I'll be off work for part of next week to drop my oldest kid off to college and won't be sending out a newsletter next Friday. 🥹 🥹 🥹 Eeeee! This major parental milestone comes a week after the release of my new book, Breaking ICE: Community Defense Against State Terror and MAGA Fascism.

If you live in or near the Seattle area, my next book tour stop is taking place at Seattle Town Hall on Monday September 28. Click here to RSVP!

Sonali Kolhatkar with Josefina Mora-Cheung | Town Hall Seattle
Throughout America, communities have been facing increasingly aggressive state enforcement under the banner of immigration control. Under the Trump Administration, ICE has vastly increased its presence, arrests, deportations, and has even caused the death of American citizens. In the face of what many call an authoritarian crackdown, communities have come together to resist and provide aid, protection, and awareness around the presence of ICE in neighborhoods across the country. The fight against ICE is multifaceted and occurs at all different levels. Whether in the streets, through advocacy, or social organizing, a frontline has emerged which directly challenges the actions and existence of ICE and the MAGA movement. Award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and author, Sonali Kolhatkar, reports on these issues from the ground level. Her new book, Breaking ICE: Community Defense Against State Terror and MAGA Fascism, is a ripping, vivid account of the growing movement against state violence, featuring interviews with those on the frontlines of the fight for immigrant justice. Kolhatkar highlights the divide between the ICE agents, the DHS, and their supporters, terrorizing communities throughout the United States with the threat of arrest and deportation, versus the growing national movement dedicated to protecting communities, reversing racist and authoritarian policies, and otherwise challenging MAGA’s violent anti-immigration regime.

I dropped by my local independent bookstore Vroman's Books this week to sign a large stash of pre-ordered books! If you were among those who ordered your own copy, thank you!! And you'll be getting your signed copy in the mail soon! I slipped a free sticker into each one to remind you to "Free Dortell Williams."

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Among the stories I published this week on Rising Up With Sonali was the interview I did with Prof. Robin D. G. Kelley in February for Breaking ICE. Truthout published the transcript of the interview.

Resistance and Solidarity in an Age of Fascism and Genocide

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ROBIN D. G. KELLEY: "When people say, “Abolish ICE,” and don’t say, “Abolish the Police,” it reveals deep limitations in our analysis. To do so ignores the similarities and practices shared by ICE, Border Patrol, and local police officers — not to mention the fact that for all of these agencies, the primary targets of police violence are people of color."

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Corporate media's goal is to leave you feeling overwhelmed and accept the status quo.

Rising Up With Sonali reminds you of all the ways YOU HAVE POWER

AI Doesn’t Have to Scare Us: How We Can Push Back

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DR. MARA EINSTEIN: "We have allowed our thought processes to be given over to a technology. And look, that's the whole point from the perspective of the creators of this technology. They want us to offload our ability to have critical thinking so that we will then buy it back from them."

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BONUS EPISODE: Rising Up for Media Justice

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ETENG ETTAH: "[W]e're finding that we're now in this interesting space where we're very reliant on social media, with a little bit of a catch-22, whereas we are both challenging the big tech corporations that are heading these platforms while we are still engaging in these platforms to get the word out about what's going on with big tech. " 

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