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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, our weekly roundtable.

We continue our coverage and analysis of the coronavirus pandemic, which now has over 500,00 cases worldwide. The U.S. now has the most cases in the world and a death rate of 1,300 as of Friday morning, March 27. Meanwhile, Donald Trump wants to reopen the country, even as states - including New York, the hot spot of the crisis in the U.S. - scramble to find basic supplies needed to fight the virus. There is a disconnect in the White House from reality on the ground. Also, who gains and who loses from the $2 trillion stimulus package? How has the pandemic given cover for pressing forward on a right-wing agenda in the areas of immigration and foreign policy? Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne.

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.

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.

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. At the 2017 National Council of Black Studies conference, Dr. Horne was granted the "Ida B. Wells and Cheik Anta Diop Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership in Africana Studies.

Today on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable.

We continue our coverage and analysis of the coronavirus pandemic, which now has over 500,00 cases worldwide. The U.S. now has the most cases in the world and a death rate of 1,300 as of Friday morning, March 27. Meanwhile, Donald Trump wants to reopen the country, even as states - including New York, the hot spot of the crisis in the U.S. - scramble to find basic supplies needed to fight the virus. There is a disconnect in the White House from reality on the ground. Also, who gains and who loses from the $2 trillion stimulus package? How has the pandemic given cover for pressing forward on a right-wing agenda in the areas of immigration and foreign policy? Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne.

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.

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.

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. At the 2017 National Council of Black Studies conference, Dr. Horne was granted the "Ida B. Wells and Cheik Anta Diop Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership in Africana Studies.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

The latest news on the coronavirus and its impact. Our guest is Dr. David Himmelstein, 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.

As the pandemic continues its march across the globe, starting today, South Africa will begin a 21-day lockdown. We speak with Mazibuko Jara, the Deputy Director of the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education in Capetown, South Africa.

For our weekly Earth Watch, Dr. Felicia Keesing joins us to discuss the consequences of interactions among species, particularly as biodiversity declines. Some warn that the coronavirus is a warning shot from nature. Dr. Keesing, Distinguished Professor of the Sciences at Bard College in New York, received her Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Berkeley. She studies the consequences of interactions among species, particularly as biodiversity declines. In Kenya, where she has been working for almost 25 years, she has investigated how savanna communities respond to the disappearance of large animals such as elephants and zebras. In the U.S., she studies how interactions among species influence disease risk for humans, particularly for Lyme disease and the emerging diseases anaplasmosis and babesiosis.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

The latest news on the coronavirus and its impact. Our guest is Dr. David Himmelstein, 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.

As the pandemic continues its march across the globe, starting today, South Africa will begin a 21-day lockdown. We speak with Mazibuko Jara, the Deputy Director of the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education in Capetown, South Africa.

For our weekly Earth Watch, Dr. Felicia Keesing joins us to discuss the consequences of interactions among species, particularly as biodiversity declines. Some warn that the coronavirus is a warning shot from nature. Dr. Keesing, Distinguished Professor of the Sciences at Bard College in New York, received her Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Berkeley. She studies the consequences of interactions among species, particularly as biodiversity declines. In Kenya, where she has been working for almost 25 years, she has investigated how savanna communities respond to the disappearance of large animals such as elephants and zebras. In the U.S., she studies how interactions among species influence disease risk for humans, particularly for Lyme disease and the emerging diseases anaplasmosis and babesiosis.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

The latest news on the coronavirus and its impact. Our guest is Dr. David Himmelstein, 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.

As the pandemic continues its march across the globe, starting today, South Africa will begin a 21-day lockdown. We speak with Mazibuko Jara, the Deputy Director of the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education in Capetown, South Africa.

For our weekly Earth Watch, Dr. Felicia Keesing joins us to discuss the consequences of interactions among species, particularly as biodiversity declines. Some warn that the coronavirus is a warning shot from nature. Dr. Keesing, Distinguished Professor of the Sciences at Bard College in New York, received her Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Berkeley. She studies the consequences of interactions among species, particularly as biodiversity declines. In Kenya, where she has been working for almost 25 years, she has investigated how savanna communities respond to the disappearance of large animals such as elephants and zebras. In the U.S., she studies how interactions among species influence disease risk for humans, particularly for Lyme disease and the emerging diseases anaplasmosis and babesiosis.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

The latest news on the coronavirus and its impact. Our guest is Dr. David Himmelstein, 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.

