Rising Up With Sonali

Listen to story:https://ia600309.us.archive.org/9/items/2025-06-10-RUWS/2025_06_10_Pasadena.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 28:53) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (You're missing out, and for what, a mere $4 a month?) Subscribe now with a 5-day free trial FEATURING PABLO ALVARADO, RICK COLE, AND OTHERS - On Sunday June 8, hundreds of protesters mobilized in the town of Pasadena, California, where I live, just a few miles from the border of the town of Altadena which was destroyed by the Eaton Fire. The protesters gathered outside AC Hotel near Old Town Pasadena, upon hearing reports that agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were hotel guests. ICE vans were spotted on the hotel’s rooftop parking structure and workers sent word that they were being questioned by ICE agents in their hotel rooms. ✍️Included with paid subscription: Rough transcript of the report below the video.As part of our on-going series Rising Up in the Streets, we bring you this special report featuring interviews with Pablo Alvarado, Executive Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, and Rick Cole, Pasadena City Council member. We’ll also hear an impassioned report from Griselda Diaz, a resident of South LA who was at a mass protest in Paramount, LA where ICE agents raided the area outside a Home Depot, and we’ll hear from poet Alejandro who rapped about being an immigrant at the impromptu Pasadena rally. Finally, we’ll go to Monrovia where ICE Agents reportedly transferred to a Courtyard Marriott Hotel. Protester Gloria will explain why she showed up outside the hotel. This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://ia600309.us.archive.org/9/items/2025-06-10-RUWS/2025_06_10_LARebellion.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 24:05) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (Sorry for the paywall, but I promise you, it's worth it!)  Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) Barely five months after surviving wildfires that destroyed the towns of Altadena and Pacific Palisades, Southern California was hit by another invasion–this time consisting of federal agents swarming into workplaces to round up people suspected of being undocumented, and disappearing them. Tens of thousands of people have been gathering in downtown Los Angeles since June 5, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents showed up at a Southern California Home Depot and an outlet in the garment district, detaining immigrant workers. A few hours later, ICE agents also violently arrested and detained prominent union leader David Huerta, President of the Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West (SEIU-USWW).✍️Your paid subscription includes a rough transcript of this story below! LA has become an epicenter of the resistance to President Donald Trump’s policy to criminalize and deport undocumented people. In this immigrant-rich city, cultures, nationalities, and races have mixed and mingled for generations. I was on the streets of downtown LA on Monday June 9, and bring you this special report as part of our Rising Up in the Streets series. You’ll hear the voices of April Verrett, SEIU’s first Black president, and Dolores Huerta, legendary labor leader, speaking from the stage at Grand Park at a rally for David Huerta. (Mr. Huerta was charged and freed from ICE custody later in the day.) I also spoke with Pastor Cue of Clergy and Laity United for Justice, former West Covina mayor Brian Calderón Tabatabai, of Working Families Party, Hussam Ayloush, Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations LA, and State Assembly member Isaac Bryan.  This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721904.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-06-03-RUWS/2025_06_03_Judy_Karofsky.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 22:56) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (We hate paywalls too--that's why this one is SO cheap!)  Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING JUDY KAROFSKY - There are tens of thousands of assisted living facilities in the United States, institutions where elderly people live and die, their families hoping to have their needs met professionally and with dignity. But not only are such facilities unaffordable, they are riddled with problems. ✍️New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below.Through personal experience with navigating the system to care for her mother, Judy Karofsky explores how elder care is broken and how to fix it, in a new book called DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice. This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721904.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-06-03-RUWS/2025_06_03_Cassie_Owens.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 19:57) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (It's easy to make this paywall disappear--just click the link below!) Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING CASSIE OWENS - Journalism is meant to be a practice that informs and educates the public to make good decisions for a democratic society. But, journalism in a white supremacist setting has been, well, white supremacist, which in turn, has deeply harmed communities of color. When journalism is steeped in racist framing, it does more harm than good. ✍️New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below the video.Now, a new project in Philadelphia aims to fix that. The Philadelphia Safer Journalism Project brings together community members, journalists, therapists, researchers, lawyers and artists to change harmful crime coverage. This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721904.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-06-03-RUWS/2025_06_03_Huwaida_Arraf.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 19:28) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (We hate paywalls too, but if you can think of another way journalists like me can sustain our work, let me know!) Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING HUWAIDA ARRAF - A dozen anti-genocide international activists are on board a ship called the Madleen, sailing to Gaza to break Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid. A previous ship, the Conscience, was attacked by drones earlier this year while in waters near Malta, in an incident that has been linked to Israel. 