Today on Sojourner Truth:
Increasing numbers of people across the country are describing migrant camps at the U.S. border under the control of Border Agents as concentration camps. Shut down the camps protests have been held across the U.S. and are picking up steam. Now, a new website, NoMoreCamps.org, has been launched along with a call to action to Close the Concentration Camps Now! There is some criticism of referring to the camps as concentration camps by those who say it belittles the genocide of Jewish people who were held in concentration camps in Germany and Poland. What are the demands of this new No More Camps movement and who are its supporters? What is their working relationship with organizations who have been on the frontlines of the immigrants rights fight for decades? We speak with investigative journalist Arun Gupta.
The struggle for ethnic studies goes back to the 1900s, with a push by WEB DuBois. In 1968, the first ethnic studies program in San Francisco State, now an ethnic studies bill in California. For our Campaigners for Black Lives series we speak with Dr. Melina Abdullah, head of Africana Studies Department at California State University, Los Angeles.
Also, the Greek election saw a return of a center-right government. What happened to the hopes of the last center-left govt? What are the lessons for progressives involved in electoral politics from the Greek example? Professor and author Costas Panayotakis breaks it down for us.
And our weekly Earth Minute with Anne Petermann of the Global Justice Ecology Project.
