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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 the past two years the US media have drastically reduced their coverage of Afghanistan. According to the American Journalism Review only…
Now that the October 9 U.S.- sponsored Afghan presidential elections are over, a huge sigh of relief is probably being heaved in…
‘[W]hen you live in the United States, with the roar of the free market, the roar of this huge military power, the…
In the first minute of his July 29 Democratic National Convention (DNC) acceptance speech, John Kerry told us that the Democratic Party…
With the launching of the new fiercely partisan and influential liberal radio network nationwide, Air America, John Kerry seems poised to…
An Open Letter to Anti-War Activists “We’ve come to think of Afghanistan … as a sort of a backwater, as old…
In January 2004, the Chicago Tribune cited military sources in Washington planning a “spring offensive” on the border region between Pakistan and…
Bombed into Liberation A recent New York Times article accurately portrayed two Afghan women from the poor farming village of Haji Bai…
The fourth annual World Social Forum was, for the first time, held in a different location from Porto Alegre, Brazil, its usual…