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Gavin Newsom is wrapping up his tenure as California’s governor by signing a spate of bills into law, among them, a much-touted balcony solar bill.

Barely three months since the world’s largest democracy was rocked by student-led protests under the satirical name of the Cockroach Janta (People’s) Party, India is facing mass protests once more.

On Sunday October 18, dozens of pro-Palestinian activists, including Jewish Americans, marched in front of the Museum of Tolerance in West LA to demand acknowledgment of the Gaza genocide.

This week on Rising Up for Justice, my guest is Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity.

The history of the VRA and its decimation is told in a new book called An American Problem: How the Country Built—and the Supreme Court Broke—the Voting Rights Act.

Josefina Mora-Cheung is Director of Organizing for La Resistencia, a leading immigrant rights organization based in Seattle, Washington, leading the charge against ICE terror.

This week on Rising Up for Justice, my guest is Nadine Smith, President and CEO of Color Of Change, the nation's largest online racial justice organization, and a TIME100 honoree

Western philosophy is associated with ivory towers. But, author Darien Pollock in his new book, Street Knowledge says that Socrates is connected to the streets.

the National Center for Youth Law has launched an organized push for enacting and enforcing civil rights legislation protecting students at the state level.

In the searing, record-breaking heat, activists and faith leaders walked 100 miles to draw attention to government abuse of immigrants.

This week on Rising Up for Justice, my guest is Lynn Hứa, Director of Digital-Distributed Organizing at Organized Power In Numbers.

In his new book, Bad Energy, Joshua Frank warns against transitioning to renewable energy for the sake of profits alone.

This week on Rising Up for Justice, Saqib Bhatti joins us. He is the co-Founder and executive director of ACRE, the Action Center on Race & the Economy and the Bargaining for the Common Good Network.

Days after Jacob Coxson, an AI researcher quit his job at Anthropic, warning that the technology has the power and potential to destroy humanity, tech executives called for a slow down of their own product development.

On September 15, 2026, my new book Breaking ICE: Community Defense Against State Terror and MAGA Fascism was published by Seven Stories Press, a collection of nearly 20 transcripts of interviews with people who have been guests on this program.