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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Report from Hurricane Helene Recovery Efforts in Asheville
Hurricane Helene has wrought untold devastation across several Southeastern states, and is the deadliest to have hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. So far more than 200 people are confirmed dead and the estimated damage could be as high as $200 billion worth.
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A Progress 2025 Vision of Climate Justice
An August 2024 study determined that if all of the document’s climate-related recommendations were implemented, the U.S. would spew an additional 2.7 billion tons of climate-heating emissions into the atmosphere by 2030.
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A Progress 2025 Vision of Educational Justice
In the face of privatization, rising student debt, book bans, the infiltration of Christian nationalism in schools, attacks on accurate history education and more, what would a progressive vision of education in the U.S. look like?
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California Ballot Measure Worsens Over Incarceration
This year, law enforcement and big retailers are joining forces to back a new ballot measure this November called Proposition 36.
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A Progress 2025 Vision of Race and Policing
What would a progressive vision of racial justice and policing look like? There has been for decades an active movement to divest from policing with an eye toward abolishing police and prisons altogether. That movement offers some answers to the question.