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As the death toll continues to climb in the United States to over 33,000 and testing for COVID-19 remains problematic, the Trump administration has announced guidelines to re-open the country. This, against the advice of the usually-conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce as well as other corporate leaders. They say more testing is needed before the country can re-open safely. Nevertheless, Trump says some states could reopen as early as Friday, April 17. This, after Trump dealt a blow to fighting this and any future pandemics around the world by cutting U.S. funding to the World Health Organization, a blow that will hit the poorest the hardest. Also, once we do come out of this pandemic, will we return to business as usual?

Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne.

Jackie Goldberg is a governing board member for the Los Angeles School Board - District 5. She is a former member of the California State Assembly. Goldberg had previously served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council. Before being elected to the council, she served on, and was later president of, the Los Angeles School Board.

Laura Carlsen is the Director of the Americas Program. Based in Mexico City, she is a regular contributor to Americas Updater, Foreign Policy in Focus, CounterPunch, Fortune and several Spanish-language publications. Laura is also a television host and commentator on globalization, the Drug War, immigration and gender issues for various international news outlets.

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 books include White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, From Rhodes to Mandela and "Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music. He is also the author of "Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity," "The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean," and "Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early fight for the Right to Fly."

Today on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable.

As the death toll continues to climb in the United States to over 33,000 and testing for COVID-19 remains problematic, the Trump administration has announced guidelines to re-open the country. This, against the advice of the usually-conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce as well as other corporate leaders. They say more testing is needed before the country can re-open safely. Nevertheless, Trump says some states could reopen as early as Friday, April 17. This, after Trump dealt a blow to fighting this and any future pandemics around the world by cutting U.S. funding to the World Health Organization, a blow that will hit the poorest the hardest. Also, once we do come out of this pandemic, will we return to business as usual?

Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne.

Jackie Goldberg is a governing board member for the Los Angeles School Board - District 5. She is a former member of the California State Assembly. Goldberg had previously served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council. Before being elected to the council, she served on, and was later president of, the Los Angeles School Board.

Laura Carlsen is the Director of the Americas Program. Based in Mexico City, she is a regular contributor to Americas Updater, Foreign Policy in Focus, CounterPunch, Fortune and several Spanish-language publications. Laura is also a television host and commentator on globalization, the Drug War, immigration and gender issues for various international news outlets.

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 books include White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, From Rhodes to Mandela and "Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music. He is also the author of "Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity," "The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean," and "Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early fight for the Right to Fly."

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We continue our coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our guest is Dr. David Himmelstein is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York, a lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a primary care doctor in The Bronx. Dr. Himmelstein co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program, a group whose 23,000 members advocate for Medicare for All.

We also turn our attention to Julian Assange, who is under threat of extradition to the United States. As the COVID-19 virus continues to wreak havoc on the United Kingdom and the world as a whole, many are concerned about Assange's health. Our guest is Deepa Govindarajan Driver. She is a university lecturer and a disabled woman of color, based in London. Deepa is also a citizen activist campaigning to free Assange, the publisher of Wikileaks and a multi award-winning journalist.

Also, we take a look at the impact of the protests in April 2000 against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Our guest is Soren Ambrose, the International Head of Policy, Advocacy, and Research, for Action Aid International. He is based in Nairobi, Kenya. He was one of the lead organizers of the April 2000 protests against the IMF and World Bank which brought upwards of 20,000 to Washington, DC.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

We continue our coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our guest is Dr. David Himmelstein is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York, a lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a primary care doctor in The Bronx. Dr. Himmelstein co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program, a group whose 23,000 members advocate for Medicare for All.

We also turn our attention to Julian Assange, who is under threat of extradition to the United States. As the COVID-19 virus continues to wreak havoc on the United Kingdom and the world as a whole, many are concerned about Assange's health. Our guest is Deepa Govindarajan Driver. She is a university lecturer and a disabled woman of color, based in London. Deepa is also a citizen activist campaigning to free Assange, the publisher of Wikileaks and a multi award-winning journalist.

Also, we take a look at the impact of the protests in April 2000 against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Our guest is Soren Ambrose, the International Head of Policy, Advocacy, and Research, for Action Aid International. He is based in Nairobi, Kenya. He was one of the lead organizers of the April 2000 protests against the IMF and World Bank which brought upwards of 20,000 to Washington, DC.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

We continue our coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our guest is Dr. David Himmelstein is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York, a lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a primary care doctor in The Bronx. Dr. Himmelstein co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program, a group whose 23,000 members advocate for Medicare for All.

We also turn our attention to Julian Assange, who is under threat of extradition to the United States. As the COVID-19 virus continues to wreak havoc on the United Kingdom and the world as a whole, many are concerned about Assange's health. Our guest is Deepa Govindarajan Driver. She is a university lecturer and a disabled woman of color, based in London. Deepa is also a citizen activist campaigning to free Assange, the publisher of Wikileaks and a multi award-winning journalist.

