State of Resistance with Sally Kohn Podcast
1) Hiatus and a special gift
While Sally tours the country for her new book THE OPPOSITE OF HATE, the podcast will be on a short hiatus. In the meantime, Sally recorded a song for you. And then go listen to the great back episode...Show More
2) Live from #SXSW on activism in Texas and how to turn red states blue
Recorded at the TuneIn stage at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Sally talks with Jolt’s Cristina Tzintzun and NARAL Pro-Choice Texas’s Heather Busby about their work fighting for justice and equal...Show More
3) Vanita Gupta on the legacy of the Obama Administration -- and how Trump is ruining it
Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division in Obama's Department of Justice and now head of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, talks about where we are and where we're going
4) “Like the beginning of Hunger Games… You ran for your life” — students from Stoneman Douglas talk about gun reform
Stoneman Douglas students Adam Alhanti and Dylan Baierlein talk about the school shooting and the activism its awakened since, including how they both became engaged in the gun control debate and thei...Show More
5) How communities can impede ICE raids
Immigrant rights activist Gabe Gonzalez is helping organize citizens and businesses in his Chicago neighborhood in the event of mass raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents — raids t...Show More
6) How many people make a revolution? Erica Chenoweth on getting the resistance to scale
Political scientist Erica Chenoweth has studied political resistance movements worldwide over the last century. She tells Sally that non-violent resistance movements are more effective. And she shares...Show More
7) Don’t like the Democrats we have? Elect new ones! Jonathan Matthew Smucker on organizing in red, rural America
After grad school, Jonathan Matthew Smucker returned home to rural Pennsylvania to help organize the resistance. And now the grassroots organization he helped create is fielding a candidate for Congre...Show More
8) Sally interviews Patrisse Khan-Cullors about her new Black Lives Memoir and addresses Trump’s shithole comments
Can we treat people who are different than us with humanity and respect? That’s the simple core takeaway from Patrisse Kahn-Cullors’ memoir “When They Call You a Terrorist” — the opposite of what Trum...Show More
9) Activist Ai-Jen Poo, who attended the Globes Globes with Meryl Streep, talks #TimesUp and the spread of the #MeToo moment
How did Hollywood stars like Emma Watson and Amy Poehler end up bringing gender and racial justice activists as their “dates” to the Golden Globes? What was it like to be there? And where does #TimesU...Show More
10) Having Donald Trump on your side is generally not a plus in Iranian politics
Talking Iran protests, and the American response, with Iranian-American activists Holly Dagres and Trita Parsi
Having Donald Trump on your side is generally not a plus in Iranian politics
40:02 | Jan 4th, 2018