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As coronavirus cases rise in 26 states, and as New York, New Jersey and Connecticut impose a 14-day quarantine on travelers coming from eight states where there are coronavirus hotspots, Dr. David Himmelstein, a primary care doctor in The Bronx, New York, joins us to discuss what is going on with the uptick of cases.

With the backing of the so-named peace plan announced by the Donald Trump administration, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to annex parts of Palestinian territory in the West Bank and Jordan Valley areas. Our guest is Phyllis Bennis, who directs the New Internationalism Project at The Institute for Policy Studies. Her work focuses on the U.S., the Middle East and war policy. She also serves on the board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Her most recent books include Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.

For our Weekly Earth Watch, the Environmental Protection Agency has approved the release of genetically modified mosquitoes. What are the concerns for the environment and human health? We speak with Barry Wray, Executive Director of the Florida Keys Environmental Coalition.

Today, we bring you audio from our lead-up program to the national Poor Peoples Assembly and Moral March on Washington, D.C. Digital Gathering, hosted on Saturday, June 20, 2020. At the assembly, poor and low-income people from across the country testified about their experiences of systemic poverty, systemic racism, the war economy and more. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King first announced that a Poor Peoples Campaign was to gather in June of 1968. He wanted to ensure that the gathering was multiracial, Black, Latino, Native American, White, Urban and Rural. He said the poor live in a cruelly unjust society and must organize a revolution against that injustice. He said that we have to stand against the structures that refuse to lift the load of poverty off millions of people. He was assassinated months before the event took place, but it did, and thousands of people from across the country made their way to Washington, D.C.

Now, the Poor Peoples Campaign is back, under the leadership of co-chairs Rev. Dr. William J. Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, a multiracial team. They relaunched the movement under the banner, Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. It is a fusion movement bringing together what they call the pillars of the campaign: the evils of racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nations distorted moral narrative.

Today, you will hear our one-hour special in the lead up to the national Poor Peoples Assembly and Moral March on Washington's Digital Gathering, which took place on Saturday, June 20, 2020. For this one-hour lead up, we will be hearing the voices of Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, and several of our guests, including from Thailand, the UK and Haiti.

Today, we bring you audio from our lead-up program to the national Poor Peoples Assembly and Moral March on Washington, D.C. Digital Gathering, hosted on Saturday, June 20, 2020. At the assembly, poor and low-income people from across the country testified about their experiences of systemic poverty, systemic racism, the war economy and more. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King first announced that a Poor Peoples Campaign was to gather in June of 1968. He wanted to ensure that the gathering was multiracial, Black, Latino, Native American, White, Urban and Rural. He said the poor live in a cruelly unjust society and must organize a revolution against that injustice. He said that we have to stand against the structures that refuse to lift the load of poverty off millions of people. He was assassinated months before the event took place, but it did, and thousands of people from across the country made their way to Washington, D.C.

Now, the Poor Peoples Campaign is back, under the leadership of co-chairs Rev. Dr. William J. Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, a multiracial team. They relaunched the movement under the banner, Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. It is a fusion movement bringing together what they call the pillars of the campaign: the evils of racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nations distorted moral narrative.

Today, you will hear our one-hour special in the lead up to the national Poor Peoples Assembly and Moral March on Washington's Digital Gathering, which took place on Saturday, June 20, 2020. For this one-hour lead up, we will be hearing the voices of Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, and several of our guests, including from Thailand, the UK and Haiti.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

Protests turn their attention to tearing down monuments that represent the racist past of the United States and Europe. On Monday, June 22, protesters tried to tear down the monument of Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. They were met with brutal force by metro police. To discuss resistance to colonial monuments, our guest is Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz. She is a historian, author, memoirist, and speaker who researches Western Hemisphere history and international human rights.

Meanwhile, there will be a private funeral today for Rayshard Brooks, the man who was shot and killed by police in Atlanta. The Mayor of Atlanta, a vice presidential hopeful on the Biden ticket, tries to keep the lid on protests in her city. Our guest is Mary Hooks is Co-Director of Southerners On New Ground (SONG). SONG is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South.

Also, the U.S. is returning Haitian death squad leader Emmanuel Constant back to Haiti. In 2001, a Haitian court convicted him in absentia and sentenced him to life in prison for his role in the Raboteau Massacre. Our guest is human rights lawyer Brian Concannon. He is the Director of Project Blueprint, which works for a progressive, human rights-based U.S. foreign policy.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

Protests turn their attention to tearing down monuments that represent the racist past of the United States and Europe. On Monday, June 22, protesters tried to tear down the monument of Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. They were met with brutal force by metro police. To discuss resistance to colonial monuments, our guest is Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz. She is a historian, author, memoirist, and speaker who researches Western Hemisphere history and international human rights.

Meanwhile, there will be a private funeral today for Rayshard Brooks, the man who was shot and killed by police in Atlanta. The Mayor of Atlanta, a vice presidential hopeful on the Biden ticket, tries to keep the lid on protests in her city. Our guest is Mary Hooks is Co-Director of Southerners On New Ground (SONG). SONG is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South.

