
…and Prisons, Pt. 2 (ENCORE) 01/26/22 Show Promo 04/22 The Pandemic Inside: Covid 19 and Prisons, Pt. 1 (ENCORE) 01/19/22 Show Promo 03/22 70 Million: An Effort to Hold Prosecutors Accountable 01/12/22 Show Promo 02/22 Re:Work Radio: Stranded 01/05/22 Show Promo 01/22 Fallen Heroes, 2021 12/29/21 Show Promo 52/21 Best of Making Contact, 2021 12/22/21 Show Promo 51/21 Medical Apartheid and the COVID-19 vaccines 12/15/21 Show Promo 50/21 But Next Tim…
But Next Time Part 2: Language Justice and the Road to Recovery After Disaster (Encore)
…izers in the Bay Area of California served hundreds of people a day during covid 19 lockdowns. Clip: VALERIE: The Latino Task Force formed within the first week of shelter-in-place. There has been a history of activism for generations and there was a couple of us, what we call veteranos, veteranas, who said, “Hey, this is a pandemic. It’s going to hit our community and it’s going to hit it hard.” We just know it. Anita: Stay with us _____ I’m An…
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Essential: Gig Workers and COVID-19 [ENCORE]
…ge’s personal story tell us that the situation for gig workers during COVID 19 is ….well, dangerous, for a lot of reasons. Let’s start with the study. PART 1 – TRACK – from interview _ Chris tell me about how you gathered information, was it through known drivers groups? Or online? CHRIS ACT – We put out a survey and were reaching out through networks of community organizations and labor organizations, as well as closed online Faceb…
Essential: Gig Workers and COVID-19
…ge’s personal story tell us that the situation for gig workers during COVID 19 is ….well, dangerous, for a lot of reasons. Let’s start with the study. PART 1 – TRACK – from interview _ Chris tell me about how you gathered information, was it through known drivers groups? Or online? CHRIS ACT – We put out a survey and were reaching out through networks of community organizations and labor organizations, as well as closed online Faceb…
COVID-19 and Lessons from the Spanish Flu
…of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has repeatedly stated, a disease like COVID– 19, is the thing that’s kept him up at night. In late March, Fauci said that a second wave of covered 19 could emerge in the fall of 2020, but that the U.S. would be much better prepared to face it. Laura Spinney: I think that disease outbreaks, even zoonotic outbreaks, the spillover of pathogens, new pathogens from animals to us, is probably something that we can…
How to Occupy the Economy, According to Richard Wolff
…Executive Director of Making Contact / National Radio ProjectLisa:The years 2010, 2011, and now 2012– I know it’s hard to look at a crystal ball, but give it a try. Rick Wolff: Well, 2010 in my mind was an important year because it taught everyone who cares, which is almost everyone, that this is one of the worst economic crises the United States has every had; it’s on a scale with the Great Depression, it’s not going away real soon and people set…
Kimberlé Crenshaw: Intersectionality
…hosted by Haymarket Books and the African American Policy Forum, on May 5, 2020. She says many people made the mistake of discarding intersectionality as the COVID crisis set in. Kimberlé Crenshaw: And at the time, the conversation was still in the “well, this may be the one thing that brings everybody to the table to recognize the need for universal health care. This will be the one moment that we have been theorizing will happen that…
Witch Hunts and Enclosures: Bodies, Land and Women
…Witch. She explores violence against women as a necessary precondition for capitalism, and asks whether it’s capitalism that turned women into witches. Silvia Federici: More broadly, more broadly, the transformation, restructuring of the world economy that has taken place over the last four decades at least has been making it more and more difficult for women to survive, and has created such conditions that has put women really at the cente…
