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猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali is a weekly broadcast program鈥攁n antidote to the doom and gloom of mainstream news, lifting up solutions that bring us closer to economic, racial, gender, and environmental justice. Hosted and produced by 猫咪社区! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar, 猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali is available as a podcast, on independent radio stations nationwide, on Free Speech TV, and right here through 猫咪社区! Media. Learn more about the show here.

Undoing What Wall Street Did to the Housing Market

Billionaires have long leveraged the housing market for money. But a new report outlines how to regulate the market so people鈥攏ot hedge funds鈥攃an buy homes.

| Oct 25, 2024

Video | Judicial Power | 2024 Election | Judges

Should Voters Pick Judges?

Only a few localities nationwide allow voters to elect judges. What impact would democratizing judge selection have on the judiciary?

| Oct 24, 2024

Can Massive Election Turnout Save Democracy?

An extremely tight race for the presidency is sparking a last-minute, Black-led GOTV effort aimed at Black voters in swing states.

| Oct 23, 2024

Israeli Journalist Decries Gaza Genocide

Gideon Levy, an Israeli journalist long critical of his nation鈥檚 apartheid state, offers moral clarity on the first anniversary of the genocide in Gaza.

| Oct 17, 2024

Video | 2024 Election

The Contentious Role of Third-Party Candidates

In a high-stakes election, left-leaning third party candidates are receiving Republican support, and may be wooing disaffected progressive voters. Former Green Party vice presidential candidate Rosa Clemente shares her take on this year鈥檚 race.

| Oct 16, 2024

Mutual Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Helene

A self-described "climate refugee" deals with the devastation of Hurricane Helene in Asheville, North Carolina.

| Oct 11, 2024

A Progress 2025 Vision for Climate Justice

As Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastate the Southeastern U.S., Antonia Juhasz articulates a just vision for how to fix our climate.

| Oct 10, 2024

Dr. Ibram X Kendi鈥檚 Progress 2025 Vision for Education

In the face of Project 2025鈥檚 dystopian vision for education, Ibram X Kendi lays out a progressive alternative for public education in the U.S.

| Oct 9, 2024

Video | California | Incarceration

Here鈥檚 How to Respond to Crime, Not React to It

A new ballot measure in California would reverse progress on reducing mass incarceration. Here's what our regular correspondent Dortell Williams has to say about it.

| Oct 4, 2024

An Abolitionist Response to Project 2025

Project 2025, created by the extremist right-wing Heritage Foundation, fortifies the racist impact of policing by empowering the Department of Justice to focus on violent crime, despite the fact that

| Oct 3, 2024

Ending 鈥淒eath by Incarceration鈥�

A Pennsylvania man is challenging mandatory life without parole sentencing for felony murders in a case that has national implications.

| Sep 27, 2024

Progress 2025: Protecting Voting Rights and Democracy

Instead of Project 2025's white supremacist vision for voting rights, Progress 2025 envisions universal early voting, a national federal holiday and more.

| Sep 26, 2024

A Liberatory Vision for Reproductive Justice

A progressive alternative to Project 2025's anti-abortion vision includes no-cost abortions, on-demand, for everyone who wants one.

| Sep 25, 2024

Arn H. Pearson, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, speaks with 猫咪社区! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about the dangers posed by the fake electors.

Trump鈥檚 Fake Electors Eye 2024 Election Theft

A new report by Insurrection Exposed prepares voters on what to expect from Trump鈥檚 next effort to steal an election.

| Sep 20, 2024

Natalia Renta, senior policy counsel for corporate governance and power at Americans for Financial Reform, talks labor, capital, and commerce with 猫咪社区! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali.

Progress 2025: A Vision for Economic Justice

A progressive alternative to Project 2025鈥檚 anti-tax, anti-worker economy includes worker protections and a strong social safety net.

| Sep 19, 2024

Iv谩n Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, Boston discusses immigration issues with 猫咪社区! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali.

A Progress 2025 Vision for Immigration

Instead of Project 2025鈥檚 harsh anti-immigrant policies, here鈥檚 what a progressive, human-centered vision for immigrant rights looks like.

| Sep 18, 2024

Journalist Peter Yeung explains to Sonali Kolhatkar how Los Cedros remains protected against extractive industries thanks to its constitutional rights.

Video | Rights of Nature | Los Cedros | Progress 2025: Climate and Environment | Progress 2025

Does a Forest Have Rights? In Ecuador, It Does.

Journalist Peter Yeung explains how Los Cedros has remained protected for years thanks to Ecuador鈥檚 constitution extending rights to nature.

| Sep 13, 2024

Mia Ives-Rublee, senior director for the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress, outlined a progressive vision for health care in conversation with 猫咪社区! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar.

Video | Health Care | 2024 Election | Progress 2025: Health Care | Progress 2025

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.

| Sep 12, 2024

Jenn M. Jackson, Ph.D., talks with Sonali Kolhatkar about what a progressive vision for LGBTQ people would look like in the U.S., as part of 猫咪社区! Media's Progress 2025 intitative.

Video | LGBTQ Rights | Progress 2025: LGBTQ Rights | Progress 2025 | Jenn M Jackson

Progress 2025: A Vision for LGBTQ Rights

The Heritage Foundation鈥檚 Project 2025 has promised a dystopian vision for LGBTQ rights. Its ideas are consistent with authoritarian, Christian nationalist, and white supremacist objectives. It aims to criminalize the existence

| Sep 11, 2024