Today is the Army Corps of Engineers’ deadline for the Standing Rock #NoDAPL protesters to vacate their camps. Susana Sandoval checked in with us at the top of the show to talk about what’s happening there. As of showtime, the evictions hadn’t yet begun. Susana Sandoval is a human rights activist known for immigration reform work, is a migrant cultural worker and multidisciplinary artist. Purepecha Mexican descent from Chicago, she ran in the 2016 election cycle in Illinois for the U.S. Senate seat. A staunch supporter of women’s leadership efforts, she was one of 3 Latinas running nationally. She has been residing at Standing Rock North Dakota in solidarity for almost 3 months.
Shortly before airtime, I got an AP alert that said “The Trump administration will revoke federal guidelines that tell public schools to let transgender students use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their chosen gender identity.” So I called The Nicole Sandler Show‘s resident transgender woman, Boca Britany Somers, to tell us what the fuck is going on…
Maxine Waters calls the oil profiteers in the Trump administration scumbags, and NASA may have found evidence of other life in the universe…
