Two high school students that participated in and helped organize the massive national school walkouts at their respective schools join us to discuss what happened and give their views on this new student movement going forward. Our guests are Alexis Chavez and Thandiwe Abdullah.

For our weekly Earth Watch: environmental protesters were arrested in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They took over a pipeline office and occupied a rig. What's going on? We speak with Melinda Harnish Clatterbuck, a founding board member of Lancaster Against Pipelines.

Then, in our Women's History Month series, we listen to the voices of three prominent Black women artists and activists: Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Coretta Scott King.

Two high school students that participated in and helped organize the massive national school walkouts at their respective schools join us to discuss what happened and give their views on this new student movement going forward. Our guests are Alexis Chavez and Thandiwe Abdullah.

For our weekly Earth Watch: environmental protesters were arrested in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They took over a pipeline office and occupied a rig. What's going on? We speak with Melinda Harnish Clatterbuck, a founding board member of Lancaster Against Pipelines.

Today: an International Women's Month special. We bring you the first of our reports on events that took place on International Women's Day on March 8, 2018 from two branches of the women's movement.

First, we hear from three guests who were involved in the International Women's Strike that took place in 51 countries across the world. They will report on events that happened in Spain, where the largest IWS event took place; Peru; the United Kingdom; and the United States. We will be joined by Nina Lopez, Sara Calloway and Ximena Bustamante.

Then, we will hear some of the sound from the United Nations' International Women's Day event that featured actresses Reese Witherspoon and Danai Guirira.

Immigrants rights activist Maru Mora-Villalpando has been called to appear in immigration court on March 15. She has been targeted by ICE, activists say, because of her work bringing national attention to conditions in immigration detention centers and her ongoing campaigning for the rights of undocumented people. Our guest is law professor and member of Marus legal team Angelica Chazaro.

And as the Poor Peoples Campaign continues to grow around the nation, we speak to Kait Zeigler, one of the co-chairs of the PPC in California. The original PPC was launched by Martin Luther King, but he was assassinated before it was implemented. Now, decades later, there are approximately 10 million people in the United States who are surviving on no income whatsoever.

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with 15-year-old Thandiwe Abdullah about her youth activism and the national student walkout taking place today.

We also pause to remember physicist Stephen Hawking who has died.

March 8, 2018 marks International Women's Day. Strikes and protests are set for 51 countries worldwide in both the Global South and North. Women are taking action against domestic violence and femicide, poverty and lack of value and wages for unpaid caregiving work, and are taking action for a caring society. In the United States, events are being planned from New York City to Portland, Oregon, to Southern California and more. Today, we speak with some of the strike participants in the U.S., including immigrants rights activist Angela Sanbrano, UCLA student Brittany Hewitt, Silvia Hernandez with the Skid Row-based Downtown Women's Action Coalition, and Jodi Dean, professor and author with the New York state-based Geneva Women's Assembly.

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Erika Jones, an LAUSD teacher. Thousands of teachers across the nation – from Seattle to Washington, D.C. – participated in a week of activities around the theme "Making Black Lives Matter in Schools." United Teachers of Los Angeles partnered with Black Lives Matter Los Angeles in holding a multiracial event that was lead by youth.

Also, S. Pearl Sharpe, filmmaker and contributor to Sojourner Truth, shares her latest piece, "Blood Bank," written for Women's History Month.

For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Erika Jones, an LAUSD teacher. Thousands of teachers across the nation – from Seattle to Washington, D.C. – participated in a week of activities around the theme "Making Black Lives Matter in Schools." United Teachers of Los Angeles partnered with Black Lives Matter Los Angeles in holding a multiracial event that was lead by youth.

Immigrant Rights Activist Angela Sanbrano On The DOJ's Move Against California & Sanctuary Cities by Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod

March 8, 2018 marks International Women's Day. Strikes and protests are set for 51 countries worldwide in both the Global South and North. Women are taking action against domestic violence and femicide, poverty and lack of value and wages for unpaid caregiving work, and are taking action for a caring society. In the United States, events are being planned from New York City to Portland, Oregon, to Southern California and more. Today, we speak with some of the strike participants in the U.S., including UCLA student Brittany Hewitt, Silvia Hernandez with the Skid Row-based Downtown Women's Action Coalition, and Jodi Dean, professor and author with the New York state-based Geneva Women's Assembly.

On this International Womens Day, where women in over 50 countries are participating in an International Womens Strike we honor women around the world. Today women in Spain have gone out on a traditional strike, they met at midnight last night kicking off their 24-hour strike. They have asked all women not to do domestic work and to stay off waged work. Women in London are protesting outside Parliament against the unjust taking of children from their mothers because the mothers are poor and the Guardian of the UK has published an article by Selma James explaining the roots of the IWS.

From South Korea to Ireland, to Argentina, to Spain to Nigeria to cities across the US women are making their voices, their demands today in strikes and protests large and small. Women say they want a caring society and that they represent a Feminism of the 99%.

Today we are joined by three women icons: Dolores Huerta, Barbara Smith and Jackie Goldberg.