Broadcast Journalism
Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and executive producer of Rising Up With Sonali, a daily, drive-time nationally syndicated radio and television program produced at KPFK Pacifica Radio and airing on Free Speech TV as well as dozens of public and…
Print Journalism
Sonali Kolhatkar is a Writing Fellow at the Independent Media Institute where she writes weekly columns about economic inequality through the lens of race, gender, ethnicity, and more. Previously she was a weekly columnist for Truthdig.com, writing regularly about war,…
Books
Sonali Kolhatkar’s new book, Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice will be published by City Lights books on June 27, 2023. Available now for pre-order. Foreword by Rinku Sen. Overview Rising Up offers a timely exploration…
Activism
Most of Sonali Kolhatkar’s political activism has centered around solidarity work with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), and famed Afghan women’s rights activist, Malalai Joya. In 2000, Sonali co-founded the Afghan Women’s Mission (AWM), a US-based non-profit group…
Art
Sonali’s work has been featured in several art exhibits including ArtCrush: Semblance, Artwallah, Art and Democracy (Angel’s Gate Cultural Center), Chocolate and Art, Fusion Art show, Open Studios Altadena and many other exhibits. Her painting Masked Warrior won an Award…
Music
Sonali Kolhatkar is an amateur musician with a background in Indian classical vocal training. She is a self-taught bass and ukulele player and performs regularly in a cover band with her husband Jim Ingalls called Love and Subversion. During the…
Latest Stories from Rising Up With Sonali
Watch and listen to the latest interviews by Sonali Kolhatkar.
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Sonali Kolhatkar on Democracy Now!
On Tuesday January 7, 2025, Rising Up With Sonali host, Sonali Kolhatkar, evacuated her family as the Eaton Fire blazed through her neighboring town of Altadena and headed toward North Pasadena where she lives. In the wake of one of the worst wildfires in California history, Democracy Now! interviewed Kolhatkar
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Altadena and North Pasadena Neighbors Rise Up for Mutual Aid
Members of the tight-knit communities of Altadena and North Pasadena as well as others from the greater Los Angeles region are helping people pick up the pieces from the Eaton Fire.
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Victims of Eaton Fire Share Their Stories
Here are the stories of two people who lost their homes to the devastating Eaton Fire.
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New Book by Sonali Kolhatkar
Abolitionist thinkers have been envisioning police-free communities for decades, but only in the aftershock of the racial justice uprisings of 2020 have their radical ideas entered into mainstream discourse. 💡Featuring interviews with Alicia Garza, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Leah Penniman, Gina Dent, Cat Brooks, Andrea Ritchie, Eunisses Hernandes, Noelle
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Talking About Abolition: Participatory Budgeting
As an outspoken abolitionist of policing and prisons, Prof. Melina Abdullah has championed defunding the police using a concrete, practical, and deeply democratic method of participatory budgeting.