Rising Up With Sonali

Listen to story:https://ia802203.us.archive.org/8/items/2024-05-14-RUWS/2024_05_14_Lajward_Zahra.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 16:02) FEATURING LAJWARD ZAHRA - The campus protests that swept the nation in recent weeks are as clear a sign as any that young people are politically aware, active, and willing to put their bodies on the line for their beliefs. But, as we hurtle toward an

Listen to story:https://ia902203.us.archive.org/8/items/2024-05-14-RUWS/2024_05_14_Jennifer_Wells.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 14:55) FEATURING JENNIFER WELLS - Thousands of childcare workers walked off their jobs the day after Mother’s Day, for the national Day Without Child Care. It was the third annual commemoration of a day intended to draw attention to the unsustainable cos

Listen to story:https://ia904600.us.archive.org/14/items/2024-05-07-RUWS/2024_05_07_CSULA.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 16:18) The same day that UCLA student activists were reeling from their Free Gaza encampment being attacked by pro-Israel supporters and police officers, students at California State University of Los Angeles (Cal State LA) were busy setting up their brand new cam

Listen to story:https://ia804600.us.archive.org/14/items/2024-05-07-RUWS/2024_05_07_RobinDGKelley.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 21:52) FEATURING ROBIN D G KELLEY - Students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are returning to their campus after a week of violent attacks aimed at a student encampment set up to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The University has m

Listen to story:https://ia600300.us.archive.org/3/items/2024-04-30-RUWS/2024_04_30_DortellWilliams.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 34:19) FEATURING DORTELL WILLIAMS - California imprisons nearly 200,000 people in various types of detention centers, including prisons and jails. If California was a country, it would have one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Of this n

Listen to story:https://ia600300.us.archive.org/3/items/2024-04-30-RUWS/2024_04_30_Elez_Beresin-Scher.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 13:46) FEATURING ELEZ BERESIN-SCHER - As university students continue to hold their ground at Free Gaza encampments on campuses around the nation, Jewish students remain central to the movement. In January 2024, a Bryn Mawr College sociology major

Listen to story:https://ia800300.us.archive.org/3/items/2024-04-30-RUWS/2024_04_30_Jacob_Rithik.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 23:57) FEATURING JACOB AND RITHIK - A nationwide uprising led by college students has sprung up to demand an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, it’s on-going occupation, and U.S. arms sales to Israel, as well as for universities to divest from Israel.&nbs

Listen to story:https://ia600305.us.archive.org/17/items/2024-04-23-RUWS/2024_04_23_Amy_Fitch_Heacock.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 14:28) FEATURING AMY FITCH-HEACOCK - The Arizona Supreme Court earlier this month restored a civil war era law banning abortion in all cases except when the life of the biological parent was in jeopardy. It is currently considered the most draconian ab

Listen to story:https://ia800305.us.archive.org/17/items/2024-04-23-RUWS/2024_04_23_CedricDeLeon.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 18:55) FEATURING CEDRIC DE LEON - Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) last week in a historic win for organized labor. Volkswagen is a German automaker and its Chattanooga plant

Listen to story:https://ia800305.us.archive.org/17/items/2024-04-23-RUWS/2024_04_23_Shana_Redmond.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 22:05) FEATURING SHANA L. REDMOND - Several elite college campuses such as those of Columbia University, New York University, Harvard and Yale were closed on Monday following major protest actions in support of Palestinian rights and against Israel’s on-