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Rising Up with Sonali

Feb 8, 2024 5:00 AM – 6:00 AM

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Rising Up with Sonali is an all-women run Radio and Television show that brings progressive news coverage rooted in gender and racial justice to a wide audience. The show is hosted and executive produced by Sonali Kolhatkar. The radio program airs on Pacifica stations KPFA and KPFK, and several affiliate stations. The television show airs on Free Speech TV (Dish Network, DirecTV, Roku).

5:00 AM		KBCS 91.3 FM - HD1 Bellevue Seattle Tacoma a public service of Bellevue College KBCS
5:00 AM		NEWS: Rising Up with Sonali YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali, is your weekly antidote to the doom and gloom of mainstream news, lifting up solutions that bring us closer to economic, racial, gender, and environmental justice. The program is hosted and executive produced by Sonali Kolhatkar, Racial Justice Editor at YES! Media.
5:02 AM		NEWS: Rising Up with Sonali This week, well examine how various groups are doing all they can in solidarity with Palestinians to end Israels genocide in Gaza. First, well hear from Elez Beresin-Scher, a Junior at Bryn Mawr College majoring in Sociology and active with Jewish Voice for Peace.
5:28 AM		NEWS: Rising Up with Sonali Then, writer Sarah Youngblood-Gregory will explain how Israel paints itself as a defender of the LGBTQ community in its pogrom against Palestinians in Gaza. Sarahs recent piece in YES! Magazine is called No Pride in Genocide: Calling Out Israels Pinkwashing.
5:38 AM		NEWS: Rising Up with Sonali Finally, well pivot to another topic - the role of the new revolutionary weight loss drugs in society. Evette Dionne, executive editor at YES! Media and author of Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul will comment on the impact of these drugs on movements for fat liberation and disability justice.