Today 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, the ...
Sep 15, 2022•58 min
According 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. Analysis by P...
Sep 14, 2022•58 min
With 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 millio...
Sep 13, 2022•1 hr
Today on Sojourner Truth: Guest host Nana Gyamfi, attorney and Black Alliance for Just Immigration Executive Director discusses the polluted water crisis occurring in Jackson Mississippi with her first guest Rukia Lumumba, attorney and Executive Director of Peoples' Advocacy Institute, who has been on the ground since the crisis began. You will also hear excerpts from the recent UN Committee on Eliminating Racial Discrimination and their findings and recommendations. The UN committee cite aborti...
Sep 09, 2022•59 min
Today on Sojourner Truth: Our Friday panel round table discussion is back featuring international journalist and Director of the Americas Program Laura Carlsen, historian and Moores Professor of History & African American Studies, Dr. Gerald Horne and Los Angeles school board member Jackie Goldberg, joining host Margaret Prescod to discuss Biden's state of the union speech, the ongoing Department of Justice investigation involving former President Trump, left wing politics in South America, ...
Sep 02, 2022•58 min
Today on Sojourner Truth we bring you our annual Labor Day show honoring workers across the nation and and across the globe fighting for fair wages, working conditions and benefits. Our guests are Chairman of the LA Long Beach Labor Coalition Larry Barragan, National and CA organizer with Workers United, Evelyn Zepeda and Tyler Keeling, a Starbucks worker at one of the only unionized Starbucks in Southern CA who will share his experience during the recent workers’ strike protesting unfair labor ...
Sep 01, 2022•58 min
Nichelle Nichols died of heart failure on Saturday July 30th in Silver City NM. She was 89 years old. Nichelle Nichols first appeared on Star Trek on Sept 8, 1966 as Lt. Nyota Uhura. She was one of the first Black women to have a leading role on TV according to the NYT. Star Trek was on TV from 1966 to 1969, but the show remains popular and iconic and Nichelles Uhura remains beloved by fans all over the world. Nichelle appeared in 66 episodes of Star Trek. According to the NYT, In 1977 she becam...
Aug 04, 2022•56 min
Today on Sojourner Truth we bring you our Black August Special featuring George Jackson. George Jackson was born in Chicago Illinois. He was one of five children. He was arrested in Northern California 1961 when he was 19 years old for allegedly attempting to rob a gas station at gun point for $600. He was sentenced to 1 year to life in prison and he spent the next 11 years in prison, most of those years were in solitary confinement. While in prison George became a revolutionary, an organizer an...
Aug 03, 2022•58 min
Today on Sojourner Truth, we are bringing you a special broadcast on the environment: Part 4 of Hoodwinked in the Hothouse series: Greenwashing Disaster Capital. This is the fourth panel of a series that builds on the momentum created by the most recent report titled: HOODWINKED IN THE HOTHOUSE (THIRD EDITION): RESIST FALSE SOLUTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE. Moderated by Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network and co-organized by the Hoodwinked Collaborative and The New School. As part o...
Aug 02, 2022•57 min
Today on Sojourner Truth we discuss the possibilities and limitations of radical social change under progressive governments with Mexico City-based-journalist and Sojourner Truth regular Laura Carlsen. We focus on: Columbia, Chile, Honduras and Mexico for the first half of the hour. Our second guest is also a regular guest, Dr. Gerald Horne fills us in on key developments in Africa. This, as the continent is increasingly a target of influence by Russia, China and Western powers. The reality on t...
Jul 28, 2022•56 min
Today we bring you an update on the crisis of the violent military occupation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Earlier this week the military occupiers of Myanmar executed four human rights campaigners. They were found guilty in secret trials. There was a military coup in Myanmar carried out on Feb 1, 2021. People responded with peaceful protests, with garment workers, the majority of whom are women at the forefront of the protests. The military responded by killing thousands, and many more ...
Jul 27, 2022•59 min
Today on Sojourner Truth as we celebrate the 63rd birthday of one of Pacifica Radio's stations, KPFK in California, delving into the rich history of the PRA archives and its ties to our listener sponsored radio station model, the first of its kind. Host Margaret Prescod guides the listener through Pacifica radio history playing excerpts from an exclusive Sojourner Truth interview with Toni Morrison as well as Pacifica archival audio including the voices of Lena Horne, Patty Hearst and several ot...
Jul 26, 2022•56 min
Today on Sojourner Truth with guest host, Nana Gyamfi we bring you our coverage of How Cops Get Off, the new national groundbreaking campaign led by the Advancement Project National Office made more critical in light of the recent cases of police killings in the nation. After the George Floyd/Breanna Taylor summer uprisings, why is it still hard to hold Cops accountable? We will also discuss new complaints of atrocities at Stewart ICE Detention Center in Georgia where more women and femmes keep ...
Jul 22, 2022•58 min
Today on Sojourner Truth, you will hear Part 4, the final episode of our series coverage of the Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls, that took place in Washington D.C. on June 18, 2022. The Poor People's Campaign is demanding that the 140 million poor and low-income people in our nation from every race, creed, color, sexuality and place are no longer ignored, dismissed or pushed to the margins of this country's political and social a...
Jul 15, 2022•58 min
Today 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...
Jul 14, 2022•56 min
Today on Sojourner Truth, we bring you Part 2 of our coverage of the Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls that was organized by the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. The Poor People's Campaign is demanding that the 140 million poor and low-income people in our nation " from every race, creed, color, sexuality and place " are no longer ignored, dismissed or pushed to the margins of this country's political and ...
