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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Days after Jacob Coxson, an AI researcher quit his job at Anthropic, warning that the technology has the power and potential to destroy humanity, tech executives called for a slow down of their own product development.
On September 15, 2026, my new book Breaking ICE: Community Defense Against State Terror and MAGA Fascism was published by Seven Stories Press, a collection of nearly 20 transcripts of interviews with people who have been guests on this program.
This week on Rising Up for Justice, we'll turn to Eteng Ettah, the Narrative and Communications Director at MediaJustice, a national organization that builds power to challenge how corporations and governments use media and technology to shape our collective future.
A majority of Altadena residents oppose the use of AI surveillance technology, in line with mass public opposition across the country where Flock cameras are now widely deployed.
An anonymous USPS whistle blower has filed a report warning of a high risk of “catastrophic failure” of the midterm elections if the White House's plan were to be implemented.
Days after Nepal's disaster struck, the UN Environment Programme published a report claiming that global temperatures had already pushed past the 1.5 degree Celsius limit. Savio Carvalho of 350.org explains what needs to happen now.
This week on Rising Up for Justice, I'm joined by Eric Naing, communications director for Demand Progress, an organization that works to secure progressive policy change by fighting corporate power and holding government accountable to the people.
Aimée-Josiane Twagirumukiza (they/them) is Director of Training at Midwest Academy, a training institute for progressive organizers.
A well-known civil rights leader in San Francisco has found herself as part of a federal lawsuit filed by parents of school children who visited a mosque.
Unionized nurses across the United States led protests in late August against the AI company Palantir.
This week on Rising Up for Justice, Stephen Rohde, a founder and current chair of Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace joins me.
As millions of Medicaid recipients brace themselves for Trump's onerous work requirements, worried they'll lose healthcare, what if we had Medicare-for-All?
Advocacy groups worried about voter intimidation against people of color have launched a new campaign to protect and exercise their rights.
The US Supreme Court on Monday issued a 6-3 ruling allowing the Trump administration to restrict mail-in voting.
This week on Rising Up for Justice, we feature Kevin De Liban, Founder and President of TechTonic Justice, a nonprofit using legal advocacy, education, and organizing to fight alongside low-income people left behind by AI.
The real story is about GLP-1 drugs is how Trump and major pharmaceutical companies are creating a healthcare “caste system.”
Daniel Hunter is the Director of Freedom Trainers, a group that's trained across the country about Trump's authoritarian threat and how to stop it.
Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, faces its biggest challenges in major lawsuits over children's privacy and safety.
This week on Rising Up for Justice, Ellen Flenniken, Chief Advocacy Officer at the Vera Institute of Justice and Director of Vera Action joins me.
Push back from the public, from organizers, and even from the Pope, against data centers has been fierce.
According to the Constitutional Accountability Center, the “vote to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General might be a win for Donald Trump and Todd Blanche, but it is a loss for the American people.”
This week on Rising Up for Justice, Emmy Scott, Executive Director of Earth Guardians is our guest.
After nearly a half century spent battling the US criminal justice system, political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal is taking his fight for freedom to the United Nations.
Children as young as a few years old, will be expected to make their case for why they should be allowed to remain in the United States, or risk deportation.
This week on Rising Up for Justice, Christian Snow, Executive Director of Law For Black Lives joins us.
A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies, Forging a Democracy that Works For All, hones in on billionaire power as a central focus.
Political candidates affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are winning elections in a wave that the left could only have dreamt of some years ago.
Young people in India have been making international headlines for mass protests sparked by leaks of medical entrance exams that help students qualify for highly coveted government jobs.
This week on Rising Up for Justice, our guest is Mickey Huff, Director of Project Censored, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
Most progressives attribute this to our lack of a single payer healthcare system. According to a new book, it's even bigger than that and can be traced back to inequality, including capitalism and individualism.
A Washington woman is suing major oil companies such as Exxon Mobil over the death of her mother in 2021.
ICE agents are no longer announcing their presence, and they are arresting more people per day on average.
This week on Rising Up for Justice, our guest is Joyce Ajlouny, General Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee.
Candice Fortin is the US Campaigns Manager with 350.org, a global climate justice organization.
The Los Angeles Police Department just announced it would not renew its contract with Flock, the controversial company whose AI-powered cameras surveil the public.
The latest ICE killings are part of an on-going pattern of murder and mayhem by immigration forces.
This week on Rising Up for Justice, our guest is Alex Lawson, the Executive Director of Social Security Works.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker in June of this year signed a bill into law that slaps a tax on tech companies' ad revenues. The movement that led to SB 3019 was many months in the making.
This week on Rising Up for Justice, our guest is Jeff Cohen, a columnist, activist, former journalism professor and author of "Cable News Confidential." He founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986 and co-founded RootsAction.org in 2011.
This year, the Fourth of July marks the 250th anniversary of the United States. For Indigenous and Black communities it has never symbolized independence.
Eight people were recently given draconian prison terms in the first case of "Antifa"-related sentencing.
In back-to-back 6-3 rulings on the same day, conservative justices upheld the practice of turning away asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border. And, they affirmed Trump's desire to overturn the Temporary Protected Status of 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians residing in the US.
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Southern California has recently been plagued by a massive industrial fire at a warehouse in Boyle Heights, a historically Latino neighborhood in LA.
In the lead up to the World Cup, organizers formed a campaign dubbed Nuestra Copa, or Our Cup, to demand ICE-free events and center fans in a game that has been traditionally seen as “the people's game.”
An immigrant detention center in Newark, New Jersey called Delaney Hall has been the site of on-going protests on the outside and a hunger-strike by detainees on the inside.
This week on Rising Up for Justice, Chris Kutalik, Director of Communications for Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) joins us.
On June 8, hundreds of rights organizations, including unions, pro-democracy organizations, and racial and economic justice groups signed onto an open letter demanding a healthcare system paid for by all of us and benefitting all of us.
It has been just over a year since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents invaded Los Angeles en masse, launching a campaign of terror and violence against immigrant communities.
Stanford University graduates walked out of their commencement ceremony this past Saturday June 13 in protest of Google CEO Sundar Pichai's keynote.
This week on Rising Up for Justice, Erica Smiley, the Executive Director for Jobs with Justice joins us.
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