In The Thick

One of the most contentious issues has been determining the number of the people who died because of Hurricane Maria. Julio traveled to San Juan, Puerto Rico for the anniversary of the tragedy to speak with Omaya Sosa, investigative reporter and co-founder of the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, the media institution that has been leading the reporting on the death count on the ground for the past year.   ITT Staff Picks

• The Centro de Periodismo Investigativo worked to find the names and stories of more than 200 victims of Maria.
• From CNN, how the number went from 65 to almost 3,000 casualties.
• Lessons on how to cover hurricane Maria, according to Omaya Sosa (published at ICIJ).  For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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A year ago, Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico. The past 12 months have brought disorganized recovery efforts, an estimated thousands of deaths and an island that refuses to let go of its resiliency. In The Thick is dedicating a two-part special series to honor this tragic anniversary. In Part 1, Maria and Julio talk to two Puerto Rican journalists: Arelis Hernández, from The Washington Post, and Bianca Padró Ocasio, from The Orlando Sentinel, who've both been covering the impact of Hurricane Maria. They discuss the aftermath of both climate change and the federal and local politics.  ITT Staff Picks:

• The recent poll from The Washington Post and the Kaiser Foundation about the impact of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
• Julio’s latest think piece about Trump's lies around Hurricane Maria's death toll, in NBC News. 
• Bianca's personal essay of her experience watching the hurricane destroy her home from afar, in The Orlando Sentinel.
• Arelis' latest report on the seaside town of Naguabo, Puerto Rico, via The Washington Post. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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The #MMIWG (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls) movement has been gaining momentum in the U.S. and Canada, as Indigenous women call for an end to targeted violence. Maria and Julio speak about this widespread issue with Annita Lucchesi, a Southern Cheyenne cartographer who has built the largest database of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and Jenni Monet, an independent journalist and tribal member of the Pueblo of Laguna.   ITT Staff Picks 

• The Intercept on how politicians are only now starting to pay attention to the missing Indigenous women.
• Annita Lucchesi's work: How a database is tracking the disappeared indigenous women (from Bustle).
• Jenni Monet's article for PBS, linking the women's march and to Indigenous women's rights.
• Check out CBC's Missing and Murdered podcast series, where Indigenous investigative reporter Connie Walker documents the stories of the community. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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For this LIVE In The Thick in Los Angeles, Maria sat down with Judy Reyes from Scrubs and Claws, USC professor and author Manuel Pastor, and one of our ITT All-Stars, comedian Cristela Alonzo, to discuss California as a leader in promoting immigrant rights, diversity, and social justice.   ITT Staff Picks

• James Fallows reviews Manuel Pastor's latest book, State of Resistance (NY Times).
• Cristela Alonzo's profile on NPR, from 2012.
• Judy Reyes talks about her character and representing the LGBTQ community in Claws (Hidden Remote).For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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Algorithms, social media and technology are increasingly becoming a risk for communities of color. Maria and Julio talk about zeroes and ones with Surya Mattu, researcher with The MIT Center for Civic Media, and Jazmine Ulloa, reporter for the Los Angeles Times.

ITT Staff Picks

• How online trolls are using immigration as political wedge for midterms, Jazmine's latest for the Los Angeles Times.
• Machine bias in the court system, ProPublica's investigation that Surya was a part of
• Meet the activists that are fighting algorithm biases.
• Is Facebook breaking democracy? A new in-depth piece in The New Yorker.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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It's another intense week in Washington, D.C., and Maria and Julio are back to break down the latest. They talk about the chaotic Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, what the end of the Flores Agreement means for minors crossing the border and, of course, the New York Times op-ed on resistance within the White House.   ITT Staff Picks

• Of course, here it is in case you haven't read it already, the NYT's piece "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration."
• "Whose resistance is it anyway?" asks The Atlantic.
• From Slate: why Kavanaugh should be impeached instead of confirmed.

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Julio and Maria talk with Arjun Singh Sethi, a civil rights lawyer, writer and law professor who interviewed 13 survivors of hate crimes and edited their testimonies for his new book American Hate: Survivors Speak Out.   ITT Staff Picks

• Why does the U.S. fail at gathering hate crime stats? ProPublica explains.

• HuffPost's story on the tragedy of the Jabara family and the rise of Islamophobia. 

• America Ferrera writes about Jeanette Vizguerra in the latest 100 Most Influential People list from TIME.

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In this rebroadcast episode from earlier this year, Maria and Julio are joined by Shelby Chestnut, National Organizing and Policy Strategist with Transgender Law Center, and Verónica Bayetti Flores, freelance writer and co-host of Radio Menea. They discuss the LGBT rights movement and how the media can do a better job of covering the LGBT community.   

 ITT Staff Picks:

• Check out Latino USA's Interview with the stars of FX's 'Pose.'
• Read about The New York Times' coverage of LGBT candidates running in midterms. 
• The latest case of workplace discrimination reaches the Supreme Court by Rewire.News.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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Back in February, Maria and Julio sat down with immigration activist Ravi Ragbir, who had endured what a federal judge called an "unnecessarily cruel" detainment and was threatened with a scheduled deportation. Since then, Ravi has been granted a stay from a New Jersey judge. But earlier this month, he was back in court in New York, fighting to be granted a second stay in hopes of preventing his new scheduled deportation date, September 7, 2018. With the recent updates to Ravi's case, In The Thick brings a special rebroadcast of Maria and Julio's conversation with Ravi and Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the NYCLU. 

ITT Staff Picks:

• The Intercept's latest reporting on the First Amendment lawsuit that Ravi is a part of.
• Amy Gottlieb, the associate regional director of the Northeast Region of American Friends Service Committee and Ravi's wife, wrote this OpEd in the Washington Post. 
• NPR's reporting on how ICE is targeting immigrant activists. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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In 2008, ICE agents descended on a small rural town in Iowa for their largest operation in the history of the United States. As a result, the population of Postville was slashed almost in half and its economy collapsed. Maria and Julio talk to Almudena Toral and Ronny Rojas, two of the journalists behind a new documentary from Univision detailing the aftermath of the raid.   ITT Staff Picks

• Watch the full documentary on Postville, at the Univision site for free (available in English and Spanish).

• Do immigrants actually "steal" jobs in small rural towns? This American Life asked an economist to answer this question.

• Read this report from the Center for American Progress on the financial costs of mass deportation.
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