ITT Sound Off: Exporters of Violence
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio discuss recent updates on immigration and COVID-19 vaccine equity. They also dive into current global protests in Colombia and East Jerusalem, where civilians have been met with extreme police violence. SAVE THE DATE: Our next virtual LIVE ITT show is on Wednesday, May 26th at 7pm ET! Maria and Julio will be joined by Georgia Fort, award winning independent journalist and Tarkor Zehn, journalist and audio producer to discuss police violence, racial justice and healing in Minneapolis during the week that marks one year since the police murder of George Floyd. For more info and to RSVP, click here. ITT Staff Picks: - The latest on President Biden’s decision to lift the refugee cap, by Fernanda Echavarri for Mother Jones. - Juanita Ramos Ardila writes for Latino Rebels about the “hopelessness” many Colombians are feeling after witnessing “how in one week the country has become a scene of violence led by police aggression against protestors.” - This article for Al Jazeera provides historical context for the evictions of Palestinian families in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Photo credit: AP Photo/Fernando Vergara
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| 0:00.0 | Hey dear listener, a quick favor. |
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| 0:15.6 | To take our survey today, that's survey.prx.org slash futuro. |
| 0:22.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:25.7 | Futuro. |
| 0:34.0 | Yo family, what's up? |
| 0:35.8 | Welcome to In the Thick. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm Maria Inohosa. |
| 0:38.5 | And I'm Julio Riccalova Rela. |
| 0:40.2 | And it's Friday. |
| 0:42.3 | And it's ITT Sound Up. |
| 0:43.9 | And we are family Friday. |
| 0:47.8 | We are family. |
| 0:48.7 | OK. |
| 0:49.6 | You can tell we're happy because it's springtime. |
| 0:52.8 | We're not happy about some other stuff. |
| 0:54.9 | And we're going to get to our first topic right away. |
| 0:58.4 | It's an immigration update, which as you know, we are going to stay on this for Eva. |
| 1:03.5 | On Monday, President Joe Biden lifted the refugee cap to 62,500. |
| 1:10.6 | After initially keeping the record low limit of 15,000 set by former President Trump. |
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