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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.

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.

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.

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.

One-hour Sojourner Truth Labor Day special highlighting the legacy, contributions and current struggles of the labor movement. Our guests are Greg Mitre, a retired International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) member of Local 13 in Southern California, and Larry Barragan, Chairman of the Los Angeles Long Beach Harbor Labor Coalition. Topics discussed include Harry Bridges, Martin Luther King Jr., Trump's trade wars, organizing in California, the roots of the ILWU and the future of the labor movement, among others.

Today on Sojourner Truth, a one-hour, in-depth discussion about the current state of the environment and how environmental activists are responding. We discuss this within the context of the Trump administration's recent rollbacks on environmental protections, pushing coal as clean energy and attacking Native American sovereignty.

Our guests are Doria Robinson and Kandi Mossett.

Doria is the Executive Director of Urban Tilth, which cultivates agriculture in west Contra Costa County, California to help communities build a more sustainable, healthy and just food system. Urban Tilth hires and trains residents to work with schools, community-based organizations, government agencies, businesses and individuals to develop the capacity to produce five percent of our own food supply.

Kandi is a member of the Indigenous Environmental Network, which is leading the struggle against the Dakota Bakken Oil shale project. The Indigenous Environmental Network was formed by grassroots Indigenous peoples and individuals to address environmental and economic justice issues.

Both are involved in organizing the Solidarity to Solutions events around California's Bay Area during the Governor's conference on climate change in September.

Today on our weekly roundtable:

The Kavanaugh hearings for the Supreme Court Justice. He was nominated by Trump. Did we learn anything new in the hearings this week? What did not come out? What can, if anything, the Democrats now do?

Also, executive power, or some say craziness? A crisis of checks and balances with Trump and the rest of his administration. There's a new op-ed that reveals turmoil in the White House. And, of course, Woodward's new book revealing the same thing. What will it take to discipline Trump?

Congressional elections: what are the lessons learned and the implications thus far? The latest on the voter suppression front.

And, suffer the children. Trump is ignoring the Flores settlement, and banked on indefinite detention of children taken at the border. He's also cut aid to Palestinians, with children feeling cuts the most.

Meanwhile, bombs dropped on children in Yemen, provided by the United States. What responsibility do people in the United States have? What can people do?

Today on our weekly roundtable:

The Kavanaugh hearings for the Supreme Court Justice. He was nominated by Trump. Did we learn anything new in the hearings this week? What did not come out? What can, if anything, the Democrats now do?

Also, executive power, or some say craziness? A crisis of checks and balances with Trump and the rest of his administration. There's a new op-ed that reveals turmoil in the White House. And, of course, Woodward's new book revealing the same thing. What will it take to discipline Trump?

Congressional elections: what are the lessons learned and the implications thus far? The latest on the voter suppression front.

And, suffer the children. Trump is ignoring the Flores settlement, and banked on indefinite detention of children taken at the border. He's also cut aid to Palestinians, with children feeling cuts the most.

Meanwhile, bombs dropped on children in Yemen, provided by the United States. What responsibility do people in the United States have? What can people do?

Today on our weekly roundtable:

The Kavanaugh hearings for the Supreme Court Justice. He was nominated by Trump. Did we learn anything new in the hearings this week? What did not come out? What can, if anything, the Democrats now do?

Also, executive power, or some say craziness? A crisis of checks and balances with Trump and the rest of his administration. There's a new op-ed that reveals turmoil in the White House. And, of course, Woodward's new book revealing the same thing. What will it take to discipline Trump?

Congressional elections: what are the lessons learned and the implications thus far? The latest on the voter suppression front.

And, suffer the children. Trump is ignoring the Flores settlement, and banked on indefinite detention of children taken at the border. He's also cut aid to Palestinians, with children feeling cuts the most.

Meanwhile, bombs dropped on children in Yemen, provided by the United States. What responsibility do people in the United States have? What can people do?

Today on our weekly roundtable:

The Kavanaugh hearings for the Supreme Court Justice. He was nominated by Trump. Did we learn anything new in the hearings this week? What did not come out? What can, if anything, the Democrats now do?

Also, executive power, or some say craziness? A crisis of checks and balances with Trump and the rest of his administration. There's a new op-ed that reveals turmoil in the White House. And, of course, Woodward's new book revealing the same thing. What will it take to discipline Trump?

Congressional elections: what are the lessons learned and the implications thus far? The latest on the voter suppression front.

And, suffer the children. Trump is ignoring the Flores settlement, and banked on indefinite detention of children taken at the border. He's also cut aid to Palestinians, with children feeling cuts the most.

Meanwhile, bombs dropped on children in Yemen, provided by the United States. What responsibility do people in the United States have? What can people do?