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Sonali Kolhatkar: “Rising Up” for Social Justice, With YES! Magazine

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week’s episode on your favorite podcast platform (Available 10/23).As the Israel/Hamas conflict continues, what is media’s role? You may know Sonali Kolhatkar from her...

Election 2020

AboutThe US holds a momentous election amid a global pandemic, an economic meltdown and one of the most polarizing presidencies in generations. In this episode, recorded just hours after polls close, Laura is joined...

These Films Keep People Out of Prison

What if judges could know a person more completely before sentencing them to prison? An organization called Complete Picture uses the power of film and storytelling to give judges an in-depth, humanizing look at...

Revolution at the Federal Reserve: Nomi Prins and Thomas Hanna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t61OZ5dN9QThis week, as Jim Yong Kim resigns from the World Bank, we talk about the way central banks steer world development and for whom.Former Goldman Sachs managing director Nomi Prins, author of "Collusion: How...

Can Marijuana Create a Path to Justice?

Legalizing cannabis, repairing the economy. Our guests say, reparations and restorative justice for workers in the budding cannabis industry need to be a part of the conversation. 

Idaho’s United Vision Project: Confronting Extremism in America’s Heartland

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week’s episode on your favorite podcast platform (Available 2/26).As the 2024 presidential election campaign heats up, Idaho is not a place that Democratic campaign...

Gender Justice Requires More Than Money Say the Feminists Taking on Philanthropy During Covid

MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently made a splash by donating nearly $3 billion to more than 280 nonprofits working in historically underfunded sectors - her third such drop in a...

Democrats Stave Off Disaster, For Now?

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform.Were grassroots activists able to defend democracy in 2022? For this post-election roundtable, Laura convenes organizers to discuss...
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New Yorkers Welcome Migrants: What’s it Take to Make Sanctuary Real?

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week’s episode on your favorite podcast platform.In 1989, New York City declared itself a sanctuary city — a place where undocumented immigrants seeking asylum...

Minneapolis: Not Giving Up on Police Abolition

In the wake of the police murder of George Floyd, expectations were high that if systems-change around policing were possible anywhere, it would be in the progressive city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. On the anniversary...

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