💡New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below.Now, the Madleen will make another attempt to enter Gaza and deliver humanitarian supplies. The Gaza Freedom Flotilla has sailed to Gaza for years, creating a powerful moral lifeline for Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid and genocide. Fifteen years ago, Israeli forces attacked one of the flotilla’s ships, the Mavi Marmara, killing ten activists on board and wounding dozens more. This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721707.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-05-27-RUWS/2025_05_27_Mara_Einstein.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 30:29) Access this video by subscribing for LESS than half the cost of Netflix's cheapest plan. Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING MARA EINSTEIN - Ever watch people in line at the grocery store or the post office scrolling their phones on Instagram or TikTok? Perhaps you are one of those people, swiping up from one video to the other, enjoying entertaining content created by ordinary people just like you. 💡New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below the video.A new book makes the compelling case that most social media feeds are now filled with content that’s been created using the same marketing tactics as cults do. You’re not watching content as much as you’re endlessly scrolling through ads. Former marketing executive and media studies professor Mara Einstein helps us sharpen our radar for branded content. Extended Cut of Dr. Mara Einstein on her book Hoodwinked CLICK HERE - Available to Benefactor & Angel Subscribers only This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721707.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-05-27-RUWS/2025_05_27_Mara_Einstein.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 30:29) FEATURING MARA EINSTEIN - Ever watch people in line at the grocery store or the post office scrolling their phones on Instagram or TikTok? Perhaps you are one of those people, swiping up from one video to the other, enjoying entertaining content created by ordinary people just like you. 📖New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below the video.A new book makes the compelling case that most social media feeds are now filled with content that’s been created using the same marketing tactics as cults do. You’re not watching content as much as you’re endlessly scrolling through ads. Former marketing executive and media studies professor Mara Einstein helps us sharpen our radar for branded content. Extended Cut of Dr. Mara Einstein on her book Hoodwinked CLICK HERE - Available to Benefactor & Angel Subscribers only This post is for subscribers on the only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721707.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-05-27-RUWS/2025_05_Noah_Nyla.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 17:47) This video content is only available to those who shell out 13 cents a day (It's worth it, promise!) Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING NOAH WEIGHT & NYLA MOXLEY - When the Boeing corporation donated $10 million to the University of Washington campus for a new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB), university officials likely didn’t expect it to become the focus of student activism. In early May 2025, dozens of students and activists occupied the building in protest of UW’s ties to Boeing, a company whose weapons Israel is actively using to massacre Palestinians in an on-going genocide. 💡New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below the video.University officials, rather than meeting student demands, appear to be siding with Boeing and Israel, and have suspended students involved in the IEB occupation. Students have organized themselves into a formation called SUPER, which stands for Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return.  This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721707.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-05-27-RUWS/2025_05_27_Christine_Neumann-Ortiz.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 20:25) This video is only available to paid subscribers. (Yep, it's a paywall... BUT if you click the button you can make it go away - like MAGIC!) Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING CHRISTINE NEUMANN-ORTIZ - The state of Wisconsin has become a frontline in the fight for immigrant rights against Donald Trump’s regime. Not only did federal agents arrest Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan and charge her with breaking federal law over an immigrant’s capture by ICE agents, but Homeland Security Secretary Tom Homan has threatened to arrest Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers. Homan warned Evers with arrest for issuing guidance of their rights to state employees. 💡New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below.But Wisconsin’s immigrant rights movement is strong and is standing up to the Trump regime’s attacks creatively and persistently. This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721604.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-05-20-RUWS/2025_05_20_Rev_Jennifer_Gutierrez.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 16:58) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (We hate paywalls too, but journalists deserve a living wage.) Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING REV. JENNIFER GUTIERREZ - Two thousand four hundred mental health workers with Kaiser Permanente in Southern California are celebrating a major union win after more than half a year on the picket line. The workers, who are members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers won a contract that is retroactive to September 2024, that includes a 20% pay raise over four years and a new pension plan. The struggle was tough, with union members engaging in civil disobedience, risking arrest, and suffering without work for more than six months. The strike came just as the demand for mental health therapies in Southern California skyrocketed with tens of thousands of people losing their homes to wildfires. 💡New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below.The success of Kaiser’s mental health workers comes at the same time as more than 55,000 Los Angeles County workers went on strike in late April, and, just as the Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution raising the minimum wage for tourism workers to $30 an hour, the highest minimum in the nation.  This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in