Breaking ICE / Sonali Kolhatkar
Sonali Kolhatkar returns to discuss her new book, Breaking ICE: Community Defense against State Terror and MAGA Fascism, just published by Seven Stories Press.
"The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.
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Sonali Kolhatkar
Journalist, activist, and artist, Sonali is the founder, host, and executive producer of Pacifica’s popular weekly program Rising Up With Sonali which airs on KPFK and KPFA and also as a TV show on Free Speech TV.
She is the author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (City Lights, 2023) and the racial justice and civil liberties editor at YES! Magazine. She is also Senior Correspondent and Writing Fellow of the Independent Media Institute‘s Economy for All project and was formerly a weekly columnist at Truthdig. Sonali is also the founding Co-Director of the Afghan Women’s Mission, a US-based non-profit solidarity organization that funds the work of RAWA.
Her earlier book, co-authored with James Ingalls, is Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence (2006, Seven Stories). She lives in Pasadena with her husband and two sons.
