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04.24.2024
How Campuses Are Rising Up for Palestine
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...
04.19.2024
Rethinking Arab American Heritage Month in Light of Gaza
Listen to story:https://ia600301.us.archive.org/30/items/2024-04-16-RUWS/2024_04_16_Stephanie_Abraham.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 16:44) FEATURING STEPHANIE ABRAHAM - April is Arab American Heritage month, a time of year meant to celebrate the history and culture of Americans who claim ancestry from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). ...
04.18.2024
Battle Against the SAT Continues
Listen to story:https://ia800301.us.archive.org/30/items/2024-04-16-RUWS/2024_04_16_Harry_Feder.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 24:22) FEATURING HARRY FEDER - Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology last week announced they would return to requiring SAT and ACT test scores as part of their admissions processes. Starting before the COVID-19...
04.17.2024
Searching for Justice for Bhopal, 40 Years After Disaster
Listen to story:https://ia800301.us.archive.org/30/items/2024-04-16-RUWS/2024_04_16_Mark_Dummett.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 15:51) FEATURING MARK DUMMETT - It has been nearly 40 years since the world’s worst industrial disaster claimed the lives of thousands of people and continues to impact more than half a million. Justice remains elusive...
04.11.2024
Understanding Haiti’s Latest Political Crisis
Listen to story:https://ia600304.us.archive.org/32/items/2024-04-09-RUWS/2024_04_09_Jocelyn%20_McCalla.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 27:44) FEATURING JOCELYN MCCALLA - Weeks of chaos and violence in Haiti may be coming to an end as an agreement for a transitional government is drawn up this week. Haiti’s political parties and numerous stakeholding...
04.10.2024
Activists Organize Gaza “Freedom Flotilla”
Listen to story:https://ia800304.us.archive.org/32/items/2024-04-09-RUWS/2024_04_09_Huwaida_Arraf.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 29:06) FEATURING HUWAIDA ARRAF - It has been six months since Israel’s latest war on Palestinians began and the death toll has surpassed 33,000. Human Rights Watch has just released a report accusing Israel of using...
04.04.2024
“The Urgent Call of Palestine”
Listen to story:https://ia800209.us.archive.org/20/items/2024-04-02-RUWS/2024_04_02_Iman_Husain.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 18:50) FEATURING IMAN HUSAIN - Actor Ramy Youssef recently said the words “Free Palestine” on live television as part of his Saturday Night Live monologue. And film director Jonathan Glazer in his Oscars’ acceptance speech denounced...
04.03.2024
Climate Fiction Enables us to Imagine a Better Future
Listen to story:https://ia600209.us.archive.org/20/items/2024-04-02-RUWS/2024_04_02_Breanna_Draxler_Tory_Stephens.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 17:39) FEATURING TORY STEPHENS - When we think about climate change, we often think in terms of statistics, studies, and measurements of melting glaciers, dwindling wildlife populations, and mass human migration. It’s a grim reality. But,...
03.29.2024
Why Won’t Biden Use All Available Tools to Meet Climate Goals?
Listen to story:https://ia800206.us.archive.org/6/items/2024-03-26-RUWS/2024_03_26_Rev_Yearwood.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 20:07) FEATURING REV. LENNOX YEARWOOD JR. - The Biden Administration last week announced the strictest ever rule to regulate tailpipe emissions–one of the most significant sources of carbon emissions globally. But, it watered down the rule...
03.28.2024
Tax Day Injustice: How Corporate CEOs Make More Than Govt
Listen to story:https://ia800206.us.archive.org/6/items/2024-03-26-RUWS/2024_03_26_Sarah_Anderson.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 16:24) FEATURING SARAH ANDERSON - As Americans prepare their tax returns ahead of the IRS’s annual filing deadline, a new report highlights just how much large corporate CEO pay packages rival corporate taxes. Examining the five...
03.27.2024
Supreme Court Considers Abortion Medication Ban
Listen to story:https://ia800206.us.archive.org/6/items/2024-03-26-RUWS/2024_03_26_Jess_Braverman.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 17:41) FEATURING JESS BRAVERMAN - The United States Supreme Court this week heard arguments in a case against the sale of medication abortion - a drug named Mifepristone. Just weeks ago drug stores such as Walgreens...
03.15.2024
The Complexity of Connection: YES! Magazine’s Spring Issue Preview
Listen to story:https://ia800202.us.archive.org/19/items/2024-03-12-RUWS/2024_03_12_Sunnivie_Brydum.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 20:15) FEATURING SUNNIVIE BRYDUM - New issues of YES! Magazine have hit newsstands and mailboxes all over the nation, and this Spring 2024 issue is themed around “Connections” - a deeply relevant idea at a time...
03.14.2024
Will Washington’s Police Accountability Measure Work?
Listen to story:https://ia800202.us.archive.org/19/items/2024-03-12-RUWS/2024_03_12_Frank_Hopper.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 15:26) FEATURING FRANK HOPPER - A police reform initiative in Washington to hold law enforcement accountable is facing a test of its effectiveness. Initiative 940, the first of its kind in the nation, strips police of...
03.13.2024
