Re:Work Radio: Stranded
…ing to the fire of the cremations. And I’m referring to the second wave of COVID earlier in 2021. But of course, there were widespread hardships due to COVID well before in 2020, India’s national lockdown led to millions of jobs disappearing pretty much overnight. There were issues with hunger and food deprivation, a lack of access to health care and a lack of government support. Saba [00:02:46] We were reached out by an organizer named Inayat Sad…
Data Boom! Rana Foroohar on Surveillance Capitalism
…More Information: Rana Foroohar Twitter Rana Foroohar Website Surveillance Capitalism: Shoshana Zuboff on Future Hindsight podcast TRANSCRIPT This is Making Contact. I’m Monica Lopez. The biggest tech companies generate enormous wealth and power by harvesting information about you. It’s called surveillance capitalism. As author Rana Foroohar puts it, as a commodity, data can be thought of as the new oil, and the Googles and Apples of the world t…
Texts Not Jails! Before and After Covid-19 via 70 Million
…formation 70 Million Podcast Homepage Open Letter to Cook County Regarding COVID-19 and Cook County Jail, Chicago Community Bond Fund Let People Out of Jail, by Conor Friedersdorf for The Atlantic May 19, 2020 LA To Join Host Of CA Counties Sending Text Reminders To Improve Court Appearance Rates TRANSCRIPT MC Host, Lisa Rudman: This week on Making Contact: People in prisons, jails, and immigrant detention centers are at an exceptionally hig…
Capitalism Makes us Crazy: Dr Gabor Maté on Illness & Addiction
…33;. I grew up in communist Hungary, where the joke of course was: What is capitalism? Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, and what is communism? It’s opposite *laughs*. I grew up in a system that spoke the language of socialism, that spoke the language of struggle, of anti-imperialism, of equality and justice, but in it’s actual functioning was just the very opposite. And then I came to North America, after the Hungarian Revol…
On the Brink: Homelessness before and during COVID-19 (Encore)
…· On the Brink: Homelessness before and during COVID-19 (Encore) When the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. many of us were told to “shelter in place” in order to minimize the spread of disease. But, for a lot of people who are forced to live on the street, it’s not possible to just close the door and retreat into safety. Today’s show is about homelessness. We start by following two women as they undergo several evictions, even though they’re alr…
Call for pitches on prisoners during COVID-19
…ails Submit your pitch for an 8-minute feature segment on prisoners during COVID-19. High-quality remote interviews and the creative use of archival ambience or other audio may be acceptable. We will commission 2 or 3 pieces. The work does not have to be exclusive to Making Contact. It can be a new audio piece or material previously aired non-exclusively from features, documentaries and/or sound-rich podcasts. Take your local story national with u…
Pandemic and Profit (Encore)
…sks. And looking at what they can teach us about: the perils of unfettered capitalism. How not to prepare for a disaster. And finally, the importance of communities coming together for each other. So to set the stage, cast your mind back to early spring of 2020. News is coming out about a novel coronavirus spreading around the world. There was a window in those early days when the U.S. government could have acted before the virus hit us hard. Thin…
Women Rising Radio: Women Challenge Capitalism
…ructures, and creating alternatives to the profit-driven economic model of capitalism. Women Rising Radio features Jinwar, a women-led village in Northern Syria. And we meet worker-owners of Up & Go, a cleaning cooperative in New York city. To place this global movement in historical perspective, we speak with feminist scholar Silvia Federici. Her books chronicle centuries of persecution and violence against women, including witch hunts carried ou…
The Fallen of 2020
…and in part two, we remember organizers and activists who died because of COVID. Image : People we lost in 2020 to COVID-19 and police shootings. Pictures at the top from left to right: Walter Wallace Jr., Lorena Borjas, and Andres Guarddo. Pictures at the bottom from left to right: Valente Acosta-Bustillos, Pamela Rush, and Garry Bowie. Special thanks: Special thanks to Queens Public Television and our guest reporter, Andrew Stelzer. Like this p…
Domestic Violence in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the UK’s Domestic Abuse Bill
…abuse affects everyone it touches—intimate partners, children, and elders. COVID-19 created new problems for victims of domestic violence and made some worse. This show looks at the challenges to survivors and their advocates posed by the pandemic and examines a landmark piece of legislation in the UK that could change the way countries there handle domestic abuse cases. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Image Caption: October is Domestic Violence A…
