Rising Up With Sonali

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News & Analysis of Economic, Racial, Gender Justice and More

Episode Date
Gen-Zers are Politically Active. Will They Vote?
May 16, 2024
Making Child Care Sustainable for Parents and Providers
May 15, 2024
Cal State LA Students Launch Free Gaza Encampment
May 09, 2024
UCLA’s Students Face Zionist Attackers and Police Violence
May 08, 2024
Living Behind Bars: What a Life Sentence Means
May 03, 2024
A Jewish Student Speaks Out from Free Gaza Encampment
May 02, 2024
Report from SFSU’s Free Gaza Encampment
May 01, 2024
Can Arizona Win Back the Right to an Abortion?
Apr 26, 2024
Understanding Volkswagen Workers' Historic Union Win
Apr 25, 2024
How Campuses Are Rising Up for Palestine
Apr 24, 2024
Rethinking Arab American Heritage Month in Light of Gaza
Apr 19, 2024
Battle Against the SAT Continues
Apr 18, 2024
Searching for Justice for Bhopal, 40 Years After Disaster
Apr 17, 2024
Understanding Haiti’s Latest Political Crisis
Apr 11, 2024
Activists Organize Gaza “Freedom Flotilla”
Apr 10, 2024
“The Urgent Call of Palestine”
Apr 04, 2024
Climate Fiction Enables us to Imagine a Better Future
Apr 03, 2024
Why Won’t Biden Use All Available Tools to Meet Climate Goals?
Mar 29, 2024
Tax Day Injustice: How Corporate CEOs Make More Than Govt
Mar 28, 2024
Supreme Court Considers Abortion Medication Ban
Mar 27, 2024
The Complexity of Connection: YES! Magazine’s Spring Issue Preview
Mar 15, 2024
Will Washington’s Police Accountability Measure Work?
Mar 14, 2024
Claims of Mass Rape by Hamas Unravel Upon Investigation
Mar 13, 2024
Tulsa Beyond Reparations
Mar 08, 2024
How Towns and Cities are Implementing Reparations
Mar 07, 2024
California Goes Furthest on Reparations
Mar 06, 2024
Black Youth Spaces as a Form of Reparations
Mar 01, 2024
How Pop Culture Shapes Narratives on Reparations
Feb 29, 2024
Becoming "Reparationists"
Feb 28, 2024
New York Considers a “Social Housing” Proposal
Feb 23, 2024
Why Reparations is an Election 2024 Issue
Feb 22, 2024
Why is Biden Determined to Lose the Election Over Israel?
Feb 21, 2024
Family Planning in the Age of Climate Change
Feb 16, 2024
Amid Storms and Olympics, How to Solve Homelessness in LA?
Feb 15, 2024
Trump-Appointed Justices Consider Trump’s Appeals
Feb 14, 2024
Fat Liberation and the New Weight Loss Drugs
Feb 09, 2024
Exposing Israeli Pinkwashing of Genocide
Feb 08, 2024
Jewish Students Say, “Shabbat for Ceasefire”
Feb 07, 2024
Pushing Back on Rightwing Distortion of Carroll Settlement
Feb 02, 2024
How Pro-Choice Catholics are Shifting Abortion Narratives
Feb 01, 2024
How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression
Jan 31, 2024
Freedom Teaching: Understanding the War on DEI
Jan 26, 2024
Raising Public Awareness of U.S. Military Spending
Jan 25, 2024
Israel is Using an Old Playbook on Genocide
Jan 24, 2024
Lessons in Government Spending: The Pandemic Paradox
Jan 19, 2024
Yemen’s Houthis Take Action to Stop Gaza Genocide
Jan 18, 2024
Responding to Trump's Iowa Win
Jan 17, 2024
Why Claudine Gay’s Ouster Was Indeed About Race
Jan 11, 2024
Three Years Since Jan 6th Insurrection, Democracy Still in Danger
Jan 10, 2024
Indigenous Restoration of Wildlife Habitats
Jan 05, 2024
Building Prosperity From the Soil Up
Jan 04, 2024
What Will it Take to End Gaza Genocide?
