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Color Lines: Race and Economic Recovery
Listen to this audio version of Link TV and Applied Research Center’s video: ‘Color Lines: Race and Economic Recovery’. Hear the untold stories of how racism hurts all of our economic futures.
read moreDr. Joanna Macy: Gifts of Uncertainty
Dr. Joanna Macy is a long-time peace, justice, and ecology activist. A celebrated Buddhist teacher, Dr. Macy’s wide-ranging work spans Eastern and Western thought. She spoke at the 2009 Bioneers Conference held in San Rafael, California.
read moreHow We Survive: The ‘Crisis’ in Public Education
We continue our series, ‘How We Survive’. This week? It’s a time of crisis in higher education. And as administrators cast an eye toward privatization, students are mobilizing for change, and a voice in the system.
read morePortland State University, Inc.
Like other states across the country, Oregon is struggling with the question of how to fund higher education in a time of massive budget cuts. Portland State University president wants to incorporate it. But many students are saying no.
read moreBeyond Wheeler:
UC Voices for Education as a Public Good
A story about the University at California at Berkeley mobilizations against the privatization of the public higher education system in light of budget cuts.
read moreRedefining Human Rights:
The Case for Food, Health Care & Housing
Are food, housing, and health care human rights? A round table discussion about the right to healthy food, the right to housing, and the right to healthcare. Do Americans have these, and if not, what’s standing in the way?
read moreA Chronology of Capitalism [encore]
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It’s a time of economic transition, and systems that may have seemed stable over the past few decades are proving to be far from it. But how did we get here? This week, we hear from three people who’ve been sounding the alarm about capitalism’s house of cards for years, and in some cases, decades.
read moreEconomic Roots of the Haiti Crisis
While the international community mobilizes to get aid – and guns – to Haiti, others are sending money and prayers. No matter where you were in the world when news of the devastation hit, disbelief seemed to be a global common denominator. How could Haiti be dealt another blow, when it has already suffered so much? Making Contact’s Pauline Bartolone searched for some answers.
read moreThe Crisis Made in Haiti
In the aftermath of one of the worst natural disasters in recent history, we look at Haiti’s history with the United States, the militarization of American relief efforts, and the economic policies that have contributed to the devastation of Haiti’s capital city.
read moreImmigration Reforms:
How a Broken System Breaks Communities
We go to two communities sorting through the aftermath of Bush-era federal immigration raids, and to Los Angeles, where American Apparel became the first test case of the Obama administration’s new approach to workplace hiring violations.
read moreObamas New Immigration Policy Forces Massive Layoff at American Apparel
Instead of facing huge fines for employing undocumented workers, American Apparel laid of its immigrant workforce. On the surface, this might seem like a more humane approach. In a collaboration with Spot.Us Patrick Burke reports from L.A.; where for the community at large, the result may not be that much different from the Bush-era raids.
read more‘Hyde-ing’ the Right to Choose
Stupak, the Hyde Amendment, and religion. We take a look at some of the threats to abortion access, more than thirty-five years after Roe V. Wade legalized a woman’s right to have an abortion.
read moreWomen Rising XX:
Leaders Struggling with War
In this program, we profile two government leaders tackling the monumental problem of war –– Gambia’s Fatou Bensouda, Deputy Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court and retired Colonel Ann Wright, a former United States military leader and diplomat for the State Department.
read moreBurning Man’s ‘Gift Economy’
No commerce is allowed at Burning Man. It’s one of the most unusual economic structures in the world–a ‘gift economy’. Making Contact producer Andrew Stelzer’s been there, and sat down with Larry Harvey, the festival’s founder, to find out how it all works.
read moreHow We Survive: The Currency of Giving
A look into how struggling communities around the U.S. are meeting each others’ needs, without charity, or even exchanging a dollar.
read moreLooking Back, Moving Forward: Making Contact’s 2009 Year in Review
Two wars continued, the economy remained in freefall, and as hardship ensued, people crafted creative solutions. We look back at some of the most compelling stories we brought you during 2009, and find out where things are headed for 2010.
read moreCracking the Coup in Honduras
Independent producer Chris Thomas takes us to the streets of Honduras to look at the roots of a long-standing conflict between a powerful oligarchy and the poor and dispossessed majority.
read moreSettlers or Meddlers? A Divided Palestine
Jewish settlers are forcibly expanding their lands. After initially calling for a freeze, the Obama Administration changed course, dimming the prospects for peace. Producer Reese Erlich takes us from the settlements of Hebron to the streets of Ramallah.
read moreHow We Survive in these Economic Times
On this edition, we continue our series “How We Survive.” We meet a New York City street canner who’s changed his life and community one can at a time; A San Francisco couple paying the bills … with pickles? And we talk to author John Curl who says an unemployment movement may be on the rise.
read moreTrade Shifts: Reflections on the Seattle WTO Protests
Ten years ago this week, thousands of people shook the streets of Seattle in protest of the World Trade Organization. On this edition, we revisit the voices from that week and find out how global economic forces have shifted in the past decade.
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