Molly Wickham On Wet’suwet’en Resistance To Canada Pipeline by Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod

Today on Sojourner Truth:

Fallout from the disastrous defeat in the U.K. for the Labour party to the Conservative Tory Party. What are the lessons to be learned not only in the U.K., but for the upcoming U.S. presidential election? Our guest is Sam Weinstein, who is active with the Camden branch of Momentum, a regional grassroots network arising out of the movement following the Jeremy Corbyn for Labour Leader campaign. He is also a member of the Payday Mens Network, an international and multiracial network of men which works with the Global Womens Strike.

For our weekly Earth Watch, First Nations people in British Columbia face off with TC Energy, which wants to move natural gas to the coast, where a liquefied natural gas plant will be built. Our guest is Molly Wickham is a Gidimten Clan member, adopted into the Grizzly Bear House. Her matrilineal ancestors have been intermarried into the Wetsuweten Nation since the early 1900s and have lived on Witsuwiten land since that time.

The Women's March in Los Angeles and across the nation takes place this Saturday. Our guests are Gina Belafonte and Emiliana Guereca. Belafonte has spent her life in the arenas of entertainment and activism, where her professional work thrives today as Executive Director of Sankofa.org. Guereca is an entrepreneur based in Los Angeles with a passion for giving back to the community.

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, one of the joint coordinators of the Poor People's Campaign, will be in Southern California, specifically in the Inland Empire. Our guest is Bishop Emory B. James, who organized his current Pastorate, Ephesians New Testament Church, where he has successfully served as Pastor for 30 years.