Claims of Mass Rape by Hamas Unravel Upon Investigation
Listen to story:https://ia600202.us.archive.org/19/items/2024-03-12-RUWS/2024_03_12_Arun_Gupta.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 27:04) FEATURING ARUN GUPTA - In the weeks after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, there were numerous claims of mass rape by Hamas soldiers of Israeli women. In November 2023, the group Physicians...
03.08.2024
Tulsa Beyond Reparations
Listen to story:https://ia600202.us.archive.org/16/items/2024-03-05-RUWS/2024_03_05_Anneliese_Bruner.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 27:29) FEATURING ANNELIESE BRUNER - If ever there was a clear cut example of a community whose residents deserved reparations, it would be Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood district, known historically as Black Wall Street and destroyed by...
03.07.2024
How Towns and Cities are Implementing Reparations
Listen to story:https://ia800202.us.archive.org/16/items/2024-03-05-RUWS/2024_03_05_Torsheta_Jackson.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 18:42) FEATURING TORSHETA JACKSON - The federal government has put off the issue of reparations for Black Americans for decades. Given the inaction on legislation like H.R. 40, the late John Conyers’ reparations bill, local efforts...
03.06.2024
California Goes Furthest on Reparations
Listen to story:https://ia800202.us.archive.org/16/items/2024-03-05-RUWS/2024_03_05_Erin_Aubry_Kaplan.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 20:21) FEATURING ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN - The state of California has gone further than any other state in examining the issue of reparations for Black people and making them reality. A state-appointed reparations task force worked...
03.01.2024
Black Youth Spaces as a Form of Reparations
Listen to story:https://ia801306.us.archive.org/23/items/2024-02-27-RUWS/2024_02_27_Torie_Weiston_Serdan.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 24:49) The racial wealth gap in the United States persists largely because there was never proper compensation paid to the descendants of enslaved Africans, and also because systemic racism continues to infect the economy. In that...
02.29.2024
How Pop Culture Shapes Narratives on Reparations
Listen to story:https://ia801306.us.archive.org/23/items/2024-02-27-RUWS/2024_02_27_Jo_Davis.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 21:18) FEATURING JONITA DAVIS - So many mainstream cultural values are shaped by film, television, and, more recently, social media. Pop culture shapes our world view, making some things acceptable and others anathema. When it comes...
02.28.2024
Becoming "Reparationists"
Listen to story:https://ia801306.us.archive.org/23/items/2024-02-27-RUWS/2024_02_27_Trevor_Smith.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 20:54) FEATURING TREVOR SMITH - Social movements often spur participants into adopting identities that help them articulate their personal connection to a cause. Can the same happen for the movement for reparations? In a new story...
02.23.2024
New York Considers a “Social Housing” Proposal
Listen to story:https://ia800208.us.archive.org/23/items/ruws_20240220/2024_02_20_Genevieve_Rand.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 15:22) FEATURING GENEVIEVE RAND - New York’s state assembly is considering a new bill proposing the creation of a Social Housing Development Authority to ease the state’s housing crisis. The idea of “social housing” is...
02.22.2024
Why Reparations is an Election 2024 Issue
Listen to story:https://ia600208.us.archive.org/23/items/ruws_20240220/2024_02_20_Edgar_Villanueva.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 14:14) FEATURING EDGAR VILLANUEVA - As the 2024 presidential election season is in full swing and states across the nation are starting to hold their primaries, abortion access and the Israeli genocide in Gaza are front...
02.21.2024
Why is Biden Determined to Lose the Election Over Israel?
Listen to story:https://ia601206.us.archive.org/12/items/2023-12-05-RUWS/2023_12_05_Andy_Lee_Roth.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 25:02) FEATURING NORMAN SOLOMON - President Joe Biden flew to Los Angeles this week to meet with Israeli American Haim Saban for an election campaign fundraising event. His meeting with an ardent backer of the on-going...
02.16.2024
Family Planning in the Age of Climate Change
Listen to story:https://ia601306.us.archive.org/28/items/2024-02-13-RUWS/2024_02_13_Kallman_Ferorelli_v2.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 32:24) FEATURING MEGHAN ELIZABETH KALLMAN, JOSEPHINE FERORELLI - If you’ve ever wondered whether having a child impacted the issue of climate change and the future of the planet, you’re not alone. Such considerations are often raised...
02.15.2024
Amid Storms and Olympics, How to Solve Homelessness in LA?
Listen to story:https://ia601306.us.archive.org/28/items/2024-02-13-RUWS/2024_02_13_Ysabel_Jurado.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 16:33) FEATURING YSABEL JURADO - The recent rainstorm, brought to California by a so-called “atmospheric river,” dumped record-breaking amounts of rainfall onto the Western state. In Los Angeles, which earned the grim title of homeless capital...
02.14.2024
Trump-Appointed Justices Consider Trump’s Appeals
