In The Thick

In the final ITT Sound Off of the year, Julio is joined by guest co-host Jamilah King to talk about the impeachment of President Trump as well as Thursday's Democratic Debate in Los Angeles. They discuss male whiteness on the debate stage and how the candidates addressed LGBTQ rights, immigration and campaign finance. 

ITT Staff Picks
- The Los Angeles Times gives five takeaways from the December debate
- Julio was interviewed for this Mother Jones piece about Democratic candidates overlooking Latinx voters
- Why Pelosi hasn't sent Trump impeachment articles to the Senate, via Vox
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This week Maria and guest co-host Jamilah King welcome Molly Woodstock, journalist and host of the Gender Reveal podcast, and ITT All-Star Imara Jones, creator and producer of Translash Media and 2019 Soros Equality Fellow. They discuss The Afghanistan Papers, a Washington Post investigative report showcasing numerous pages of internal government documents which reveal how the U.S. intentionally misled the American public about the war in Afghanistan for the past 18 years, and how mainstream media seems to be ignoring the story. They also go over the 2020 election as it relates to the LGBTQ community and how Democratic candidates are engaging this very potent bloc.    ITT Staff Picks: 

• Why the Media Is Ignoring the Afghanistan Papers, from The New Republic
• In Ohio, registering LGBTQ voters takes drag queens, young activists, and big ideas, via them
• Under Trump, LGBTQ progress is being reversed in plain sight, from ProPublicaThis episode was mixed by Leah Shaw. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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In this ITT Sound Off, Julio and guest co-host Jamilah King talk about the latest in the impeachment proceedings and the Democratic primary race. They also discuss the recent UK elections and Golden Globes nominations.   ITT Staff Picks:

• The articles of impeachment against President Trump, via The New York Times
• More on Joe Biden's immigration plan, via Vox
• Wesley Morris' New York Times Magazine piece about why Lupita Nyong'o is one of the best actors of 2019. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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Maria and Julio welcome two ITT All-Stars, Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr., the department chair of African American Studies at Princeton University, and Terrell Jermaine Starr, senior reporter at The Root. They talk about the latest with impeachment and the 2020 Democratic primary, and how Nikki Haley's comments on the Confederate flag being "hijacked by Dylann Roof" are only a manifestation of genteel racism. They also follow up from Friday's Sound Off conversation about the ProPublica video showing Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez's last moments of life, since we now know that his family traumatically saw the video for the first time as a result of the news reports and social media posts.    ITT Staff Picks: 

• 'I Don’t Trust Anyone at All.' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Speaks Out on Trump, Putin and a Divided Europe, via Time 
• Read Terrell's latest for The Root, Kamala Harris Wasn't Allowed to Fail Up Like a White Boy
• Carlos’ Story: We cannot re-traumatize immigrants and asylum-seekers in trying to expose Border Patrol violence, via the Texas Civil Rights Project This episode was mixed by Leah Shaw.  For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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Maria and Julio are back with an ITT Sound Off! They give updates on the impeachment inquiry and the 2020 Democratic primary race. They also discuss the latest reporting on immigration and border detention facilities.    ITT Staff Picks

• Democrats are moving fast on impeachment, via Vox
• What an all-white debate stage would mean for the Democratic Party, via The Atlantic
• The New York Times and ProPublica's report on McKinsey consulting for ICEFor information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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Maria and Julio are joined by Esther Wang, senior staff writer with Jezebel, and LaTosha Brown, cofounder of Black Voters Matter and 2019 Harvard IOP Fellow, to talk about Mayor Pete Buttigieg's struggle with Black and Latino support, and how that's an extension of his poor track record with those exact constituencies in South Bend, Indiana. They also discuss how at the backdrop of the impeachment inquiry is not only the President with a number of sexual assault allegations against him, but also men in his administration who are also facing similar allegations.    Staff Picks:  

• Read the follow up article of what happened when Pete Buttigieg called the author of the above piece, also via The Root

  • Read Esther's latest for Jezebel: I Spent a Week Interrogating My Dislike of Pete Buttigieg and These Are My Findings
  • Multiple Women Recall Sexual Misconduct and Retaliation by Gordon Sondland, via ProPublicaThis episode was mixed by Leah Shaw.  For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
    

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In this episode we get into the issues of wealth when it comes to land/home ownership and the perils of capitalism. Maria and Julio talk with Aaron Glantz, senior reporter with Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting about his new book, "Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream." They discuss the mortgage crisis, the history of land ownership and wealth transfer and how this has impacted communities of color.    ITT Staff Picks:

• Profiting off pain: Trump confidant cashed in on housing crisis, Aaron's piece for Reveal
• Two histories of financiers profiting from real estate while homeowners go belly ep, The New York Times' review of Aaron's book and of Aaron's Bingeworthy book recommendation, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership.”
• Read about how this all connects back to land ownership for Indigenous communities in APM Reports and Minnesota Public Radio's Uprooted report: The 1950's plan to erase Indian Country

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Maria and Julio are joined by Ai-jen Poo, senior advisor to Care in Action, executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the co-director of Caring Across Generations, and Alexsis Rodgers, Care in Action's Virginia state director, to discuss the history of the domestic care movement, and how its legacy of slavery and racism impacts labor rights to this day. Plus, they also talk about the ways in which domestic care advocates are making strides to endorse women of color candidates in Virginia and what that means for the 2020 election cycle. 

ITT Staff Picks: 
- The new labor movement fighting for domestic workers' rights via The New York Times. 
- From In These Times: The deep historical roots of American domestic worker organizing.
- The legacy of Fahari Jeffers, co-founder of the United Domestic Workers Union, via Latino Rebels.  
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Julio is joined by guest co-host Jamilah King for this week's ITT Sound Off. They discuss highlights of the fifth Democratic debate and how some candidates have been talking about immigration. Plus, they give the latest on the public impeachment inquiry.    ITT Staff Picks:

• Coming out of this debate, the Democratic primary is still anyone's race, via Vox
• Black voters don't trust Pete Buttigeig and this is why, via The Daily Beast
• From Slate: Why Did ASAP Rocky Keep Coming Up at the Impeachment Hearing?For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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In 1994, a ballot measure aimed at targeting undocumented immigrants in California by denying families public services —from barring children from public schools to access to non-emergency public health care— was passed 59 percent to 41 percent, but never implemented. That was Proposition 187. Maria and Julio are joined by Gustavo Arellano, L.A. Times reporter and host of the “This Is California: The Battle of 187” podcast, and Gerardo Correa, president of the Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project, to discuss the experiences of living through Prop. 187 and the impact it had on breeding a new generation of Latino activists.    ITT Staff Picks: 

• Check out The Battle of Prop 187 podcast, a collaboration between Futuro Studios and the Los Angeles Times, which explores how a ballot measure targeting immigrants changed California politics forever. 
• Pete Wilson still defending Prop. 187 and fighting for a better place in history, Gustavo's latest with the Los Angeles Times. 
• From The Sacramento Bee, an immigrant's take on how Prop. 187 motivated him to become an active voter. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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