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An interview conducted by Terra Verde host Gary Hughes with Alejandra Parra of RADA (The Environmental Rights Action Network) based in Temuco, Chile. Parra discusses her organization's work to stop a waste-to-energy incinerator as well as the general situation in Chile in contrast to what is happening in Madrid. In particular, a contrast to how youth are being uplifted and celebrated in Madrid while in Chile (in Temuco) the National Police raided the public university on Wednesday over a protest by the students against the police violence targeting street medics.

News Headlines: December 3, 2019 by Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod

Today on Sojourner Truth, a report from Anne Petermann, Executive Director of the Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP). She is on the ground in Chile.

The GJEP team has been reporting on ongoing protests in Chile and now the alternative environmental event that began on Monday, known as the Cumbre de los Pueblos (the People's Summit). That event will last 10 days and will coincide with the official UN COP 25 environmental conference that was moved from Chile, where it was originally scheduled, by Chile's embattled president. COP 25 is now taking place in Spain. Meanwhile, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, who has sparked worldwide protests by junior high and high school students, has arrived in Spain for that conference via sailboat.

On the ground in Chile, people from across the country in Chile have gathered in Santiago for the Cumbre de los Pueblos. This, as the UN chief yet again warns of a climate crisis deep enough that the planet is close to no return.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, Dr. Melina Abdullah joins us to talk about Black X-mas and gives us an update on the Black Lives Matter movement.

Also, we spend most of the hour on what people are increasingly calling Thankstaking. People across the nation are on the road, shopping or cooking for their Thanksgiving meal. Today, we ask: What really was behind the founding of Thanksgiving? What was the original intent of the holiday? Why do Native Americans refer to Thanksgiving as the Day of Mourning? Our guest is Larry Smith, a member of the Lumbee Nation who is the co-producer and co-host of American Indian Airwaves, one of the longest running Indigenous public affairs radio programs.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, Dr. Melina Abdullah joins us to talk about Black X-mas and gives us an update on the Black Lives Matter movement.

Also, we spend most of the hour on what people are increasingly calling Thankstaking. People across the nation are on the road, shopping or cooking for their Thanksgiving meal. Today, we ask: What really was behind the founding of Thanksgiving? What was the original intent of the holiday? Why do Native Americans refer to Thanksgiving as the Day of Mourning? Our guest is Larry Smith, a member of the Lumbee Nation who is the co-producer and co-host of American Indian Airwaves, one of the longest running Indigenous public affairs radio programs.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, Dr. Melina Abdullah joins us to talk about Black X-mas and gives us an update on the Black Lives Matter movement.

Also, we spend most of the hour on what people are increasingly calling Thankstaking. People across the nation are on the road, shopping or cooking for their Thanksgiving meal. Today, we ask: What really was behind the founding of Thanksgiving? What was the original intent of the holiday? Why do Native Americans refer to Thanksgiving as the Day of Mourning? Our guest is Larry Smith, a member of the Lumbee Nation who is the co-producer and co-host of American Indian Airwaves, one of the longest running Indigenous public affairs radio programs.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, Dr. Melina Abdullah joins us to talk about Black X-mas and gives us an update on the Black Lives Matter movement.

Also, we spend most of the hour on what people are increasingly calling Thankstaking. People across the nation are on the road, shopping or cooking for their Thanksgiving meal. Today, we ask: What really was behind the founding of Thanksgiving? What was the original intent of the holiday? Why do Native Americans refer to Thanksgiving as the Day of Mourning? Our guest is Larry Smith, a member of the Lumbee Nation who is the co-producer and co-host of American Indian Airwaves, one of the longest running Indigenous public affairs radio programs.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, Dr. Melina Abdullah joins us to talk about Black X-mas and gives us an update on the Black Lives Matter movement.

Also, we spend most of the hour on what people are increasingly calling Thankstaking. People across the nation are on the road, shopping or cooking for their Thanksgiving meal. Today, we ask: What really was behind the founding of Thanksgiving? What was the original intent of the holiday? Why do Native Americans refer to Thanksgiving as the Day of Mourning? Our guest is Larry Smith, a member of the Lumbee Nation who is the co-producer and co-host of American Indian Airwaves, one of the longest running Indigenous public affairs radio programs.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

Today, families torn apart by child welfare agencies across the US: there is an increasing epidemic of children being removed from their families and placed in foster care, not because of abuse but because the families are poor or because their mothers are victims of domestic abuse. But the Rev. Liz Theoharis, a joint coordinator of the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, says take away our poverty, not our children. Whats going on and how are families and communities fighting back? Our guest is mother, grandmother and retired nurse Sidney Ross-Risden with the Global Women's Strike - Los Angeles.

Also, we have begun to bring you video from protests happening in Chile sent by Orin Langelle and Anne Petermann of the Global Justice Ecology Project who are representing ST on the ground in Chile. We will speak to Anne Petermann on what she is witnessing on the ground, as mass protests against Chile's right wing government and their austerity measures continue.

And on December 12, there will be a historic election in the UK and battle lines are drawn in the contest for the UK's next Prime Minister. This includes Boris Johnson, the right wing conservative candidate of the Tory party who is being backed by Donald Trump, and Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK's Labour Party. Joining us to give the latest on the ground is London-based Sam Weinstein, a volunteer with the Corbyn campaign and Momentum, and group outside of the Labour Party, but who are supporters of Corbyn.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

Today, families torn apart by child welfare agencies across the US: there is an increasing epidemic of children being removed from their families and placed in foster care, not because of abuse but because the families are poor or because their mothers are victims of domestic abuse. But the Rev. Liz Theoharis, a joint coordinator of the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, says take away our poverty, not our children. Whats going on and how are families and communities fighting back? Our guest is mother, grandmother and retired nurse Sidney Ross-Risden with the Global Women's Strike - Los Angeles.

Also, we have begun to bring you video from protests happening in Chile sent by Orin Langelle and Anne Petermann of the Global Justice Ecology Project who are representing ST on the ground in Chile. We will speak to Anne Petermann on what she is witnessing on the ground, as mass protests against Chile's right wing government and their austerity measures continue.

And on December 12, there will be a historic election in the UK and battle lines are drawn in the contest for the UK's next Prime Minister. This includes Boris Johnson, the right wing conservative candidate of the Tory party who is being backed by Donald Trump, and Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK's Labour Party. Joining us to give the latest on the ground is London-based Sam Weinstein, a volunteer with the Corbyn campaign and Momentum, and group outside of the Labour Party, but who are supporters of Corbyn.