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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.

This week, well examine the mass student movement protesting Israels genocide in Gaza, unfolding on college campuses across the U.S. and specifically at Columbia University. Professor Shana L. Redmond at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race at Columbia will be my guest.

Then, we'll turn to the United Auto Workers recent victory at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee. Labor expert Cedric de Leon will analyze how UAW won the vote and whats next for the union.

Finally, well go to Arizona, where that states supreme court just revived a civil war era abortion ban. Amy Fitch-Heacock, executive board member and spokesperson of Arizonans for Reproductive Freedom will discuss the fallout from the ban and how its helping boost turnout for an election ballot in November seeking to enshrine the right to an abortion in Arizonas constitution.