Shifting the Debate: Alternatives to Corporate Globalization
For several years now, social movements that oppose corporate globalization have been articulating what they are against and why, but few alternatives to rules and policies set forth by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have entered the public discourse. That’s beginning to change, say many proponents of fair trade policies and democratic rights. On this edition, we’ll hear from two key advocates of alternatives to economic globaliza…
The Deep: Rising Sea Levels and Corporate Control of Water (Encore)
Making Contact · The Deep: Rising Sea Levels and Corporate Control of Water (Encore) On this episode of Making Contact, we look at the privatization of our earth’s most precious resource – water. People around the world have been organizing against this privatization in the face of climate change and rising sea levels that threaten to contaminate our limited drinking water supplies. Like this program? Please click here and support our non-profi…
Wolves at the Well: The Corporate Grab of Public Water (Encore)
Making Contact · Wolves at the Well: The Corporate Grab of Public Water (Encore) Water is critical to maintaining the balance of all life on Earth. As humans go, the United Nations estimates that each person needs about 50 to 100 liters a day for drinking and washing. It must be safe, accessible, and affordable. Some corporations claim ownership of fresh water sources to bottle and sell for profit. Others use water as a tool to extract oil and…
The Fight Over the Indian Child Welfare Act Is Not Just A Custody Battle
…ampaign to strike it down. What we found in our reporting is that that big corporate law firm, and actually some other corporate lawyers who’ve taken on these cases pro bono, are making the exact, exact same arguments in cases going after tribal gaming and tribal casinos that they’re making in this ICWA case. And so, they’re literally just swapping out kids for casinos. And so that thinking is that, you know, okay, if they can win ICWA based on th…
The Fight Over the Indian Child Welfare Act Is Not Just A Custody Battle (ENCORE)
…ampaign to strike it down. What we found in our reporting is that that big corporate law firm, and actually some other corporate lawyers who’ve taken on these cases pro bono, are making the exact, exact same arguments in cases going after tribal gaming and tribal casinos that they’re making in this ICWA case. And so, they’re literally just swapping out kids for casinos. And so that thinking is that, you know, okay, if they can win ICWA based on th…
White Hoax: Racism, Divide-and-Conquer, and Politics
…l climate. In his talk, “Great White Hoax: Racism, Divide-and-Conquer, and Politics,” Wise explores the ways in which white privilege and fragility have shaped our nation’s narrative around race and given way to the rise in white national hate speech and violence. Like this program? Please show us the love. Click here and support our non-profit journalism. Thanks! Featuring: Tim Wise Credits: Host/Producer: Anita Johnson Producers: Anita Johnson a…
Rosa Brooks on How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything
…itary Became Everything. Host: Andrew Stelzer More information Rosa Brooks Politics and Prose How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything by Rosa Brooks Rosa Brooks speaking at Politics and Prose Military Spending in the United States Costs of War And The Record for Highest Constant $ Military Spending Since 1950 Goes To………The Peace Candidate, Barrack Obama Episode Transcript Hi, Jasmine Lopez, here. If you like w…
Mexico’s Drug War: The Politics of Violence
…on, political science professor David Shirk sheds light on the history and politics of the war on drugs in Mexico. Plus an emerging movement in Mexico points to how both Mexicans and Americans can play a role in creating change. Special thanks to the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico for sharing their recording. Featuring: David Shirk, political science professor at the University of San Diego; Raul Romero, Movement for Peace and Justice w…
Concrete Cages and Cash: The U.S. Prison Industry
In the last 20 years in the United States, the federal and state governments have not fully met the needs for education, health care and other services, while funneling huge amounts of tax dollars into incarceration. On this program, the National Radio Project’s Prison Desk takes a look at the economics of U.S. prisons, and at how politicians and corporations are making choices that may severely impact the future. Featuring: Rose Braz, Critical R…
Growing Doubts: Corporate Control of Agriculture
As some of the largest corporations in the world dominate the agriculture industry, small farmers are at risk of losing their land and livelihoods. Other forces are at play, as well, including policies set forth by international financial institutions and, as is the case with Black farmers in the United States, racism. On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the plight of family farmers. Featuring: Michael Ableman, author of “From th…
Broadcast Files Archive
…n and Democracy (ENCORE) 09/16/20 Show Promo 38/20 Wolves at the Well: The Corporate Grab of Public Water 09/09/20 Show Promo 37/20 Essential: Gig Workers and COVID-19 (ENCORE) 09/02/20 Show Promo 36/20 Frontline East LA: The Chicano Moratorium 50 Years Later 08/26/20 Show Promo 35/20 Activism and The Fight for Black Trans Lives 08/19/20 Show Promo 34/20 Re:Work: [No] Child Left Behind 08/12/20 Show Promo 33/20 Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental He…
The Great Divide: Racism, Wealth Inequality, and Elections
…opez says what we need is social solidarity instead of Trump’s dog whistle politics. He says we need institutions that prioritize our shared fate for us, or as Haney Lopez says, build a multi-racial blue wave that completely changes the direction of the United States. Ian Haney López: Over the last 50 years, ever since the civil rights movement, the party of big business, the corporate elites, the economic titans have figured out that they win…
Rad Dads!!!
