ITT Sound Off: For the Workers
In The Thick
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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio discuss the latest with the sexual assault allegation against the 2020 presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden who appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Friday to publicly address the allegation. They also cover the historic May Day strikes happening around the country and what President Trump’s executive order to keep meatpacking plants open means for the many migrant workers. ITT Staff Picks: - Rebecca Traister writes about "The Biden Trap" for her latest in The Cut. - Workers around the country share why they are striking today, via Vice. - From Jacobin: The coronavirus outbreak is revealing how a capitalist food system is failing to serve our needs.
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| 0:25.0 | Hey in the thick listeners. |
| 0:27.0 | Today's episode includes some discussion about sexual assault. |
| 0:30.0 | If you need to skip today's episode, we understand. |
| 0:33.4 | Dear listener, welcome to In The Thick. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Maria Inohosa. |
| 0:39.0 | And I'm Jorie Guarela and it's Friday and this is I Chichiti sound sound off like I couldn't say the same thing hey what's up because it's beginning to feel like groundhog's day you know every day. It's kind of like |
| 0:51.1 | No, it's a new day and we're still in a pandemic and we're gonna do the best to make |
| 0:56.9 | it through and send love and light to those who need it. |
| 1:00.0 | Look at you just being all positive and shit. |
| 1:02.6 | Anyway, so here we were Friday morning getting ready for our thing and then all of a sudden |
| 1:08.2 | everything starts exploding on my phone and I'm like, oh my God, Joe Biden is talking on MS NBC right so today there are some |
| 1:15.3 | updates about the latest sexual assault allegations against the presumptive |
| 1:19.0 | Democratic nominee for 2020 Joe Biden I'm to put in parentheses, Julio still has some |
| 1:24.8 | questions about that and this it's true. This is interesting. You're going to put |
| 1:28.8 | the end of the parentheses there. Look everybody knows that I have very complicated feelings about this story. |
| 1:36.4 | Yeah. Some sources did come forward over the past few weeks that backed the allegations |
| 1:41.2 | of Biden's former staffer from the 1990s. Her name is Tara Reed, |
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