Listen to story: https://ia904600.us.archive.org/22/items/2024-06-11-ruws_202406/2024_06_11_DortellWilliams.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 10:06) FEATURING DORTELL WILLIAMS - This Sunday June 16 marks Father’s Day, a day when families celebrate their dads–biological or adopted, surrogate or chosen–to brunches and lunches, and make toasts in their honor.  But what about the thousands of fathers who are locked up in prisons around the country? Dortell Williams is one such father, currently...

Listen to story: https://ia904600.us.archive.org/22/items/2024-06-11-ruws_202406/2024_06_11_Mollie_Engelhart.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 20:56) FEATURING MOLLIE ENGELHART - A popular vegan-friendly restaurant chain in Southern California is under fire–from vegans. Sage Regenerative Kitchen, formerly known as Sage Vegan Bistro, announced earlier this year that it would be introducing some meat items to its menu. But it wouldn’t be just any meat, rather meat that was produced through what...

Listen to story: https://ia904600.us.archive.org/22/items/2024-06-11-ruws_202406/2024_06_11_Amandeep_Sandhu.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 23:39) FEATURING AMANDEEP SANDHU - India, the world’s largest democracy, recently concluded its 6-week long election and delivered a blow to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) whose leader Narendra Modi has been Prime Minister for the past decade. The BJP won 240 seats, a plurality, which still allows it to lead, but via a coalition government in...

Listen to story: https://ia600403.us.archive.org/35/items/2024-06-11-RUWS/2024_06_04_Laura_Flores_Perillo.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 11:51) FEATURING LAURA FLORES-PERILLA - Just weeks before incumbent president, Joe Biden faces Donald Trump for their first pre-election debate, his administration announced it would adopt an order temporarily sealing off the U.S.-Mexico border and removing protections for asylum seekers. According to the New York Times, “The order would be the most...

Listen to story: https://ia800403.us.archive.org/35/items/2024-06-11-RUWS/2024_06_11_TaraMcGowan.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 22:25) FEATURING TARA MCGOWAN - A new poll has found that about half of all independent voters and 15% of Republican voters want Donald Trump to suspend his campaign following his felony convictions on 34 counts. Ahead of the verdict, the New York Times studied a focus group of undecided independent voters and found that most were leaning toward Trump.   There...

Listen to story: https://ia800403.us.archive.org/35/items/2024-06-11-RUWS/2024_06_04_CoreyBrettschneider.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 20:42) FEATURING COREY BRETTSCHNEIDER - Former President and soon-to-be Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump was convicted last week on 34 felony charges in a hush-money incident that took place ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Newspaper headlines screamed “TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS” and media reports relied on superlatives such as...

Listen to story: https://ia600406.us.archive.org/29/items/2024-05-28-RUWS/2024_05_28_Ingrid_Cruz.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 16:17) FEATURING INGRID CRUZ - The issue of immigration tends to reach a fever pitch during election years. But organizers work continuously between election cycles for immigrant rights. In a new op-ed for YES! Magazine Ingrid Cruz makes an honest assessment of the movement and the internal challenges it faces, especially given the increasing racial, ethnic, and...

Listen to story: https://ia800406.us.archive.org/29/items/2024-05-28-RUWS/2024_05_28_Emily_Peterson-Cassin.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 20:45) FEATURING EMILY PETERSON-CASSIN - The Department of Justice has launched a lawsuit against Live Nation and its ownership of Ticketmaster. According to AP, “Ticketmaster is the world’s largest ticket seller, processing 500 million tickets each year in more than 30 countries. Around 70% of tickets for major concert venues in the U.S. are sold through...

Listen to story: https://ia600406.us.archive.org/29/items/2024-05-28-RUWS/2024_05_28_Zahra_Billoo.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 19:08) FEATURING ZAHRA BILLOO - An Israeli strike on a refugee camp in Rafah has killed at least 45 people and injured more than 200. Palestinians displaced by many months of genocidal assault had fled to the area in Rafah, designated by Israel as safe, before being bombarded with Israeli bombs. Eyewitness accounts say there was fire everywhere and that people,...

Listen to story: https://ia902304.us.archive.org/29/items/2024-05-21-RUWS/2024_05_21_Evette_Dionne.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 15:58) The summer 2024 issue of YES! Magazine has been hitting newsstands and landing in mail boxes around the country. And, as we do every quarter, we’ll preview this latest issue of the solutions journalism magazine where I work as Senior Editor. The issue is themed around “Access,” and in her Editor’s Letter, YES! Executive Editor Evette Dionne asks the...

Listen to story: https://ia902304.us.archive.org/29/items/2024-05-21-RUWS/2024_05_21_ChristineAhn_MarieBerry.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 20:56) FEATURING CHRISTINE AHN & MARIE BERRY - Hillary Clinton, former Senator and State Secretary, recently made headlines for dismissing campus protesters against the genocide in Gaza as being ignorant of the history of the Middle East. Liberal feminists like Clinton have often equated freedom for women with war making. At a recent Feminist Peace...

Listen to story: https://ia902304.us.archive.org/29/items/2024-05-21-RUWS/2024_05_21_Arun_Gupta_short.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 19:58) FEATURING ARUN GUPTA - The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has said he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli politicians including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the crime of genocide, and Hamas leaders, for other war crimes. Mr. Netanyahu remains defiant, as does U.S. President Joe Biden, who called the charges against the...

