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May 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.
ListenMay 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.
ListenMay 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.
Read MoreMarch 28, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
NO, COVID ISNT OVER, AND THE NEED FOR CONTINUED COMMUNITY
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.
Read MoreMarch 21, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: THE ONGOING STRUGGLE FOR BODILY AUTONOMY (ENCORE)
Today we share excerpts from She's Beautiful When She's Angry, a documentary about the rise of activism around womens rights in the late 1960s, the intersections of race in this movement, and the coalescence of the movement around bodily autonomy. The stories resonate particularly in a moment where control of womens bodies has yet again become a debate.
Read MoreMarch 7, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
THE ETHICAL DILEMMA OF GEOENGINEERING & GLOBAL WARMING (ENCORE)
In an era where climate change is top of mind for all and our futures hang in the balance, scientists think theyve found a solution: geoengineering. We take a deep dive into whether this answer to global warming actually fulfills its promises - or does more harm than good.
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