Also, the U.S. is returning Haitian death squad leader Emmanuel Constant back to Haiti. In 2001, a Haitian court convicted him in absentia and sentenced him to life in prison for his role in the Raboteau Massacre. Our guest is human rights lawyer Brian Concannon. He is the Director of Project Blueprint, which works for a progressive, human rights-based U.S. foreign policy.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

Protests turn their attention to tearing down monuments that represent the racist past of the United States and Europe. On Monday, June 22, protesters tried to tear down the monument of Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. They were met with brutal force by metro police. To discuss resistance to colonial monuments, our guest is Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz. She is a historian, author, memoirist, and speaker who researches Western Hemisphere history and international human rights.

Meanwhile, there will be a private funeral today for Rayshard Brooks, the man who was shot and killed by police in Atlanta. The Mayor of Atlanta, a vice presidential hopeful on the Biden ticket, tries to keep the lid on protests in her city. Our guest is Mary Hooks is Co-Director of Southerners On New Ground (SONG). SONG is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South.

Also, the U.S. is returning Haitian death squad leader Emmanuel Constant back to Haiti. In 2001, a Haitian court convicted him in absentia and sentenced him to life in prison for his role in the Raboteau Massacre. Our guest is human rights lawyer Brian Concannon. He is the Director of Project Blueprint, which works for a progressive, human rights-based U.S. foreign policy.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

Protests turn their attention to tearing down monuments that represent the racist past of the United States and Europe. On Monday, June 22, protesters tried to tear down the monument of Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. They were met with brutal force by metro police. To discuss resistance to colonial monuments, our guest is Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz. She is a historian, author, memoirist, and speaker who researches Western Hemisphere history and international human rights.

Meanwhile, there will be a private funeral today for Rayshard Brooks, the man who was shot and killed by police in Atlanta. The Mayor of Atlanta, a vice presidential hopeful on the Biden ticket, tries to keep the lid on protests in her city. Our guest is Mary Hooks is Co-Director of Southerners On New Ground (SONG). SONG is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South.

Also, the U.S. is returning Haitian death squad leader Emmanuel Constant back to Haiti. In 2001, a Haitian court convicted him in absentia and sentenced him to life in prison for his role in the Raboteau Massacre. Our guest is human rights lawyer Brian Concannon. He is the Director of Project Blueprint, which works for a progressive, human rights-based U.S. foreign policy.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

Protests turn their attention to tearing down monuments that represent the racist past of the United States and Europe. On Monday, June 22, protesters tried to tear down the monument of Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. They were met with brutal force by metro police. To discuss resistance to colonial monuments, our guest is Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz. She is a historian, author, memoirist, and speaker who researches Western Hemisphere history and international human rights.

Meanwhile, there will be a private funeral today for Rayshard Brooks, the man who was shot and killed by police in Atlanta. The Mayor of Atlanta, a vice presidential hopeful on the Biden ticket, tries to keep the lid on protests in her city. Our guest is Mary Hooks is Co-Director of Southerners On New Ground (SONG). SONG is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South.

Also, the U.S. is returning Haitian death squad leader Emmanuel Constant back to Haiti. In 2001, a Haitian court convicted him in absentia and sentenced him to life in prison for his role in the Raboteau Massacre. Our guest is human rights lawyer Brian Concannon. He is the Director of Project Blueprint, which works for a progressive, human rights-based U.S. foreign policy.

Today on Sojourner Truth, our annual Juneteenth special.

Since 1865, when enslaved people in Texas finally got the news that the Emancipation Proclamation was signed three years prior, Black people took the holiday, Black Freedom Day, to other cities and towns where they settled. Now, as a result of the massive protests against police killings and racism across the United States, Juneteenth has been given a new focus and meaning, including by some who previously ignored it or didn't know about it.

Despite Donald Trump's claim that people found out about Juneteenth because of him, it was the persistence of Black people's continued fight for our freedom that more people in the United States, including in the corporate world, are paying attention to this year's Juneteenth. Today, we dig deep into the significance of Juneteenth, as a day to mark the continued resistance of Black people to our oppression and what must be done, including the growing calls for reparations.

Our guests are Dorothy Roberts, Ash-Lee Henderson and Dr. Gerald Horne.

Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School, where she is the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights.

Ash-Lee Henderson is an Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), working class womyn, born and raised in Southeast Tennessee. She is the first Black woman to serve as the co-executive director of the Highlander Research and Education Center and is an active participant in the Movement for Black Lives.

Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, has written more than 30 books. His most recently published book is The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, published in June 2020.

Today on Sojourner Truth, our annual Juneteenth special.

Since 1865, when enslaved people in Texas finally got the news that the Emancipation Proclamation was signed three years prior, Black people took the holiday, Black Freedom Day, to other cities and towns where they settled. Now, as a result of the massive protests against police killings and racism across the United States, Juneteenth has been given a new focus and meaning, including by some who previously ignored it or didn't know about it.

Despite Donald Trump's claim that people found out about Juneteenth because of him, it was the persistence of Black people's continued fight for our freedom that more people in the United States, including in the corporate world, are paying attention to this year's Juneteenth. Today, we dig deep into the significance of Juneteenth, as a day to mark the continued resistance of Black people to our oppression and what must be done, including the growing calls for reparations.

Our guests are Dorothy Roberts, Ash-Lee Henderson and Dr. Gerald Horne.

Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School, where she is the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights.

Ash-Lee Henderson is an Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), working class womyn, born and raised in Southeast Tennessee. She is the first Black woman to serve as the co-executive director of the Highlander Research and Education Center and is an active participant in the Movement for Black Lives.

Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, has written more than 30 books. His most recently published book is The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, published in June 2020.