Today on Sojourner Truth:
Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17 year old white militia member and supporter of Donald Trump, has been charged in the killing of two protesters and injuring one other in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Protesters have gathered in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in front of his three children. Mr. Blake is now paralyzed. Meanwhile, players in the NBA, WNBA, MLB and MLS have gone on strike in protest of the police shooting of Blake, following a slew of other police shootings and killings of Black people including George Floyd Rashard Brooks and Breonna Taylor. Our guest is Rev. Dr. Monica L Cummings, assistant minister at Bradford Community Church Unitarian Universalist, which is based in Kenosha.
An update on Hurricane Laura, which has slammed into Texas and Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane. Our guest is Monique Harden is the Assistant Director of Law and Policy and the Community Engagement Program Manager at the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice. The Center provides research, education, community and student engagement support, as well as worker training in environmental careers. Ms. Harden has more than 20 years of achievements in the practice of law that have helped predominantly African American communities win significant environmental justice victories in the Gulf Coast Region.
Fifty years ago, on Aug. 29, 1970, over 30,000 Chicano activists marched in East Los Angeles. What was it about and what were the circumstances that caused the death at that event of Los Angeles Times journalist Ruben Salazar? Our guests are Lupe Carrasco-Cardona and Jorge Rodriguez, both co-chairs of the 50th Anniversary Chicano Moratorium Organizing Committee.
For our weekly Earth Watch, Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, weighs in on the Biden-Harris environmental proposals.
Also, our weekly Earth Minute on wildfires in California, presented by Theresa Church of the Global Justice Ecology Project.