Jul 12, 2022•58 min
There are 140 million poor and low-income people in the U.S., internationally there are many many more. Every day, poverty takes an enormous toll on all who experience it. The economic and social costs of poverty and the injustices of systemic racism, militarism and ecological devastation are unsustainable. Yet billions of dollars continue to be allocated to U.S. involvement in foreign wars and destabilization abroad. The U.S. has the wealth to end these interlocking issues so why isn't ending p...
Jul 07, 2022•57 min
Today on Sojourner Truth we bring you a special hour on Haiti. The New York Times recently published an expose on Haiti making it the first time a mainstream media outlet covers the 2004 coup of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide as U.S.-led with the complicity of France and Canada, carried out after Aristide demanded restitution from France for the funds where the descendants of enslaved people paid reparations (“independence debt”) to the descendants of their masters — for generations. We...
Jun 02, 2022•59 min
Attorney Matt Simmons is our weekly Earth Watch segment guest who will be updating us on the recent victory in Fort Bragg, CA Jackson Forest. The Save Jackson Coalition was pleased to learn that three controversial timber harvest plans located in Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF) had been withdrawn. The plans constitute a total of 1479 acres (over 2 square miles) of forest now taken off the chopping block.
Jun 01, 2022•9 min
Our guest is historian and author Dr. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz providing insightful historical context on America's gun obsession, racialized policing, its roots in the wars vs Indigenous nations and slave patrols, leading up to the power of the NRA and inability of Congress to take real action vs. gun control in the U.S.
Jun 01, 2022•16 min
Today on Sojourner Truth: Attorney and Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) Nana Gyamfi joins us to discuss the recent Los Angeles mayoral candidate forum sponsored by BAJI, why has Karen Bass been the only responsive candidate? And Attorney Matt Simmons joins us for our weekly Earth Watch segment guest who will be updating us on the recent victory in Fort Bragg, CA Jackson Forest. The Save Jackson Coalition was pleased to learn that three controversial timber har...
Jun 01, 2022•55 min
Today on Sojourner Truth: Our Friday roundtable is back with journalist Laura Carlsen, school board member Jackie Goldberg and Professor Gerald Horne. We unpack the recent mass shootings and the present state of gun violence in this country. What is its impact on countries like Haiti and Mexico? How do we move forward with actual solutions vs. political rhetoric? And on the international front: the growing misinformation in Haiti, to the point that the representatives invited to the upcoming Sum...
May 27, 2022•59 min
Today on Sojourner Truth: Our weekly Earth Minute covers the latest updates regarding pollution.
May 26, 2022•1 min
Today on Sojourner Truth we discuss why some Latin American countries are threatening to boycott the upcoming Summit of the Americas to take place in the U.S., with our guest Guillaume Long. Our guest for the second half of the hour Liz Hilton, will give us an update on the Draft Act in Thailand. What is it? And if it passes how will the state have the power to shut down grassroot organizations?
May 26, 2022•59 min
Today on Sojourner Truth: On this 2nd anniversary of the death of George Floyd we explore what has and has not changed to address police brutality of black lives, in Minnesota and nationwide. President Biden has just signed an executive order to address police misconduct but does it really have any impact on abusive police actions? We discuss this with our panelists Tristan Taylor, co-founder of the Minnesota-based organization Detroit Will Breath, an integrated, youth-led, militant organization...
May 26, 2022•57 min
Today on Sojourner Truth our Weekly Round Table is back! We tackle the white supremacist murder of ten Black people in Buffalo NY, the present day and historical context of these types of attacks; the great replacement theory; the broader national and international political implications. White supremacy is imbedded deeply in the US but it goes beyond US borders, indeed it is global, here is what the public safety official in Canada had to say. Also, we discuss the latest news from the war in th...
May 20, 2022•54 min
Today on Sojourner Truth we honor Malcolm X on his birthday with a special show featuring archival clips of his speeches, joining us to discuss Malcolm X and his social justice stance is author of "The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.," Dr. Peniel Joseph. Dr. Joseph contextualizes the white supremacist shooting in Buffalo NY rooted in Malcolm X's era. And Black Lives Matter LA held a vigil for the stolen lives in Buffalo, we end our show w...
May 19, 2022•59 min
Today on Sojourner Truth we discuss the latest developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict including: the assassination of Palestinian Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and the largest disposition of Palestinians since 1999 with Phyllis Bennis director of the New Internationalism Project at The Institute for Policy Studies, focusing on U.S. Middle East and war policy. Phyllis also serves on the board of Jewish Voice for Peace.
May 18, 2022•24 min
Today on Sojourner Truth: Our Friday Roundtable is back with panelists: peace activist and school board member Jackie Goldberg, Mexico-based journalist Laura Carlsen and Professor Gerald Horne. Each of our panelists have chosen topics they will be discussing including: COVID-19 profiteering and the current state of infections, the recent bombings in Occupied Palestine and Israel's role, climate change, the January 6th attack on the capital and much more.
Apr 29, 2022•58 min
Today on Sojourner Truth we bring you a conversation with Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Black feminist theorist and theoretical physicist and Selma James, long-time feminist activist and Wages for Housework co-founder, to discuss, "Our Time is Now," an anthology by Selma James and the legacies of inter-generational feminism. Selma James is a women's rights and anti racist campaigner and author. From 1958 to 1962 she worked with C.L.R. James in the movement for West Indian federation and in...
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr
