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.

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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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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