Jan 03, 2024
After a Decade on City Council, What’s Next for Seattle’s Sawant?
Dec 14, 2023
New Survey Finds Broad Support Among Black Americans for Defunding Police
Dec 13, 2023
The Most Censored Stories of 2023
Dec 07, 2023
Why Jewish Americans Are Rising Up for Palestine
Dec 06, 2023
Why Is There a Fossil Fuel Boom Under Biden?
Dec 01, 2023
The Voting Rights Act Was Weakened Again - Now What?
Nov 30, 2023
A Legal Challenge to U.S. Complicity in Israel’s Unfolding Genocide
Nov 29, 2023
How Constructed Wetlands Clean Wastewater –And Attract Wildlife
Nov 24, 2023
Honoring Our Elders: Preview of YES! Winter 2024 Issue
Nov 23, 2023
How Overpaid CEOs Drain the Economy
Nov 22, 2023
Indigenous Opposition to NY’s Massive New Industrial Park
Nov 17, 2023
Understanding the U.S. Media’s Deadly Double Standards on Gaza
Nov 16, 2023
Lessons from Ohio’s Abortion Ballot Measure
Nov 15, 2023
Why Some Indigenous Critics Are Unhappy with Scorsese’s Film
Nov 10, 2023
Why Black Americans Are in Solidarity With Palestinians
Nov 09, 2023
Hospitals in Gaza on Brink of Collapse
Nov 08, 2023
A Secular Guide to Lasting Intimate Relationships
Nov 03, 2023
Debt Collective Cancels $10 M of Morehouse College Student Loans
Nov 02, 2023
UAW’s Strike Yields Victory for “Just Transition”
Nov 01, 2023
Lessons from Post-Hurricane Rebuilding in Florida
Oct 27, 2023
As Biden Ramps Up Aid to Israel, Time to Defund the Military?
Oct 26, 2023
Why Language Matters in Israel’s War on Gaza
Oct 25, 2023
“Wealth Supremacy” and How to Build a Democratic Economy
Oct 19, 2023
Israel’s War and Hamas’ Attack Through the Lens of International Law
Oct 18, 2023
Educational Reparations and the Harms of School Reforms
Oct 13, 2023
How Striking Auto Workers Are Out-organizing Their Bosses
Oct 12, 2023
Stopping the Root Cause of Violence in Israel and Palestine
Oct 11, 2023
Media Analysis of Libya Flooding Misses NATO Role
Oct 06, 2023
New Youth Climate Group Promises Unflinching Defiance
Oct 05, 2023
Can the FTC Break Up Amazon’s Monopoly?
Oct 04, 2023
Inside the Underground Abortion Pill Network
Sep 29, 2023
How Workers are Responding to Retaliatory Firings
Sep 28, 2023
Redefining Growth and Building a People's Prosperity
Sep 27, 2023
Michael Harriot Reverses the Lens of History
Sep 22, 2023
To Make Housing Affordable, Control Rents
Sep 21, 2023
Can the 14th Amendment Keep Trump off the Ballot?
Sep 20, 2023
How Can Workplaces Better Support LGBTQ Workers?
Sep 15, 2023
Activist Shares Why He Marches to End Fossil Fuels
Sep 14, 2023
Auto Workers Demand a People-Centered Economy
Sep 13, 2023
Narrative Power: Web Series Explores Undocumented Queer Experience
Sep 08, 2023
Upending the Rightwing Stunt of Busing Migrants to Sanctuary Cities
Sep 07, 2023
Medicare Is Finally Able to Negotiate Drug Prices
Sep 06, 2023
Achieving “Park Equity” in Low-Income Communities of Color
Sep 01, 2023
Trump: Criminally Charged and Aiming for a Second Term?