Domestic Violence in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the UK’s Domestic Abuse Bill
…abuse affects everyone it touches—intimate partners, children, and elders. COVID-19 created new problems for victims of domestic violence and made some worse. This show looks at the challenges to survivors and their advocates posed by the pandemic and examines a landmark piece of legislation in the UK that could change the way countries there handle domestic abuse cases. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Like this program? Please click here and supp…
A Chronology of Capitalism
…This week, we hear from three people who’ve been sounding the alarm about capitalism’s house of cards for years, and in some cases, decades. Featuring: Steve Williams, POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights co-director and co-founder; Rick Wolff, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Economics Professor and author; Stanley Aronowitz, City University of NY Graduate Center Sociology & Urban Education Professor and author. This program wa…
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A Chronology of Capitalism [encore]
…This week, we hear from three people who’ve been sounding the alarm about capitalism’s house of cards for years, and in some cases, decades. Featuring: Steve Williams, POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights co-director and co-founder; Rick Wolff, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Economics Professor and author; Stanley Aronowitz, City University of NY Graduate Center Sociology & Urban Education Professor and author. This program wa…
Changing Everything: Naomi Klein on Capitalism and Climate Change
…you sign up as a NEW supporter. In her new book: “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate”, Naomi Klein argues that while it’s too late to stop climate change, we can save our civilization. But it’s going to take radical steps that will transform the way humans interact with the world. Business as usual is no longer an option. On this edition, Naomi Klein speaks about her new book, and points out signs of hope as the global movement to…
Pandemic and Profit
…ed and distributed hundreds of thousands of masks during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. She’s also a member of that same squad. Welcome to the show, Mai-Linh, and thanks for joining us. Mai-Linh Hong: Hi, Lucy. I’m glad to be here. Thanks so much for having me. Lucy Kang: So first off, can you describe the Auntie Sewing Squad? How did it start, and how did you get involved? Mai-Linh Hong: Absolutely. So back in March of 2020, when we were st…
Queens Memory Podcast: Seeing Signs
…” We also hear from Filipino care workers about their experiences battling COVID 19, and the stereotype Filipina women face of being “natural nurturers” which doesn’t translate into care for them in return. Like this program? Please show us the love. Click here and support our non-profit journalism. Thanks! Featuring Potri Ranka Manis: Nurse, Activist and Artist Joey Golja: Community Member Mary Jane de Leon: Community Member John Bahia: Community…
COVID-19 UnVeils
COVID-19 UnVeils series Covid-19 UnVeils is a series of programs exploring the impact of the pandemic on vulnerable communities. For example, how can homeless people safely social distance and shelter in place? Additionally, workers in the gig economy face difficult decisions between financial security and their health. In this series, reporters examine the root causes of inequities and racial disparities exacerbated by the pandemic. Lastly, the…
Capitalism Makes us Crazy: Dr Gabor Maté on Illness & Addiction
…the relationship between mind and body health – and what the rise of capitalism has done to destroy both. Special thanks to KPFA in Berkeley, CA. May 31, 2013 update from Dr. Gabor Maté via Facebook: “Contrary to what I say here, Afro-American males do not have a six-fold increase in the risk of dying of prostate cancer. What is so, is that they do have double the risk of having the disease as compared with Caucasians and, if they have prost…
The Rise of the New Labor Movement
…ink that, you know, we were headed down this cliff for a long time and the COVID 19 pandemic, accelerated it to some extent. Because not only on the flip side did it change what was happening in the workplace, which we’ll talk about in a second, but it also changed like the reality of what that paycheck adds up to around inflation, , which is really purposefully, you know, it’s not some accident due to, shortage of supplies, but as we’ve seen in n…
Self Evident: Hate Goes Viral
…ort a micro-aggression, bullying, hate speech, harassment, or violence incident, fill out a form at Stop AAPI Hate (multiple translations available) Asian Americans Advancing Justice’s Coronavirus/COVID-19 Resources to Stand Against Racism Bystander Intervention Trainings To Stop Anti-Asian/Xenophobic Harrassment by Hollaback!…
