Sojourner Truth Radio
1,128 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod is a news & public affairs program that airs Tuesday through Friday on KPFK Radio from 7 to 8 AM (PST), and nationwide on Pacifica Radio networks.
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Sojourner Truth brings you news and views on local, national & international policies and stories that affect us all. We draw out how those of us most impacted -women, communities of color and other communities are responding. We also discuss the inter-relationship between art and politics.
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Episodes
Reece Chenault On Kentucky Shooting
October 31, 2018 00:00 - 8.86 MBToday on Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod: Funerals began yesterday for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue terrorist attack that left 11 people dead. The killing spree has been dubbed the worst against Jewish people in U.S. history. It has shocked a neighborhood known for its tolerance. The killer expressed not only vicious anti-Semitic vitriol, but also anti-immigrant hate. While discussing the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society based at the Tree of Life Synagogue on his social media ...
Seymour Drescher On Pittsburgh Shooting
October 31, 2018 00:00 - 16.9 MBToday on Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod: Funerals began yesterday for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue terrorist attack that left 11 people dead. The killing spree has been dubbed the worst against Jewish people in U.S. history. It has shocked a neighborhood known for its tolerance. The killer expressed not only vicious anti-Semitic vitriol, but also anti-immigrant hate. While discussing the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society based at the Tree of Life Synagogue on his social media ...
Sojourner Truth Radio: October 30, 2018 - US Elections, Synagogue Shooting, Brazil Elections
October 30, 2018 00:00 - 53.5 MBToday on Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod: What Trump and other white supremacists have wrought: the killing of 11 Jewish people in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on the Sabbath, Saturday Oct. 27, 2018. And the injuring of six others by a gunman who repeated the phrase "Jews must die." In addition to his blatant anti-Semitism, he was also inspired by Trump's attack on the caravan of migrants now in Mexico on their way to seek asylum at the U.S. border. The Tree of Life was ho...
Kevin Pina On Haiti & New Prime Minister
September 26, 2018 00:00 - 11.1 MBToday on Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod: Yesterday, in his speech before the U.N. General Assembly, Donald Trump boasted that his administration had achieved more than almost any other president in U.S. history, causing world leaders to break out in laughter. Clips from that moment were shown around the world. But not so fast. Trump used his speech to underscore his America First foreign policy, including trade and support for Israel. He praised Kim Jong Un and Poland, while attack...
Forrest English On Pollution In The Carolinas Following Hurricane Florence
September 25, 2018 00:00 - 10.2 MBToday on Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod: On Saturday, September 22, assailants carried out an attack against the government of Iran. They attacked during an Islamic Revolutionary Guard military parade and killed 25 people, including children, and wounding 60 others. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed the United States and Saudi Arabia for being behind the attacks, at least providing weapons and other support to attackers. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is speaking at the United Nations ...
Congressional Election Watch With Dorothy Reik: September 25, 2018
September 24, 2018 00:00 - 3.48 MBToday on Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod: On Saturday, September 22, assailants carried out an attack against the government of Iran. They attacked during an Islamic Revolutionary Guard military parade and killed 25 people, including children, and wounding 60 others. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed the United States and Saudi Arabia for being behind the attacks, at least providing weapons and other support to attackers. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is speaking at the United Nations ...
Roundtable Discussion: Update On Kavanaugh Case
September 21, 2018 00:00 - 9.99 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, a special women's roundtable. At this critical moment in the U.S. when after decades of a women's rights and feminist movement, we are at a place where a woman makes a charge of attempted rape against Donald Trumps nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, and very little seems to have changed if anything in the Senate Judiciary Committee with jurisdiction over the Kavanaugh nomination. The Republican leadership on the committee with the backing of Trump firs...
Sojourner Truth Radio: September 20, 2018 - Kavanaugh & Sexual Assault, Elections
September 19, 2018 00:00 - 53.4 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, we continue our coverage of Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, and the attempted rape charges he is facing. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, a Palo Alto University professor of clinical psychology, has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her while the two were teenagers. Kavanaugh, whose nomination process to the top U.S. court has since been stalled and embroiled in controversy, has denied the accusation. What GOP senators and other Kavanaugh sup...
Sojourner Truth Radio: September 19, 2018 - Elections, Kavanaugh, Venezuela, Black Immigrants, BLM
September 19, 2018 00:00 - 53.4 MBDonald Trump's Supreme Court pick, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, has been accused of attempted rape by Professor Blasey Ford in an incident that Prof Blasey says took place when Kavanaugh was 17 years old. Republicans have proposed a public hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, Sept 24 to hear both from Kavanaugh and Prof. Blasey. Not so fast, says Prof Blasey. There needs to be an investigation by an independent body such as the FBI of the incident and charges before a hearing ...