Aug 31, 2023
Grappling With Growth: A Preview of YES!’s Fall 2023 Issue
Aug 25, 2023
Florida Forces Schools to Whitewash Slavery and White Supremacy
Aug 24, 2023
60 Years After King’s Dream Speech, Here’s How to Fix Racial Wealth Inequality
Aug 23, 2023
Why a Detroit Woman is Suing Her City Over Algorithmic Racial Bias
Aug 18, 2023
Ecuadorians To Vote on Fossil Fuel Extraction
Aug 17, 2023
Centering Indigenous Leadership in Maui’s Recovery
Aug 16, 2023
Trump Indicted for Attempted Election Overturning–But Not Insurrection
Aug 09, 2023
The Hidden History of American Democracy
Aug 03, 2023
Why Hollywood’s Rank and File Are Striking
Aug 02, 2023
Realizing Reparations Series: Chelsea Higgs Wise
Jul 28, 2023
Realizing Reparations Series: Kendrick Sampson
Jul 27, 2023
States Expand Voting Access to People with Former Felonies
Jul 26, 2023
Realizing Reparations Series: Jessica Aiwuyor
Jul 21, 2023
Realizing Reparations Series: Venneikia Williams and Trevor Smith
Jul 20, 2023
Big Studios Shut Down Hollywood Production Over Pay, AI
Jul 19, 2023
Realizing Reparations Series: Maurice Mitchell
Jul 13, 2023
Realizing Reparations Series: Richard Wallace
Jul 12, 2023
Realizing Reparations Series: Kenniss Henry
Jul 07, 2023
Realizing Reparations: Nkechi Taifa
Jul 06, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court Guts Affirmative Action for People of Color
Jul 05, 2023
Realizing Reparations: Dreisen Heath
Jun 30, 2023
Realizing Reparations: Rep. Jamaal Bowman
Jun 29, 2023
One Year After Dobbs: The State of Abortion Rights
Jun 28, 2023
Realizing Reparations: Cliff Albright
Jun 22, 2023
Realizing Reparations: Edgar Villanueva
Jun 21, 2023
How Activism Is Good for Human Health
Jun 16, 2023
Climate Activists Urge End to Mountain Valley Pipeline Project
Jun 15, 2023
Trump is Arrested. Will He Face Justice?
Jun 14, 2023
Thirsting for Justice: A Preview of YES!’s Summer 2023 Issue
Jun 08, 2023
Abolishing the Judiciary
Jun 07, 2023
The Man Who Changed Colors
Jun 01, 2023
Thanks to GOP, Child Labor Makes a Comeback
May 31, 2023
50 Years of Hip Hop and Social Justice
May 26, 2023
How Long Will the Hollywood Writers’ Strike Continue?
May 25, 2023
Government Workers’ Union Offers Solution for Debt Ceiling Debacle
May 24, 2023
How Should Scientists Speak During Crises?
May 19, 2023
Will California Realize Reparations to Black Americans?
May 17, 2023
Bailing Out Black Mothers in Time for Mother’s Day
May 17, 2023
An Abolitionist Lawyer Takes on Criminal Courts
May 11, 2023
How Do We Make City Safer Streets?
May 10, 2023
How to Combat Morality Police Globally
May 05, 2023
Montana’s GOP Joins Anti-Trans Culture Wars
May 04, 2023
Is There a Banking Crisis in the U.S.?
May 03, 2023
How Land Reparations Can Heal Black Women’s Trauma
Apr 28, 2023
Why Fox News Ousted Tucker Carlson
Apr 27, 2023
Supreme Court Allows Abortion Pill Sales - For Now
Apr 26, 2023
Ending White Supremacy
Apr 21, 2023
How the World Bank, IMF, and G20 Are Tackling Inequality, Climate
Apr 20, 2023
Public Calls for Clarence Thomas Resignation Grow
Apr 19, 2023
Can a Progressive Carbon Tax Make Flying Sustainable?
