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Today on Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod:

On Saturday, September 22, assailants carried out an attack against the government of Iran. They attacked during an Islamic Revolutionary Guard military parade and killed 25 people, including children, and wounding 60 others. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed the United States and Saudi Arabia for being behind the attacks, at least providing weapons and other support to attackers. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is speaking at the United Nations today for the General Assembly, where he is expected to ramp up his rhetoric against Iran and to gloat about the severe sanctions he has imposed on the country. This, after he pulled out of the nuclear weapons agreement the U.S. had signed along with the European Union, Russia and China. Meanwhile, the European Union and Iran have reportedly signed a deal to get around penalties imposed by the United States for countries that still want to do business with Iran. Our guest is James Paul, the author of the new book, "Of Foxes and Chickens: Oligarchy and Power in the U.N. Security Council."

And, an update on Hurricane Florence focusing on the pollution unleashed as a result of the flooding still on the uptick in the Carolinas. From the flooding of massive hog farms to the flooding of coal ash pits, we speak with Forrest English, a riverkeeper for the Pamlico and Tar rivers in North Carolina who is using aircraft and drones to monitor pollution.

Also, an update on the sexual assault charges against Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Our guest is Farah Tanis, a women's human rights activist who serves as the co-founder and Executive Director of the Black Women's Blueprint.

Finally, the Sojourner Truth Election Watch with Dorothy Reik.

Today on Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod:

On Saturday, September 22, assailants carried out an attack against the government of Iran. They attacked during an Islamic Revolutionary Guard military parade and killed 25 people, including children, and wounding 60 others. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed the United States and Saudi Arabia for being behind the attacks, at least providing weapons and other support to attackers. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is speaking at the United Nations today for the General Assembly, where he is expected to ramp up his rhetoric against Iran and to gloat about the severe sanctions he has imposed on the country. This, after he pulled out of the nuclear weapons agreement the U.S. had signed along with the European Union, Russia and China. Meanwhile, the European Union and Iran have reportedly signed a deal to get around penalties imposed by the United States for countries that still want to do business with Iran. Our guest is James Paul, the author of the new book, "Of Foxes and Chickens: Oligarchy and Power in the U.N. Security Council."

And, an update on Hurricane Florence focusing on the pollution unleashed as a result of the flooding still on the uptick in the Carolinas. From the flooding of massive hog farms to the flooding of coal ash pits, we speak with Forrest English, a riverkeeper for the Pamlico and Tar rivers in North Carolina who is using aircraft and drones to monitor pollution.

Also, an update on the sexual assault charges against Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Our guest is Farah Tanis, a women's human rights activist who serves as the co-founder and Executive Director of the Black Women's Blueprint.

Finally, the Sojourner Truth Election Watch with Dorothy Reik.

Today on Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod:

On Saturday, September 22, assailants carried out an attack against the government of Iran. They attacked during an Islamic Revolutionary Guard military parade and killed 25 people, including children, and wounding 60 others. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed the United States and Saudi Arabia for being behind the attacks, at least providing weapons and other support to attackers. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is speaking at the United Nations today for the General Assembly, where he is expected to ramp up his rhetoric against Iran and to gloat about the severe sanctions he has imposed on the country. This, after he pulled out of the nuclear weapons agreement the U.S. had signed along with the European Union, Russia and China. Meanwhile, the European Union and Iran have reportedly signed a deal to get around penalties imposed by the United States for countries that still want to do business with Iran. Our guest is James Paul, the author of the new book, "Of Foxes and Chickens: Oligarchy and Power in the U.N. Security Council."

And, an update on Hurricane Florence focusing on the pollution unleashed as a result of the flooding still on the uptick in the Carolinas. From the flooding of massive hog farms to the flooding of coal ash pits, we speak with Forrest English, a riverkeeper for the Pamlico and Tar rivers in North Carolina who is using aircraft and drones to monitor pollution.

Also, an update on the sexual assault charges against Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Our guest is Farah Tanis, a women's human rights activist who serves as the co-founder and Executive Director of the Black Women's Blueprint.

Finally, the Sojourner Truth Election Watch with Dorothy Reik.

Today on Sojourner Truth, a special women's roundtable.

