#110: LIVE From Chicago, Suave's Story

In The Thick

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News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Maria and Julio recently hosted an In The Thick LIVE show from DePaul University series on Latinos and Mass Incarceration. For the first conversation, they're joined by Luis “Suave” Gonzalez, a former juvenile lifer and now a prison reform activist. Along with hearing Suave's story, Julio also interviews Maria, who has been covering Suave's story for more than 25 years. Stay tuned for part two and three of ITT Live from Chicago series on Latinos and Mass Incarceration.

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0:00.0	We was having meetings with top-not politicians in the city and they all knew I knew Maria Nahosa.
0:07.0	Hula!
0:08.0	Hey welcome to In The Thick, I'm Marilla Inu Hosa.
0:13.0	And I'm Julio Riccalo Varela.
0:15.0	And yo, we got something special for you today.
0:18.0	Yes, we do.
0:19.0	An In The Thick exclusive.
0:20.0	Wow.
0:21.0	So last week, Julio and I did a series of live shows in Chicago at DePaul University,
0:27.0	parentheses where I'm a visiting scholar, and the theme was all about Latinos and mass incarceration and
0:34.3	immigration and kind of intersectionality of those.
0:37.4	All you in the thick fan set came, we love you for showing up.
0:40.7	And it was in the middle of the day.
0:42.0	Yes. It was really amazing so today we're going to share the first of those three panels and it's a pretty intimate conversation.
0:51.0	It's a story that basically I've been covering for 25 years.
0:54.8	We had this conversation with Luis Suave Gonzales, who's a prison reform activist and he's a former lifer.
1:02.0	Right, he got out at the end of November and this was his second ever plane trip in his life.
1:09.0	So here's the conversation we had in front of a live audience at DePaul with Swale Gonzalez.
1:13.4	All right!
1:15.4	Yeah!
1:16.4	Whoa!
1:18.4	Welcome to a live recording of In The Thick.
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