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Increasing numbers of people across the country are describing migrant camps at the U.S. border under the control of Border Agents as concentration camps. Shut down the camps protests have been held across the U.S. and are picking up steam. Now, a new website, NoMoreCamps.org, has been launched along with a call to action to Close the Concentration Camps Now! There is some criticism of referring to the camps as concentration camps by those who say it belittles the genocide of Jewish people who were held in concentration camps in Germany and Poland. What are the demands of this new No More Camps movement and who are its supporters? What is their working relationship with organizations who have been on the frontlines of the immigrants rights fight for decades? We speak with investigative journalist Arun Gupta.

The struggle for ethnic studies goes back to the 1900s, with a push by WEB DuBois. In 1968, the first ethnic studies program in San Francisco State, now an ethnic studies bill in California. For our Campaigners for Black Lives series we speak with Dr. Melina Abdullah, head of Africana Studies Department at California State University, Los Angeles.

Also, the Greek election saw a return of a center-right government. What happened to the hopes of the last center-left govt? What are the lessons for progressives involved in electoral politics from the Greek example? Professor and author Costas Panayotakis breaks it down for us.

And our weekly Earth Minute with Anne Petermann of the Global Justice Ecology Project.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling temporarily baring Donald Trump from adding a citizenship question to the U.S. Census, Trump's Attorney General William Barr has announced that the administration has found a way around the Supreme Court decision. What's behind this move? Who will be impacted? What are the wider implications? We speak with Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught for 25 years. She is also the former president of the National Lawyers Guild.

And, across the U.S. and Canada, pipeline protesters are being criminalized. Who is behind this? Who has being charged? What are the impacts on Indigenous lands and on the environment as a whole? Our guest is Dallas Goldtooth, the Keep It In The Ground Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Also, one of the largest blocs of people of African descent in the Western hemisphere is in the Caribbean region. Together, they comprise a large and influential bloc in the Americas. The heads of state of CARICOM met in the island nation of St. Lucia from July 3-5. What came out of that meeting that has implications for U.S. foreign policy on Venezuela and Haiti? We speak with David Comissiong, Barbados's Ambassador to CARICOM.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling temporarily baring Donald Trump from adding a citizenship question to the U.S. Census, Trump's Attorney General William Barr has announced that the administration has found a way around the Supreme Court decision. What's behind this move? Who will be impacted? What are the wider implications? We speak with Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught for 25 years. She is also the former president of the National Lawyers Guild.

And, across the U.S. and Canada, pipeline protesters are being criminalized. Who is behind this? Who has being charged? What are the impacts on Indigenous lands and on the environment as a whole? Our guest is Dallas Goldtooth, the Keep It In The Ground Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Also, one of the largest blocs of people of African descent in the Western hemisphere is in the Caribbean region. Together, they comprise a large and influential bloc in the Americas. The heads of state of CARICOM met in the island nation of St. Lucia from July 3-5. What came out of that meeting that has implications for U.S. foreign policy on Venezuela and Haiti? We speak with David Comissiong, Barbados's Ambassador to CARICOM.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling temporarily baring Donald Trump from adding a citizenship question to the U.S. Census, Trump's Attorney General William Barr has announced that the administration has found a way around the Supreme Court decision. What's behind this move? Who will be impacted? What are the wider implications? We speak with Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught for 25 years. She is also the former president of the National Lawyers Guild.

And, across the U.S. and Canada, pipeline protesters are being criminalized. Who is behind this? Who has being charged? What are the impacts on Indigenous lands and on the environment as a whole? Our guest is Dallas Goldtooth, the Keep It In The Ground Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Also, one of the largest blocs of people of African descent in the Western hemisphere is in the Caribbean region. Together, they comprise a large and influential bloc in the Americas. The heads of state of CARICOM met in the island nation of St. Lucia from July 3-5. What came out of that meeting that has implications for U.S. foreign policy on Venezuela and Haiti? We speak with David Comissiong, Barbados's Ambassador to CARICOM.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling temporarily baring Donald Trump from adding a citizenship question to the U.S. Census, Trump's Attorney General William Barr has announced that the administration has found a way around the Supreme Court decision. What's behind this move? Who will be impacted? What are the wider implications? We speak with Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught for 25 years. She is also the former president of the National Lawyers Guild.

And, across the U.S. and Canada, pipeline protesters are being criminalized. Who is behind this? Who has being charged? What are the impacts on Indigenous lands and on the environment as a whole? Our guest is Dallas Goldtooth, the Keep It In The Ground Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Also, one of the largest blocs of people of African descent in the Western hemisphere is in the Caribbean region. Together, they comprise a large and influential bloc in the Americas. The heads of state of CARICOM met in the island nation of St. Lucia from July 3-5. What came out of that meeting that has implications for U.S. foreign policy on Venezuela and Haiti? We speak with David Comissiong, Barbados's Ambassador to CARICOM.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling temporarily barring Donald Trump from adding a citizenship question to the U.S. Census, Trump's Attorney General William Barr has announced that the administration has found a way around the Supreme Court decision. What's behind this move? Who will be impacted? What are the wider implications? We speak with Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught for 25 years. She is also the former president of the National Lawyers Guild.