At this critical moment in the U.S. when after decades of a women's rights and feminist movement, we are at a place where a woman makes a charge of attempted rape against Donald Trumps nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, and very little seems to have changed if anything in the Senate Judiciary Committee with jurisdiction over the Kavanaugh nomination. The Republican leadership on the committee with the backing of Trump first did not want to hear from Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford, the victim, then they agreed to a so-named and very rushed hearing giving her a deadline of 10 a.m. on Friday, September 21 to both agree to testify and to submit her testimony.

And now Dr. Blasey-Ford, via her lawyers, have said she is willing to testify, but not on Monday, Sept 24. The hearing could possibly take place on Thursday, September 27.

Meanwhile, Dr. Blasey-Ford had said that a hearing should not take place before the FBI investigates the incident, the Senate Judiciary Committee has demurred to Trump to make the call on an FBI investigation, and first Trump says the FBI doesn't do that, and then he said there is no need for an investigation and is urging the Senate to move forward in haste with confirming Kavanaugh. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, he joins Clarence Thomas in being the second sitting member of the Supreme Court who has been accused of abuse of a sexual nature, on a court that will decide on the fate of women's right to choose to have children or not, the precedent setting 1971 Supreme Court decision of Roe vs Wade very much at risk.

How did we get to this point? In the age of the #MeToo movement and #TimesUp and #SayHerName, women in the U.S. (including Trans women) and around the world are the overwhelming victims of sexual assault, rape, domestic violence and serial murders; women are still marginalized on just about every front, the caregiving work we do in having children, raising them and the central survival work of caregiving is not valued, its economic contributions denied.

And while violence against women are in every sector of society, women with the least including Black and Brown women are particularly impacted.

Today we get the perspective of women all of whom have been part of the movement of change for women: Mexico City-based Laura Carlsen, former elected official Jackie Goldberg and Barbara Ransby, Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies and History, author of the brand new book Making Black Lives Matter.

Today on Sojourner Truth, a special women's roundtable.

At this critical moment in the U.S. when after decades of a women's rights and feminist movement, we are at a place where a woman makes a charge of attempted rape against Donald Trumps nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, and very little seems to have changed if anything in the Senate Judiciary Committee with jurisdiction over the Kavanaugh nomination. The Republican leadership on the committee with the backing of Trump first did not want to hear from Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford, the victim, then they agreed to a so-named and very rushed hearing giving her a deadline of 10 a.m. on Friday, September 21 to both agree to testify and to submit her testimony.

And now Dr. Blasey-Ford, via her lawyers, have said she is willing to testify, but not on Monday, Sept 24. The hearing could possibly take place on Thursday, September 27.

Meanwhile, Dr. Blasey-Ford had said that a hearing should not take place before the FBI investigates the incident, the Senate Judiciary Committee has demurred to Trump to make the call on an FBI investigation, and first Trump says the FBI doesn't do that, and then he said there is no need for an investigation and is urging the Senate to move forward in haste with confirming Kavanaugh. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, he joins Clarence Thomas in being the second sitting member of the Supreme Court who has been accused of abuse of a sexual nature, on a court that will decide on the fate of women's right to choose to have children or not, the precedent setting 1971 Supreme Court decision of Roe vs Wade very much at risk.

How did we get to this point? In the age of the #MeToo movement and #TimesUp and #SayHerName, women in the U.S. (including Trans women) and around the world are the overwhelming victims of sexual assault, rape, domestic violence and serial murders; women are still marginalized on just about every front, the caregiving work we do in having children, raising them and the central survival work of caregiving is not valued, its economic contributions denied.

And while violence against women are in every sector of society, women with the least including Black and Brown women are particularly impacted.

Today we get the perspective of women all of whom have been part of the movement of change for women: Mexico City-based Laura Carlsen, former elected official Jackie Goldberg and Barbara Ransby, Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies and History, author of the brand new book Making Black Lives Matter.

Today on Sojourner Truth, a special women's roundtable.

At this critical moment in the U.S. when after decades of a women's rights and feminist movement, we are at a place where a woman makes a charge of attempted rape against Donald Trumps nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, and very little seems to have changed if anything in the Senate Judiciary Committee with jurisdiction over the Kavanaugh nomination. The Republican leadership on the committee with the backing of Trump first did not want to hear from Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford, the victim, then they agreed to a so-named and very rushed hearing giving her a deadline of 10 a.m. on Friday, September 21 to both agree to testify and to submit her testimony.

