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Pacifica Foundation to Continue the Legacy of ‘Making Contact’
Los Angeles, CA – The Pacifica Foundation is proud to announce that it will assume production of the award-winning public affairs program Making Contact, following the closure of Frequencies of Change Media, the independent nonprofit...
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Origin Story: Making Contact | 30th Anniversary Capsule
From its birthplace in an Oakland cafe in 1994 to the Battle in Seattle, international reporting projects, and a deep commitment to social justice journalism, Making Contact has been an important part of the media landscape for more than...
Nobody Told Them: Veterans and the Broken Handoff
Veterans leave the military having earned health care, education benefits, and job training. What almost nobody tells them is that none of it is automatic. You have to show up with your DD-214 and enroll yourself, and if you don’t,...
Powerlands (Encore)
On this week’s Making Contact, we feature an extended interview with Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, a queer Diné filmmaker and director of the award-winning documentary Powerlands. Powerlands traces how multinational energy...
The Ethical Dilemma of Geoengineering & Global Warming (Encore)
Geoengineering is defined as some emerging technologies that could manipulate the environment and partially offset some of the impacts of climate change. Seems like the perfect solution for a consumerist society that lives on instant...
The Coast Miwok Peoples, Colonization, and the Preservation of Indigenous History (Encore)
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 the waves of colonization that violently...
The Coast Miwok Peoples, Colonization, and the Preservation of Indigenous History (Encore)
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 the waves of colonization that violently...
Nobody Told Them: Veterans and the Broken Handoff
Veterans leave the military having earned health care, education benefits, and job training. What almost nobody tells them is that none of it is automatic. You have to show up with your DD-214 and enroll yourself, and if you don’t,...
Pacifica Foundation to Continue the Legacy of ‘Making Contact’
Los Angeles, CA – The Pacifica Foundation is proud to announce that it will assume production of the award-winning public affairs program Making Contact, following the closure of Frequencies of Change Media, the independent nonprofit...
Staying in the Fight with Ijeoma Oluo, from In the Meanwhile
In this special guest episode from the podcast In the Meanwhile, co-hosts Marcus Harrison Green and Nora Kenworthy sit down with author and activist Ijeoma Oluo (So You Want to Talk About Race; Mediocre: the Dangerous Legacy of White...
