Along the U.S.-Mexico border, at least 12,000 migrants have been waiting in makeshift camps under the Del Rio bridge in Texas, desperately trying to enter the United States. Among them are young men, children, pregnant women, and babies, fleeing environmental devastation, imposed poverty, and state violence in their home countries. Those hailing from Haiti and Africa in particular have faced racism as they’ve traveled across Latin America, being regularly attacked by state and non-state actors.

Sojourner Truth Radio: September 21, 2021 – Haitian Migrants, COP26, Barney Bush

Today on Sojourner Truth:

Thousands of Haitians are being deported by the Biden Administration. Video has emerged of U.S. Border Patrol agents chasing down Haitians on horseback and whipping them. One can be heard referring to Haiti as a s-hole country. What’s going on? Our guest is Nana Gyamfi, an attorney, consultant, educator, activist, the Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), and the President of the National Conference of Black Lawyers.

The Indigenous Environmental Network has called for a postponement of the upcoming COP26. The UN governmental conference on the environment scheduled to be held in November in Glasgow, Scotland. This, amid the growing environmental catastrophe. We find out what’s behind that call from Alberto Saldamando, the Indigenous Environmental Network’s Counsel on Climate Change and Indigenous and Human Rights.

Barney Bush, a Shawnee/Cayuga poet, activist and educator, has died. We pay tribute to him as we hear some of his words from his keynote speech to the 2019 Forest & Climate Movement Convergence gathering in Shawnee National Forest.