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Making Contact - Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2012 Year in Review - December 28, 2012 at 1:30pm
Around the world, students have been taking to the streets. They’re opposed to rising tuition fees and cuts to education. On this edition, we’ll hear how students in Quebec helped bring down the government and why Chilean students are back out on the streets again...

Making Contact - Life or Death: Ending the Death Penalty - December 21, 2012 at 1:30pm
A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty. In 2012 voters had the chance to vote to replace California’s death penalty with life without the possibility of parole. But while some saw the ballot measure as a way to end the death penalty, others saw life...

Making Contact - Saving or Selling the Planet? REDD, Climate Change and Indigenous Lands - December 14, 2012 at 1:30pm
Around the world communities are already facing the impacts of climate change. Now international organizations, like the World Bank, are pushing a policy that asks polluters to offset their pollution by paying governments to protect forests. But is it working?