Today’s Making Contact is preempted by the following:

C.S. Soong interviews Nate Powell about his graphic adaptation of James W. Loewen’s book Lies My Teacher Told Me.

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Today’s Making Contact is preempted by a special fund drive broadcast of Pushing Limits.

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The pandemic exposed stark inequalities around the world, especially in terms of vaccine access, leading to the deaths of untold thousands in the global south. Amid ongoing challenges, activists and scientists continue to push for broader healthcare equity, navigating patent barriers to ensure fairer access to essential medicines.

GUESTS:

Fatima Hassan – Human rights lawyer and founder of Health Justice Initiative
Piotr Kolczynski – EU Health Policy & Advocacy Advisor for The People’s Vaccine Alliance
Achal Prabhala – Researcher and coordinator of the AccessIBSA project
Petro Terblanche – Managing Director of Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines

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How does anyone make sense of abortion access these days? On today’s show, we sit down with All Options Pregnancy Resource Center in Bloomington, Indiana to talk about what’s changed since Indiana’s full abortion ban went into effect last August. We learn about ways folks are getting access to abortion pills, what to expect from a self-managed abortion, and about the case in the Supreme Court now — whether the pill Mifepristone will still be legal to use for abortions, even in states where abortion care is protected.

GUESTS:

Dr. Melissa Madera – Founder of Abortion Diary Podcast, Choix Telehealth team member, Researcher on Project SANA team, Special Projects Consultant for Plan C Pills
Jessica Marchbank – State Programs Manager at All Options Pregnancy Resource Center in Bloomington, Indiana

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The history of Point Reyes National Seashore, one of the most iconic national parks in northern California, is a story about how the forces of colonialism changed and now continue to shape the fate of public lands in the United States and the campaigns waged to fight back and protect Indigenous land.

On today’s show, we dive into this story, considering the legacy left by the waves of colonization that violently upended the lives of the Coast Miwok peoples who lived there, and one Indigenous woman’s struggle to preserve her family history.

Guest:

Theresa Harlan (Kewa Pueblo/Jemez Pueblo), adopted daughter of Elizabeth Campigli Harlan (Coast Miwok), founder and executive director of The Alliance for Felix Cove

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On this week’s episode, we speak with Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar about his latest book, America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy. The book chronicles how a center of Black excellence emerged amid virulent expressions of white nationalism, as African Americans pushed back against Confederate ideology to create an extraordinary locus of achievement.

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In this episode, Gaza-based reporter Rami Almeghari talks with Rashid Khalidi, Historian and Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, about his book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. They discuss the very early history of the zionist movement in Palestine and Khalidi’s argument that it was, from the start, a settler-colonial endeavor.

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March marks four years since the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health failures and government inaction have forced communities to take matters into their own hands. On today’s show, we look at two groups steeped in the values of community care: the Auntie Sewing Squad and Pandemic Solidarity for the Long Future.

GUESTS:

Kristina Wong – founder of the Auntie Sewing Squad

J Mase III – organizer with Pandemic Solidarity for the Long Future

Gata – organizer with Pandemic Solidarity for the Long Future

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Today we share excerpts from “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a documentary filled with stories that still resonate today as women face new challenges around reproductive rights and sexual violence. The documentary tells the stories of the activists of the Women’s Liberation Movement that gained traction in the late 1960s and led to social and policy changes that set women on a path towards equality and reproductive justice. It also addresses the intersections of race and gender and the experiences of the Black women who were integral to this movement. Ultimately, this film is about activists, those who inspire, organize, and revolutionize the world by changing the standards and broadening what we think is possible.

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What does equity really mean? That might be an impossible question to answer objectively, but in this encore episode Ruchika Tulshyan, a workplace inclusion expert, and Ijeoma Oluo, a thought leader on race in America, discuss the subtle and overt ways white supremacy and anti-Blackness impact our experiences at work.

GUESTS:

Ruchika Tulshyan – Inclusion strategist, speaker and author of the bestseller Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work.
Ijeoma Oluo – Speaker and writer, author of the New York Times bestseller, So You Want to Talk About Race.

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This week’s show is preempted by special fund drive programming.

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