Listen to story: https://ia902203.us.archive.org/8/items/2024-05-14-RUWS/2024_05_14_Debora_Wanda.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 23:14) FEATURING DÉBORA SOUZA SILVA AND REV. WANDA JOHNSON - A new documentary, released by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY ahead of the 4th anniversary of the police murder of George Floyd, highlights how Black mothers cope with the most unimaginable loss of their lives.  The film For Our Children, by award winning Brazilian documentarian Débora Souza Silva, centers Rev....

Listen to story: https://ia802203.us.archive.org/8/items/2024-05-14-RUWS/2024_05_14_Lajward_Zahra.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 16:02) FEATURING LAJWARD ZAHRA - The campus protests that swept the nation in recent weeks are as clear a sign as any that young people are politically aware, active, and willing to put their bodies on the line for their beliefs. But, as we hurtle toward another make-or-break election in November, many are asking, will this political engagement in the streets...

Listen to story: https://ia904600.us.archive.org/14/items/2024-05-07-RUWS/2024_05_07_CSULA.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 16:18) The same day that UCLA student activists were reeling from their Free Gaza encampment being attacked by pro-Israel supporters and police officers, students at California State University of Los Angeles (Cal State LA) were busy setting up their brand new campus protest. Dozens of tents were erected just across from the campus student union on May 1st and the area...

Listen to story: https://ia804600.us.archive.org/14/items/2024-05-07-RUWS/2024_05_07_RobinDGKelley.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 21:52) FEATURING ROBIN D G KELLEY - Students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are returning to their campus after a week of violent attacks aimed at a student encampment set up to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The University has moved to create a safety officer role to oversee a new Office of Campus Safety. Late in the evening on April...

Listen to story: https://ia600300.us.archive.org/3/items/2024-04-30-RUWS/2024_04_30_DortellWilliams.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 34:19) FEATURING DORTELL WILLIAMS - California imprisons nearly 200,000 people in various types of detention centers, including prisons and jails. If California was a country, it would have one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Of this number, thousands are serving sentences of “life in prison without the possibility of parole” (LWOP), meaning...

Listen to story: https://ia600300.us.archive.org/3/items/2024-04-30-RUWS/2024_04_30_Elez_Beresin-Scher.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 13:46) FEATURING ELEZ BERESIN-SCHER - As university students continue to hold their ground at Free Gaza encampments on campuses around the nation, Jewish students remain central to the movement.  In January 2024, a Bryn Mawr College sociology major Elez Beresin-Scher spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar about the Shabbat for Ceasefire campus actions...

Listen to story: https://ia800300.us.archive.org/3/items/2024-04-30-RUWS/2024_04_30_Jacob_Rithik.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 23:57) FEATURING JACOB AND RITHIK - A nationwide uprising led by college students has sprung up to demand an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, it’s on-going occupation, and U.S. arms sales to Israel, as well as for universities to divest from Israel.  Students have set up encampments, reminiscent of Occupy Wall Street and other movements for social justice and have...

Listen to story: https://ia600305.us.archive.org/17/items/2024-04-23-RUWS/2024_04_23_Amy_Fitch_Heacock.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 14:28) FEATURING AMY FITCH-HEACOCK - The Arizona Supreme Court earlier this month restored a civil war era law banning abortion in all cases except when the life of the biological parent was in jeopardy. It is currently considered the most draconian abortion ban in the nation. When that law was first enacted in 1864, scientists did not even understand how...

Listen to story: https://ia800305.us.archive.org/17/items/2024-04-23-RUWS/2024_04_23_CedricDeLeon.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 18:55) FEATURING CEDRIC DE LEON - Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) last week in a historic win for organized labor. Volkswagen is a German automaker and its Chattanooga plant was the only one in the entire company to not have union representation. It was also the first time a...

Listen to story: https://ia800305.us.archive.org/17/items/2024-04-23-RUWS/2024_04_23_Shana_Redmond.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 22:05) FEATURING SHANA L. REDMOND - Several elite college campuses such as those of Columbia University, New York University, Harvard and Yale were closed on Monday following major protest actions in support of Palestinian rights and against Israel’s on-going genocide in Gaza. This comes days after more than a 100 activists at an encampment were arrested at...

Listen to story: https://ia600301.us.archive.org/30/items/2024-04-16-RUWS/2024_04_16_Stephanie_Abraham.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 16:44) FEATURING STEPHANIE ABRAHAM - April is Arab American Heritage month, a time of year meant to celebrate the history and culture of Americans who claim ancestry from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Such recognition was hard fought in light of the decades of demonization that Arab Americans faced after the September 11, 2001 attacks. But in 2024...

Listen to story: https://ia800301.us.archive.org/30/items/2024-04-16-RUWS/2024_04_16_Harry_Feder.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 24:22) FEATURING HARRY FEDER - Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology last week announced they would return to requiring SAT and ACT test scores as part of their admissions processes. Starting before the COVID-19 pandemic, universities had begun to drop test requirements. The pandemic lockdowns accelerated the trend and soon thousands of...