Sojourner Truth Radio
1,518 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 12 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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Thur: 1.26.23 National Nurse Strikes interview with ER RN Erin Hogan
January 26, 2023 18:05 - 16 minutes - 22.7 MBToday on Sojourner Truth with host Margaret Prescod we delve into the nurse protests going on around the country and internationally. Joining us to tell us more about the largest nurse strike in recent NY history at New York City hospitals Mount Sinai and Montefiore Medical Center is Mount Sinai Hospital Emergency Room registered nurse and union delegate Erin Hogan.
Thur: 1.26.23 CA Desert Tortoise Extinction with Pat Flanigan
January 26, 2023 18:01 - 16 minutes - 22.5 MBIs the CA desert tortoise going to make it to the 22nd Century? The desert tortoise that has been called the closest species to the dinosaur is at serious risk of becoming extinct, joining Sojourner Truth host Margaret Prescod to discuss the factors behind this growing extinction risk and what can be done, is naturalist educator Pat Flanagan. In her current position as Desert Naturalist at The 29 Palms Inn, Oasis of Mara, she educates an international audience on the local history going back ...
Thursday January 26, 2023
January 26, 2023 17:59 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBToday on Sojourner Truth with host Margaret Prescod we delve into the nurse protests going on around the country and internationally. Joining us to tell us more about the largest nurse strike in recent NY history at New York City hospitals Mount Sinai and Montefiore Medical Center is Mount Sinai Hospital Emergency Room registered nurse and union delegate Erin Hogan. And is the CA desert tortoise going to make it to the 22nd Century? The desert tortoise that has been called the closest speci...
Wed. 1.25.23: Amara Enyia + Montague Simmons on the Movement for Black Lives
January 25, 2023 18:05 - 18 minutes - 25 MBAs the Biden Administration approaches its halfway mark. We know that Blacks put this Administration in office just off of the South Carolina primary alone. But they expected to see something from the Biden Administration in the areas of: voting rights, reparations, and addressing white supremacist violence, yet very little if anything in these areas has come from the Biden Administration. We are joined by two members of the Movement for Black Lives, Dr. Amara Enyia and Montague Simmons who ...
Wed. 1.25.23: KamauFranklin on CopCity in GA
January 25, 2023 18:03 - 11 minutes - 16 MBOn Wednesday January 18th, Atlanta Law enforcement officers shot and killed Atlanta forest defender and activist Manuel Tortuguita Terá. Atlanta Police — including a SWAT team — were violently evicting protesters who had occupied a wooded area outside a proposed $90 million training facility known as “Cop City,” inside Weelaunee Forest, a public forest in Georgia. Kamau Franklin, the founder of Community Movement Builders, a grassroots organization dedicated to creating sustainable Black com...
Wed. 1.25.23: Carl Hamad Lipscombe on NY assylum community
January 25, 2023 17:59 - 13 minutes - 18.9 MBNew York City Mayor Eric Adams has made it clear from press conferences from NYC to Texas and back that he doesn't want any more asylum-seekers coming to the City. New York City has seen 36,400 asylum seekers arrive as of Jan. 4th this year, but keeping asylum seekers out of NY is not a real solution so what can be done? Guest host Nana Gyamfi is joined by Carl Hamad Lipscombe, the Executive Director of Envision Freedom Fund, an organization committed to dismantling and transforming the immi...
Wednesday Januay 25, 2023
January 25, 2023 17:56 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBToday on Sojourner Truth hosted by guest host Nana Gyamfi, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has made it clear from press conferences from NYC to Texas and back that he doesn't want any more asylum-seekers coming to the City. New York City has seen 36,400 asylum seekers arrive as of Jan. 4th this year, but keeping asylum seekers out of NY is not a real solution so what can be done? We are joined by Carl Hamad Lipscombe, the Executive Director of Envision Freedom Fund, an organization committed t...
Sojourner Truth: Tue. January 24, 2023
January 24, 2023 18:31 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBToday on Sojourner Truth we start with a brief update on the present political and civil crisis in Peru. And time is running out on the public comment period to give feedback on the distribution of genetically engineered (GE) trees in U.S. forests. The USDA has put out a draft impact statement asking permission to deregulate the distribution of a GE American Chestnut Tree, with a draft decision approval that requires little to no monitoring from agencies. We spend the rest of the hour Glob...
