Sonali Kolhatkar
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.
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- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarWe'll be joined by @fairmediawatch.bsky.social founder & RootsAction co-founder Jeff Cohen, journalist @ruwithsonali.bsky.social, Jesse Myerson @ifnotnowmovement.org comms director, Michael Arria from @mondoweiss.net & Alexandria Shaner @officialznet.bsky.social See you then! See more TIN calls:
- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarAbolition 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...
- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarI’m on @freespeechtv.bsky.social right now talking with @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social about my recent reports for @yesmedia.bsky.social 🫶🏽 tune in!
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- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarMother Who Lost Son to MS-13 Denounces Trump’s Immigration Policies — revisiting an interview I gave seven years ago!! All too relevant today. Thank you @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarCan Public Education Survive Trump’s Attacks? 😰 #All4Ed's Anne Hyslop joins @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social to discuss the impact of Trump’s attacks on public education. Be sure to watch and tune in!
- @freespeechtv.bsky.social #BookClub is discussing my new book, #TalkingAboutAbolition. If you want to join in the fun, click here freespeech.org/donate to get your own copy for a donation to #FSTV and you’ll get an invitation to participate
- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarFirst up: @dreanyc123.bsky.social is interviewed about abolition and how to realize a world that funds public safety, not violent impunity, in this new book by @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social, Talking About Abolition: A Police-Free World is Possible: www.tinyurl.com/TalkingAbout...
- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarCommunities with infrastructure to support the development of whole, healthy people won’t need police.
- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarMost domestic violence interventions focus on helping survivors. Far fewer resources are dedicated to helping the people causing the harm to stop what they’re doing. This violence prevention helpline is working to fill those gaps👇
- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarDon't let the overwhelm win! www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/20... @yesmedia.bsky.social for solutions
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- Reposted by Sonali Kolhatkar▶️ WATCH: In his new book, "Building the Black City: The Transformation of American Life," Joe Trotter Jr., Ph.D., delves into how African Americans launched cities from the ground up. Tap the link below to watch the full interview ⬇️ #BlackHistoryMonth #Reparations
- Best line in a book I’ve read in a very very long time 🙌🏾
- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarWATCH: Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here's what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like.
- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarIf U.S. democracy is exclusionary by design, is it even a democracy at all? YES!'s very own @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social explains 👇
- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarWhen 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:
- I spoke at a #TeachIn about #Militarism, #Policing, parallels between the two, and the need for #CultureShifting so we can all have the nice things we pay for via our taxes. And yes, it was 2 days into the #EatonFire and somehow I managed to be coherent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIvJ...
- Reposted by Sonali Kolhatkar"The actual success of the ceasefire is related to the fact that Israel has reached a conclusive outcome that there can be no way of beating the Palestinian people and their organic resistance." - Ramzy Baroud Watch the full interview 👇
- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarWe heard journalists can actually do journalism here 👀👋 so hey We’re YES! Media, a nonprofit movement publication focused on radical solutions to the biggest problems of our time. Like many, we lost hope in X when, well … you know Follow us for journalism that is silenced elsewhere. ♥️
- Popped in at Vroman’s, and I swear I hadn’t planned it but I found my new book, just out this week. 🤗🤗🤗🤗 Support indie book stores and pick up your copy today!! #TalkingAboutAbolition #IndieAuthor #IndieBookstore
- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarIn awe of my YES! Media colleague @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social, who has continued to report and bear witness to the Eaton fire + Altadena neighborhood while also dealing with her own displacement. She has been on Democracy Now! a few times and will be doing an IG live this Thursday as well:
- Tune in this Thursday on IG live at www.instagram.com/yesmagazine_
- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarA collection of books about prisons, abolition, and the ongoing fight for a liberated world, inspired by the release of @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social's TALKING ABOUT ABOLITION
- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarThe Zero Hour with RJ( @eskow.bsky.social )Eskow Podcast "Tell the Truth!" Sonali( @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social )Kolhatkar, Ryan( @ryangrim.bsky.social )Grim podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
- Reposted by Sonali Kolhatkar@sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social and I discuss the competing narratives behind the shooting of United executive Brian Thompson, the popularity of #LuigiMangione, and the urgency of #healthreform and #MedicareForAll.
- I'm turning 50 in a few weeks. Help me celebrate this milestone by preordering a copy of my new book!
- Pre-order here: sevenstories.com/books/4670-t...
- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarEverything you need to know about: 1. HR 9495, a bill designed to silence dissenting voices in civil society & non-profit journalism, and.. 2. The demise of the PRESS Act, as the GOP falls into line behind Trump's push to punish the press. c/o @ruddock.bsky.social & @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Sonali KolhatkarToday, not only do corporations have greater means to speak more freely than the rest of us do, they are increasingly grabbing political power to cement their stranglehold, writes @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/nonp...
- Coming VERY SOON, my new book #TalkingAboutAbolition: A #PoliceFree World is Possible, with a foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley and featuring interviews with leading abolitionists about how to realize a world that funds public safety, not violent impunity. Preorder link in comments.
- Pre-order here: sevenstories.com/books/4670-t...
