Sojourner Truth Radio

Today on Sojourner Truth:

We continue our COVID-19 coverage on both the environmental and poverty fronts. In Northern California's Humboldt County, Redwood Forest Defense is participating in a tree-sit to oppose logging in the area. Our guest is Lupine, an active Redwood Forest Defender.

On the homeless front, we speak with Anthony Prince of the Homeless Union and the Poor People's Campaign. Also, from Detroit, Michigan, another COVID-19 hotspot, we speak with anti-poverty warrior and campaigner Maureen Taylor with Michigan Welfare Rights and the National Welfare Rights Union.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

With millions of people suddenly out of work and rent due at the first of the month starting April 1, some renters in several cities including New York, Oakland, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and others are vowing to go on a rent strike until the coronavirus pandemic subsides. Our guest is Elizabeth Blaney is a member and co-founder of Union de Vecinos, Eastside local of the LA Tenants Union. She has been a community organizer for 25 years. She works with tenants in building networks of neighborhood and building committees addressing the right to housing and the right to healthy neighborhoods. She is a member of various international collectives and organizations including Ultrared and International Assembly of Pueblos.

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, the struggle for justice in the police killing of Christopher Deandre Mitchell. Our guest is Sheila Bates, an organizer with Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles who currently leads the Torrance Team in the struggle for justice for Christopher Deandre Mitchell. She works as a doula and education tutor.

Also, an update on political persecution and what is happening on the ground in Haiti. Our guest is Pacha Vorbe. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Fanmi Lavalas, the largest political party on the ground in Haiti headed by former President Jean Bertrand Aristide.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

With millions of people suddenly out of work and rent due at the first of the month starting April 1, some renters in several cities including New York, Oakland, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and others are vowing to go on a rent strike until the coronavirus pandemic subsides. Our guest is Elizabeth Blaney is a member and co-founder of Union de Vecinos, Eastside local of the LA Tenants Union. She has been a community organizer for 25 years. She works with tenants in building networks of neighborhood and building committees addressing the right to housing and the right to healthy neighborhoods. She is a member of various international collectives and organizations including Ultrared and International Assembly of Pueblos.

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, the struggle for justice in the police killing of Christopher Deandre Mitchell. Our guest is Sheila Bates, an organizer with Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles who currently leads the Torrance Team in the struggle for justice for Christopher Deandre Mitchell. She works as a doula and education tutor.

Also, an update on political persecution and what is happening on the ground in Haiti. Our guest is Pacha Vorbe. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Fanmi Lavalas, the largest political party on the ground in Haiti headed by former President Jean Bertrand Aristide.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

With millions of people suddenly out of work and rent due at the first of the month starting April 1, some renters in several cities including New York, Oakland, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and others are vowing to go on a rent strike until the coronavirus pandemic subsides. Our guest is Elizabeth Blaney is a member and co-founder of Union de Vecinos, Eastside local of the LA Tenants Union. She has been a community organizer for 25 years. She works with tenants in building networks of neighborhood and building committees addressing the right to housing and the right to healthy neighborhoods. She is a member of various international collectives and organizations including Ultrared and International Assembly of Pueblos.

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, the struggle for justice in the police killing of Christopher Deandre Mitchell. Our guest is Sheila Bates, an organizer with Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles who currently leads the Torrance Team in the struggle for justice for Christopher Deandre Mitchell. She works as a doula and education tutor.

Also, an update on political persecution and what is happening on the ground in Haiti. Our guest is Pacha Vorbe. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Fanmi Lavalas, the largest political party on the ground in Haiti headed by former President Jean Bertrand Aristide.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

With millions of people suddenly out of work and rent due at the first of the month starting April 1, some renters in several cities including New York, Oakland, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and others are vowing to go on a rent strike until the coronavirus pandemic subsides. Our guest is Elizabeth Blaney is a member and co-founder of Union de Vecinos, Eastside local of the LA Tenants Union. She has been a community organizer for 25 years. She works with tenants in building networks of neighborhood and building committees addressing the right to housing and the right to healthy neighborhoods. She is a member of various international collectives and organizations including Ultrared and International Assembly of Pueblos.