And, across the U.S. and Canada, pipeline protesters are being criminalized. Who is behind this? Who has being charged? What are the impacts on Indigenous lands and on the environment as a whole? Our guest is Dallas Goldtooth, the Keep It In The Ground Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Also, one of the largest blocs of people of African descent in the Western hemisphere is in the Caribbean region. Together, they comprise a large and influential bloc in the Americas. The heads of state of CARICOM met in the island nation of St. Lucia from July 3-5. What came out of that meeting that has implications for U.S. foreign policy on Venezuela and Haiti? We speak with David Comissiong, Barbados's Ambassador to CARICOM.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we go in depth into Sudan.

Formerly a colony of the U.K. and Egypt, its history goes back to the days of the Pharaohs. Sudan is located in North Africa, bordering the Red Sea, Egypt, Libya, Chad and the Central African Republic. In 1989, Lieutenant Omar Al-Bashir seized power in a coup and ruled Sudan for 30 years. Keep in mind that Sudan was the largest country on the continent of Africa until it was divided in a U.S.-backed deal in 2011 with the secession of the oil-rich South Sudan.

In December 2018, protests broke out in several cities across Sudan against worsening living conditions and rising costs of living. Those protests morphed into a mass movement against President Omar Al-Bashir, calling for his resignation. Indeed, he was forced to step down, with the military taking credit for removing him. 70 percent of protesters are women, according to the BBC. After Al-Bashir's ousting, demonstrators continue to demand democracy and an end to military rule in favor of civilian rule.

Today, we delve into these recent developments in Sudan as well as the country's historical context.

Our guests are Dr. Nada Mustafa Ali and Dr. Khalid Mustafa Medani. Dr Ali is a scholar who engages with questions about social change and transformation in Sudan and beyond through her teaching, research, and activism. Dr. Ali teaches in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department and is a core faculty in the Human Rights Minor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Medani is an associate professor of political science at McGill University, and Chair of the African Studies Program. He has published extensively on political Islam in Sudan, civil conflict and the roots of the Sudanese Uprising.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we go in depth into Sudan.

Formerly a colony of the U.K. and Egypt, its history goes back to the days of the Pharaohs. Sudan is located in North Africa, bordering the Red Sea, Egypt, Libya, Chad and the Central African Republic. In 1989, Lieutenant Omar Al-Bashir seized power in a coup and ruled Sudan for 30 years. Keep in mind that Sudan was the largest country on the continent of Africa until it was divided in a U.S.-backed deal in 2011 with the secession of the oil-rich South Sudan.

In December 2018, protests broke out in several cities across Sudan against worsening living conditions and rising costs of living. Those protests morphed into a mass movement against President Omar Al-Bashir, calling for his resignation. Indeed, he was forced to step down, with the military taking credit for removing him. 70 percent of protesters are women, according to the BBC. After Al-Bashir's ousting, demonstrators continue to demand democracy and an end to military rule in favor of civilian rule.

Today, we delve into these recent developments in Sudan as well as the country's historical context.

Our guests are Dr. Nada Mustafa Ali and Dr. Khalid Mustafa Medani. Dr Ali is a scholar who engages with questions about social change and transformation in Sudan and beyond through her teaching, research, and activism. Dr. Ali teaches in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department and is a core faculty in the Human Rights Minor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Medani is an associate professor of political science at McGill University, and Chair of the African Studies Program. He has published extensively on political Islam in Sudan, civil conflict and the roots of the Sudanese Uprising.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

We shed light on a little-known and less-invasive medical procedure that has the potential to help tens of thousands of people. Our expert is Dr. George Teitelbaum, director of neurointerventional surgery for Providence, California. Before becoming a medical doctor, he did his undergraduate medical degree in biochemistry at UCLA. He received his medical degree from UC San Diego. He's taught at Georgetown University and USC, among others. He served as Director of Interventional Neuroradiology at Children's Hospital for more than two decades. He has a passion for ensuring that the general public are informed about their options to more radical medical interventions.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

We shed light on a little-known and less-invasive medical procedure that has the potential to help tens of thousands of people. Our expert is Dr. George Teitelbaum, director of neurointerventional surgery for Providence, California. Before becoming a medical doctor, he did his undergraduate medical degree in biochemistry at UCLA. He received his medical degree from UC San Diego. He's taught at Georgetown University and USC, among others. He served as Director of Interventional Neuroradiology at Children's Hospital for more than two decades. He has a passion for ensuring that the general public are informed about their options to more radical medical interventions.