Dr. Mekeila Cook On Kavanaugh & Sexual Assault
September 19, 2018 00:00 - 16.3 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, we continue our coverage of Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, and the attempted rape charges he is facing. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, a Palo Alto University professor of clinical psychology, has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her while the two were teenagers. Kavanaugh, whose nomination process to the top U.S. court has since been stalled and embroiled in controversy, has denied the accusation. What GOP senators and other Kavanaugh sup...
Congressional Elections: What's At Stake?
September 14, 2018 00:00 - 12.7 MBToday, on our weekly Sojourner Truth roundtable: On the national front, close to 13,000 children are being held in immigrant detention centers. Now, Donald Trump is not only the global white supremacist in chief after even as a major hurricane bears down on the Carolinas, he dismisses Hurricane Maria deaths in Puerto Rico as a conspiracy by democrats. He is also vying for conspiracy theorist in chief. Then again, he has been on that track for quite some time, including putting forward that ...
Congressional Election Watch With Dorothy Reik: September 14, 2018
September 14, 2018 00:00 - 5.92 MBToday, on our weekly Sojourner Truth roundtable: On the national front, close to 13,000 children are being held in immigrant detention centers. Now, Donald Trump is not only the global white supremacist in chief after even as a major hurricane bears down on the Carolinas, he dismisses Hurricane Maria deaths in Puerto Rico as a conspiracy by democrats. He is also vying for conspiracy theorist in chief. Then again, he has been on that track for quite some time, including putting forward that ...
Congressional Election Watch With Dorothy Reik: September 13, 2018
September 13, 2018 00:00 - 6.06 MBToday, in the midst of what is predicted to be the storm of a lifetime, Hurricane Florence is barreling towards the Carolinas, with a typhoon headed to the Philippines and Hawaii again drenched by heavy rains. We get a report from climate change protesters on the ground in San Francisco. We speak with Kandi White of the Indigenous Environmental Network. And a major, though temporary, victory for environmental activists as a judge in Louisiana has halted the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. We speak w...
Sojourner Truth Radio: September 7, 2018 - Kavanaugh Hearings, Elections & White House Drama
September 07, 2018 17:12 - 52.1 MBToday on our weekly roundtable: The Kavanaugh hearings for the Supreme Court Justice. He was nominated by Trump. Did we learn anything new in the hearings this week? What did not come out? What can, if anything, the Democrats now do? Also, executive power, or some say craziness? A crisis of checks and balances with Trump and the rest of his administration. There's a new op-ed that reveals turmoil in the White House. And, of course, Woodward's new book revealing the same thing. What will it...
Laura Carlsen On U.S./Mexico Trade Deal
August 28, 2018 00:00 - 7.37 MBOn Monday, August 27, Donald Trump announced a new trade agreement between the United States and Mexico. He called it the U.S./Mexico Trade Agreement. But, where is Canada in all of this? What are the implications not only in North America but also for China? Our guest is Mexico-based journalist Laura Carlsen. And, according to NPR, the Catholic Church abuse scandal has cost $3 billion in settlement. Now, that scandal is growing with a report in Pennsylvania that talked about and documented ...
Sojourner Truth Radio: August 22, 2018 - Keystone XL Pipeline, Mia Mottley, Frederick Tate
August 22, 2018 00:00 - 52.9 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, we discuss new developments in the court battle surrounding the Keystone XL Pipeline, the election of Mia Mottley in Barbados and the tragic killing of Frederick Tate, a Black man who was murdered in a Long Beach public park by a white man. On Wednesday, August 15, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris in Montana ruled that Donald Trump’s State Department must conduct a new environmental review for the Keystone XL crude pipeline. The ruling has been considere...
Dallas Goldtooth & Steve Volker On Keystone XL Pipeline
August 22, 2018 00:00 - 21.9 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, we discuss new developments in the court battle surrounding the Keystone XL Pipeline, the election of Mia Mottley in Barbados and the tragic killing of Frederick Tate, a Black man who was murdered in a Long Beach public park by a white man. On Wednesday, August 15, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris in Montana ruled that Donald Trump’s State Department must conduct a new environmental review for the Keystone XL crude pipeline. The ruling has been considere...
Assumpta Oturu On Zimbabwe Elections
July 31, 2018 00:00 - 24.5 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Trump's trade war. Can the U.S. stop what seems to be the inevitable, a multipolar economic world in which the U.S. is not the only game in town? The backlash of Trump's tariffs. What is the GOP and industry afraid of? What does this mean for you and I? Economist Mark Weisbrot is our guest. Also, a key presidential election in Zimbabwe. Assumpta Oturu, host of KPFKs Spotlight Africa, joins us. And Afro-Cuban pianist and composer Dayramir Gonzalez talks about his...
Are We Living In Orwellian Times?
