Today on Sojourner Truth:
Environmental damage caused by the government shutdown. Experts are saying in some instances, it will take the environment 300 years to recover. Our weekly Earth Watch guest is Jeff Ruch, Executive Director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
The Democratic Party is pushing out Kamala Harris " a Black woman, two-term U.S. Senator " as a lead candidate in the run for President. Prior to being in the Senate, Harris was the Attorney General of California, where she ran afoul of the Black Lives Matter movement for her position on withholding support for special investigations in police shootings. As Senator, she has sided with the Zionist lobby and against Palestinian interests. We speak with Stephen Zunes, professor of politics and coordinator of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco.
What is going on with Brexit? What is it and why is it splitting public opinion and legislators in the U.K.? We speak with U.K.-based Sam Weinstein, with Payday Men's Network, who volunteers with Momentum, a grassroots movement outside of Britain's Labour Party, but supports Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Also, the latest on the U.S.-backed attempted coup in Venezuela. We speak with journalist Paul Dobson, who is on the ground in Venezuela.
