“On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win.” In January 2025, host Kshama Sawant, former Seattle City Council member, interviewed Sonali Kolhatkar about the Eaton Fires, climate change, capitalism, and more. Watch the interview below:

“Economic and racial differences determine your opinion of the police simply because policing and prisons disproportionately impacts people based on their demographic. If policing and mass incarceration were indeed a system that was purely a means of enforcing the law and justice, then the responses to it would be basically spread out very evenly but…

On January 13, 2025, seven days after the devastating Eaton Fires ravaged Altadena and North Pasadena, leaving behind apocalyptic devastation, Sonali Kolhatkar, who had evacuated with her family, was interviewed on Democracy Now! Watch the interview below:

Nearly a week after the Eaton Fire began in Altadena, Pacifica Radio host Mitch Jeserich spoke with Sonali Kolhatkar after she and her family were able to safety return home from evacuation. Listen to the interview here:

On January 9, 2025, two days after the devastating Eaton Fire began in Altadena and spread to North Pasadena, killing more than a dozen people and destroying thousands of homes and businesses, Democracy Now! interviewed Sonali Kolhatkar, who had evacuated from her North Pasadena home with her family. Watch the interview:

The day after the devastating Eaton Fire in Altadena and North Pasadena, Pacifica Radio host Mitch Jeserich interviewed Sonali Kolhatkar the morning after she evacuated with her family. Listen to the interview here:

On 08/24/15, Sonali Kolhatkar was interviewed by host Scott Horton on the Scott Horton Show where she discusses the US government’s deep involvement in the Saudi-led war on Yemen; the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe and imminent starvation of Yemenis; and why the usual countries that proclaim themselves “defenders of human rights” are remaining silent. Click here to listen to the…

Sonali Kolhatkar brings her politically progressive morning radio show to television By Rebecca Waer 10/30/2014 There’s an uprising of a new kind occurring in Pasadena this fall. Thanks to a massive fundraising effort through the crowdfunding site Indiegogo, KPFK’s popular talk radio program “Uprising” now airs on both radio and television. Their goal was to…

In March 2015, Sonali Kolhatkar was profiled by Scripps College students for a school project called Women Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities. “Sonali Kolhatkar is the founder, host, and executive producer of Uprising Radio, a non-profit, listener sponsored, daily show that connects global issues with local issues. Through Uprising, Sonali hopes to motivate listeners to become active…

Will living a life of meaning make us happier? Probably not! And that is okay. Give me life, liberty, and the pursuit of meaning. Watch Sonali Kolhatkar’s TEDx talk given at Moorpark College on June 3, 2014.