Next Stop: Seattle
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!

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."
For the entire month of September, every one of you who purchases a copy of Breaking ICE will get 3 months FREE membership to Rising Up With Sonali.
👉🏾 👉🏾 👉🏾 AND.... that's not all. If you ALSO BUY a copy of my previous book, Talking About Abolition: A Police-Free World is Possible, you'll get 6 months FREE membership to Rising Up With Sonali.
📘 1 BOOK = 3 months free membership
📘 📘 2 BOOKS = 6 months free membership!
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
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."
Corporate media's goal is to leave you feeling overwhelmed and accept the status quo.
AI Doesn’t Have to Scare Us: How We Can Push Back
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."
BONUS EPISODE: Rising Up for Media Justice
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. "





