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大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up with Sonali

大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali is a weekly broadcast program鈥攁n antidote to the doom and gloom of mainstream news, lifting up solutions that bring us closer to economic, racial, gender, and environmental justice. Hosted and produced by 大象传媒 Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar, 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali is available as a podcast, on independent radio stations nationwide, on Free Speech TV, and right here through 大象传媒 Media. Learn more about the show here.

Iv谩n Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, Boston discusses immigration issues with 大象传媒 Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali.

A Progress 2025 Vision for Immigration

Instead of Project 2025鈥檚 harsh anti-immigrant policies, here鈥檚 what a progressive, human-centered vision for immigrant rights looks like.

| Sep 18, 2024

Journalist Peter Yeung explains to Sonali Kolhatkar how Los Cedros remains protected against extractive industries thanks to its constitutional rights.

Video | Rights of Nature | Los Cedros | Progress 2025: Climate and Environment | Progress 2025

Does a Forest Have Rights? In Ecuador, It Does.

Journalist Peter Yeung explains how Los Cedros has remained protected for years thanks to Ecuador鈥檚 constitution extending rights to nature.

| Sep 13, 2024

Mia Ives-Rublee, senior director for the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress, outlined a progressive vision for health care in conversation with 大象传媒 Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar.

Video | Progress 2025: Health Care | Progress 2025 | Health Care | 2024 Election

A Progress 2025 Vision for Health Care

Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here's what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like.

| Sep 12, 2024

Jenn M. Jackson, Ph.D., talks with Sonali Kolhatkar about what a progressive vision for LGBTQ people would look like in the U.S., as part of 大象传媒 Media's Progress 2025 intitative.

Video | Progress 2025 | Jenn M Jackson | LGBTQ Rights | Progress 2025: LGBTQ Rights

Progress 2025: A Vision for LGBTQ Rights

The Heritage Foundation鈥檚 Project 2025 has promised a dystopian vision for LGBTQ rights. Its ideas are consistent with authoritarian, Christian nationalist, and white supremacist objectives. It aims to criminalize the existence

| Sep 11, 2024

Video | Book Bans | Amanda Jones | Book Banning | Librarians

Meet the Librarian Battling Book Bans

Librarian Amanda Jones refused to stay silent in the face of vicious attacks by a right-wing book-banning campaign. She tells all in a new book.

| Sep 5, 2024

Can the Next President Solve the Housing Crisis?

A housing rights organizer analyzes the solutions being proposed this election year to address the high cost of home buying and renting.

| Sep 4, 2024

Video | labor unions | Monopolies | Kroger | Albertsons

Workers Challenge Mega Grocery Merger

The Biden administration has sued to stop the largest grocery merger in the nation鈥檚 history, between Kroger and Albertsons.

| Aug 30, 2024

Video | Dortell Williams | Criminal Justice | Felon Disenfrachisement | Abolition

Voters Behind Bars

Incarcerated Americans aren鈥檛 allowed to vote. Those with felonies also face barriers. Here鈥檚 what that means for democracy.

| Aug 29, 2024

Disrupting the DNC for Palestine

Breaking the DNC blackout on Gaza, Codepink's Jodie Evans joined other activists working to keep Palestinians on the Democratic Party鈥檚 radar.

| Aug 28, 2024

Video | Loving Corrections | Murmurations | adrienne maree brown

adrienne maree brown鈥檚鈥淟oving Corrections鈥� to Build Collective Power

Best-selling author adrienne maree brown鈥檚 new book offers tools to navigate the difficult conversations and dynamics of organizing and belonging.

| Aug 22, 2024

Jordan Ifueko spoke with Sonali Kolhatkar about her new book, The Maid and the Crocodile.

Video | Raybearer | Jodan Ifueko | Afrofantasy | Afrofuturism

Rewriting Fantasy Tropes on Race and Economy

Young adult author Jordan Ifueko has created new worlds with her best-selling series Raybearer, centering Black characters and workers.

| Aug 16, 2024

Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage and director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley, spoke with 大象传媒 Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about taxation on tips

Instead of Ending Taxes on Tips, Pay a Living Wage

Taxes on tipped wages have now become a campaign issue. But economic equality advocates say ending sub-minumum wages would help workers more.

| Aug 15, 2024

Torture Inside a Secret Israeli Concentration Camp

Video now circulating in Israeli media corroborates allegations from Palestinian detainees that Israeli agents at Sde Teiman detention center rape and torture prisoners.

| Aug 14, 2024

Video | Black farmers | USDA | National Black Farmers Association | Reparations

USDA Will Compensate Black Farmers for Discrimination

The National Black Farmers Association just won a historic $2.2 billion in reparations from the U.S. government.

| Aug 9, 2024

Video | 2023 Black Census | Black to the Future Action Fund | Black Futures Lab

Setting a Black Economic Agenda

After conducting the largest-ever survey of Black Americans, Black to the Future has released a detailed Black economic agenda.

| Aug 8, 2024

Lessons from Ferguson, 10 Years Later

The Ferguson uprising ignited a national reckoning about racist policing. Missouri State Sen. Brian Williams, who grew up in Ferguson, reflects on the progress made and challenges remaining.

| Aug 7, 2024

What Is (and Is Not) Political Violence?

Violence against communities of color has always been political, but American elites have avoided that framing, says NDN Collective鈥檚 Janene Yazzie.

| Aug 2, 2024

Youth Take J.D. Vance to Task on Climate

Community organizers with the Sunrise Movement explain why they protested outside the GOP Vice Presidential hopeful鈥檚 office.

| Aug 1, 2024

Cat Brooks spoke with 大象传媒 Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about the killing of Sonya Massey

Sonya Massey Should Still Be Alive, Say Activists

Sonya Massey's killing is a reminder that police do not keep Black women, nor Black disabled people, safe, says activist Cat Brooks.

| Jul 31, 2024

Video | Gen Z | Parable of the Sower | Octavia Butler | Youth

Why Gen Z Loves 鈥淭he Parable of the Sower鈥�

Youth reporter Aina Marzia explains why Octavia Butler鈥檚 1993 dystopian novel strikes a chord among her generation.

| Jul 26, 2024

Prevention, Not Prisons

Dortell Williams, who has spent more than 30 years in prison, reflects on the true causes of crime.

| Jul 25, 2024

What Kamala Harris鈥� Candidacy Means

The Vice President becomes the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in a game-changing political moment.

| Jul 24, 2024

Video | 2024 Election | Project 2025 | Democrat | Heritage Foundation

Understanding Project 2025鈥檚 Threat to Democracy

The Heritage Foundation has a plan to rewrite the rules of government under a second Trump term, and they鈥檝e helpfully laid it all out for public viewing.

| Jul 18, 2024

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