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, the struggle for justice in the police killing of Christopher Deandre Mitchell. Our guest is Sheila Bates, an organizer with Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles who currently leads the Torrance Team in the struggle for justice for Christopher Deandre Mitchell. She works as a doula and education tutor.

Also, an update on political persecution and what is happening on the ground in Haiti. Our guest is Pacha Vorbe. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Fanmi Lavalas, the largest political party on the ground in Haiti headed by former President Jean Bertrand Aristide.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

With millions of people suddenly out of work and rent due at the first of the month starting April 1, some renters in several cities including New York, Oakland, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and others are vowing to go on a rent strike until the coronavirus pandemic subsides. Our guest is Elizabeth Blaney is a member and co-founder of Union de Vecinos, Eastside local of the LA Tenants Union. She has been a community organizer for 25 years. She works with tenants in building networks of neighborhood and building committees addressing the right to housing and the right to healthy neighborhoods. She is a member of various international collectives and organizations including Ultrared and International Assembly of Pueblos.

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, the struggle for justice in the police killing of Christopher Deandre Mitchell. Our guest is Sheila Bates, an organizer with Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles who currently leads the Torrance Team in the struggle for justice for Christopher Deandre Mitchell. She works as a doula and education tutor.

Also, an update on political persecution and what is happening on the ground in Haiti. Our guest is Pacha Vorbe. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Fanmi Lavalas, the largest political party on the ground in Haiti headed by former President Jean Bertrand Aristide.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we continue our coronavirus coverage on a number of fronts.

First, how frontline workers are impacted by and responding to the crisis. We speak with Henry D. Rose, the Field Director for Public Hospital Systems New York State Nurses Association.

We also discuss how the pandemic has impacted immigrants in detention centers, specifically children and youth. We speak with Peter Schey, the executive director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law.

How will emerging and small economies be able to get the resources and funding they need to battle the coronavirus? We speak with Andrés Arauz, a senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we continue our coronavirus coverage on a number of fronts.

First, how frontline workers are impacted by and responding to the crisis. We speak with Henry D. Rose, the Field Director for Public Hospital Systems New York State Nurses Association.

We also discuss how the pandemic has impacted immigrants in detention centers, specifically children and youth. We speak with Peter Schey, the executive director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law.

How will emerging and small economies be able to get the resources and funding they need to battle the coronavirus? We speak with Andrés Arauz, a senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we continue our coronavirus coverage on a number of fronts.

First, how frontline workers are impacted by and responding to the crisis. We speak with Henry D. Rose, the Field Director for Public Hospital Systems New York State Nurses Association.

We also discuss how the pandemic has impacted immigrants in detention centers, specifically children and youth. We speak with Peter Schey, the executive director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law.

How will emerging and small economies be able to get the resources and funding they need to battle the coronavirus? We speak with Andrés Arauz, a senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

With millions of people suddenly out of work and rent due at the first of the month starting April 1, some renters in several cities including New York, Oakland, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and others are vowing to go on a rent strike until the coronavirus pandemic subsides. Our guest is Elizabeth Blaney is a member and co-founder of Union de Vecinos, Eastside local of the LA Tenants Union. She has been a community organizer for 25 years. She works with tenants in building networks of neighborhood and building committees addressing the right to housing and the right to healthy neighborhoods. She is a member of various international collectives and organizations including Ultrared and International Assembly of Pueblos.

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, the struggle for justice in the police killing of Christopher Deandre Mitchell. Our guest is Sheila Bates, an organizer with Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles who currently leads the Torrance Team in the struggle for justice for Christopher Deandre Mitchell. She works as a doula and education tutor.

Also, an update on political persecution and what is happening on the ground in Haiti. Our guest is Pacha Vorbe. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Fanmi Lavalas, the largest political party on the ground in Haiti headed by former President Jean Bertrand Aristide.