Your Home, Your Right… or My Business?
California’s fight over rent control. Access to affordable housing is an ongoing concern throughout the country. This week, Making Contact looks at California’s fight over rent control. The stage is set for a political battle between two polar world views. Is housing a human right, or is real estate property an investment commodity? And where on that continuum is California’s common ground? A statewide initiative, if approved, would...
Reproductive Justice from El Salvador to the U.S.
Got Abortion Rights? Hear from a woman who went to prison under El Salvador’s current abortion laws— some of the strictest in the world. And, one reproductive justice organization considers the future of reproductive health access under the US Supreme Court. Like this program? Please show us the love. Click here and support our non-profit journalism. Thanks! TRANSCRIPT for US-based segment is below....
The Response: Occupy Sandy
Like this program? Please show us the love. Click here and support our non-profit journalism. Thanks! This week, we explore the remarkable communities that arise in the aftermath of natural disasters; namely, Hurricane Sandy, and its impact on the Rockaway Peninsula. It’s a story about unlikely friendships, radical recovery efforts, and disaster collectivism. The Response documentary podcast series is...
Parenting From Prison, Inside Out
When one or both parents are incarcerated the family is also incarcerated and are adversely affected in profound ways that exacerbate existing structural inequalities and struggles. Programs for inmates and families like FamilyWorks and the Storybook Program, encourage rebuilding and maintaining relationships despite being separated by prison. The Osborne’s FamilyWorks program, the first comprehensive parenting program in a men’s...
Your Home, Your Right… or My Business?
Like this program? Please show us the love. Click here and support our non-profit journalism. Thanks! Making Contact looks at California’s fight over rent control. The stage is set for a political battle between two worldviews. Is housing a human right, or is real estate property an investment commodity? And where on that continuum is California’s common ground? What does this mean for housing nationally? A statewide initiative, if...
The Seekers Part 2: The Cost of Deportations
The Cost of Deportations looks at deportation through the lens of one Central American nation that sends migrants north— Guatemala. About two million Guatemalans live in the US. But, half of those here lack legal status, and tens of thousands of Guatemalans are deported back to their country each year. Thus, the question arises… are the countries these migrants left prepared for an influx of returnees? This week, journalist Maria...