July 27, 2018 00:00 - 6.73 MBToday on our weekly Sojourner Truth roundtable: The crumbling global order and Trumps trade wars even as the BRICS nations representing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are holding their tenth summit in South Africa. This year, its referred to as BRICS+ and includes CARICOM nations. Are the BRICS nations trying to save capitalism? The global and national implications of Trump's isolationist moves. Over 900 families were not reunited on Thursday, July 26, missing the federal ...
Immigration Update
July 27, 2018 00:00 - 10.3 MBToday on our weekly Sojourner Truth roundtable: The crumbling global order and Trumps trade wars even as the BRICS nations representing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are holding their tenth summit in South Africa. This year, its referred to as BRICS+ and includes CARICOM nations. Are the BRICS nations trying to save capitalism? The global and national implications of Trump's isolationist moves. Over 900 families were not reunited on Thursday, July 26, missing the federal ...
Dr. ChenziRa Kahina On The Caribbean After Hurricane Maria
July 26, 2018 00:00 - 13.4 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, we continue our coverage on the Trump administrations migrant family separations, focusing on the administrations efforts to modify the landmark 1997 Flores Agreement which sets strict standards for the detention of migrant children. Also, Jefferson Sessions, the U.S. Attorney Generals reinterpretation of asylum law in contradiction to international standards. Our guest is Peter Schey, Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law. And t...
James Burch On Oakland Stabbing
July 25, 2018 00:00 - 10 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: A white man in Oakland fatally stabs a Black woman and injures her sister on Sunday evening, July 22. Eighteen-year-old Nia Wilson died at the scene, her 26-year-old sister Letifah Wilson was hospitalized. The incident took place on the platform of the BART train, the Bay Area public transport system. The suspect, a young white man, is in custody. Our guest for this week’s Campaigners for Black Lives is James Burch, Policy Director of the Anti-Police Terror Project....
Sojourner Truth Radio: July 25, 2018 - Oakland Stabbing, Migrant Children, Ireland Civil Rights
July 25, 2018 00:00 - 54.2 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: A white man in Oakland fatally stabs a Black woman and injures her sister on Sunday evening, July 22. Eighteen-year-old Nia Wilson died at the scene, her 26-year-old sister Letifah Wilson was hospitalized. The incident took place on the platform of the BART train, the Bay Area public transport system. The suspect, a young white man, is in custody. Our guest for this week’s Campaigners for Black Lives is James Burch, Policy Director of the Anti-Police Terror Project....
Mourning Of Recent Deaths: Kamal Ramsey & Aris Anagnos
July 25, 2018 00:00 - 5.06 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: A white man in Oakland fatally stabs a Black woman and injures her sister on Sunday evening, July 22. Eighteen-year-old Nia Wilson died at the scene, her 26-year-old sister Letifah Wilson was hospitalized. The incident took place on the platform of the BART train, the Bay Area public transport system. The suspect, a young white man, is in custody. Our guest for this week’s Campaigners for Black Lives is James Burch, Policy Director of the Anti-Police Terror Project....
Phyllis Bennis On Donald Trump's Iran Threat
July 24, 2018 17:28 - 20.4 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Donald Trump's administration has ramped up its threats against Iran, saying that if Iran threatens the U.S. ever again, Iran will suffer consequences which have never been suffered throughout history. Is this a distraction for Trump from his domestic troubles or is he along with Israel angling for a military strike against Iran? Our guest is Middle East expert Phyllis Bennis. An update about conditions on the ground in Puerto Rico and what the Puerto Rican people...
Trump-Putin Summit: What Came Out Of It?
July 20, 2018 00:00 - 16 MBToday on our weekly Sojourner Truth roundtable: The realignment of superpowers and the culture wars that were underscored and pushed forward in Trumps recent trip to Europe. From NATO to his trip to the U.K., to his secret meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, to the Trump-Putin embrace of Israels security concerns. All this in the backdrop of the Trump-initiated trade wars with traditional U.S. allies including Canada, the European Union, Mexico " as well as the big fish of China...
Coumba Toure On Social Justice in Africa & Nelson Mandela
July 19, 2018 00:00 - 14.2 MBVladimir Putin and Donald Trump struck a little-reported deal agreeable to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The established border of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights will be honored as Syrian forces backed by Hezbollah have as of today routed anti-Assad forces out of the area of Syria that borders Israel. That added to the boldness of the Netanyahu-led government, which has now voted in the Israeli Parliament on a law that defines Israel as the homeland of Jews with Hebrew as t...
Phyllis Bennis On Israel's Jewish State Law & Trump-Putin Summit
July 19, 2018 00:00 - 21.7 MBVladimir Putin and Donald Trump struck a little-reported deal agreeable to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The established border of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights will be honored as Syrian forces backed by Hezbollah have as of today routed anti-Assad forces out of the area of Syria that borders Israel. That added to the boldness of the Netanyahu-led government, which has now voted in the Israeli Parliament on a law that defines Israel as the homeland of Jews with Hebrew as t...