Sonali Kolhatkar

Independent journalist Ed Augustin speaks from Havana about how Cubans are coping with decades of sanctions and whether there could be a US war on Cuba.

The Iranian Red Crescent Society is reporting that nearly 800 Iranians have been killed in US and Israeli air strikes since the Trump Administration launched an illegal war on Iran on February 28 without Congressional approval. 

This week on Rising Up for Justice, Tara Raghuveer, director and founder of the Tenant Union Federation joins us.

Communities around the country have been countering new ICE detention centers–and they’ve been winning. 

Although rural states such as North Carolina did not garner as much national attention for the 2025-26 federal assault as Minnesota and California, it was an epicenter of ICE operations in the South.

More than 30,000 unionized workers at California and Hawaii facilities of Kaiser Permanente are returning to work after 4 weeks on the picket line.