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"Making Contact" is produced by International Media Project, an independent, non-profit organization founded in 1994, committed to investigative journalism, in-depth critical analysis, the promotion of civic participation and the dissemination of educational material. Its core focus is National Radio Project, the team that creates Making Contact.
This week on Making Contact:
The official Day to Commemorate Agent Orange is August 10th and marks the start of the US military’s decade of massive chemical warfare in Vietnam in 1961.
On this edition: combat, chemicals, and corporations. We’ll look at the multi-generational legacy of Agent Orange — a toxic defoliant used by the United States military in the jungles of Vietnam.
Featuring:
Ngo Thanh Nahn, co-coordinator Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign; Fred Wilcox scholar and author: Waiting for An Army To Die and Scorched Earth.
Contributing Producers:
K. Oanh Ha The Forgotten Ones: A Legacy of Agent Orange, is a three-part series by reporter Oanh Ha aired on KQED’s The California Report in November 2010, and is used here with KQED Public Radio’s permission. www.californiareport.org
Oanh Ha produced her series as a fellow of the Vietnam Reporting Project, which was developed by Renaissance Journalism at San Francisco State University and funded by the Ford Foundation.
Tish Pearlman and Nate Richardson of the Out of Bounds Radio Show.com
Credits:
Host this week: Lisa Rudman
Producers: Andrew Stelzer, George Lavender, Jasmin Lopez, Laura Flynn
Contributing Producer: K. Oanh Ha
Web Editor: Kwan Booth
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Web Editor: Kwan Booth
Production Interns: Luna Gallegos
Organizational Volunteers: Barbara Barnett