Apr 13, 2023
Disentangling the Political Turmoil in Tennessee
Apr 12, 2023
Remembering Randall Robinson and his Transnational Politics of Race
Apr 06, 2023
How a Malawian Farmer Traveled to the U.S. Looking for Climate Justice
Apr 05, 2023
Roundtable: Transphobia and Allyship on Trans Day of Visibility
Mar 29, 2023
How Black Mothers in Nevada Fought for Welfare Rights and Dignity
Mar 24, 2023
Tackling Asian Hate, 2 Years After Atlanta Spa Shooting
Mar 23, 2023
Antiwar Lessons, 20 Years After the Iraq War Invasion
Mar 22, 2023
The Fight for Economic Justice in Tech
Mar 17, 2023
Judging the Judges: Taking on Pretrial Injustice
Mar 16, 2023
Closing the Gender Wage Gap
Mar 15, 2023
Embracing the Inevitable End: A Preview of YES!'s Spring 2023 Issue
Mar 10, 2023
Resistance to Atlanta’s “Cop City” Intensifies
Mar 09, 2023
Reclaiming the Narrative from Florida’s DeSantis
Mar 08, 2023
Media Justice in the Newsroom
Mar 02, 2023
Seattle Becomes First City to Ban Caste Discrimination
Mar 01, 2023
Building Tech Infrastructure for a World Without Police
Feb 24, 2023
8 Steps to Police Abolition
Feb 23, 2023
Ohio Derailment Sparks Renewed Calls to Nationalize Rail
Feb 21, 2023
Can We Live in a World Without Police Violence?
Feb 17, 2023
Why Reparations Isn’t Just About Money
Feb 16, 2023
Dissecting Biden’s State of the Union Address
Feb 15, 2023
Commentary: Mumia Abu Jamal on Tyre Nichols’ Killing
Feb 10, 2023
Black History: Why Harriet Tubman Belongs on the $20 Bill
Feb 09, 2023
What the Attacks on Ilhan Omar Reveal
Feb 08, 2023
How A Nonprofit Bail Fund Is Taking On Racism in Criminal Justice
Feb 03, 2023
How Florida’s Black History Ban Impacts Youth Mental Health
Feb 02, 2023
Here’s How to Restore the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy
Feb 01, 2023
A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People
Jan 26, 2023
How the U.S. Economy is Built on Trafficked Labor
Jan 25, 2023
Alicia Garza on Building Black Voter Power
Jan 19, 2023
Defending Native Sacred Sites From Elon Musk and SpaceX
Jan 18, 2023
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
Jan 12, 2023
Mapping Police Violence in 2022
Jan 11, 2023
What if the January 6, 2021 Insurrection Had Succeeded?
Jan 05, 2023
What Housing Justice Looks Like - from LA to Baltimore
Jan 04, 2023
Human Prehistory: Exploring the Past to Understand the Future
Dec 22, 2022
State of the Free Press, 2023
Dec 21, 2022
Zan, Zindegi, Azadi–Woman, Life, Freedom–in Iran
Dec 14, 2022
Unpacking the Debate Over AI Art
Dec 13, 2022
Beyond BMI: A New Book Embodies Fat Liberation
Dec 08, 2022
Why Progressives Don’t Want Biden to Run Again
Dec 07, 2022
Navigating Free Speech In the Age of Guns and Elon Musk
Dec 01, 2022
What Does Antifacsism Look Like Today?
Nov 30, 2022
Dr. Mutulu Shakur Freed on Medical Parole After 36 Years in Prison
Nov 25, 2022
Student Loan Debtors Remain in Limbo As Biden Turns to Supreme Court
Nov 24, 2022
COP 27 Meeting Ends with No Plan To Phase Out Fossil Fuels
Nov 23, 2022
Nearly 50,000 UC Academic Workers Strike
Nov 18, 2022
COP 27 and the Battle for Climate Justice
Nov 17, 2022
Were Midterm Election Results Enough to Stave off Fascism?
Nov 16, 2022
Aftermath: Life in Post-Roe America
Nov 11, 2022
Why This is the Most Important Midterm Election
Nov 09, 2022
What’s At Stake for Progressives in the Midterm Elections
Nov 09, 2022
Rebroadcast: How Elon Musk’s Acquisition Will Amplify Twitter’s Problems
Nov 04, 2022
How the Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever
Nov 03, 2022
Women of Color Candidates Run for Election in Record Numbers
Nov 02, 2022
The Trauma of Caste
Oct 28, 2022
Vigilante: Georgia’s Voter Suppression Hitman
Oct 27, 2022
Why Trussonomics Failed
Oct 26, 2022
The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
Oct 21, 2022
LA City Council Roiled by Racism, Anti-Blackness
Oct 20, 2022
Midterm Elections, 2022: Who Will Control Congress?