And now Dr. Blasey-Ford, via her lawyers, have said she is willing to testify, but not on Monday, Sept 24. The hearing could possibly take place on Thursday, September 27.

Meanwhile, Dr. Blasey-Ford had said that a hearing should not take place before the FBI investigates the incident, the Senate Judiciary Committee has demurred to Trump to make the call on an FBI investigation, and first Trump says the FBI doesn't do that, and then he said there is no need for an investigation and is urging the Senate to move forward in haste with confirming Kavanaugh. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, he joins Clarence Thomas in being the second sitting member of the Supreme Court who has been accused of abuse of a sexual nature, on a court that will decide on the fate of women's right to choose to have children or not, the precedent setting 1971 Supreme Court decision of Roe vs Wade very much at risk.

How did we get to this point? In the age of the #MeToo movement and #TimesUp and #SayHerName, women in the U.S. (including Trans women) and around the world are the overwhelming victims of sexual assault, rape, domestic violence and serial murders; women are still marginalized on just about every front, the caregiving work we do in having children, raising them and the central survival work of caregiving is not valued, its economic contributions denied.

And while violence against women are in every sector of society, women with the least including Black and Brown women are particularly impacted.

Today we get the perspective of women all of whom have been part of the movement of change for women: Mexico City-based Laura Carlsen, former elected official Jackie Goldberg and Barbara Ransby, Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies and History, author of the brand new book Making Black Lives Matter.

Today on Sojourner Truth, a special women's roundtable.

At this critical moment in the U.S. when after decades of a women's rights and feminist movement, we are at a place where a woman makes a charge of attempted rape against Donald Trumps nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, and very little seems to have changed if anything in the Senate Judiciary Committee with jurisdiction over the Kavanaugh nomination. The Republican leadership on the committee with the backing of Trump first did not want to hear from Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford, the victim, then they agreed to a so-named and very rushed hearing giving her a deadline of 10 a.m. on Friday, September 21 to both agree to testify and to submit her testimony.

And now Dr. Blasey-Ford, via her lawyers, have said she is willing to testify, but not on Monday, Sept 24. The hearing could possibly take place on Thursday, September 27.

Meanwhile, Dr. Blasey-Ford had said that a hearing should not take place before the FBI investigates the incident, the Senate Judiciary Committee has demurred to Trump to make the call on an FBI investigation, and first Trump says the FBI doesn't do that, and then he said there is no need for an investigation and is urging the Senate to move forward in haste with confirming Kavanaugh. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, he joins Clarence Thomas in being the second sitting member of the Supreme Court who has been accused of abuse of a sexual nature, on a court that will decide on the fate of women's right to choose to have children or not, the precedent setting 1971 Supreme Court decision of Roe vs Wade very much at risk.

How did we get to this point? In the age of the #MeToo movement and #TimesUp and #SayHerName, women in the U.S. (including Trans women) and around the world are the overwhelming victims of sexual assault, rape, domestic violence and serial murders; women are still marginalized on just about every front, the caregiving work we do in having children, raising them and the central survival work of caregiving is not valued, its economic contributions denied.

And while violence against women are in every sector of society, women with the least including Black and Brown women are particularly impacted.

Today we get the perspective of women all of whom have been part of the movement of change for women: Mexico City-based Laura Carlsen, former elected official Jackie Goldberg and Barbara Ransby, Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies and History, author of the brand new book Making Black Lives Matter.

Today on Sojourner Truth, a special women's roundtable.

At this critical moment in the U.S. when after decades of a women's rights and feminist movement, we are at a place where a woman makes a charge of attempted rape against Donald Trumps nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, and very little seems to have changed if anything in the Senate Judiciary Committee with jurisdiction over the Kavanaugh nomination. The Republican leadership on the committee with the backing of Trump first did not want to hear from Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford, the victim, then they agreed to a so-named and very rushed hearing giving her a deadline of 10 a.m. on Friday, September 21 to both agree to testify and to submit her testimony.

And now Dr. Blasey-Ford, via her lawyers, have said she is willing to testify, but not on Monday, Sept 24. The hearing could possibly take place on Thursday, September 27.

