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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.
read moreWho Owns Our Water? Profits vs. Public Interest
On this edition, we’ll take a look at water as a basic human right. We’ll hear about a plan to privatize water services in Lagos, Nigeria, and we’ll hear about how activists in Maui, Hawaii are working to recover the island’s water sources for public use.
read moreReaching for Peace in the Holy Land (encore edition)
On this week’s edition of Making Contact, Israeli women defend Palestinian human rights at military checkpoints near Jerusalem.
read moreFrom Cradle to Grave: The Impact of Electronics (encore edition)
On this week’s edition we take a closer look at what our gadgets are doing to our environment.
read moreThe 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.
read moreHiroshima and its Legacy Today
On this special edition of Making Contact, producer Reese Erlich looks at how the Hiroshima bombing set the moral and political tone for future aggression where we’ll hear from both Japanese and American atomic bomb survivors, and from today’s anti-nuke activists.
read moreFour More Years: Communities of Color Organize
On this edition, we’ll hear from four activist leaders from communities of color addressing a number of issues related to the election: How did people of color vote? What was the media spin? And what challenges lie ahead over the next four years?
read moreInternational Activists React to the U.S. Election
Grassroots activists and analysts from all corners of the globe, including Iraq, Venezuela, Ghana, Palestine, India, Mexico, England, and Pakistan react to another 4 years of George W. Bush in the White House.
read moreWomen Rising III: International Changemakers Women Writer Activists
In this Women’s Desk edition, we profile three courageous women writer-activists.
read moreUnreasonable Women in Unreasonable Times
On this edition, we’ll hear stories of four women struggling for a cleaner environment and more peaceful society.
read moreReckless Rhetoric: After Four Years of Bush
On this edition, we take a look both at Bush’s words and his legacy after four years in office.
read moreElectionWatch ’04 – The Final Choice
On this edition we take a look at an international mission to observe the U.S. elections, look at the impacts of a decade-long Republican-controlled Congress, and hear about an effort in the hip hop movement to persuade young voters to go to the polls.
read moreRegulating Love
On this edition, we take a look at how government is trying to increase marriage regulation: preventing same sex marriages on the one hand, and on the other, promoting marriage as an economic solution for low-income women.
read moreElectionWatch ’04 – Systems Failure (encore edition)
On this edition, we take a look at the disenfranchisement of African Americans in Florida, the debate over electronic voting machines, and Electoral College reform in the state of Colorado.
read moreElectionWatch ’04 – Swinging the States
On this edition, we hear from former federal employees who jeopardized their careers to expose official wrongdoing and hear about Daniel Ellsberg’s latest whistleblowing activities.
read moreUnauthorized Disclosure: Blowing the Whistle on Government Crimes
On this edition, we hear from former federal employees who jeopardized their careers to expose official wrongdoing and hear about Daniel Ellsberg’s latest whistleblowing activities.
read moreA New York Welcome: Protesters Respond to the Republican Agenda
On this edition, correspondent Pauline Bartolone takes us on an audio tour of the protests outside the largest demonstration against a political convention in U.S. history.
read moreReaching for Peace in the Holy Land
On this week’s edition of Making Contact, Israeli women defend Palestinian human rights at military checkpoints near Jerusalem.
read moreThe Struggle for Food
On this week’s edition we hear from people delivering fresh organic food to under-served neighborhoods, from farmers striking a balance between sustainability and survival, and from a biologist who became involved in a political struggle after discovering genetically contaminated corn in Mexico.
read moreElection 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.
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