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Making Contact covered health care reform, Iraq war veterans, and food crises in U.S. breadbaskets.
Two wars continued, the economy remained in freefall, and as hardship ensued, people crafted creative solutions. On this edition, we look back at some of the most compelling stories we brought you during 2009, and find out where things are headed for 2010.
Featuring portions of the following shows:
Many Voices for a Single-Payer System
Voices: Single-payer protestors at Senate Finance Committee meetings; U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.).
The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans
Voices: Zollie Goodman, former Naval petty officer
How We Survive: The Deepening Homeless Crisis
Voices: Max Rameau, Take Back The Land founder; Marie Nadine Pierre, Take Back the Land participant.
How We Survive: Sprouting Up in Empty Breadbaskets
Voices: Rachel Klein, Fresno Community Food Bank Worker; Evangelina Zaragoza, Needs Food Aid; Nayamin Martinez, Binational Center for the Development of Oaxacan Indigenous Communities Health Coordinator.
The Greening of America: A New Deal for Everyone?
Voices: Lawrence Martinez, Randy Mason, Keith Rose and Antoine Sawyer, Richmond Build trainees; Zoey Burrows, Solar Richmond Development & Communications staff member; Samuel Charles, Richmond Build lead instructor.
Also featuring: Russ Choma, Investigative journalist with the Investigative Reporting workshop at the American University School of Communication.
For More Information:
Many Voices for a Single-Payer System:
California Nurses Association (CNA)
Oakland, CA
Physicians for a National Health Program
Chicago, IL
Health Care-NOW! New York, NY
Labor Campaign for Single Payer Health Care
Single Payer Action Washington, DC
The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans
Aaron Glantz, Author of “The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans ”
National Veterans Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
New Directions Los Angeles, CA
Sierra College Veteran Student Alliance
Swords to Plowshares
San Francisco, CA
Veterans for Common Sense
Washington, DC
How We Survive: The Deepening Homeless Crisis
Take Back the Land
Miami, FL
How We Survive: Sprouting Up in Empty Breadbaskets:
Binational Center for the Development of Oaxacan Indigenous Communities
Fresno, CA
California Institute for Rural Studies
Davis, CA
California Conservation Corps Foundation
Benecia, CA
California Food and Justice Coalition
Berkeley, CA
Fresno Community Food Bank
Fresno, CA
Fresno Metro Ministry
Fresno, CA
The Greening of America: A New Deal for Everyone?
Ella Baker Center Green Jobs campaign
Oakland, CA
Richmond Build
Richmond, CA
Solar Richmond
Richmond, CA
“Overseas firms collecting most green energy money”
Russ Choma, Investigative Reporting Workshop
Russ Choma
Green Equity Toolkit: Advancing Race, Gender and Economic Equity in the Green Economy
