Americans are funding a genocide and no one asked our permission. We are being dragged, unwillingly, into a war that is decimating…
Sonali Kolhatkar
Sonali Kolhatkar is an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the founder, host, and executive producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a weekly television and radio show that airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica stations. Her most recent book is Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (City Lights Books, 2023). She is a writing fellow for the Economy for All project at the Independent Media Institute and the racial justice and civil liberties editor at Yes! Magazine. She serves as the co-director of the nonprofit solidarity organization the Afghan Women’s Mission and is a co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan. She also sits on the board of directors of Justice Action Center, an immigrant rights organization.
’Tis the season for holiday shopping, and as American consumers ready their spending dollars, few of us are likely to link our…
Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, recently issued a scathing statement about the shameful…
We live in an era where, in theory, we have accepted that all human beings are deserving of equal treatment—that skin color, national…
“Y’all don’t live in our f—kin’ skin,” said Texas Democrat Armando Walle in an angry outburst at state Republicans in late October…
More than half a million fast-food workers in California are about to get a raise—not because of the voluntary generosity of their…
American society is steeped in narratives about economic prosperity shaped by capitalist ideas of individualism and a corporate culture of exploitation. Children…
The United States federal government in 2020 embarked on a grand and beautiful experiment: expanding the use of tax dollars to help…
What happens when corporate values intersect with health care and labor organizing? Members and stakeholders of Kaiser Permanente (KP), one of the…
Autoworkers are readying themselves for a potential strike as contract negotiations with the so-called “Big Three” drag on. The United Auto Workers…
