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Today, on our weekly Sojourner Truth roundtable:

On the national front, close to 13,000 children are being held in immigrant detention centers.

Now, Donald Trump is not only the global white supremacist in chief after even as a major hurricane bears down on the Carolinas, he dismisses Hurricane Maria deaths in Puerto Rico as a conspiracy by democrats. He is also vying for conspiracy theorist in chief. Then again, he has been on that track for quite some time, including putting forward that former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

Congressional elections heat up with the primary season coming to an end. Why are Republicans not touting economic gains given the statistics being reported about record low unemployment rates, a booming Wall Street and rising wages? Well there is a problem because while those gains are reflected in households in swing states, theirs is a different reality. Whats going on?

And on the international front, yesterday marked the anniversary of the Oslo Accords, which was supposed to lead to peace between Israelis and Palestinians. But they had a fatal flaw and today, relations between the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu-led Israeli government and Palestinians are at a low point, with Palestinians forced to live under what is increasingly being called apartheid conditions. What role is the U.S.-backed Israel playing on the world stage, even as tensions between races amp up and culture wars are on the rise?

And our regular Sojourner Truth Election Watch (STEW) today with Dorothy Reik.

Our panelists are: Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne.

Today, on our weekly Sojourner Truth roundtable:

On the national front, close to 13,000 children are being held in immigrant detention centers.

Now, Donald Trump is not only the global white supremacist in chief after even as a major hurricane bears down on the Carolinas, he dismisses Hurricane Maria deaths in Puerto Rico as a conspiracy by democrats. He is also vying for conspiracy theorist in chief. Then again, he has been on that track for quite some time, including putting forward that former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

Congressional elections heat up with the primary season coming to an end. Why are Republicans not touting economic gains given the statistics being reported about record low unemployment rates, a booming Wall Street and rising wages? Well there is a problem because while those gains are reflected in households in swing states, theirs is a different reality. Whats going on?

And on the international front, yesterday marked the anniversary of the Oslo Accords, which was supposed to lead to peace between Israelis and Palestinians. But they had a fatal flaw and today, relations between the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu-led Israeli government and Palestinians are at a low point, with Palestinians forced to live under what is increasingly being called apartheid conditions. What role is the U.S.-backed Israel playing on the world stage, even as tensions between races amp up and culture wars are on the rise?

And our regular Sojourner Truth Election Watch (STEW) today with Dorothy Reik.

Our panelists are: Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne.

Today, on our weekly Sojourner Truth roundtable:

On the national front, close to 13,000 children are being held in immigrant detention centers.

Now, Donald Trump is not only the global white supremacist in chief after even as a major hurricane bears down on the Carolinas, he dismisses Hurricane Maria deaths in Puerto Rico as a conspiracy by democrats. He is also vying for conspiracy theorist in chief. Then again, he has been on that track for quite some time, including putting forward that former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

Congressional elections heat up with the primary season coming to an end. Why are Republicans not touting economic gains given the statistics being reported about record low unemployment rates, a booming Wall Street and rising wages? Well there is a problem because while those gains are reflected in households in swing states, theirs is a different reality. Whats going on?

And on the international front, yesterday marked the anniversary of the Oslo Accords, which was supposed to lead to peace between Israelis and Palestinians. But they had a fatal flaw and today, relations between the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu-led Israeli government and Palestinians are at a low point, with Palestinians forced to live under what is increasingly being called apartheid conditions. What role is the U.S.-backed Israel playing on the world stage, even as tensions between races amp up and culture wars are on the rise?

And our regular Sojourner Truth Election Watch (STEW) today with Dorothy Reik.

Our panelists are: Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne.

Today, in the midst of what is predicted to be the storm of a lifetime, Hurricane Florence is barreling towards the Carolinas, with a typhoon headed to the Philippines and Hawaii again drenched by heavy rains. We get a report from climate change protesters on the ground in San Francisco. We speak with Kandi White of the Indigenous Environmental Network.

And a major, though temporary, victory for environmental activists as a judge in Louisiana has halted the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. We speak with Cindy Spoon, who is part of the Leau Est la Vie (Water Is Life) camp that has been opposing the pipeline.

We continue our Election Watch coverage with Dorothy Reik and Jose Luis Granados Ceja joins us to discuss reported turmoil in Venezuela.

