Today on Sojourner Truth:

We continue our coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd. Our guest is Minneapolis-based D.A. Bullock, an award-winning filmmaker and social practice artist in the field of story-based community organizing. He is also involved with Reclaim the Block, a coalition to demand that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in long-term alternatives.

Also, amid the sea of disturbing news at the border on the treatment of migrant children by the Biden administration, some good news from the immigrant rights movement. Our guest is Maru Mora Villalpando, a Mexican activist, organizer, immigrant, and mother in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. She is also a community organizer with La Resistencia. Maru has lived in the United States for more than 25 years, and has spent most of that time as a community organizer. In 2014, Maru came out as undocumented. She is a member of the Latino Advocacy organization and Mijente.

For our weekly Earth Watch, we focus on the campaign to protect Indonesian rainforests. We speak with Sergio Baffoni, an Italian native living in Germany who coordinates the campaign to protect Indonesian rain-forests, run by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) together with around 150 national and international organizations. He also coordinates EPN global efforts in monitoring and mapping of new pulp capacity developments, in order to identify and prevent and minimize future adverse impacts on forests by engaging financial institutions involved in the respective projects.