Also, we take a look at the impact of the protests in April 2000 against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Our guest is Soren Ambrose, the International Head of Policy, Advocacy, and Research, for Action Aid International. He is based in Nairobi, Kenya. He was one of the lead organizers of the April 2000 protests against the IMF and World Bank which brought upwards of 20,000 to Washington, DC.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

We continue our coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our guest is Dr. David Himmelstein is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York, a lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a primary care doctor in The Bronx. Dr. Himmelstein co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program, a group whose 23,000 members advocate for Medicare for All.

We also turn our attention to Julian Assange, who is under threat of extradition to the United States. As the COVID-19 virus continues to wreak havoc on the United Kingdom and the world as a whole, many are concerned about Assange's health. Our guest is Deepa Govindarajan Driver. She is a university lecturer and a disabled woman of color, based in London. Deepa is also a citizen activist campaigning to free Assange, the publisher of Wikileaks and a multi award-winning journalist.

Also, we take a look at the impact of the protests in April 2000 against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Our guest is Soren Ambrose, the International Head of Policy, Advocacy, and Research, for Action Aid International. He is based in Nairobi, Kenya. He was one of the lead organizers of the April 2000 protests against the IMF and World Bank which brought upwards of 20,000 to Washington, DC.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

For the first time in U.S. history, farmworkers are now listed as essential workers. Are they being protected? Why is Donald Trump cutting their pay? Our guest is David Bacon, a California-based writer and photojournalist. He recently published an article for The American Prospect titled, "Americas Farmworkers: Now 'Essential,' but Denied the Just-Enacted Benefits."

COVID-19 and mass incarceration. Prisons are increasingly becoming hot spots for the deadly virus. What's going on? Our guests are Daryl Atkinson and Susan Burton. Daryl Atkinson is Co-Director of Forward Justice, a non-partisan law, policy and strategy center dedicated to advancing racial, social and economic justice in the U.S. South. Susan Burton is the founder of A New Way of Life and is also a steering committee member for the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement.

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Joseph Williams about the Los Angeles Unified School District's recent decision on grades for students amid the coronavirus crisis. Joseph is the Director of Operations and Campaigns at Students Deserve, an organization of students, teachers, and parents working for justice in and beyond schools.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

For the first time in U.S. history, farmworkers are now listed as essential workers. Are they being protected? Why is Donald Trump cutting their pay? Our guest is David Bacon, a California-based writer and photojournalist. He recently published an article for The American Prospect titled, "Americas Farmworkers: Now 'Essential,' but Denied the Just-Enacted Benefits."

COVID-19 and mass incarceration. Prisons are increasingly becoming hot spots for the deadly virus. What's going on? Our guests are Daryl Atkinson and Susan Burton. Daryl Atkinson is Co-Director of Forward Justice, a non-partisan law, policy and strategy center dedicated to advancing racial, social and economic justice in the U.S. South. Susan Burton is the founder of A New Way of Life and is also a steering committee member for the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement.

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Joseph Williams about the Los Angeles Unified School District's recent decision on grades for students amid the coronavirus crisis. Joseph is the Director of Operations and Campaigns at Students Deserve, an organization of students, teachers, and parents working for justice in and beyond schools.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we continue our coverage of the growing global movement of environmentalists and caregivers. We bring you a recent webinar that explored the implications of a campaign for a care income in the Global South and North, to stop climate change, promote caring work for people and planet, and refuse work that is destructive to the environment and to the worker.

The Global Women's Strike and Women of Color - Global Women's Strike, who have pressed for financial recognition for unwaged caring work, have come together with the Green New Deal for Europe to press governments everywhere to provide a care income. They say it would prioritize and support the work of all of those in the Global South and North of every gender who care for people, for the urban and rural environment and for the natural world.

Furthermore, they make the case that the care income is quite different from the Universal Basic Income, which they say does not acknowledge or prioritize caring work nor the climate emergency. Thus far, the call has the support of organizations and individuals from 33 countries around the world. They also make the case that this pandemic should make it clear that we cannot go back to economic and social policies that destroy people and the planet.

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For our weekly Earth Watch, we get a First Nations perspective on what we must do during and after this coronavirus pandemic. Matthew Mukash, born in traditional Cree territory in what is now known as Northern Quebec, Canada, is our guest. He has a message from elders for the world.

Mainstream media is finally catching up with a story we have been covering for quite some time on Sojourner Truth. The devastating impact of the coronavirus on Black people. Whats going on? For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Aislinn Pulley of Black Lives Matter Chicago.

Meanwhile, in this age of the pandemic, the Trump administration continues its efforts at regime change in Venezuela. We speak with the Deputy Foreign Minister for North American Affairs for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Mr. Carlos Ron.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.