Listen to story:https://ia801306.us.archive.org/28/items/2024-02-13-RUWS/2024_02_13_Bill_Blum.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 17:01) FEATURING BILL BLUM - On February 8, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Trump versus Anderson, in response to the former president’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision banning...
02.09.2024
Fat Liberation and the New Weight Loss Drugs
Listen to story:https://ia601300.us.archive.org/19/items/2024-02-06-RUWS/2024_02_06_Evette_Dionne.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 19:48) FEATURING EVETTE DIONNE - A new class of weight loss drugs has taken the United States by storm, and is different from previous medications in that it seems to work. The drugs, known by their...
02.08.2024
Exposing Israeli Pinkwashing of Genocide
Listen to story:https://ia601300.us.archive.org/19/items/2024-02-06-RUWS/2024_02_06_Sarah_Youngblood_Gregory.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 19:39) FEATURING SARA YOUNGBLOOD-GREGORY - The state of Israel’s official Twitter account recently posted photos of a gay Israel Defense Forces soldier named Yoav Atzmoni holding a rainbow pride flag in Gaza as “a message of...
02.07.2024
Jewish Students Say, “Shabbat for Ceasefire”
Listen to story:https://ia801300.us.archive.org/19/items/2024-02-06-RUWS/2024_02_06_Elez_Beresin-Scher.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 15:55) FEATURING ELEZ BERESIN-SCHER - On Friday February 2nd Jewish students on more than a dozen college campuses across the United States organized “Shabbat for Ceasefire” events to sing, pray, and perform their tradition to call...
02.02.2024
Pushing Back on Rightwing Distortion of Carroll Settlement
Listen to story:https://ia601307.us.archive.org/17/items/2024-01-30-RUWS/2024_01_30_Courtney_Hagle.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 12:52) FEATURING COURTNEY HAGLE - A New York City jury has ordered Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million in damages to journalist E. Jean Carroll for defamation. Trump had spent years maligning Carroll in public forums...
02.01.2024
How Pro-Choice Catholics are Shifting Abortion Narratives
Listen to story:https://ia601307.us.archive.org/17/items/2024-01-30-RUWS/2024_01_30_JamieLManson.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 11:27) FEATURING JAMIE L. MANSON - Thousands of people, including youth, protesting the right to an abortion showed up in Washington D.C. last week for the annual “March for Life.” The gatherings have generally attracted rightwing...
01.31.2024
How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression
Listen to story:https://ia601307.us.archive.org/17/items/2024-01-30-RUWS/2024_01_30_Ijeoma_Oluo.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 27:28) FEATURING IJEOMA OLUO - If you read mainstream news sources, the dire state of the world is usually on full display. Less covered are the ways in which people are fighting back against oppression and...
01.26.2024
Freedom Teaching: Understanding the War on DEI
Listen to story:https://ia601209.us.archive.org/29/items/2024-01-23-RUWS/2024_01_23_Matthew_Kincaid.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 18:50) FEATURING MATTHEW KINCAID - It’s been less than four years since the police killing of George Floyd sparked a racial justice uprising and prompted a mainstream embrace of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives in corporate...
01.25.2024
Raising Public Awareness of U.S. Military Spending
Listen to story:https://ia801209.us.archive.org/29/items/2024-01-23-RUWS/2024_01_23_David_Swanson.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 20:40) FEATURING DAVID SWANSON - The organization World BEYOND War is putting up half a dozen billboards across California’s Bay area highlighting a shocking, but little known, fact: That the United States military sucks up so...
01.24.2024
Israel is Using an Old Playbook on Genocide
Listen to story:https://ia801209.us.archive.org/29/items/2024-01-23-RUWS/2024_01_23_Shane_Burley.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 17:01) FEATURING SHANE BURLEY - Gaza’s Ministry of Health has announced that Israel has killed more than 25,000 Palestinians since it began its latest assault on the Palestinian territory. The grim death toll comes as the...
01.19.2024
Lessons in Government Spending: The Pandemic Paradox
Listen to story:https://ia801303.us.archive.org/34/items/2024-01-16-RUWS/2024_01_16_Scott_Fulford.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 20:20) FEATURING SCOTT FULFORD - Four years ago, the world was on the brink of a historic shutdown. The coronavirus was rapidly spreading, and by March 2020, American cities and states began issuing quarantine orders to...
01.18.2024
Yemen’s Houthis Take Action to Stop Gaza Genocide
Listen to story:https://ia801303.us.archive.org/34/items/2024-01-16-RUWS/2024_01_16_Isa_Blumi.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 20:09) FEATURING ISA BLUMI - Houthi fighters from Yemen have been attacking commercial cargo ships and oil tankers in the Red Sea in an attempt to thwart Israel’s on-going genocide in Gaza. In response, the United...
01.17.2024
Responding to Trump's Iowa Win
Listen to story:https://ia801303.us.archive.org/34/items/2024-01-16-RUWS/2024_01_16_Christina_Harvey.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 16:23) FEATURING CHRISTINA HARVEY - A mere 30 minutes after the Iowa Republican caucuses began on Monday, Associated Press declared former president Donald Trump the winner. Trump beat Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley by a landslide,...
