Rising Up With Sonali is a women-run daily one-hour radio and television broadcast offering progressive news analysis with an emphasis on racial and gender justice. Created, hosted, and executive produced by Sonali Kolhatkar.
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A new book called Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children's Education, and Dreams for a Better Life, follows the stories of 16 migrant families from Latin America who were victims of harsh government enforcement.
A new brief by the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) brings to the forefront a critically important tool for climate justice: the rights of nature.
Yashica Dutt is a Dalit journalist covering New York's Mayoral election since April 2025.
This week on Rising Up For Justice, Nourbese Flint, President of All* Above All, joins us.
A new report by the Center for Biological Diversity outlines the threat of AI data centers' carbon emissions and how they can be addressed.
Voters in Montana are gearing up to ban corporate dark money in their state in 2026 by using a simple and innovative redefinition of what a corporation is.
US airstrikes on ships in the Caribbean have killed dozens of people under the dubious claim of illegal narcotics shipments.
This week on Rising Up For Justice, Eliel Cruz, co-founder of Gender Liberation Movement, joins us.
A Los Angeles museum is displaying several of toppled Confederate monuments, some still sporting the graffiti of rage, and one, chopped up and reassembled in a grotesque manner.
Citing the federal government shutdown as an excuse, President Donald Trump is allowing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, to expire.
On October 28, a month into the federal government shutdown, the United States Senate voted for the 13th time on a funding bill to reopen the government.
This week on Rising Up For Justice, Ahmad Abuznaid, the Executive Director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and USCPR Action joins us.
In Southern California, where this program is based, numerous local NO KINGS gatherings took place.
This week on Rising Up For Justice, Chaumtoli Huq, founder and editor of Law@theMargins joins us.
On October 18th, in an event that will be televised on Free Speech TV, a second so-called “No Kings” mobilization promises to be even more wide ranging than the first.
After two long and horrific years, a relentless Israeli bombing campaign centered on a genocidal project of erasing Palestinians in Gaza, has been put on hold.
This week on Rising Up For Justice, Chip Gibbons, policy director of Defending Rights & Dissent joins us.
In a new book, Art of Defiance: Protest Graphics and Poetry for Palestine, editor S. A. Bachman brings together verse in English and Arabic from the likes of Susan Abulhawa, Refaat Alareer, and Saul Williams.
In a powerful new book, historian Ilan Pappe imagines a more hopeful future for Palestine, one that he hopes will come about via 8 “mini revolutions” in Israel.
In a new book by young Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad, we learn what it was like to see Gaza through her eyes.
This week on Rising Up For Justice, Yliana Johansen-Méndez, Chief Program Officer of Immigrant Defenders Law Center joins us.
Jonathan Rosenblum is the author of a new book about Kshama Sawant's leadership in Seattle, called We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics.
The Debt Collective has organized a rent debt strike against Equity Residential, the fifth largest landlord in the nation and the largest in the city of Los Angeles.
California's incarcerated firefighters may win a huge pay bump if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs AB 247, a bill that's just reached his desk.
This week on Rising Up For Justice, Chip Gibbons, policy director of Defending Rights & Dissent joins us.
As a self-described “daughter of a deportee, raised by a single mom in and around Northeast LA,” Angela Gonzales-Torres is running for Congress on an abolitionist platform of people-first housing, guaranteed basic income, Medicare-for-all, Green New Deal, immigrant justice and more.
The state of New Mexico just adopted a universal free childcare program, becoming the first state in the nation to do so.
Jimmy Kimmel has become a cause celebre after being yanked off the air by his employer Disney. But the ensuing mass protests against Kimmel's firing were less about who he is as an individual than what his firing indicated.
This week on Rising Up For Justice, Dr. Van Bailey, an award-winning educator and advocate for transgender youth joins us.
Code Pink activists showed up at a restaurant in Washington DC to confront President Donald Trump with chants of “Free DC, Free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time.”
A series of climate justice actions around the world this month, seeks to “Draw the Line” on numerous interconnected issues plaguing people and the planet.
Tariq Khan, a historian and lecturer at Yale University, found out first hand what it felt like to be on the receiving end of Charlie Kirk's work.
This week on Rising Up For Justice, Nadia Marin Molina, Co-Executive Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network joins us.
What if everyone had a guaranteed basic income that covered their cost of living, without conditions, without means testing, without question?
Senators questioned RFK Jr.'s mass firings at the HHS, his cuts to critical services including COVID-19 vaccine access, and his unscientific claims about public health.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted the largest ever workplace raid in the US on September 4th, at an EV battery plant in Georgia.
This week on Rising Up For Justice, Jane Kim from Working Families Party joins us. Jane is the California Director of the Working Families Party.
From the push-back against affirmative action and diversity initiatives, to the attacks on campus free speech, politicians seem hell-bent on attacking colleges for precisely the reasons that make them centers of learning.
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, housing remains the biggest challenge to New Orleans, a city that is one of the nation's most treasured centers of culture and history.
Chicagoans are determined to resist Trump's militarism, in particular Black-led abolitionist groups who have long fought against the over-policing of their communities.
Ahead of Labor Day 2025, we'll turn to Shaun Richman, a former labor organizer turned academic and author who teaches labor history at SUNY Empire State University.
Detention Watch Network has compiled data to create a map of new and existing detention centers around the United States, hoping to shine a light on the vast architecture of incarceration.
In Washington D.C. and around the country, people are fighting back enthusiastically, organizing spirited protests against Trump's expanding policing and militarization.
This week on Rising Up For Justice, Jane Kim from Working Families Party joins us. Jane is the California Director of the Working Families Party.
At the Netroots Nation conference in early August, well-known Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour spoke about the state of protest against Israel's on-going genocide in Gaza.
Home Depot representatives say they are not cooperating with ICE but organizers are calling for a boycott of the corporate hardware chain.
After a weeks-long standoff, during which Texas Democrats left to break quorum, their Republican colleagues threatened them with arrest.
Mamdani has inspired so much new energy, particularly among young people, all over the country, that it is shocking how many of his party colleagues still refuse to endorse him.
At the Netroots Nation 2025 conference in New Orleans, I had the chance to speak with SEIU-California President David Huerta, who had just been cleared for interviews for the first time since his arrest.
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