Sonali Kolhatkar

Let’s Fund Real Public Safety, Not ICE - OtherWords We should be funding schools, health care, and education, not $50,000 signing bonuses for ICE agents.

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When We Prevent Trauma, We Prevent Crime When people's needs are met, there is less violence—and less need for policing and prisons.

Abolition 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
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I’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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Mother Who Lost Son to MS-13 Denounces Trump’s Immigration Policies As I continue to write about the current crisis of Trump illegally “deporting” people to prison in El Salvador (last two posts here and here), I found myself listening to an interview I gave seven yea...

Mother 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

Artist, Organizer & Social Justice Activist | Favianna Rodriguez Favianna Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary contemporary artist, cultural strategist, and social justice activist on a mission to create profound and lasting social change in the world. Her artistic pr...

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Can Public Education Survive Trump’s Attacks? Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s “final mission” will disproportionately harm students from marginalized communities.

Can 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

The book "Talking About Abolition: A Police-Free World is Possible" by Sonali Kolhatkar, with foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley on an orange background with light sketch drawings of handcuffs. The cover of the book is dark blue, with a light sketch drawing of handcuffs, and all caps text in white and yellow.

First 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...

We Keep Us Safe: Imagining a Police-Free World

Communities with infrastructure to support the development of whole, healthy people won’t need police.

A Violence-Prevention Helpline for Those Who Want to Change A Call for Change helps domestic violence perpetrators hold themselves accountable.

Most 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👇

7 Ways to Rise Up Against Trumpism 2.0 Grassroots movements, legal organizations, and nonprofits are leading the opposition.

Don't let the overwhelm win! www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/20... @yesmedia.bsky.social for solutions

Who’s Going to Stop Elon Musk? Since being named the head of DOGE, Elon Musk appears to be acting without any oversight.

▶️ WATCH: The world's richest man spent hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money to help elect Donald Trump. Now, Musk's team is accessing sensitive financial information and pushing out federal workers.

Building the Black City Joe Trotter explores how Black Americans have created, sustained, and expanded cities across the U.S.

▶️ 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.

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#BlackHistoryMonth #Reparations

Best line in a book I’ve read in a very very long time 🙌🏾

A Progress 2025 Vision for Health Care Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here’s what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like. #Progress2025

WATCH: Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here's what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like.

Can We Fix Our Democracy? To live up to its stated ideals, the United States must finally cede power to the people.

If U.S. democracy is exclusionary by design, is it even a democracy at all?

YES!'s very own @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social explains 👇

Let’s Embrace our Instinct for Collective Action — In Bad Times and Good - OtherWords The Los Angeles fires brought out the compassion we need all the time, not just during “natural” disasters.

When 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.

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YouTube video by RootsAction Sonali Kolhatkar on Changing the Culture of Militarism | Teach-In Network

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...

What Made the Gaza Ceasefire Possible? Survivors of the genocide are returning to the rubble of their homes.

"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

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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

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In 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:

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TALKING ABOUT ABOLITION by Sonali Kolhatkar

ARE PRISONS OBSOLETE and ABOLITION DEMOCRACY by Angela Y. Davis

ABOLITION IS LOVE by Syrus Marcus Ware and Alannah Fricker

A 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

Tell the Truth! Podcast Episode · The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow · 10/06/2024 · 41m

The 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...

YouTube video by The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT LUIGI (w/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.

Talking About Abolition Powerful interviews with scholars, organizers, and activists who are leading the movement to end policing and prison. Award-winning journalist Kolhatkar presents a visionary outlook for a future ro...

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