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June 13, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
Making Contact: The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation
What is caste? According to author Thenmozhi Soundararajan, caste is suffering. That ones worth and fate are determined at the moment of birth." On this week's episode, we talk to Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the author of "The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition."
ListenJune 6, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
Making Contact: Disclose! Divest! – Behind the Fight Over College Endowments
What does it mean to disclose and divest? We take a look at the demands behind the student encampments for Palestine and talk to Kelly Grotke about endowments. Then, we take a trip back in time with Andrea Pritchett who was a part of the encampments in the 80s against South African Apartheid.
ListenMay 30, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
Making Contact: Borders: What are they good for?
What are borders, and why do we have them? And how is violent border enforcement at the US-Mexico border connected to Israel's brutal assault on Gaza?
We'll dig into these questions and hear about a time when the natural boundary between two countries changed " and what happened to the people caught on the other side.
Read MoreMay 23, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
Making Contact: The Art of Healing: Finding Strength Through Frida Kahlo
In Confianza, with Pulso producer Anthony Wallace brings us the story of Thania Betancourt Alcazar. A member of The Phoenix Fridas, Alcazar discovered a lifeline in the art of Frida Kahlo and her artistic message of resilience and empowerment.
Read MoreMay 16, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
Making Contact: Jenny Odell and Discovering Life Beyond the Clock (Encore)
This week, we talk to Jenny Odell, about the ideas behind her book Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock and How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. We talk about how time shapes all our lives, question the idea that time is money, and look to understand the capitalistic and colonialist roots of the way we view time every day.
Read MoreMay 9, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
Making Contact: Uncovering the Refugee Experience & Healing Through Storytelling (Encore)
This week's episode is about two women, one who fled Shanghai during Mao's Chinese Revolution, and the other who escaped the Bolshevik Revolution and Ukrainian pogroms. We hear the stories they told their families years later, and the trauma they held close to allow the next generation to heal.
Read MoreMay 2, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
Making Contact: Survival for All: Securing Vaccines for the Global South
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.
Read MoreApril 25, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
Making Contact: You Can Still Have An Abortion
Access to abortion is increasingly piecemeal and complex in the US. While abortion access volleys within the judicial system, local abortion funds and online resources help people navigate care despite confusing, mercurial laws.
Read MoreApril 11, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
AMERICA’S BLACK CAPITAL
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.
Read MoreApril 4, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
THE ORIGINS OF ZIONISM
In the midst of repeated, outsized, and unprecedented attacks on the people of Gaza, we talk to Rashid Khalidi about his book "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine." We focus on the very early history of the zionist movement in Palestine and his argument that it was, from the start, a settler-colonial endeavor.
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