Sojourner Truth: Thursday January 19, 2023
January 19, 2023 17:36 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, activists and co-founders of the Shawnee Forest Defense John Wallace and Karen Frailey join host Margaret Prescod for the hour to discuss recent developments in their campaign towards making the Shawnee Forest a national park and climate preserve. The Shawnee National Forest is located in Southern Illinois. The Shawnee National Forest encompasses a 289,000 acre area in southern Illinois stretching from the Mississippi River to the Ohio River which contains some of...
Sojourner Truth: Wednesday 1.18.23: David Trujillo & David E Reyes present "Vincent"
January 18, 2023 19:11 - 8 minutes - 11.4 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, we are joined by father and son duo David Trujillo and David Edward Reyes who will share details about the play they've directed and produced titled, "Vincent" that has just added a final week of shows due to its popularity. Breaking out of the norm, this play is staged inside Margaret Garcia's art studio. The play is a one man show starring David Edward Reyes on the the famous Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh. Their depiction of this renowned tortured artist touches o...
Sojourner Truth: Wednesday 1.18.23: PG&E threatens bald eagle's nest habitat
January 18, 2023 19:08 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBIn 1995, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reclassified the bald eagle from endangered to threatened in the lower 48 states. Populations continued to recover enough that, in 2007, the bald eagle was officially removed from the federal Endangered Species List. The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States of America and appears on its seal. This majestic species of birds generally represent strength, pride, and courage. The fierce beauty and proud independence of this great bird wa...
Sojourner Truth: Wednesday 1.18.23: Peggy O'Mara & the caretaking survey
January 18, 2023 19:01 - 22 minutes - 31.2 MBToday on Sojourner Truth what is the caretakers survey and how is it impacting the narrative around care-taking around the globe? We hear testimonials from caretakers in Myanmar, Scotland, Canada and the U.S. Our guest is Peggy O' Mara an independent journalist, and the editor and publisher of Mothering Magazine for over 30 years. Her work can be found at peggyomara.com. O'Mara joins us to delve into the importance of care-taking and viewing it as a global effort.
Sojourner Truth: Wednesday January 18, 2023
January 18, 2023 18:59 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBToday on Sojourner Truth what is the caretakers survey and how is it impacting the narrative around care-taking around the globe? We hear testimonials from caretakers in Myanmar, Scotland, Canada and the U.S. Our guest is Peggy O' Mara an independent journalist, and the editor and publisher of Mothering Magazine for over 30 years. Her work can be found at peggyomara.com. O'Mara joins us to delve into the importance of care-taking and viewing it as a global effort. In 1995, the U.S. Fish and...
Sojourner Truth: Tuesday January 17, 2023
January 17, 2023 16:35 - 59 minutes - 81.8 MBToday on Sojourner Truth we bring you our King Day special program paying homage to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s radicalism. Dr. Martin Luther King became increasingly vocal about his views against the war the U.S. was waging at the time– the war in Vietnam. He delivered a speech entitled, “Beyond Vietnam: Time to Break the Silence,” exactly one year before his assassination. Dr. Martin Luther King declared: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense...
Sojourner Truth: Friday January 13, 2023
January 13, 2023 18:10 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, our Friday round table discussion featuring governing board member for the LA school district, Jackie Goldberg, foreign correspondent Laura Carlsen, and Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Houston. Today we discuss the 118th Congress, new Democratic minority Hakeem Jeffries, and his contextualizing of Democrat's policies in alignment with women's reproductive rights and workers rights drawing a clear contr...
Sojourner Truth: Thursday January 12, 2023
January 12, 2023 16:40 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, author, organizer and anti-capitalist campaigner, Selma James joins host Margaret Prescod for the hour to discuss the history of her involvement in organizing for fair wages for women, and her continued organizing at 92 years old. In 1972 Selma put forward Wages for Housework (WFH) as a political perspective that redefined the working class to include all who work without wages, starting with women, the primary carers everywhere. The International WFH Campaign she f...