Oct 19, 2022
How Italy’s Neo-Fascist Prime Minister Rose to Power
Oct 07, 2022
Lula Wins First Round of Brazil Elections
Oct 06, 2022
What Will it Take for Florida to Revive After Hurricane Ian?
Oct 05, 2022
How Southern Baptists Learned to Hate Women, Gays
Sep 30, 2022
Understanding Iran’s Historic Protests
Sep 29, 2022
Activists Demand Closure of LA County Jail, Barbaric Conditions
Sep 28, 2022
Israel is Demolishing Palestinian Villages for a Firing Zone
Sep 23, 2022
Puerto Rico Devastated by Fiona, 5 Years After Maria
Sep 22, 2022
How DeSantis’s Political Stunt Upended Immigrant Lives
Sep 21, 2022
Queen Elizabeth and the Ugly Legacy of British Empire
Sep 16, 2022
When Will Jackson, Mississippi’s Residents Have Clean Water?
Sep 15, 2022
Can the 14th Amendment Disqualify Trump from Running?
Sep 14, 2022
Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich, In Her Own Words
Sep 09, 2022
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Sep 08, 2022
How Climate Change is Fueling Pakistan’s Devastating Floods
Sep 07, 2022
No More Police: A Case for Abolition
Sep 02, 2022
Why Is College So Expensive That it Drowns Millions in Debt?
Sep 01, 2022
Federal Reserve Raises Rates, Promises “Pain,” Ignores Profiteering
Aug 31, 2022
Commentary: Mumia Abu Jamal on the Legacy of Nichelle Nichols
Aug 19, 2022
“Do the Work” An Anti-Racist Activity Book
Aug 18, 2022
How Fox News and the GOP Are Responding to FBI Raid on Trump
Aug 17, 2022
Freedom Dreams, Twenty Years Later
Aug 12, 2022
Did Kansas Prove Ballot Measures Can Restore Abortion Rights?
Aug 11, 2022
Why Sen. Sinema Preserved the Carried Interest Loophole
Aug 10, 2022
Why Are States Hoarding Welfare Funds From Poor?
Aug 05, 2022
How Far did the Pope’s Canadian Apology to First Nations Go?
Aug 04, 2022
Does the Inflation Reduction Act Help People and the Planet?
Aug 03, 2022
The Future of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jul 29, 2022
Will Congress Codify Same-Sex Marriage into Law?
Jul 28, 2022
Starbucks Workers Are Striking Against Union Busting
Jul 27, 2022
Will Biden Declare A Climate Emergency?
Jul 21, 2022
Trader Joe’s Workers Join Movement to Unionize
Jul 21, 2022
Biden Meets with Journalist Killers in Middle East Trip
Jul 20, 2022
Is the DOJ Any Closer to Indicting Trump?
Jul 15, 2022
How Illegitimate Is the U.S. Supreme Court?
Jul 14, 2022
Is Biden Willing and Able to Restore Abortion Access Nationwide?
Jul 13, 2022
New Film ‘America’s Family’ Brings Immigration Injustices to Big Screen
Jun 23, 2022
Colombia, Once a Conservative Bastion, Goes Left
Jun 22, 2022
Is it Possible to Realize the Unfulfilled Promise of Juneteenth?
Jun 16, 2022
Will the January 6th Hearings Help U.S. Democracy?
Jun 15, 2022
How Long-term COVID Infections Could Prolong the Pandemic
Jun 10, 2022
How the Pentagon Fuels the Military Entertainment Complex
Jun 09, 2022
Poor People’s Campaign Converges on D.C. on June 18
Jun 08, 2022
What Mass Shootings Tell Us About America
Jun 03, 2022
What the Uvalde Shooting Tells Us About Guns
Jun 02, 2022
What the Uvalde Shooting Tells Us About Policing
Jun 01, 2022
New Stealth Attack on Medicare Opens Door to Privatization
May 27, 2022
Why Do Some on the Left Excuse Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine?
