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Years ago, following the initial military success of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the temporary fall of the Taliban, the people…
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.
In 2006 we wrote Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence (Seven Stories) at a time when most Americans, even…
President Elect Barack Obama wants to increase the number of US troops in Afghanistan. But the US/NATO occupation is less popular than…
San Francisco based lawyer Matt Gonzalez first entered politics when he ran for District Attorney in 1999 and won 11 percent of…
The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) rose to international prominence after the attacks on the US on September…
Los Angeles is being seen as the epicenter of the new immigrant movement, mobilizing the largest numbers of people nationally at the…
R aúl Gatica is one of the founding members of CIPO-RFM (Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca—Ricardo Flores Magón), based in the southwestern…
Daily media reports over the case of Afghan Christian convert Abdul Rahman have revealed a sudden concern over Afghanistan’s repressive human rights…
The United States has supposedly created new “democracies” in Afghanistan and Iraq, but these endeavors give democracy a bad name. Sure, the…