Sojourner Truth: Wednesday January 11, 2023
January 11, 2023 19:29 - 54 minutes - 74.6 MBToday on Sojourner Truth with guest host Nana Gyamfi, we discuss the failed insurrection in Brazil with foreign correspondent Laura Carlsen who covered the election, President elect Lulu and Brazil's recent shift of power. There have long been barriers set up by US Administrations that have impeded the ability of asylum-seekers at the border from easily making their asylum claims in the US. And in the second half we are joined by the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) Legal Director ...
Sojourner Truth: Tuesday January 10, 2023
January 10, 2023 17:43 - 56 minutes - 51.2 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, after only two weeks in power, the most religious and conservative government in the history of Israel is already cultivating divisions at home and rushing towards conflict with the Palestinians and Israel’s allies abroad. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters his 16th year in power with an ultra nationalist agenda that includes banning displaying the Palestinian flag and a proposed legal assault on Israel’s Supreme Court that could alter the foundations of Israe...
Sojourner Truth: Friday January 6, 2023
January 06, 2023 17:15 - 59 minutes - 108 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, we bring you excerpts from “Black Women Bringing It All Back Home,” a webinar discussion series organized by the organization Black Women Radicals. We spend the hour in conversation with organizers for Black Women Radicals honoring host of Sojourner Truth, Margaret Prescod for her work as an activist, discussing her ongoing commitment to covering the West’s incessant destabilization in Haiti, while covering the work being done by organizers on the ground. Black W...
Sojourner Truth: Thursday January 5, 2023
January 05, 2023 17:35 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBSince the early 1980s, at least 200 Black women and girls were victims of serial murders or mysteriously disappeared in South Los Angeles. Many were victims of the multiple serial killers (including the notorious “Grim Sleeper” who preyed on vulnerable and impoverished Black women, including sex workers, homeless women, and those with addiction issues. You may be familiar with the Grim Sleeper documented by Director Nick Broomfield in the HBO film, “Tales of the Grim Sleeper.” However, most...
Sojourner Truth: Wednesday January 4, 2023
January 04, 2023 17:29 - 56 minutes - 104 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, we bring you excerpts from “Hookers in the House of the Lord,” a webinar discussion series organized by the US Prostitutes Collective, Global Womens’ Strike, Women of Color Global Women’s Strike and In Defense of Prostitute Womens’ Safety Project in coalition with St. Francis Lutheran Church in San Francisco, where the event was held live in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the 1982 English Collective of sex workers, occupation of the church of holy cross in ...
Sojourner Truth: Tuesday January 3, 2023
January 03, 2023 17:10 - 59 minutes - 108 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, we share excerpts from the Alliance for Global Justice Eco Solidarity series titled: “Climate change disasters in the Caribbean and around the world,”moderated by Aminta Zea and James Jordan. Panelist speakers include: Camilo Matos of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Banbose Shango of the National Network on Cuba, Camille Landry, co-director of AFGJ's Human Rights School, as well as a highlights interview with Peruvian Journalist Lucho Garate and an interview wi...
Sojourner Truth: December 29, 2022
December 29, 2022 19:37 - 57 minutes - 106 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, we share excerpts from a recent Positive Money webinar entitled, "Tackling Fossilflation: A Toolkit for Price Stability and a Just Transition, that explores the historically high inflation taking place in the U.S. and its direct ties to the war in Ukraine, powered by fossil fuels. Speakers will discuss inflation in food and goods and its ties to jobs and wages. Presenting sustainable solutions that take into account the present and future state of climate change and ...
Sojourner Truth: Thursday December 22, 2022
December 22, 2022 18:01 - 59 minutes - 109 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, we bring you voices from a virtual press conference on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal and the recent amicus brief in the Abu-Jamal Case filed by the UN Working Group on people of African descent. The International Body Observes that Racial Bias has tainted the judicial process up to now citing new evidence of innocence and misconduct by Judges and Prosecutors. Mumia Abu-Jamal’s lawyers say evidence in boxes discovered in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office by ...
