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Making Contact
"Making Contact" is produced by International Media Project, an independent, non-profit organization founded in 1994, committed to investigative journalism, in-depth critical analysis, the promotion of civic participation and the dissemination of educational material. Its core focus is National Radio Project, the team that creates Making Contact.
Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to “defund the police” became a rallying cry to reimagine our approach to public safety. In this show, we’ll hear from renowned scholars about how we can build a global movement to spark lasting change or dismantle oppressive systems and the types of shared knowledge, strategies, and organizing an internationalist movement to ABOLISH policing and prisons will require.
Featuring:
Angela Y. Davis. She’s a political activist, author, Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz and she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. Lorgia Garca Pea, an activist and the co-founder of Freedom University Georgia; Medhin Paolos, a filmmaker, researcher and an activist working for LGBTQ and citizenship rights in Italy, and; Leti Volpp, a law professor at UC Berkeley. The conversation was moderated by Makani Themba, a Chief Strategist at Higher Ground Change Strategies based in Jackson, Mississippi.
