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ElectionWatch ’04: Taxonomics: Federal Tax Cuts and the Budget Deficit
On this edition of ElectionWatch ’04, we take a look at how Bush’s tax cuts impact the economy, state budgets, and small businesses.
read moreBuilding Walls: Life in the Palestinian Territories
On this edition of Making Contact, we examine the impact of the current border conflict on Palestinian sovereignty.
read moreTrouble at Sea: The State of the World’s Oceans (encore edition)
On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll take a look at the over-all health of the ocean today, along with a close-up of the impact of cruise ships and shrimp farming.
read morePatagonian Winds of Resistance
On this edition of Making Contact Pauline Bartolone traveled to the small town of Esquel in Southern Argentina, where the residents successfully halted the gold mining venture as part of a larger movement of social transformation in Argentina.
read moreWar Against Women, Women Against War: A Report Back From the World Social Forum
On this edition of Making Contact, we feature three leading feminists: Egyptian sociologist Nawal El Saadawi, activist and author Arundhati Roy, and Saher Saba of the Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan (RAWA) who discuss the disproportionate impacts that fundamentalism, colonization, and corporate globalization have on women.
read moreElectionWatch ’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.
read moreLegacies of War
On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll take a look at the Legacies of War – the aftermath of military conflicts, which take a toll on people worldwide.
read moreChemical 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.
read moreA Poor System: Welfare Punishing Women
On this program, from the Women’s Desk of the National Radio Project, we look at the history and attitudes behind welfare policy in the United States, where we will hear from recipients who have experienced first-hand how the welfare system treats women like criminals for being poor.
read moreElectionWatch ’04 Youth Vote: Mobilizing from the Grassroots
On this edition of Making Contact’s ElectionWatch ’04-a monthly special from the National Radio Project-we conduct a roundtable discussion with young activists and grass-roots organizers about youth voting behavior and efforts to mobilize young people around the 2004 presidential elections.
read moreEmpty Promises? NAFTA at 10
On this edition of Making Contact, we hear from people who are working on the front lines of so-called free trade-farmers and a fisherman-and get their perspectives on corporate-led economic globalization.
read moreQueer as Youth (encore edition)
On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the hostile climate for LGBT youth, youth activism in schools, and a new radio show in Chicago for queer Latino youth.
read moreWomen Rising II: International Changemakers Women in Peace and Antimilitarism
On this program we profile four women changemakers: Laura Slattery left a career in the US Military to become a nonviolent activist against militarism; Amneh Badran spearheads a Palestinian-Israeli feminist peace coalition; Paula Green brings conflict transformation worldwide to the victims of war; and Hyun-Back Chung heads a South Korean effort to mediate peace between the United States and North Korea.
read moreElectionWatch ’04 Pushing Medicare: The Health Industry and Public Subsidies for Prescription Drugs
On this edition of Making Contact’s ElectionWatch ’04, a monthly special from the National Radio Project, we take a look at Medicare and prescription drugs.
read moreOccupied with Peace: Jewish Responses to the Mideast Conflict (encore edition)
On this edition of Making Contact, you’ll hear the viewpoints of Israeli Jews and Jewish Americans who are part of an international peace movement to end the violence in the Middle East and hear about an American activist who put her life on the line in the Occupied Territories
read moreRadio Mobilizing Communities (encore edition)
On this edition, we’ll hear about street children in India making and broadcasting their own radio shows in the marketplace, and a Native American-run radio station at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. We’ll also take a look at low-powered community radio.
read moreSpill-Over: Plan Colombia and U.S. Interests in the Andean Region
On this edition, we hear from leaders in Colombian civil society about what they view as Plan Colombia’s broader strategy: regional dominance by U.S. military and economic interests.
read moreJourney to Justice: Carlos Mauricio’s Story
Carlos Mauricio was one of the few political prisoners who survived the most brutal period of military repression in El Salvador. On this edition, correspondent Jon Watanabe chronicles Carlos’ remarkable journey in search of justice and, ultimately, healing for himself and his country.
read moreElectionWatch ’04 The Texas Two-Step: Bush, Corporate Cash, and Environmental Rollbacks
On this edition of Making Contact – the second of our monthly ElectionWatch ’04 series- we take a look at how the oil, gas, mining and electric utilities industries have influenced the Bush Administration’s environmental policies and the impact on communities located near industrial facilities.
read moreMeat, Milk and Money (encore edition)
On this program, we take a look at food safety and some of the health problems associated with the foods we eat.
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