Sojourner Truth: Global Justice Ecology Project guest: Anne Peterman
December 01, 2022 22:33 - 15 minutes - 21.8 MBToday on Sojourner Truth in partnership with the Global Justice Ecology Project our Earth Watch guest is Anne Petermann, Executive Director of the Global Justice Ecology Project and international coordinator of the campaign STOP GE Trees. Researchers at the State University of NY College of Enviornmental Science and Forestry are developing genetically engineered (GE)American Chestnut trees that are blight resistant, and hope to win government approval for its unregulated release in the envi...
Sojourner Truth: Global Justice Ecology Project Earth Minute: 12.1.2022
December 01, 2022 21:38 - 1 minute - 2.09 MBToday on Sojourner Truth we bring you our weekly Earth Minute in partnership with the Global Justice Ecology Project. This week's topic the international organization Bio Fuel Watch released a new report titled: Carbon Capture from Bio Mass and Waste Incineration Hype vs Reality. The report analyses the climate change mitigation strategy known as bio energy with carbon capture and storage (BECC) and its conclusions may surprise you.
Sojourner Truth: Thursday December 1, 2022
December 01, 2022 21:24 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, we discuss the very real possibility of incorporating genetically engineered American Chestnut trees into wild forests, and the corporate and special interests pushing this forward as a false solution to address forest conservation with our guest, Executive Director of the Global Justice Ecology Project, Anne Peterman. We will also feature our Global Justice Ecology Project Earth Minute segment. We conclude the program with our guest, journalist Tina Gerhardt who cov...
Sojourner Truth: Wednesday 11.30.2022
November 30, 2022 17:48 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBToday on Sojourner Truth with guest host Nana Gyamfi, Professor Christopher Gaffney joins us at the top of the hour to talk about the injustices masked behind the mega sports event being hosted by Qatar, the World Cup. From unsafe working conditions to displacement, what is the environmental and economic impact that mainstream media is obscuring? Dr. Amara Enyia joins us in the second half of the program to discuss the forthcoming UN Permanent Forum on Peoples of African Descent and her r...
Sojourner Truth: Tuesday November 29, 2022
November 29, 2022 17:58 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBToday on Sojourner Truth civil rights icon attorney Barbara Arnwine joins Margaret Prescod at the top of the hour to share the work she and along with a coalition of organizers and organizations continue to do on the ground to ensure voters in Georgia are able to cast their vote despite the hurdles that have been put in place to deter voters, in attempts by the GOP to suppress the Black vote during one of the most contentious races in the nation. And Sara Hussein, a PhD graduate student work...
Sojourner Truth: Wednesday November 23, 2022
November 23, 2022 17:30 - 58 minutes - 106 MBToday on Sojourner Truth we discuss the UN Climate Summit held in Egypt, or Cop 27, that culminated Sunday November 20th after two weeks of arduous negotiations. This victory is a direct result of mounting pressure from global civil society organizations present in Sharm el-Sheikh and in cities and capitals around the world, combined with strong leadership, 30 years in the making. A breakthrough deal is the establishment of a loss and damages fund to help poorest countries most impacted by...
Sojourner Truth: Friday Roundtable
November 18, 2022 18:17 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBToday on Sojourner Truth our Friday Panel guests: historian Dr. Gerald Horne, journalist Laura Carlsen and LAUSD school board member Jackie Goldberg join us for the hour to discuss the G20 conference that just wrapped up and the role of the participating countries in the world contrasted with the Cop 27 conference on climate change where the wealthiest countries in the world made no real resolutions to address the climate crisis. We also discuss the midterm election winners and the impact t...
Sojourner Truth: Global Justice Ecology Project Earth Minute: Th 11.17.2022
November 17, 2022 18:07 - 1 minute - 1.57 MBToday on Sojourner Truth we bring you our weekly Earth Minute in partnership with the Global Justice Ecology Project: You'll hear from Nnimmo Bassey, an award winning, storied environmentalist and Global Justice Ecology Project Board Member on his take on the United Nations Cop 27 conference.
