Making Contact Radio: Media that helps build movements

Have you ever really considered how we view time as a society? From work to leisure to appointments, we schedule every minute of our days, but how often do we think about why we treat time the wa...

https://www.radioproject.org/2024/05/jenny-odell-and-discovering-life-beyond-the-clock-encore/

This week’s Making Contact episode is about two strong women who survived historic trauma, and the stories they later told their families.  We start with the story of Katie Wilson. Born to an ...

https://www.radioproject.org/2024/05/uncovering-the-refugee-experience-healing-through-storytelling-encore/

At the beginning of the pandemic, we reported on the extreme inequality of the vaccine rollout to low income countries. Their access was hindered because of a Western patent system which was imp...

https://www.radioproject.org/2024/05/survival-for-all-securing-vaccines-for-the-global-south/

How does anyone make sense of abortion access these days? We sat down with All Options Pregnancy Resource Center in Bloomington, Indiana to talk about what’s changed since Indiana’s full abor...

https://www.radioproject.org/2024/04/you-can-still-have-an-abortion/

Dive into the history of Point Reyes National Seashore, one of the most iconic parks in northern California, with us. Known for rugged sweeping beaches and the famous tule elk, we’ll recount th...

https://www.radioproject.org/2024/04/the-coast-miwok-peoples-colonization-and-the-preservation-of-indigenous-history/

“America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy” chronicles how a center of Black excellence emerged amid virulent expressions of white natio...

https://www.radioproject.org/2024/04/americas-black-capital/

  Click here to donate to our Gaza Reporting Fund! Over the next few weeks, we are running a special campaign to fundraise for our Palestinian colleague Rami Almeghari. He is currently in Gaza w...

https://www.radioproject.org/2024/04/gazareportingfund/

In this episode with a brief report from Gaza-based journalist Rami Almeghari, we talk to Rashid Khalidi about his book “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine” to learn about the early histor...

https://www.radioproject.org/2024/04/the-origins-of-zionism/

We’re knee deep in Women’s History Month and at Making Contact we’re celebrating the best way we know how: highlighting the stories of women making change and fighting for a better future f...

https://www.radioproject.org/2024/03/7-shows-to-listen-to-this-womens-history-month/

This March marks four years since the COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared. Public health failures and government inaction have forced communities to take matters into their own hands. On to...

https://www.radioproject.org/2024/03/no-covid-isnt-over-and-the-need-for-continued-community/