Today on Sojourner Truth: Across the Western Hemisphere, Indigenous environmental activists are under attack. They face violence and repression as they continue to defend their water and lands from right-wing governments and extractivist multinational companies. In Chile, the Indigenous Mapuche people have been leading the charge when it comes to defending protected environmental areas from occupying forces. Back in June, Mapuche land rights defender Alberto Curamil was seriously injured in a shooting by police. Meanwhile, in Honduras, a U.S.-trained former Honduran army intelligence officer was recently found guilty over the assassination of Indigenous Lenca environmental activist Berta Caceres. Roberto David Castillo, the president of an internationally-financed hydroelectric company, was found guilty of being co-collaborator in ordering the murder. Our guest is Francisca Stuardo, a Santiago-based consultant for the international climate advocacy group Global Witness. She works on their land and environmental defenders campaign, which highlights threats against activists and pushes businesses, financiers and governments to protect them. On Monday, July 12, the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival announced that it will launch a month of Moral Mondays, featuring peaceful civil disobedience in Washington D.C. and other state capitals, through August 2. It is being billed as the Season of Non-Violent Moral Action. This comes after the For the People Act, a groundbreaking bill in defense of voter rights, failed to pass the Senate, as Republicans voted against starting debate on it. The Poor Peoples Campaign has also been calling for the realization of the Third Reconstruction in the United States. The Third Reconstruction draws from the transformational history of the First Reconstruction following the U.S. Civil War and the Second Reconstruction of the civil rights movement of the 20th century. Our guest is the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Co-Chair of the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival along with the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II.

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Earth Watch: Francisca Stuardo On Land & Water Defenders In Chile & Honduras

Today on Sojourner Truth: Since Cuba's 1959 Revolution, the United States has attempted to undo what the Revolution was hoping to achieve. The U.S. tried invasion, economic boycotts, several assassination attempts of Fidel Castro, and propaganda. Now, thousands of protesters have hit the streets in Cuba. What's going on? This, at the same time as turmoil in Haiti following the assassination of U.S.-backed President Jovenel Moise. Our guest on Cuba is Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas Program and works with Just Associates, an international feminist organization. We also discuss voting rights. Even as Democratic legislators flee Texas to avoid allowing yet another attempt to pass a voter suppression law. They traveled to Washington D.C. to pressure the Biden administration to do more to protect voting rights. On Tuesday, July 13, Biden gave a speech on voting rights in Philadelphia. But did he go far enough? Our guest is voting rights campaigner Barbara Arnwine. Also, migrants are on hunger strike in Belgium. Benoit Martin of Payday Men's Network fills us in on what's going on. Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute presented by Theresa Church of the Global Justice Ecology Project.

Barbara Arnwine On Voting Rights & The Supreme Court

Today on Sojourner Truth: Misinformation and jockeying for power. The latest on the situation in Haiti and the U.S. response following the assassination of Haiti's President, Jovenel Moise. It has been almost a week since Moise was assassinated in his home, yet many questions remain up in the air. What were Colombian ex-military members doing in Haiti? How did the assailants get through a fortified compound, defended by Haitian security forces, with no other deaths? Our guest is journalist and Haiti expert Kevin Pina. Kevin also serves as a Country Expert on Haiti for the Varieties of Democracy project sponsored by the University of Notre Dame Center for Research Computing, the University of Gothenburg Department of Political Science, and the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. In an effort to stem the tide of the criminalization of crimes of poverty, the US PROStitutes Collective has come together with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and other organizations to launch a Know Your Rights campaign. This includes an update on the demand for reparations for those who were illegally and forcibly sterilized in California prisons. Our guests are Aminah Elster and Alex Makulit. Aminah Elster is a Campaign and Policy Coordinator with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners where she leads its campaign to end coercive sterilization practices in women's prisons. Alex Makulit is an organizer with US PROS based in the Bay Area.

Kevin Pina On Crisis In Haiti

Today on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable. This week, we focus on the latest news in Haiti and Afghanistan. Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg, Dr. Gerald Horne, and David Comissiong, Barbados's Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The ongoing crisis in Haiti following the assassination of U.S.-backed President Jovenel Moise. We speak with David Comissiong, Barbados's Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Heads of government of CARICOM have issued a statement in the wake of the assassination of Moise. The heads of government strongly condemned the act as abhorrent and reprehensible, pointing out that this comes at a time of deep turmoil and institutional weakness in the country. Moise, a U.S.-backed former banana exporter from the private sector, had been accused of rampant corruption and human rights abuses. His assassination takes place within the context of longstanding U.S. support for right-wing dictators friendly to Washington and Wall Street. It also forms part of the long history of U.S. destabilization in Haiti and in Latin America and the Caribbean. On Wednesday, April 14, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that he plans to fully withdraw troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, ending 20 years of U.S. military occupation. The occupation has taken the lives of at least 2,300 U.S. troops and more than 100,000 Afghanis, according to most estimates. Thousands more have been injured, physically and mentally, with physical disabilities and post-traumatic stress disorders. On Thursday, July 8, President Joe Biden delivered a strong defense of his decision to end the war in Afghanistan, insisting no amount of sustained U.S. presence there could resolve the country's own systemic problems.

Sojourner Truth Radio: July 9, 2021 - Roundtable On Haiti & Afghanistan

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