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Recent Guests

Gabe Gonzalez
Organizer with Protect Rogers Park in Chicago
Protect Rogers Park
Episode: Immigration Activists are Pivoting in Response to Quieter, Deadlier ICE Raids
Joyce Ajlouny
General Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Episode: Friends Rising Up In Service of Peace and Justice
Candice Fortin
US Campaigns Manager with 350.org
350.org
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Hamid Khan
An organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
Episode: Activists Declare Victory as LAPD Abandons Flock Technology
Lauren Bonds
Executive Director of the National Police Accountability Project
National Police Accountability Project
Episode: From Texas to Maine: How to Stop ICE Killings?
Alex Lawson
Executive Director of Social Security Works
Social Security Works
Episode: Rising Up in Defense of Social Security
Carlos Fernandez
Executive director of Grassroots Collaborative, a coalition of Chicago labor and community organizations
Grassroots Collaborative
Episode: How Illinois Organizers Won a New Tax on Tech Giants
Jeff Cohen
Columnist, activist, former journalism professor and author of Cable News Confidential
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting); rootsaction.org
Episode: Rising Up For Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Erin Carter
LA-based organizer with Day One
Day One
Episode: On US’s 250th Anniversary, A New Challenge to Whitewashed History

Host

Sonali Kolhatkar
Host and executive producer of Rising Up With Sonali; long-time journalist and activist.

Reviews

4.8 out of 5 stars from 78 ratings
  • Always something to think about!

    I followed on KPFK and even happier to listen on your podcast. Glad to know of your affiliation with!YES. You cover topic and issues I would not find anywhere else. Thanks.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    KEPicturewoman
    United States3 years ago
  • Sonali I miss you on kpfa at 3p

    but I’m very glad you’re here! one of the few genuine trusted muckrakers today.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    MontBloncc
    United States4 years ago
  • Subjective Advocacy Updates

    Not journalism.

    Apple Podcasts
    1
    Ineffablem
    United States6 years ago
  • Healthy Day

    I cross reference my independent news podcasts, and get a lot of good information from Rising Up. “OK BOOMERS”

    I am a 71 year-old (3rd born in family after my dad came home from WWII) boomer who thinks like millennials / progressives! We ALL need Medicare for All, Green New Deal, tuition-free higher education, living wage, prison reform, injustice system overhaul, police demilitarized and defunded, end military-industrial complex etc ..... we need Democratic Socialism, like the Scandinavian coun... more

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    5
    HEALTHY DAY!
    United States6 years ago
  • Brilliant show

    I love this show!! Sonali produces such intelligent & pertinent content each day of the week. I’ve been listening to her for many many years & look forward to her program daily!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Ais😡😡xx
    United States6 years ago

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Rising Up in Defense of Social Security
Q: Is Social Security a membership organization, and how do you advocate for policy changes?
Social Security Works runs a membership program, maintains a large email list, operates a political action committee, and engages in lobbying while also drafting policy with expertise; they align with allies to push for legislation like Medicare drug price negotiation.
From Texas to Maine: How to Stop ICE Killings?
Q: What should people be demanding specifically as they march in the streets? Is just saying abolish ice enough?
Bonds emphasizes abolition as the ultimate goal for many advocates but also suggests a staged approach with practical, smaller reforms in the near term, such as removing ICE from traffic enforcement and cutting funding, alongside broader conversations about the role and scope of federal immigration enforcement.
From Texas to Maine: How to Stop ICE Killings?
Q: So let's first talk about these two killings. They came back to back. It feels like we are back in January when we saw Keith Porter, and then Rene Goode, and then Alex Spretty within the span of just a few weeks being shot and killed.
Lauren Bonds contextualizes these killings as part of a longstanding pattern where ICE uses civil immigration enforcement tactics that disproportionately affect communities of color, and notes that the underlying design of ICE is to target immigrants, with the recent pace and dispersion indicating a systemic approach rather than isolated incidents.
Supreme Court Hands Down Shattering Immigration Rulings
Q: What's going to happen to Haitians and other TPS holders now?
TPS holders face possible deportations and expirations of their protections, with significant human and economic costs, including families torn apart and communities destabilized, unless Congress acts to extend protections and provide a path to residency or citizenship.
Supreme Court Hands Down Shattering Immigration Rulings
Q: Let's talk about the TPS specific ruling.
TPS was designed as a temporary protection, but it never provided a pathway to residency, and the ruling complicates the fate of hundreds of thousands who've lived in the U.S. for years, risking eviction and loss of livelihoods; the guest emphasizes the need for a legislative remedy to create permanent status options.

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1. Gabe Gonzalez
2. Joyce Ajlouny
3. Candice Fortin
4. Hamid Khan
5. Lauren Bonds
6. Alex Lawson
7. Carlos Fernandez
8. Jeff Cohen

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