Sonali Kolhatkar
@ruwithsonali.bsky.social
Journalist, Author, Senior Editor YesMagazine, Host/Exec. Prod of Rising Up With Sonali, Author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice, Senior Correspondent, Independent Media Inst & The Zero Hour, former Astrophysicist, mom of 2.
We'll be joined by @fairmediawatch.bsky.social founder & RootsAction co-founder Jeff Cohen, journalist @ruwithsonali.bsky.social, Jesse Myerson @ifnotnowmovement.org comms director, Michael Arria from @mondoweiss.net & Alexandria Shaner @officialznet.bsky.social See you then! See more TIN calls:
Teach-In: Noncooperation with Trump
YouTube video by RootsAction
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Abolition is about building "a fairer world where there is less need and thus, less violence. In this world, crime and punishment are prevented rather than responded to. Who wouldn’t want to live in such a world?” @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social @yesmedia.bsky.social www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2025...
When We Prevent Trauma, We Prevent Crime
When people's needs are met, there is less violence—and less need for policing and prisons.
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I’m on @freespeechtv.bsky.social right now talking with @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social about my recent reports for @yesmedia.bsky.social 🫶🏽 tune in!
search.app/uoft3LSMTfs1... Thank you @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social for excellent interview on @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social
Mother Who Lost Son to MS-13 Denounces Trump’s Immigration Policies — revisiting an interview I gave seven years ago!! All too relevant today. Thank you @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social
Mother Who Lost Son to MS-13 Denounces Trump’s Immigration Policies
As I continue to write about the current crisis of Trump illegally “deporting” people to prison in El Salvador (last two posts here and here), I found myself listening to an interview I gave seven yea...
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Artist, Organizer & Social Justice Activist | Favianna Rodriguez
Favianna Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary contemporary artist, cultural strategist, and social justice activist on a mission to create profound and lasting social change in the world. Her artistic pr...
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Can Public Education Survive Trump’s Attacks? 😰 #All4Ed's Anne Hyslop joins @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social to discuss the impact of Trump’s attacks on public education. Be sure to watch and tune in!
Can Public Education Survive Trump’s Attacks?
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s “final mission” will disproportionately harm students from marginalized communities.
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@freespeechtv.bsky.social #BookClub is discussing my new book, #TalkingAboutAbolition. If you want to join in the fun, click here freespeech.org/donate to get your own copy for a donation to #FSTV and you’ll get an invitation to participate
First up: @dreanyc123.bsky.social is interviewed about abolition and how to realize a world that funds public safety, not violent impunity, in this new book by @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social, Talking About Abolition: A Police-Free World is Possible: www.tinyurl.com/TalkingAbout...
Communities with infrastructure to support the development of whole, healthy people won’t need police.
We Keep Us Safe: Imagining a Police-Free World
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Most domestic violence interventions focus on helping survivors. Far fewer resources are dedicated to helping the people causing the harm to stop what they’re doing. This violence prevention helpline is working to fill those gaps👇
A Violence-Prevention Helpline for Those Who Want to Change
A Call for Change helps domestic violence perpetrators hold themselves accountable.
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▶️ WATCH: The world's richest man spent hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money to help elect Donald Trump. Now, Musk's team is accessing sensitive financial information and pushing out federal workers.
Who’s Going to Stop Elon Musk?
Since being named the head of DOGE, Elon Musk appears to be acting without any oversight.
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▶️ WATCH: In his new book, "Building the Black City: The Transformation of American Life," Joe Trotter Jr., Ph.D., delves into how African Americans launched cities from the ground up. Tap the link below to watch the full interview ⬇️ #BlackHistoryMonth #Reparations
Building the Black City
Joe Trotter explores how Black Americans have created, sustained, and expanded cities across the U.S.
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Best line in a book I’ve read in a very very long time 🙌🏾
WATCH: Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here's what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like.
A Progress 2025 Vision for Health Care
Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here’s what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like. #Progress2025
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If U.S. democracy is exclusionary by design, is it even a democracy at all? YES!'s very own @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social explains 👇
Can We Fix Our Democracy?
To live up to its stated ideals, the United States must finally cede power to the people.
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When disaster strikes, we have a strong human instinct to set aside profit, propriety, and discrimination and simply help each other. It’s this same instinct we need to rely on to transform a system that allows mass human suffering. @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social:
Let’s Embrace our Instinct for Collective Action — In Bad Times and Good - OtherWords
The Los Angeles fires brought out the compassion we need all the time, not just during “natural” disasters.
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I spoke at a #TeachIn about #Militarism, #Policing, parallels between the two, and the need for #CultureShifting so we can all have the nice things we pay for via our taxes. And yes, it was 2 days into the #EatonFire and somehow I managed to be coherent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIvJ...
Sonali Kolhatkar on Changing the Culture of Militarism | Teach-In Network
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"The actual success of the ceasefire is related to the fact that Israel has reached a conclusive outcome that there can be no way of beating the Palestinian people and their organic resistance." - Ramzy Baroud Watch the full interview 👇
What Made the Gaza Ceasefire Possible?
Survivors of the genocide are returning to the rubble of their homes.
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We heard journalists can actually do journalism here 👀👋 so hey We’re YES! Media, a nonprofit movement publication focused on radical solutions to the biggest problems of our time. Like many, we lost hope in X when, well … you know Follow us for journalism that is silenced elsewhere. ♥️
Popped in at Vroman’s, and I swear I hadn’t planned it but I found my new book, just out this week. 🤗🤗🤗🤗 Support indie book stores and pick up your copy today!! #TalkingAboutAbolition #IndieAuthor #IndieBookstore
In awe of my YES! Media colleague @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social, who has continued to report and bear witness to the Eaton fire + Altadena neighborhood while also dealing with her own displacement. She has been on Democracy Now! a few times and will be doing an IG live this Thursday as well:
A collection of books about prisons, abolition, and the ongoing fight for a liberated world, inspired by the release of @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social's TALKING ABOUT ABOLITION
The Zero Hour with RJ( @eskow.bsky.social )Eskow Podcast "Tell the Truth!" Sonali( @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social )Kolhatkar, Ryan( @ryangrim.bsky.social )Grim podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Tell the Truth!
Podcast Episode · The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow · 10/06/2024 · 41m
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@sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social and I discuss the competing narratives behind the shooting of United executive Brian Thompson, the popularity of #LuigiMangione, and the urgency of #healthreform and #MedicareForAll.
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT LUIGI (w/Sonali Kolhatkar)
YouTube video by The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow
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I'm turning 50 in a few weeks. Help me celebrate this milestone by preordering a copy of my new book!
Everything you need to know about: 1. HR 9495, a bill designed to silence dissenting voices in civil society & non-profit journalism, and.. 2. The demise of the PRESS Act, as the GOP falls into line behind Trump's push to punish the press. c/o @ruddock.bsky.social & @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social.
Journalists Caution Against "Nonprofit Killer" Bill
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