Sojourner Truth: GJEP Earth Watch: Dr.Gibson
November 17, 2022 17:58 - 20 minutes - 27.8 MBToday on Sojourner Truth we speak to Earth Watch guest Dr. Shannon Gibson, Associate Professor at USC, whose research and courses cover global environmental politics, global public health, social movements, social justice and community-based research. Her students are presently accessing Cop 27 conference workshops and content remotely through the Wrigley Institute. We discuss the sentiment her college age students face by engaging with a conference like Cop 27, where with the exception of p...
Sojourner Truth: Thursday November 17, 2022
November 17, 2022 17:10 - 59 minutes - 53.9 MBToday on Sojourner Truth we continue our coverage of the Cop 27 conference with our guest Dr. Shannon Gibson, Associate Professor at USC, whose research and courses cover global environmental politics, global public health, social movements, social justice and community-based research. Her students are accessing Cop 27 conference workshops and content remotely through the Wrigley Institute. We discuss the sentiment her college age students face by engaging with a conference like Cop 27, wher...
Sojourner Truth: Wednesday November 16, 2022
November 16, 2022 17:30 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, Nana Gyamfi guest hosts. Nana is an attorney & Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI). Our first guest is co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, Cliff Albright who kicks off the show discussing some of the most contentious races in Georgia during the midterm, voter suppression and the conservative wave of votes cast by white women in Georgia. WNBA basketball superstar Britney Griner has been sentenced to a 9.5 year sentence in Russia for ...
Sojourner Truth: Friday November 11, 2022
November 11, 2022 17:35 - 56 minutes - 78.1 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, our Friday round table panel is back with our panelists including: former member of the California State Assembly, and current LAUSD governing school board member Jackie Goldberg, international correspondent Laura Carlsen and historian Dr. Gerald Horne, we discuss the Brazil election and major changes in Israeli politics that place Israel the farthest to the right in its electoral history, we also discuss the U.S. midterm elections and the unexpected victories and lo...
Sojourner Truth: Thursday November 10, 2022
November 10, 2022 16:35 - 57 minutes - 26.1 MBThe 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, or COP27, is the 27th United Nations Climate Change conference and is being held from 6 November until 18 November 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Today on Sojourner Truth journalist Tina Gerhardt, correspondent for The Nation Magazine covering Cop 27, joins us for the hour to discuss why debt and inequality will be key issues at COP 27 and the first week of COP27 includ...
Sojourner Truth: Tuesday November 8, 2022
November 09, 2022 18:23 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MBToday is Election Day in the U.S. voters across the US will have their last opportunity to go to the polls and vote. It is a critical election that will determine which party Democrats or Republicans will control the House of Representatives as well as the Senate. Additionally, there are other key elections across the country including governors, mayors, judges and senators. Many are calling this election one of the most critical as it comes at a time that the country is polarized with the ...
Sojourner Truth: Wednesday November 9, 2022
November 09, 2022 18:20 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBSojourner Truth Radio continues our November 2022 election coverage. Today, we unpack polling results as they come in with our panelist roundtable including: Attorney and civil rights icon Barbara Arnwine, Progressive Democrats of America Executive Director Alan Minsky, Chicano Liberation and Environmental Justice artivist Bill Gallegos and London-based labor union artivist Sam Weinstein.
Sojourner Truth: Friday September 30, 2022 Roundtable
September 30, 2022 17:44 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: our Friday Roundtable is back. Dr. Gerald Horne, international journalist Laura Carlsen and school board member Jackie Goldberg join host Margaret Prescod to discuss the latest developments internationally. Beginning with the US Senate that has passed a short-term government funding bill that provides an additional $12.3 billion in aid to Ukraine. The Biden administration promises to maintain financial support for Kyiv to battle the Russian invasion. This while Russ...
Sojourner Truth: Thursday September 29, 2022
September 29, 2022 16:40 - 59 minutes - 81.2 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: We continue our coverage of the growing movement for restitution and reparations for people of African descent. Today we have an opportunity to hear a wide-ranging discussion on reparations by participants from across the continent of Africa at an event organized by Africans Rising. You will hear a variety of speakers including from Senegal, Kenya, the Sudan and more. Some ask pointed questions, others make statements and/or proposals. The discussion took place ...