As the pandemic continues its march across the globe, starting today, South Africa will begin a 21-day lockdown. We speak with Mazibuko Jara, the Deputy Director of the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education in Capetown, South Africa.

For our weekly Earth Watch, Dr. Felicia Keesing joins us to discuss the consequences of interactions among species, particularly as biodiversity declines. Some warn that the coronavirus is a warning shot from nature. Dr. Keesing, Distinguished Professor of the Sciences at Bard College in New York, received her Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Berkeley. She studies the consequences of interactions among species, particularly as biodiversity declines. In Kenya, where she has been working for almost 25 years, she has investigated how savanna communities respond to the disappearance of large animals such as elephants and zebras. In the U.S., she studies how interactions among species influence disease risk for humans, particularly for Lyme disease and the emerging diseases anaplasmosis and babesiosis.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we continue our ongoing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, focusing on how this crisis has revealed the importance of caregiving to life and survival. We will take a look at how much caregivers are relied on for important services that governments are not providing. The U.S. government is considering distributing checks to people in order to stop the economy from collapsing, but it still refuses to consider providing an income for family caregivers, whose work is generally depended on and has increased as a result of the pandemic. Family unwaged caregivers " most of whom are women, including mothers and grandmothers, and the most impoverished women on welfare " provide care for relatives, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities.

Amid this crisis, they are expected to pick up the slack without any acknowledgement of the value or resources for their work. The International Labor Office has estimated that women do two-thirds of the worlds work for five percent of the income. And according to a report released by Oxfam in January 2020, women around the world perform 12.5 billion hours of unpaid labor every day. Overall, the work of unwaged caregivers has been estimated to contribute at least $11 trillion to the global economy, according to a Human Development Report.

During todays program, you will hear exclusive audio from a webinar hosted on Friday, March 20, titled, From Coronavirus to Beyond: Valuing Caregiving, the Unwaged Work that Protects People & Environment. The webinar was originally planned as a workshop for the 64th UN Commission on the Status of Women scheduled for March 9-20 in New York on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the 1995 UN World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China. However, the workshop was cancelled because of the coronavirus.

Instead, a worldwide webinar was hosted. The organizers of the webinar had been in Beijing, where they gathered the support of over 1,200 NGOs worldwide, representing millions of women, to win a key decision that governments measure and value unwaged work and include that value in economic statistics and gross domestic product. The organizers of the webinar were also active throughout the UN Womens Decade, participating in conferences in Copenhagen in 1980 and Nairobi Kenya in 1985. The webinar was facilitated by Phoebe Jones from Women in Dialogue in Philadelphia.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we continue our ongoing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, focusing on how this crisis has revealed the importance of caregiving to life and survival. We will take a look at how much caregivers are relied on for important services that governments are not providing. The U.S. government is considering distributing checks to people in order to stop the economy from collapsing, but it still refuses to consider providing an income for family caregivers, whose work is generally depended on and has increased as a result of the pandemic. Family unwaged caregivers " most of whom are women, including mothers and grandmothers, and the most impoverished women on welfare " provide care for relatives, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities.

Amid this crisis, they are expected to pick up the slack without any acknowledgement of the value or resources for their work. The International Labor Office has estimated that women do two-thirds of the worlds work for five percent of the income. And according to a report released by Oxfam in January 2020, women around the world perform 12.5 billion hours of unpaid labor every day. Overall, the work of unwaged caregivers has been estimated to contribute at least $11 trillion to the global economy, according to a Human Development Report.

During todays program, you will hear exclusive audio from a webinar hosted on Friday, March 20, titled, From Coronavirus to Beyond: Valuing Caregiving, the Unwaged Work that Protects People & Environment. The webinar was originally planned as a workshop for the 64th UN Commission on the Status of Women scheduled for March 9-20 in New York on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the 1995 UN World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China. However, the workshop was cancelled because of the coronavirus.

Instead, a worldwide webinar was hosted. The organizers of the webinar had been in Beijing, where they gathered the support of over 1,200 NGOs worldwide, representing millions of women, to win a key decision that governments measure and value unwaged work and include that value in economic statistics and gross domestic product. The organizers of the webinar were also active throughout the UN Womens Decade, participating in conferences in Copenhagen in 1980 and Nairobi Kenya in 1985. The webinar was facilitated by Phoebe Jones from Women in Dialogue in Philadelphia.