Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental Health at the Root of Activism
…l every year and there’s no path to residency or citizenship. In 2018, the Trump administration canceled TPS for Salvadorans. That meant they couldn’t apply for renewal and had to leave the country forever. For Evelyn, that would mean leaving her three U.S. born sons behind. She remembers the exact moment she heard the bad news. Evelyn Hernandez I remember that we were watching TV and we were having a family dinner. We have these dinners togethe…
The End of Policing, Alex Vitale
…:22:14] Yes, exactly. And so this is a deeply problematic development. And Trump’s changes are actually incredibly minimal. The Obama administration after Ferguson was pressured to restrict some of the kinds of military hardware. But basically, he said you can’t have bayonets. You can’t have actual tanks with tracks on them. And you can’t have camouflage uniforms anymore. That’s it. You can still have grenade launchers. You can still have armore…
About Last Night: How HBCU Students are Addressing Sexual Assault on Campus
…he political engagements, civic engagement of black people, that stem from Donald Trump and people like him being elected into office and that whole Roy Moore situation, there was a silver lining in it because it also made people more aware that if a guy got elected President of the United States, it has to be happening at least down the street from you. And the same thing to where people went out in droves and voted and got involved civically. I…
Wealth Inequity and Universal Basic Income
Chuck Collins When Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United states, the wealth gap between rich and poor was already very wide. The top 10% of families — those who had at least $942,000 — held 76% of total wealth. The average amount of wealth in this group was $4 million. And the entire bottom half of the population had just 1% of the total wealth pie, this gap continues to rise and when the statistical scope accounts for rac…
The Cost of War: A Reflection on the United States and Iraq Conflict
Given Trump’s massive military budget proposal and the 14th Anniversary of the United States war in Iraq, we bring you this program from our archives with the voices of U.S. Soldiers and Iraqis reflecting on the costs of war. Special thanks to KALW News in San Francisco. Photo Credit: Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War present at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, GA. Photo by flickr user Brooke Anderson. Like this program? Please show us th…
Wealth Inequity and Universal Basic Income
When Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United states, the wealth gap between rich and poor was already very wide. The top 10% of families — those who had at least $942,000 — held 76% of total wealth. The average amount of wealth in this group was $4 million. And the entire bottom half of the population had just 1% of the total wealth pie, this gap continues to rise and when the statistical scope accounts for race, the dispari…
The Poetic Address to the Nation (Encore)
November 8 marks one year since Donald Trump won the US presidency. One year later, Gallup puts the President’s approval rating at 33%, an all-time low. We at Making Contact reflect on his solid win in the electoral college, his resounding loss of the popular vote, and the year that is drawing to a close. The Poetic Address to the Nation was an event that brought together poets to speak out and against the current administration. The event featur…
Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation” (Encore Edition)
…again! Is whitelash enough of an explainer for the rise of president-elect Donald Trump? Is it rigorous enough to blame the people who didn’t show up to vote for our impending collective struggle under this administration? On this edition of Making Contact, we rebroadcast a speech contextualizing the election results from Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, an…
Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation”
Is whitelash enough of an explainer for the rise of President Donald Trump? Is it rigorous enough to blame the people who didn’t show up to vote for our impending collective struggle under this administration? On this edition, we hear from Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Dr. Taylor most recently wrote, “From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation.” We’ll be sh…
I Am Because I Am: The Expansion of Gender Identity
…eas of what is male, female, masculine or feminine. Especially considering Trump’s administration attempts to redefine gender to be solely based on a person’s genitalia at birth. Thus potentially threatening Transgender, Intersex and Non-Binary Identity. In this show we’ll ask the questions, what does it mean when individuals challenge specific societal expectations of gender? In the case of intersex individuals, how are these ideas of gender chal…
Election Protection and Democracy, with Women Rising Radio
