Sojourner Truth Radio

In the lead-up to African Liberation Day, we continue our conversation with Emira Woods, expert on the African region to discuss the emerging movement Africans Rising, the history and significance of Goree Island, as well as the role of people of African descent in the diaspora in the growing movement for change in the continent of Africa.

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons have gone on a hunger strike, and a leader of the hunger strike has been placed in solitary confinement. Prisoner hunger strikes have also had a history in the U.S. What are the similarities between U.S. and Israeli prisons? How does the prisoner population reflect political struggles? Our guest is Hank Jones of the San Francisco 8. Jones has spent time in U.S. prisons and was also part of a delegation that travelled to Palestine.

In Part 3 of our "Know Your Rights" series, we discuss sanctuary cities with Emily Robinson, founding co-director of the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic, a project of Loyola Law School.

Today, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons have gone on a hunger strike, and a leader of the hunger strike has been placed in solitary confinement. Prisoner hunger strikes have also had a history in the U.S. What are the similarities between U.S. and Israeli prisons? How does the prisoner population reflect political struggles? Our guest is Hank Jones of the San Francisco 8. Jones has spent time in U.S. prisons and was also part of a delegation that travelled to Palestine.

We continue our Know Your Rights series, focused on immigration. We discuss sanctuary cities with Emily Robinson of the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic, a project of Loyola Law School.

In the lead-up to African Liberation Day, we continue our conversation with Emira Woods, expert on the African region to discuss the emerging movement Africa Rising, the history and significance of Goree Island, as well as the role of people of African descent in the diaspora in the growing movement for change in the continent of Africa.

On our weekly roundtable: tensions between North Korea and the United States are at an all-time high with Trump sending an armada to the waters off the Korean Peninsula and both sides threatening carry out a pre-emptive strike. China, meanwhile, is trying to calm the waters, joining South Korea and Japan in requesting that the U.S. work to resolve the crisis by peaceful means.

Some are wondering if Trump's recent military strike against a Syrian government military facility and the dropping of the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in a military operation in Afghanistan is part of the emerging Trump doctrine, sending messages to North Korea, Russia, Iran and indeed the world: do what Trump wants, or face the might of the U.S. military.

What is going on with US-China relations given Trump's public effort to shift his bromance from Putin to China's President Xi?

Meanwhile, Russia, Syria and Iran are demanding no further military strikes on Syria by the U.S., and Russia is insisting on a United Nations investigation into the perpetrator of the chemical attack in Syria. Meanwhile, Assad continues to defend his government, saying that videos of dead children as a result of a chemical attack are fake.

In the United Nations, the Trump administration is stepping up its crackdown on immigration, creating an army of at least 15,000 including ICE agents and those patrolling the border, as Jeff Sessions travelled to the U.S.-Mexico border to further threaten immigrants. How are movements for change responding these latest moves?

Our panelists are Jackie Goldberg, Laura Carlsen and Jackie Goldberg.

Africa is the wealthiest continent on the planet in terms of wealth found beneath the ground, yet its people are the most impoverished, plagued by neocolonialism, destabilization, proxy wars, corrupt leaders, hunger, and all of the other violence of poverty. How are Africans on the continent responding to this? What are the key challenges? What role can Africans outside of the continent play in new movement formations? Our guest is Emira Woods.

Dr. Gerald Horne joins us to discuss U.S.-China-Russia relations and the regional and global implications of the political and economic conflicts and relationships among these three world powers.

For our weekly Earth Watch, Beverly Bell joins us. For decades, she worked with Berta Caceres, the human and environmental rights campaigner that was assassinated March 3, 2016.

Today, Dr. Gerald Horne joins us to discuss U.S.-China-Russia relations and the regional and global implications of the political and economic conflicts and relationships among these three world powers.

Africa is the wealthiest continent on the planet in terms of wealth found beneath the ground, yet its people are the most impoverished, plagued by neocolonialism, destabilization, proxy wars, corrupt leaders, hunger, and all of the other violence of poverty. How are Africans on the continent responding to this? What are the key challenges? What role can Africans outside of the continent play in new movement formations? Our guest is Emira Woods.

For our weekly Earth Watch, Beverly Bell joins us. For decades, she worked with Berta Caceres, the human and environmental rights campaigner that was assassinated March 3, 2016.

Continuing our series on immigration, we're joined by Angela Sanbrano of Congreso Latino and the May Day General Strike Coalition. We discuss the impact of Trump's crackdown on undocumented people, as well as plans for the national general strike on May 1st.