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Code Red: Status of the Constitution
On this edition, we’ll examine how certain government actions since September 11th, 2001 are in conflict with the Constitution and hear about the Patriot Act II.
read moreUnwrapping Plastic: A Look at Food and Beverage Containers (encore edition)
On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the production, use, and disposal of plastic food and beverage containers.
read moreRacial Reflections: White Anti-Racist Activism (encore edition)
On this roundtable edition of Making Contact, we take a look at what’s termed white privilege and white anti-racist activism.
read moreDirty Secrets: Human Rights Abuses in Mexico
On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at human rights crimes that continue to plague Mexican society and some responses from human rights organizations.
read moreOccupied with Peace: Jewish Responses to the Mideast Conflict
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.
read moreOil Slick: Bechtel, Halliburton, and the White House
On this edition of Making Contact, we look at a controversial pipeline deal that now-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally negotiated with Saddam Hussein on behalf of the Bechtel Corporation during the Reagan administration. We also examine Halliburton’s $7 billion dollar oil contract in Iraq.
read moreBefore the Rains: The Struggle for Montes Azules
On this edition of Making Contact, we go to Montes Azules and hear about threats by the Mexican government to forcibly remove dozens of communities from land that indigenous people and campesinos claim is rightly theirs.
read moreThe New Global Peace Movement
On this edition, musician Michael Franti, civil rights activist Jerome Scott and professor Angana Chatterji reflect on the anti-war movement and its significance for the future.
read moreShifting the Debate: Alternatives to Corporate Globalization
On this edition, we’ll hear from two key advocates of alternatives to economic globalization: physicist Vandana Shiva and economist John Cavanagh.
read morePatriot Act Uncovered: The War on Civil Liberties
On this edition, we’ll take a look at civil liberties in the United States in the post-September 11th era.
read moreGlobal Assault: Environmental Consequences of U.S Military Actions
On this edition of Making Contact we take a look at the environmental record of the U.S. military.
read moreCapital Gains: Gulf War II
On this week’s edition, we’ll take a closer look at how much control Iraqis will have over their land and assets when what the government is calling “Operation Iraqi Freedom” is over.
read moreJust War? U.S. Invasion of Iraq
On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the U.S. push toward war. We also examine US plans to develop and potentially use so-called mini-nukes.
read moreWar, Death and Taxes
On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll take a look at how the “certainties” of death and taxes interact with social justice.
read moreLife in the Shadow of Iraq: The Kurdish Struggle for Freedom
This week we present a special documentary that chronicles Kurdish life in the shadow of Iraq.
read moreHoods in the Night: Colombia’s Conflict and the Civilian Population
On this edition of Making Contact, we go to the Colombian cities of Medellin and Bogota to hear first-hand what life is like for disenfranchised and displaced communities that are literally caught in the crossfire.
read moreWomen Rising: International Changemakers
On this edition of Making Contact, we profile three tireless and effective women.
read moreINS Secrets Unveiled: The U.S. War on Immigrants
On this edition of Making Contact, correspondents Sarah Olson and Pauline Bartolone examine the treatment of immigrants under new INS policies and practices.
read moreBottled Rights: Coca-Cola Workers
On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at Coca-Cola and a couple examples of the corporation’s foreign operations.
read moreThe War on Drugs Revisited
On this Special Prison Desk edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the impacts of the so-called war on drugs.
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