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We travel to Buenos Aires with reporter Rosina Castillo who immerses us in the culture of a local community arts organization who saw a need in their community and took action during the height of the pandemic. La Casona de Humahuaca transformed their operations to host “ollas populares” or community kitchens to help support their community and make it through the toughest parts of COVID together, all the while learning more about their organization and purpose in the community. We follow that with a conversation with Belen Desmaison, an architect and urbanist who discusses the building of an innovative communal living space with modular food preparation areas in Lima, Peru.
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Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world. 
EPISODE FEATURES: This episode includes interviews from La Casona de Humahuaca, a community arts organization in Buenos Aires, Guillermo Castañeda, a teacher and volunteer, Mariela Jungberg, social psychologist and cultural worker, and Belén Desmaison, urbanist and architect. 
MAKING CONTACT: This episode is hosted by Amy Gastelum, produced by Rosina Castillo, and engineered by Jeff Emtman. Our executive director is Jina Chung.

MUSIC: Ergo Phizmiz - Gretchen's Tango, Blue Dot Sessions 
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On this week's Making Contact, we bring you a special encore of an episode that first aired in June. We'll hear 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 corporations extract resources and profits while displacing and harming Indigenous communities around the world. The film follows Indigenous activists in Navajo Nation, Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines who are fighting back against corporations like Peabody Energy, Glencore and BHP. 
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Featuring: 
Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, an award-winning queer Diné filmmaker and director of Powerlands 
Making Contact Team:
Host: Lucy Kang Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang Executive Director: Jina Chung Engineer: Jeff Emtman This episode includes excerpts from the documentary film Powerlands.

Music:

Documentary by Music_Unlimited 
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Making Contact homepage Powerlands

Just 20 minutes north of Birmingham on Interstate 22, Brookside, Alabama is a working-class town with less than 1,300 residents. From 2018 to 2020, income from traffic fines and forfeitures increased 640%, making up 49% of the town’s revenue. In 2019, Brookside saw its first lawsuit that included allegations of racism and police misconduct. It caught national attention for being a predatory speed trap in 2022 and now facing a class-action federal lawsuit. Thank you to our podcast partner, 70 Million, for the story “Highway Robbery: How a Small-Town Traffic Trap Became A Legal Black Hole.” 
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FEATURING: Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Archibald, Brookside residents Sandra Harris and Ashley, Leah Nelson, Alabama Appleseed’s research director, Birmingham Criminal and civil rights lawyer Bill Dawson, Adam Danneman, head of the Jefferson County Public Defender's Office and Joanna Weiss, Fines and Fees Justice Center’s co-director. 
70 MILLION EPISODE CREDITS: Episode reporter Rhana Natour, editor Monica Lopez and Juleyka Lantigua, host Mitzi Miller, sound designer Erica Huang, photo editor Michelle Baker, staff writer and designer Kori Doran, lead fact checker Haylee Millikan, lead producer Pamela Kirkland, episode photographer Amarr Croskey, creator/executive producer Juleyka Lantigua

MAKING CONTACT: Host Anita Johnson, producers Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang, executive director Jina Chung.

MUSIC: Blue Dot Session - Curiously, Curiously Quiet Orchestra - My Friends 
 

As we head into an ever warming world, some experts and politicians are embracing a possible solution to climate change called geoengineering. Theoretically geoengineering could slow down climate change, stop it, and maybe even remove carbon from the air. It sounds like the perfect answer in for a global political system that just can't stop burning fossil fuels even if it kills us all. However, it might not be the easy fix we're hoping for.

We talk to scientists and activists about what geoengineering is and why it could actually be a dangerous way to tackle climate change. We also dive into the moral and ethical questions of testing geoengineering technology on indigenous lands. 
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Featuring:
Basav Sen;  Climate Justice Project Director at the Institute for Policy Studies Dr. Steven Zornetzer; Vice-Chair, Governing Board of Arctic Ice Project Panganga Pungowiyi; organizer for the nonprofit Indigenous Environmental Network in Alaska  Making Contact Team:
Host: Salima Hamirani and Jessica Partnow Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang Executive Director: Jina Chung Engineer: Jeff Emtman  Editor: Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Music Credits:
Chris Zabriskie - Air Hockey Salon Bio Unit - Industrial Zone Chris Zabriskie - Take Off and Shoot a Zero Doctor Turtle - Leap Second Monplaisir - Ridiculous Monplaisir - Juan Garcia Madero Learn More:
Indigenous Environmental Network Artic Ice Project Institute for Policy Studies Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.

How do you decide what kind of parent you want to be? Our friends at Pulso Podcast Maribel Quezada Smith and Liz Alarcón discuss ways they maintain their children’s cultural identity as Latinos while living in the U.S. They also touch on what they have changed from how their immigrant parents raised them. And, Liz sits down with Latinx parenting coach Leslie Priscilla to talk about her work using an antiracist, anticolonial and child-centered lens. 
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Featuring
Liz Alarcón: mom and Executive Director of Pulso Podcast   https://www.lizalarcon.com/aboutme  Maribel Quezada- Smith: mom and founder of the media production company, Diferente Creative  https://www.maribelqs.com/  Leslie Priscilla:  founder of Latinx Parenting  https://latinxparenting.org/  Making Contact Staff
Host: Amy Gastelum Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang Executive Director: Jina Chung Engineer: Jeff Emtman Digital Marketing Manager: Taylor Rapalyea Editor: Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Music composed by Julian Blackmore
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Pulso Podcast - https://projectpulso.org/podcast/
Latinx Parenting - https://latinxparenting.org/
Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.

Dive into the history of Point Reyes National Seashore in northern California with us. It's one of the most iconic national parks in the region, known for rugged sweeping beaches and the famous tule elk. We'll recount 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. The story of Point Reyes is a story about how the forces of colonialism continue to shape the fate of public lands in the United States. 
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Featuring: 
Theresa Harlan, (Kewa Pueblo/Jemez Pueblo), adopted daughter of Elizabeth Campigli Harlan (Coast Miwok), founder and executive director of The Alliance for Felix Cove 
Making Contact Staff:
Host: Lucy Kang Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang Executive Director: Jina Chung Engineer: Jeff Emtman Digital Marketing Manager: Taylor Rapalyea "Whose Point Reyes?: A Battle for the Future of Public Lands" Parts 1 and 2 Credits:
Reporter and producer: Sam Anderson Editor: Lucy Kang First aired on KPFA
Music Credits:
"Chill Ambient" by Yrii Semchyshyn (Coma-Media) via Pixabay "Cinematic Documentary" by Aleksey Chistilin (Lexin_Music) via Pixabay  Learn More: 
Making Contact homepage: www.radioproject.org
Listen to Parts 1 and 2 of "Whose Point Reyes: A Battle for the Future of Public Lands" on KPFA: https://kpfa.org/featured-episode/whose-point-reyes
Alliance for Felix Cove: www.alliance4felixcove.org
Coast Miwok Tribal Council of Marin: www.coastmiwokofmarin.org