By Jess Clarke
Today’s emerging resistance movements can draw on a long and varied history to challenge the reactionary US government. Racial justice organizing has been the leading edge of progressive change for generations, and lessons learned and leadership from Black liberation struggles are key to moving beyond resistance and toward revolutionary abundance.
Preeti Gamzeh interviews veteran radio journalist and author Sonali Kolhatkar on her new book Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice.
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Sonali Kolhatkar is the host of the show Rising Up with Sonali, the longest running morning, drive-time radio program hosted by a woman. In addition to hosting the daily show, she’s also he Racial Justice editor at Yes! Magazine and Senior Correspondent for the Independent Media Institute‘s Economy for All project.
We also talk to Rinku Sen, who wrote the foreword to the book Rising Up. Rinku was the Executive Director of Race Forward and Publisher of their award-winning news site and magazine Colorlines for many years. She is currently the executive director of the Narrative Initiative. She is the author of two books Stir it Up and The Accidental American.
This show was co-produced with APEX Express, KPFA 94.1.
Our joint event with the The Center for Political Education has been cancelled so we can join forces with another WTO anniversary event sponsored by Shaping San Francisco
Seattle/WTO Shutdown: 20th Anniversary
Wednesday 7:30-9:30
Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics
518 Valencia Street (near 16th), in San Francisco
By Kelly Curry
This is an excerpt from the book Until the Streets of the Hood Flood with Green co-published by Reimainge! and Freedom Voices.
My father was Horatio Alger… or at least the kind of character made famous by the Horatio Alger, the 19th century writer who chronicled through his fiction the archetype of the poor boy who works his way up from very little to achieve great riches, respect and love from the community. When my dad was a kid, America was still a place where this could happen. America was a place where the ethos and consciousness of many of its citizens understood and valued equal participation.
By Marcy Rein, Vicki Legion and Mickey Ellinger
This article is a preview from the book Free City! Reclaiming College of San Francisco and Free Education for All.
Community colleges serve more than 40 percent of all US college students and provide a crucial entry point to post-secondary education for working class students and students of color. California teaches an outsize share of community college students, and City College of San Francisco (CCSF) is one of the state’s largest. Since its founding in 1935, CCSF has grown deep roots in the community. It teaches firefighters, chefs, medical techs and scores of other essential workers; its English as a Second Language department, the school’s largest, has taught English to generations of new immigrants; it has opened paths to four-year colleges, second chances, and lifelong learning. Sometimes called “the most important working class institution in San Francisco,” it stands firm on the 1960s legacy of open admissions.
An interview by Jess Clarke with Leo Martinez Macias
As the online retail market continues to expand, massive warehouse and distribution facilities are being plopped down in communities already overburdened by hazardous wastes, industrial and agricultural pollution. In Fresno California the city council recently permitted three million square feet of construction in what the California EPA measures as the most environmentally burdened census tract in California. Neighbors weren’t notified about the project until construction had already begun. Jess Clarke sat down with a local resident, and an attorney advocate who have been battling this new pollution source in their community.
By Dania De Ramon
