Episodes

  • Caring Relationships: Disability and Maintaining Dignity (Encore)

    Caring Relationships: Disability and Maintaining Dignity (Encore)
    Jul 11 2025
    The vast majority of care recipients are exclusively receiving unpaid care from a family member, friend, or neighbor. The rest receive a combination of family care and paid assistance, or exclusively paid formal care. Whether you’re a paid home care provider, or rely on personal assistance to meet your daily needs, or a family member caring for a loved one, the nature of the working relationship depends on mutual respect and dignity. During this week’s anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, we’ll revisit the dynamic and complex relationship of care receiving and giving. Covering the movements, issues and people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang. Sign up for program alerts and sneak peeks from Making Contact at: http://ow.ly/1FkV30aq1z2 The post Caring Relationships: Disability and Maintaining Dignity (Encore) appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Making Contact – July 4, 2025

    Making Contact – July 4, 2025
    Jul 4 2025
    Covering the movements, issues and people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang. Sign up for program alerts and sneak peeks from Making Contact at: http://ow.ly/1FkV30aq1z2 The post Making Contact – July 4, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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  • What does a Latino version of “The Bear” taste like?

    What does a Latino version of “The Bear” taste like?
    Jun 27 2025
    On this week’s show, we explore Latino food and culture in Chicago’s historic Pilsen neighborhood and hear about how food can bring communities together. We tag along with the podcast In Confianza with Pulso as they try to answer the question: what does a Latino version of the TV show “The Bear” taste like? We’ll head to two restaurants, Cafe Jumping Bean and Pochos, to find out. GUESTS: Eleazar Delgado, owner of Cafe Jumping Bean. Miguel Hernandez and Irene Acosta, owners of Pochos. The post What does a Latino version of “The Bear” taste like? appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Mothers, Markets, and Migration (encore)

    Mothers, Markets, and Migration (encore)
    Jun 20 2025
    In this weeks episode, we look at how, over six decades after the Korean War, South Korea processed the most international adoptions in history and how the demand for a domestic supply of (adoptable) infants may be playing a role in increasing threats to autonomy over pregnancy in the U.S. This show first aired in November 2024. The post Mothers, Markets, and Migration (encore) appeared first on KPFA.
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  • A Making Contact Pride Show!

    A Making Contact Pride Show!
    Jun 13 2025
    To celebrate Pride Month, we have a special show featuring stories from the Making Contact archives. We’ll revisit the Stonewall Uprising with the 1989 audio documentary Remembering Stonewall and then head to the gay rodeo with producer Vanessa Rancaño in a story from 2014. The post A Making Contact Pride Show! appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Soul Force: The Legacy of Rev. James Lawson Jr.

    Soul Force: The Legacy of Rev. James Lawson Jr.
    Jun 6 2025
    A year ago, the world said goodbye to Reverend James Lawson Jr. On today’s show, we look back at the work and legacy this leading figure in the Civil Rights Movement and advocate of nonviolence, with the help of the podcast Re:Work from the UCLA Labor Center. The post Soul Force: The Legacy of Rev. James Lawson Jr. appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Thirsting For Justice (part two): Community Utility Districts and East Orosi’s Drinking Water Problems (encore)

    Thirsting For Justice (part two): Community Utility Districts and East Orosi’s Drinking Water Problems (encore)
    May 30 2025
    In part one of our series on water in the Central Valley of California, we visited a town called East Orosi, which has been fighting for clean water for over 20 years. This week we turn our attention to their sewage system, which is also falling apart. Why has it been so difficult for East Orosi to get clean drinking water and fix its sewage problems? To answer that question we take a look at the entities that run things like sewage and water in unincorporated towns all across California. They’re called Community Utility Districts. Community Utility Districts are often one of the only forms of self governance in unincorporated towns. But they’re staffed by volunteers, they’re underfunded, and they’re trying to share a vital resource, water, which is also slowly disappearing in the San Joaquin Valley. We talk about the problems with Community Utility Districts and ways to save them. GUESTS: Berta Diaz Ochoa – community member of East Orosi Janaki Anagha – Director of Advocacy, Community Water Center Kayla Vander Schuur – Community Development Specialist, Self Help Enterprises Carlos Sanchez – board member of the East Orosi Community Utilities District Maricela Mares-Alatorre – Community Solutions Advocate, Community Water Center The post Thirsting For Justice (part two): Community Utility Districts and East Orosi’s Drinking Water Problems (encore) appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Special Spring Fund Drive Programming: Greg King on the California Redwoods

    Special Spring Fund Drive Programming: Greg King on the California Redwoods
    May 23 2025
    Today’s episodes of Making Contact and Pushing Limits are preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Sasha Lilley speaks with Greg King, an award-winning journalist and activist credited with spearheading the movement to protect Headwaters Forest, in Humboldt County, California. King initiated the “redwood wars” following the notorious 1985 takeover of the venerable Pacific Lumber Company by the Houston energy and real estate conglomerate Maxxam. King has spent decades researching redwood logging and preservation efforts and is the author of the book The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods. To support our mission and receive the book The Ghost Forest as a thank-you gift, please donate here or call (800) 439-5732 (800-HEY-KPFA). The post Special Spring Fund Drive Programming: Greg King on the California Redwoods appeared first on KPFA.
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