01.11.2024
Why Claudine Gay’s Ouster Was Indeed About Race
Listen to story:https://ia802800.us.archive.org/15/items/2024-01-09-RUWS/2024_01_09_ErrinHaines.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 19:03) FEATURING ERRIN HAINES - Harvard University’s first Black president, and second woman President, Claudine Gay, was forced to resign in the wake of allegations that she engaged, first in antisemitism, and then, in plagiarism. In...
01.10.2024
Three Years Since Jan 6th Insurrection, Democracy Still in Danger
Listen to story:https://ia802800.us.archive.org/15/items/2024-01-09-RUWS/2024_01_09_NaveedShah.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 19:58) FEATURING NAVEED SHAH - Three years after the violent insurrection at the United States Capitol, more than a thousand people have been arrested and tried, and hundreds have been convicted of crimes. But the chief...
01.05.2024
Indigenous Restoration of Wildlife Habitats
Listen to story:https://ia801209.us.archive.org/14/items/2024-01-02-RUWS/2024_01_02_RicoMoore.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 13:50) FEATURING RICO MOORE - The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington State are restoring the lands and species of their traditional ecological community after decades of settler-colonialism-fueled destruction. Among the native species being...
01.04.2024
Building Prosperity From the Soil Up
Listen to story:https://ia601209.us.archive.org/14/items/2024-01-02-RUWS/2024_01_02_BreannaDraxler.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 18:06) FEATURING BREANNA DRAXLER - What happens when subsistence farming communities are forced to be cogs in the giant wheels of industrial agriculture? The results are dispossession of land, racial inequity, and loss of human and...
01.03.2024
What Will it Take to End Gaza Genocide?
Listen to story:https://ia801209.us.archive.org/14/items/2024-01-02-RUWS/2024_01_02_HuwaidaArraf.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 24:24) FEATURING HUWAIDA ARRAF - South Africa has filed a genocide claim against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague. The claim centers on Israel’s relentless bombing of the Gaza strip, considered...
12.14.2023
After a Decade on City Council, What’s Next for Seattle’s Sawant?
Listen to story:https://ia600502.us.archive.org/33/items/2023-12-12-RUWS/2023_12_12_Kshama_Sawant.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 37:32) FEATURING KSHAMA SAWANT - Seattle’s world renowned city council member and socialist firebrand Kshama Sawant announced early this year that she would not be seeking reelection. After a decade as an elected official, Sawant has...
12.13.2023
New Survey Finds Broad Support Among Black Americans for Defunding Police
Listen to story:https://ia600502.us.archive.org/33/items/2023-12-12-RUWS/2023_12_12_Amara_Enyia.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 23:20) FEATURING DR. AMARA ENYIA - A new survey by the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) shows broad support among Black Americans for defunding police and refunding alternatives to policing. The survey, conducted in collaboration with...
12.07.2023
The Most Censored Stories of 2023
Listen to story:https://ia601206.us.archive.org/12/items/2023-12-05-RUWS/2023_12_05_Andy_Lee_Roth.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 36:04) FEATURING ANDY LEE ROTH - Each year, Project Censored publishes in book form, its annual survey of stories that the corporate news media failed to cover or badly misrepresented. Project Censored says its mission is...
12.06.2023
Why Jewish Americans Are Rising Up for Palestine
Listen to story:https://ia601206.us.archive.org/12/items/2023-12-05-RUWS/2023_12_05_PennyRosenwasser.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 23:19) FEATURING PENNY ROSENWASSER - The majority of high-profile U.S. protests against Israel’s 2023 assault on Gaza has been led by Jewish Americans, and groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now. But you...
12.01.2023
Why Is There a Fossil Fuel Boom Under Biden?
Listen to story:https://ia601206.us.archive.org/18/items/2023-11-28-RUWS/2023_11_28_Lorne_Stockman.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 22:29) FEATURING LORNE STOCKMAN - When President Joe Biden touted his signature bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, in 2022, he and others touted it as “the single largest investment in climate and energy in American history.”...
11.30.2023
The Voting Rights Act Was Weakened Again - Now What?
Listen to story:https://ia801206.us.archive.org/18/items/2023-11-28-RUWS/2023_11_28_Stephany_Rose_Spaulding.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 16:51) FEATURING REV. DR. STEPHANY ROSE SPAULDING - A federal court has just struck down a key aspect of the Voting Rights Act. The 8th circuit court of appeals last week in a 2-1 decision ruled...
11.29.2023
A Legal Challenge to U.S. Complicity in Israel’s Unfolding Genocide
Listen to story:https://ia801206.us.archive.org/18/items/2023-11-28-RUWS/2023_11_28_Laila_Elhaddad.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 17:05) FEATURING LAILA ELHADDAD - In spite of a pause in Israel’s assault on Gaza, there is a legal case being made that the U.S. is complicit in enabling Israeli genocide against Palestinians. According to a...

