Queer Youth Challenges (encore edition)
On this edition, we’ll take a look at the unique perspective of LGBTQ youth on such topics as foster care, childhood sexual abuse, and disability.
Rethinking AIDS Treatment: The Brazilian Model
American activists say we have a lot to learn from Brazil–from grassroot sex education and free medicine for anyone who is HIV positive.
Enduring Choice
On this edition we hear about the common thread that connects women from all walks of life. From prison cells, to the barrios in Fresno, California, women of color are organizing around the broad theme of reproductive justice.
The Third Option – Assisted Suicide (encore edition)
In 1994, Oregonians voted to make doctor assisted suicide legal, the only law of its type in United States. Ten years later, it’s still controversial. On this edition, correspondent Barbara Bernstein speaks with activists and analysts on both sides of the issue.
The Third Option – Assisted Suicide
In 1994, Oregonians voted to make doctor assisted suicide legal, the only law of its type in United States. On this edition, correspondent Barbara Bernstein speaks with activists and analysts on both sides of the issue.
The Chemical Industry’s Toxic Toll
On this edition, we’ll look at the 20th anniversary of one of the world’s worst chemical disasters, at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India, where we’ll hear about Occidental Petroleum’s toxic legacy at Love Canal and examine how corporate polluters are ignoring environmental causes of breast cancer.
Election Watch ’04: Working Hard for Change
On this edition, we explore the economic anxieties driving voters – such as access to health insurance, affordable childcare, and livable wages.
Chemical Soup: Pollutants in the Body (encore edition)
On this edition, we’ll take a look at these everyday chemicals found in our air, water, dust, and food coming from everyday products like detergents, cookware, and cosmetics, and how they’re being regulated.
ElectionWatch ’04 – Home Economics: Women and Voting
On this edition of Making Contact’s ElectionWatch’04- a monthly special from the National Radio Project- we explore the pre-election concerns of a variety of women, including women in labor unions, Latina immigrants and unmarried women as powerful voting blocs.
Chemical Soup: Pollutants in the Body
On this edition, we’ll take a look at these everyday chemicals in our air, water, dust, and food coming from everyday products like detergents, cookware, and cosmetics and how they’re being regulated.
