Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2014 Year in Review from Making Contact

Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2014 Year in Review - (From the series Making Contact)

Making Contact brings us an update on some of the stories they’ve covered this year.

We’ll go to a protest to talk to advocates calling for an end to using Native American imagery and stereotypes in sports. We’ll talk to the Center for Food Safety about the political outlook for supporters of better regulations of GMOs and pesticides. And we’ll get an update on US immigration policy from the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

Featuring:  

Suzan Shown Harjo, Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee advocate for American Indian rights; Morning Star Gali, co-chair of Bay Area Coalition to End Racism in Sports; Jacqueline Keeler, founding member of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry; Don Tipping, Seven Seeds Farm owner; Chris Hardy, Rogue valley farmer; Sylvia Wu, staff attorney at Center for Food Safety; Catherine Tactaquin, Executive Director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. 

Making Contact produced by the National Radio Project, is an award winning, 29 minute weekly magazine/documentary-style public affairs program heard on over 130 radio stations in the USA, Canada, South Africa and Ireland.