Today, in the midst of what is predicted to be the storm of a lifetime, Hurricane Florence is barreling towards the Carolinas, with a typhoon headed to the Philippines and Hawaii again drenched by heavy rains. We get a report from climate change protesters on the ground in San Francisco. We speak with Kandi White of the Indigenous Environmental Network.

And a major, though temporary, victory for environmental activists as a judge in Louisiana has halted the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. We speak with Cindy Spoon, who is part of the Leau Est la Vie (Water Is Life) camp that has been opposing the pipeline.

We continue our Election Watch coverage with Dorothy Reik and Jose Luis Granados Ceja joins us to discuss reported turmoil in Venezuela.

Today, in the midst of what is predicted to be the storm of a lifetime, Hurricane Florence is barreling towards the Carolinas, with a typhoon headed to the Philippines and Hawaii again drenched by heavy rains. We get a report from climate change protesters on the ground in San Francisco. We speak with Kandi White of the Indigenous Environmental Network.

And a major, though temporary, victory for environmental activists as a judge in Louisiana has halted the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. We speak with Cindy Spoon, who is part of the Leau Est la Vie (Water Is Life) camp that has been opposing the pipeline.

We continue our Election Watch coverage with Dorothy Reik and Jose Luis Granados Ceja joins us to discuss reported turmoil in Venezuela.

Today, in the midst of what is predicted to be the storm of a lifetime, Hurricane Florence is barreling towards the Carolinas, with a typhoon headed to the Philippines and Hawaii again drenched by heavy rains. We get a report from climate change protesters on the ground in San Francisco. We speak with Kandi White of the Indigenous Environmental Network.

And a major, though temporary, victory for environmental activists as a judge in Louisiana has halted the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. We speak with Cindy Spoon, who is part of the Leau Est la Vie (Water Is Life) camp that has been opposing the pipeline.

We continue our Election Watch coverage with Dorothy Reik and Jose Luis Granados Ceja joins us to discuss reported turmoil in Venezuela.

Today, in the midst of what is predicted to be the storm of a lifetime, Hurricane Florence is barreling towards the Carolinas, with a typhoon headed to the Philippines and Hawaii again drenched by heavy rains. We get a report from climate change protesters on the ground in San Francisco. We speak with Kandi White of the Indigenous Environmental Network.

And a major, though temporary, victory for environmental activists as a judge in Louisiana has halted the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. We speak with Cindy Spoon, who is part of the Leau Est la Vie (Water Is Life) camp that has been opposing the pipeline.

We continue our Election Watch coverage with Dorothy Reik and Jose Luis Granados Ceja joins us to discuss reported turmoil in Venezuela.

Today, in the midst of what is predicted to be the storm of a lifetime, Hurricane Florence is barreling towards the Carolinas, with a typhoon headed to the Philippines and Hawaii again drenched by heavy rains. We get a report from climate change protesters on the ground in San Francisco. We speak with Kandi White of the Indigenous Environmental Network.

And a major, though temporary, victory for environmental activists as a judge in Louisiana has halted the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. We speak with Cindy Spoon, who is part of the Leau Est la Vie (Water Is Life) camp that has been opposing the pipeline.

We continue our Election Watch coverage with Dorothy Reik and Jose Luis Granados Ceja joins us to discuss reported turmoil in Venezuela.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

State violence against children. On September 6, the Trump administration announced plans to issue new regulations that would terminate and replace the Flores Agreement. The Flores Agreement has been in place since 1997 and places limits on how long the government can detain child migrants. Right now, the Flores Agreement limits the detention of child migrants to 20 days. The Trump administration now wants indefinite detention of children in family detention centers. At the time of the government announcement, according to The Hill, there were still 416 children detained. Meanwhile, the administration has announced that a "temporary" child detention center that was set up earlier this year in the West Texas desert will expand from 1,200 beds to 3,800 beds. This amid news that the administration took close to $10 million from FEMA and redirected it to detaining immigrants, including child migrants. In the midst of news that close to 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria. Our guest is Peter Schey of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law.

Also, 62 immigrants held in the Tacoma Washington detention center are on hunger strike against conditions in that center as well as demanding the release of children taken by the U.S. government at the U.S./Mexico border. The hunger strikers are being threatened with being force fed and are experiencing other retaliations. Our guest is activist Maru Mora Villalpando.

For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Cecily Myart-Cruz, a teacher and vice president of the United Teachers of Los Angeles/NEA. We discuss the possibility of a teachers' strike in Los Angeles as well as an update on Black Lives Matter in schools.

And we kick off our Sojourner Truth Congressional Election Watch.