Meanwhile, Dr. Blasey-Ford had said that a hearing should not take place before the FBI investigates the incident, the Senate Judiciary Committee has demurred to Trump to make the call on an FBI investigation, and first Trump says the FBI doesn't do that, and then he said there is no need for an investigation and is urging the Senate to move forward in haste with confirming Kavanaugh. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, he joins Clarence Thomas in being the second sitting member of the Supreme Court who has been accused of abuse of a sexual nature, on a court that will decide on the fate of women's right to choose to have children or not, the precedent setting 1971 Supreme Court decision of Roe vs Wade very much at risk.

How did we get to this point? In the age of the #MeToo movement and #TimesUp and #SayHerName, women in the U.S. (including Trans women) and around the world are the overwhelming victims of sexual assault, rape, domestic violence and serial murders; women are still marginalized on just about every front, the caregiving work we do in having children, raising them and the central survival work of caregiving is not valued, its economic contributions denied.

And while violence against women are in every sector of society, women with the least including Black and Brown women are particularly impacted.

Today we get the perspective of women all of whom have been part of the movement of change for women: Mexico City-based Laura Carlsen, former elected official Jackie Goldberg and Barbara Ransby, Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies and History, author of the brand new book Making Black Lives Matter.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we continue our coverage of Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, and the attempted rape charges he is facing. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, a Palo Alto University professor of clinical psychology, has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her while the two were teenagers. Kavanaugh, whose nomination process to the top U.S. court has since been stalled and embroiled in controversy, has denied the accusation.

What GOP senators and other Kavanaugh supporters are ignoring is just how serious of an issue sexual assault is in this country and around the world, disproportionately affecting women. Every 98 seconds, a person living in the United States is sexually assaulted, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN). 9 out of every 10 victims of rape are female. Additionally, 1 out of every 6 women in the U.S. has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. Whats also been left out of the narrative around Kavanaughs scandal is what the impact is on victims of sexual assault. Also, flashbacks and post-traumatic stress disorder become more common when sexual assault victims are exposed to similar stories, according to the advocacy group San Francisco Women Against Rape.

Joining us to discuss Kavanaugh and his attempted rape charges are Dr. Mekeila Cook and Barbara Arnwine.

Dr. Cook is an Assistant Professor at Meharry Medical College. She has a PhD in Public Health from the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA and a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Tennessee State University.

Arnwine is a veteran civil rights and human rights leader and advocate. She is currently the President & Founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition. For 26 years, she was the Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.

Also joining us today is Dorothy Reik for our daily Sojourner Truth Election Watch, where we review the latest news on the upcoming congressional elections.

Today on Sojourner Truth, a special women's roundtable.

At this critical moment in the U.S. when after decades of a women's rights and feminist movement, we are at a place where a woman makes a charge of attempted rape against Donald Trumps nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, and very little seems to have changed if anything in the Senate Judiciary Committee with jurisdiction over the Kavanaugh nomination. The Republican leadership on the committee with the backing of Trump first did not want to hear from Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford, the victim, then they agreed to a so-named and very rushed hearing giving her a deadline of 10 a.m. on Friday, September 21 to both agree to testify and to submit her testimony.

And now Dr. Blasey-Ford, via her lawyers, have said she is willing to testify, but not on Monday, Sept 24. The hearing could possibly take place on Thursday, September 27.

Meanwhile, Dr. Blasey-Ford had said that a hearing should not take place before the FBI investigates the incident, the Senate Judiciary Committee has demurred to Trump to make the call on an FBI investigation, and first Trump says the FBI doesn't do that, and then he said there is no need for an investigation and is urging the Senate to move forward in haste with confirming Kavanaugh. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, he joins Clarence Thomas in being the second sitting member of the Supreme Court who has been accused of abuse of a sexual nature, on a court that will decide on the fate of women's right to choose to have children or not, the precedent setting 1971 Supreme Court decision of Roe vs Wade very much at risk.

How did we get to this point? In the age of the #MeToo movement and #TimesUp and #SayHerName, women in the U.S. (including Trans women) and around the world are the overwhelming victims of sexual assault, rape, domestic violence and serial murders; women are still marginalized on just about every front, the caregiving work we do in having children, raising them and the central survival work of caregiving is not valued, its economic contributions denied.

And while violence against women are in every sector of society, women with the least including Black and Brown women are particularly impacted.

Today we get the perspective of women all of whom have been part of the movement of change for women: Mexico City-based Laura Carlsen, former elected official Jackie Goldberg and Barbara Ransby, Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies and History, author of the brand new book Making Black Lives Matter.