May 26, 2022
New Oxfam Report ‘Profiting from Pain’ Aimed at Davos Elites
May 25, 2022
Undoing the Racial Wealth Gap
May 20, 2022
The Roots of Buffalo’s Racist Massacre
May 18, 2022
Climate Restoration: The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race
May 13, 2022
Will the Supreme Court Overturn LGBTQI Rights After the Fall of Roe?
May 12, 2022
Abortion Opponents and the Racist Police State
May 11, 2022
LA Police Forcibly Remove BLM Leader, Professor From Mayor Debate
May 06, 2022
Burdened by Debt, Millions Wait for Biden’s Cancelation
May 05, 2022
Draft of Supreme Court Decision Shows Roe Is Being Overturned
May 04, 2022
Can the Constitution Protect Against Insurrectionists?
Apr 29, 2022
How a Worker-Led Union is Claiming Stunning Victories at Starbucks Cafes
Apr 27, 2022
Trump’s Criminality is Apparent. So Why No Charges?
Apr 22, 2022
Are Calls to Boost Police Funding Justified?
Apr 21, 2022
Homophobic, Racist, and Anti-Choice. What’s Going On In Florida?
Apr 20, 2022
Can We “Agree to Disagree” in Order to Save Our Democracy?
Apr 15, 2022
Amazon’s Union Win and Organizing for a Better Democracy
Apr 14, 2022
Oklahoma, Texas, and the Coming End of 'Roe
Apr 13, 2022
Latest Diversity Report Shows Movie Writers Still Too White
Apr 01, 2022
New Report Outlines Vision for Housing For All
Mar 31, 2022
How Biden’s Budget Prioritizes War Over People’s Needs
Mar 31, 2022
How Crisis Pregnancy Centers Suck Public Funding, Spread Disinformation
Mar 25, 2022
How Wages Remain Shockingly Suppressed in the US
Mar 24, 2022
How the GOP is Punishing Ketanji Brown Jackson
Mar 23, 2022
Senate Passes Critical Postal Service Bill–Is It Enough?
Mar 18, 2022
Biden’s Agenda on Climate, Care, and Economy Remains Unfinished
Mar 17, 2022
Can International Justice Hold Russia Accountable?
Mar 16, 2022
UN Environment Assembly Hails Resolution to End Plastic Pollution
Mar 11, 2022
How Texas’s Anti-Trans Moves Endanger Children
Mar 10, 2022
How Oil Politics Factor into Russia’s War on Ukraine
Mar 09, 2022
How Ukraine Exposes Western Hypocrisy on Refugees
Mar 04, 2022
“Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution”
Mar 03, 2022
Russia Escalates Ukraine War in Massive Attack on Kharkiv
Mar 02, 2022
Will there be Justice for Daunte Wright and Amir Locke?
Feb 25, 2022
Shouldn’t Biden Take on U.S. Poverty Instead of Russia?
Feb 24, 2022
U.S. Calls Russian Actions an “Invasion”
Feb 23, 2022
The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System
Feb 18, 2022
New Poll Finds Widespread Public Support to Fix Plastic Pollution Crisis
Feb 17, 2022
What Biden Should Do on Russia, Ukraine and Afghanistan
Feb 16, 2022
Why a Faith Leader Changed His Mind About Joe Manchin
Feb 11, 2022
Why California’s Single Payer Bill Died Without a Vote
Feb 10, 2022
Big Oil Companies Fail to Show Up to House Hearing
Feb 09, 2022
Can the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Help Forecast Covid’s End?
Feb 04, 2022
Neil Young’s Spotify Protest Highlights Ongoing Injustices
Feb 03, 2022
What the Battle Over the Next Supreme Court Justice Reveals
Feb 02, 2022
Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers
Jan 28, 2022