Rising Up With Sonali

Listen to story:https://ia601503.us.archive.org/35/items/2025-05-13-RUWS/2025_05_13_Sanaa_Ansari_Khan.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 19:42) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (We hate paywalls too, but journalists gotta eat!)  Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING SANAA ANSARI KHAN - Since at least the September 11, 2001 attacks, Muslim Americand have been a persecuted group in the United States. After the Israeli genocide in Gaza began in October 2023, that persecution has sharply increased, particularly in digital spaces, where Muslim voices are overpoliced and held to different standards than non-Muslims. 💡New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below.Understanding the importance of narrative power, the Muslim Counterpublics Lab has released a new report underscoring how people can fight for their right to online speech in the face of extreme Islamophobia and free speech infringements. This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721303.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-05-13-RUWS/2025_05_13_Matt_Gardner.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 23:44) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (We hate paywalls too, but journalists gotta eat!)  Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING MATT GARDNER - Channelling Donald Trump’s childish diction, the Republican-controlled House Ways and Means Committee has named the GOP’s tax and immigration legislation, “THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL.” 💡New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below.The bill would permanently codify changes made to the tax system under Trump’s 2017 tax law. It would additionally cut taxes on offshored corporate profits and numerous forms of income, including tips and Social Security benefits, and would cut billions from the Medicaid program to pay for those tax cuts. The bill also aims to undo President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness and climate progress, among many other things. But Trump has called on Republicans to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans.The whole thing sounds a complicated mess, but not to fear, Matt Gardner, Senior Fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy helps make sense of this so-called “BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL.” This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://ia601303.us.archive.org/10/items/2025-05-06-RUWS/2025_05_06_RT_Samuel.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 19:38) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (We hate paywalls too, but journalists gotta eat!)  Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING RT SAMUEL - South Asian literature has a long and prestigious reputation in the global literary world, bringing audiences the words of authors like Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy. But, rarely do we see literature tackling South Asia and India’s biggest social issue: caste, and particularly anti-caste justice. Even rarer, for global audiences, is the prevalence of speculative fiction focusing on that topic. A newly published groundbreaking anthology aiming to change that, is described as a collection of “weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, and magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the diaspora.” This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://ia601303.us.archive.org/10/items/2025-05-06-RUWS/2025_05_06_Marie_Berry.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 19:07) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (We hate paywalls too, but journalists gotta eat!)  Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING MARIE BERRY - U.S. militarism has long been a global scourge, from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars to the financial and moral support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and beyond. While warmongers blast their vision for a lopsided imperialist colonialist world order where the U.S. reigns supreme, what if peacemakers articulated their own alternative vision?A new “Feminist Peace Playbook” offers a transformative approach to U.S. foreign policy.  Our democracy depends on independent journalism.  Show your appreciation in $$ This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://ia601303.us.archive.org/10/items/2025-05-06-RUWS/2025_05_06_Luis_Rodriguez.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 17:57) This video content is only available to paid subscribers.(We hate paywalls too, but journalists gotta eat!) Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ - President Donald Trump has claimed his administration could return Kilmar Ábrego García, the U.S. residing man who was illegally disappeared into El Salvador’s dangerous gulag, but that he is choosing not to. Trump has doubled down on the veracity of a photo claiming to show the initials MS-13 tattooed on Abrego Garcia’s hand even though the image looked clumsily edited. In the face of rampant deception about MS-13 and its dangers to U.S. residents, journalist and writer Luis Rodriguez aims to set the record straight.  This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

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Listen to story:https://ia600708.us.archive.org/30/items/2025-04-15-ruws_202504/2025_04_15_JuliaLuzBetancourt.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 22:50) FEATURING JULIA LUZ BETANCOURT - Student activists at U.S. universities all across the country continue to grapple not only with the escalating Israeli genocide in Gaza but with the Trump administration’s criminalization of their actions in support of the Palestinian right to exist. With a deportation order against Mahmoud Khalil, a key Columbia university activist and green card holder, the Trump administration has made clear that any opposition to Israeli domination will be interpreted as illegal, whether or not such opposition is protected by the U.S. Constitution. A new documentary, The Encampments, that has captured the public’s attention, is showing in theaters around the country and prominently features Khalil. This post is for subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://ia800708.us.archive.org/30/items/2025-04-15-ruws_202504/2025_04_15_ArunGupta.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 23:45) FEATURING ARUN GUPTA - Although the fascism of the Trump administration is unprecedented in modern-day United States, there are lessons to be learned from earlier resistance movements. Seasoned activist and journalist Arun Gupta has identified ten organizing principles for defeating Trumpism in a new op-ed for YES! Media.  This post is for subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://ia601308.us.archive.org/7/items/2025-04-01-RUWS/2025_04_01_Favianna_Rodriguez.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 20:47) FEATURING FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ - Donald Trump’s government has sent another contingent of people–Venezuelan and Salvadoran nationals–to El Salvador’s notorious gulag-like prison, this time claiming it’s a counter terrorism operation in order to get around legal challenges against using the Alien Enemies Act. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration admitted it mistakenly sent a Salvadoran man named Kilmar Abrego Garcia, with protected legal status, into the same prison and claimed it is not possible to arrange for his return back to the United States. Garcia is married to a U.S. citizen, has a 5-year old child and no criminal record. In the face of relentless news about the mass dehumanization of people of color and immigrants in the U.S., there is growing fatigue among Americans. But artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez has advice on how we can push through the burnout and move forward. This post is for subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://ia801308.us.archive.org/7/items/2025-04-01-RUWS/2025_04_01_Iman_Abid.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 16:52) FEATURING IMAN ABID - As Americans prepare to file their annual federal and state taxes, a group of activists has released a handy Not My Tax Dollars map where anyone can locate their state and city and learn how many federal tax dollars are diverted from their community’s needs to funding Israel’s apartheid and genocide in Palestine. The online interactive map is part of a major Tax Day of Action that pro-Palestinian activists are organizing on April 15, 2025.  This post is for subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in