…rage to walk that path. And that kind of bounces outside norm of finances, politics and actually live that childhood dream. Almost that they had forgotten or lost and they had never really had the courage to get it. I think when you look at your kids they have that and when they look us we have kind of lost that. So for me radical parenting is important because so many people draw back to what they need to do to get through their day. Heads down a…
Rad Dads!!!
…rage to walk that path. And that kind of bounces outside norm of finances, politics and actually live that childhood dream. Almost that they had forgotten or lost and they had never really had the courage to get it. I think when you look at your kids they have that and when they look us we have kind of lost that. So for me radical parenting is important because so many people draw back to what they need to do to get through their day. Heads down a…
Rad Dads!!!
…rage to walk that path. And that kind of bounces outside norm of finances, politics and actually live that childhood dream. Almost that they had forgotten or lost and they had never really had the courage to get it. I think when you look at your kids they have that and when they look us we have kind of lost that. So for me radical parenting is important because so many people draw back to what they need to do to get through their day. Heads down a…
Manufacturing Terror: The Media’s Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Problem
…k Reel Bad Arabs, he makes the point with the obvious relationship between politics and film. So what was going on during these moments? During the ’70s, oil embargo was happening. And so the question in the minds of Americans is, how could Arabs have that kind of control to upset our economy, right? And why do they? Why do these backwards Bedouins have this kind of control? They can buy luxurious cars, and they’re womanizers, and they have a hook…
Women Rising VII: International Changemakers in Politics
Top: Congresswoman Barbara Lee being arrested at the Sudanese embassy. Source: http://Lee.House.gov Middle: Wu Qing talking to an official about birth control and adoption. Source: www.humanrights.cn Bottom: Malalai Joya speaking in Afghanistan’s parliament. Source: www.malalaijoya.com Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world, fighting for peace, justice, the environment and civil society. In this program we profile three c…
What’s Up with the Weather? The Politics of Climate Change (encore edition)
Upsala Glacier in Southern Argentina has melted at a rate of 200 meters per year. Source: BBC News Global warming is transforming life as we know it from the arctic islands to the Long Island Sound. Now, 25 years after we first heard the term, scientists say the debate is over – climate change is here. On this edition, we’ll hear about whom climate is affecting, industry and government cover-ups, and those calling for action before it’s too late….
What’s Up with the Weather? The Politics of Climate Change
Upsala Glacier in Southern Argentina has melted at a rate of 200 meters per year. Source: BBC News Global warming is transforming life as we know it from the arctic islands to the Long Island Sound. Now, 25 years after we first heard the term, scientists say the debate is over – climate change is here. On this edition, we’ll hear about whom climate is affecting, industry and government cover-ups, and those calling for action before it’s too late….
How to Occupy the Economy, According to Richard Wolff
…y, it had exactly the opposite effect, which is the only side of genius in politics there ever is — the proverbial you run that flag up that pole and you see who salutes. Occupy gathered people around a whole network of vague issues, multiple issues, general principles, and it put the economic question forefront. Nobody would’ve suggested they do those two things. That’s not the way the left has in general behaved, and so they have to their credit…