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Rising Up With Sonali episodes:

How Campuses Are Rising Up for Palestine

Rethinking Arab American Heritage Month in Light of Gaza

Battle Against the SAT Continues

Searching for Justice for Bhopal, 40 Years After Disaster

Understanding Haiti’s Latest Political Crisis

Activists Organize Gaza “Freedom Flotilla”

“The Urgent Call of Palestine”

Climate Fiction Enables us to Imagine a Better Future

Why Won’t Biden Use All Available Tools to Meet Climate Goals?

Tax Day Injustice: How Corporate CEOs Make More Than Govt

Supreme Court Considers Abortion Medication Ban

The Complexity of Connection: YES! Magazine’s Spring Issue Preview

Will Washington’s Police Accountability Measure Work?

Claims of Mass Rape by Hamas Unravel Upon Investigation

Tulsa Beyond Reparations

How Towns and Cities are Implementing Reparations

California Goes Furthest on Reparations

Black Youth Spaces as a Form of Reparations

How Pop Culture Shapes Narratives on Reparations

Becoming "Reparationists"

New York Considers a “Social Housing” Proposal

Why Reparations is an Election 2024 Issue

Why is Biden Determined to Lose the Election Over Israel?

Family Planning in the Age of Climate Change

Amid Storms and Olympics, How to Solve Homelessness in LA?

Trump-Appointed Justices Consider Trump’s Appeals

Fat Liberation and the New Weight Loss Drugs

Exposing Israeli Pinkwashing of Genocide

Jewish Students Say, “Shabbat for Ceasefire”

Pushing Back on Rightwing Distortion of Carroll Settlement

How Pro-Choice Catholics are Shifting Abortion Narratives

How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression

Freedom Teaching: Understanding the War on DEI

Raising Public Awareness of U.S. Military Spending

Israel is Using an Old Playbook on Genocide

Lessons in Government Spending: The Pandemic Paradox

Yemen’s Houthis Take Action to Stop Gaza Genocide

Responding to Trump's Iowa Win

Why Claudine Gay’s Ouster Was Indeed About Race

Three Years Since Jan 6th Insurrection, Democracy Still in Danger

Indigenous Restoration of Wildlife Habitats

Building Prosperity From the Soil Up

What Will it Take to End Gaza Genocide?

After a Decade on City Council, What’s Next for Seattle’s Sawant?

New Survey Finds Broad Support Among Black Americans for Defunding Police

The Most Censored Stories of 2023

Why Jewish Americans Are Rising Up for Palestine

Why Is There a Fossil Fuel Boom Under Biden?

The Voting Rights Act Was Weakened Again - Now What?

A Legal Challenge to U.S. Complicity in Israel’s Unfolding Genocide