Sojourner Truth: Wednesday September 28, 2022
September 28, 2022 16:25 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Guest host Nana Gyamfi will share excerpts from Vijay Prashad's recent speech: Democracy Beyond the US Empire hosted by the People’s Forum at the famed Riverside Church in Harlem, New York City. Prashad addresses US myth busting in the Global South and the co-opted words of the movement. Joining her for this discussion and further analysis of the blocades vs. Cuba and Venezuela is Manolo de los Santos, the co-executive director of the People’s Forum and co-coordina...
Sojourner Truth: Tuesday September 27, 2022
September 27, 2022 16:15 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, the yearly UN General Assembly Meetings were held at the UN headquarters in NYC from September 21-23, 2022. It is a time when heads of state or their representatives address the world. The occasion is used to promote, chastise, make proposals on vital issues facing their respective nation and the world. Quite often there is a disparity in focus and priorities when one contrasts the speeches from governments of the Global North to most of those from governments of the...
Sojourner Truth: Friday September 23, 2022
September 23, 2022 15:56 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBToday on Sojourner Truth we bring you Part 3 of our series coverage of the Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls, you will hear from a variety of speakers including: Reverend William Barber II, co-chair of the Poor Peoples Campaign, writer Phyllis Bennis, Planned Parenthood, immigration reform and prison reform organizers, faith leaders, and the testimonies from poor and low income people from across the U.S. detailing their first-hand ...
Sojourner Truth: Thursday September 22, 2022
September 22, 2022 15:12 - 56 minutes - 103 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, Pierre Labossiere, founder of the Haiti Action Committee, and one of the most respected voices on Haitian politics, joins Margaret Prescod for the hour to give us an update on the latest developments in Haiti. Labossiere will also dispel inaccuracies promoted by the mainstream media, and give us good news on the status of a forthcoming hospital.
Sojourner Truth: Haitian Voices of Resistance: Wednesday September 21, 2022
September 21, 2022 17:18 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MBToday on Sojourner Truth we bring you excerpts from a recent webinar titled, Haitian Voices of Resistance Today. Listeners receive an update on the crisis in Haiti from organizers on the ground.
Sojourner Truth: Friday September 16, 2022 Roundtable
September 16, 2022 17:37 - 57 minutes - 79 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Our Friday roundtable panel is back with governing school board member Jackie Goldberg, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston and Director of the Americas program and international correspondent Laura Carlsen, joining Margaret Prescod for the hour to discuss the call for reparations since the passing of the Queen, the latest in the war in Ukraine and global realignments, Trump's threats regarding the ongoing investigatio...
Sojourner Truth: Thursday September 15, 2022
September 15, 2022 16:45 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: International Journalist Laura Carlsen joins us for the hour to discuss the history of Chile's authoritarian regime, its remnants and its impact on the recent vote down of what could have been the first progressive constitution to be enacted in Latin America. What is the youngest, most progressive President of Chile Gabriel Boric, planning to do moving forward in an attempt to salvage this failed vote? We also discuss Brazil and its impending presidential election,...
Sojourner Truth: Wednesday September 14, 2022
September 14, 2022 16:49 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBAccording to the White House, there have been 3.6 million official eviction filings so far in 2022. We should expect the number of eviction filings to increase, given that Data from the US Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey released in 2021 found approximately 4.2 million adults report being at risk of eviction or foreclosure in July and August. The data indicated that those facing eviction are significantly more likely to be Black, Indigenous, Latinx, or other people of color. Analysi...
9.13.22 Tuesday: Sojourner Truth
September 13, 2022 17:41 - 59 minutes - 82 MBWith the death of Queen Elizabeth and the succession of her eldest son, Charles III, there are new calls from former and present-day British colonies for Britain to make amends by paying reparations, issuing apologies, returning stolen artifacts and breaking with the British monarchy as did the island nation of Barbados in the fall of 2021. Queen Elizabeth was crowned in 1952 when more than a quarter of the world’s population were under British rule–according to NPR that was more than 700 mil...