…alytica. Cambridge Analytica is the organization that worked with the 2016 Trump campaign on big data assimilation, and they used stolen Facebook data from many, many Facebook users to do targeted advertising. Other members of the Council for National Policy include Richard DeVos, Jay Sekulow, who is Trump’s personal attorney. And it also includes Wayne LaPierre of the NRA. This 2014 directory also states that the Council for National Policies…
Caring Relationships: Negotiating Meaning and Maintaining Dignity ENCORE
In this disturbing era of Trump, we revisit our encore show on disability rights. During his campaign in November 2016, Trump mocked NY Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who had chronic joint disease that limits his arm movements. On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll explore the dynamic and complex relationship of care receiving, giving, and disability rights. The vast majority of care recipients are exclusively receiving unpaid care from a fam…
70 Million: Undocumented Immigrants are Tethered to ICE & Private Companies
…n a report, ICE said that program’s compliance rate was 100%. But the Trump Administration stopped the program in 2017, arguing it wasn’t effective. Musical interlude. Floricel: Detention centers are very dark places. Ryan: In March of last year, Floricel Liborio Ramos wasn’t thinking about policies or alternatives to detention. All she knew was that she was detained at the West County Detention Center, a county jail with eleven…
Our Lives are NOT for the Taking
Dear friend, Corporate-owned media contributed to Trump’s win as much as this country’s entrenched racism and white supremacy, patriarchy and xenophobia. At Making Contact we value transformative storytelling and create a space for OURcommunities to be heard. An alternative to the empty calories of breaking “news” shows.Let’s take our stories back! People are in motion and in this period we’re redoubling our work: Slow cooking radio pieces that p…
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later (Updated)
…James, William Brown III, Rev. Paul Washington, officers: Markus Bariana, Donald R. Griffiths, William J. Trudell, Lawrence D’Ulisse and Officer James Berghaier, Fire Commissioner William Richmond, District Attorney Ed Rendell and the Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission hearings. Credits Host: Anita Johnson Staff Producers: Monica Lopez, Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani Executive Director: Sonya Green Director of Production Initiatives an…
Presumed Guilty:
American Muslims and Arabs
…Black; Tsuyako Kitashima, Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress spokesperson; Donald Tamaki, lawyer for Fred Korematsu, Peter Irons, UC San Diego Constitutional Law Professor. —WEB EXCLUSIVES— NYC Town Hall on Preemptive Prosecution Full audio from December 2010 NYC Town Hall featuring family members of “wrongly accused” terrorists. Recorded by Jaisal Noor. https://www.radioproject.org/sound/2011/MakingCon_110323_townhall.mp3 Full-length Interview wi…
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later
…ise James William Brown, III Rev. Paul Washington Officers Markus Bariana, Donald R. Griffiths, William J. Trudell, Lawrence D’Ulisse and Officer James Berghaier William Richmond – Fire Commissioner Ed Rendell – District Attorney the Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission hearings Making Contact Staff Host: Anita Johnson Executive Director: Lisa Rudman Staff Producers: Anita Johnson, Monica Lopez, Salima Hamirani Web Manager: Kat…
Dateline Havana: The Future Of Cuba
…hanadhi, Rob Arnow, Charles Ball, Paola Laverde, Luz Ruiz, Douglas Graves, Donald Tetto, Khanh Pham and Andrew Stelzer For more information: Dateline Havana: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Future of Cuba book by Reese Erlich PoliPointPress – Sausalito, CA Esteban Miguel Morales Dominguez Centro de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos University of Havana Bamboleo Buena Vista Social Club “Rochy” Rosa Maria Amemeiro, singer, guitarist and composer T…
A Different Kind of Information War
…r King, Jr.; General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense; John Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute;Congresswoman Barbara Lee, D-CA; Credence Clearwater Revival, “Fortunate Son”; unidentified member of congress; unidentified member of the Senate; unidentified television news reporter; the late Senator Wayne Morse, D-OR; former member of congress David Bonior, D-MI; Congres…
What is Security? Budget Cuts Make Way for War
…stroying the World In Order to Save It”; Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; Margaret Brodkin, Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth; Graham Dobson, Tenderloin Childcare Center. Joe Wilson, Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth; Ginger, single working mother; Donald Lacy, LoveLife Foundation Christopher Hellman, Center for Defense Information. For more information: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities – Washington, D…
