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YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali

YES! 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 YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar, YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali is available as a podcast, on independent radio stations nationwide, on Free Speech TV, and right here through YES! 无码视频. Learn more about the show here.

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 | Abolition | Dortell Williams | Criminal Justice | Felon Disenfrachisement

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 | Murmurations | adrienne maree brown | Loving Corrections

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 | Jodan Ifueko | Afrofantasy | Afrofuturism | Raybearer

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 YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! 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 | Reparations | Black farmers | USDA | National Black Farmers Association

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

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 YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! 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 | Parable of the Sower | Octavia Butler | Youth | Gen Z

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

Kamau Franklin joins d Extremism, has been sounding the alarm on Project 2025 for months and spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali to discuss the 2024 RNC in Milwaukee

鈥淧olitical Violence鈥� From the RNC to Gaza

The RNC鈥檚 idea of 鈥淢aking America Safe Again鈥� is centered on policing and harsh anti-immigrant detention, not on gun violence.

| Jul 17, 2024

Alex Press of Jacobin spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about federal heat protections for workers and Jane McAlevey

Protecting Workers in a Warming Climate

At a time of extreme heat, a new proposed OSHA rule could protect millions of American workers from heat-related stresses and even fatalities.

| Jul 12, 2024

Jean Bricmont, author, academic, and political commentator speaks with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar about the recent French election

How to Defeat the Far-Right: Lessons From the French Left

Analyst Jean Bricmont offers a deep analysis of how France's left-leaning coalition swept a plurality of seats in the recent snap elections.

| Jul 11, 2024

Lisa Graves, founder and executive director of the watchdog group True North Research and the host of a podcast called Grave Injustice, speaks with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about what the Supreme Court's recent rulings

How to Save Democracy From the Supreme Court

In the wake of a Supreme Court ruling granting former president Donald Trump immunity from prosecution, Lisa Graves explains what鈥榮 at stake.

| Jul 11, 2024

Jules Boykoff speaks with Sonali Kolhatkar about the upcoming Olympics

Video | COVID-19 | 2024 Olympics | Paris | Jules Boykoff

Are the Olympics Still Relevant?

In the face of catastrophic climate change and the genocide in Gaza, can the world afford to hold a spectacle such as the Olympics?

| Jul 5, 2024

Brea Baker land and Black reparations with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali.

Video | California | California Reparations Task Force | Brea Baker

Land as Reparations

Author and activist Brea Baker explores why Black land ownership is a critical aspect of reparations for Black Americans.

| Jul 4, 2024

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