House of Cards: The Affordable Housing Crisis
Nowhere in the United States can a full-time minimum wage worker afford to rent a two bedroom apartment. This is the conclusion, for the fourth year in a row, of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
Unwrapping Plastic: A Look at Food and Beverage Containers
On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the production, use, and disposal of plastic food and beverage containers.
Prisoners of Conscience: Civil Disobedience and the S.O.A.
On this program we take a look at the School of the Americas, and a broad-based movement of human rights activists and religious groups that’s organizing to shut down the institute.
Growing Doubts: Corporate Control of Agriculture
On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the plight of family farmers.
Leading the Way: Post 9/11 Student Activism
On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at an emerging anti-war movement and some of the challenges students face in this post 9/11 era. This program is the second in a two-part series that was produced in collaboration with Foreign Policy in Focus, a co-sponsor of the First Monday Project 2002.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorists
On this edition of Making Contact we take a look at this and other questions, as we examine civil liberties in this post-9/11 era. This program is the first in a two-part series that was produced in collaboration with Foreign Policy in Focus, a co-sponsor of the First Monday Project 2002.
Warnings from the Coal Fields
On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the impacts of a common practice in the coal industry known as “mountain top removal.”
Tapping the Market: Privatizing the World’s Water Supply
On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at water privatization in South Africa, Ghana, Bolivia, and the United States.
Ripple Effects: Consequences of the U.S. War on Terrorism
There have been many intended and unintended consequences of what the U.S. government calls the War on Terrorism.
In the U.S. Cross Hairs: Iraq and the Threat of War
On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at U.S. policy on Iraq, its impacts on the Iraqi people, and whether the U.S. is justified to go to war there.
