LIVE From Jackson: Immigration and 2020
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Futuro Media and Mississippi Today present this LIVE In The Thick show from Mississippi! Maria and Julio travel to downtown Jackson at The Alamo Theatre to discuss immigration and criminal justice reform in Mississippi. They're joined by Lorena Quiroz-Lewis, lead organizer with Mississippi Immigrant Coalition and co-founder of Immigrant Alliance for Justice and Equity and Rukia Lumumba, attorney and executive director of the Peoples Advocacy Institute to discuss the aftermath of the ICE raids in Mississippi last summer and how immigrant rights activism ties into the state's upcoming Democratic presidential primary. Be sure to check your feeds for a special ITT Bonus where you can listen to a live performance from musician and songwriter Teneia, who opened our show! ITT Staff Picks: - Ingrid Cruz breaks down what happened in Mississippi last summer, via Stylecaster. - After the ICE Raids, Mississippi's chicken country faces a reckoning, via The New York Times. - People keep dying in Mississippi prisons, via The Intercept. These live tapings of In The Thick and podcast workshops are made possible through support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Â
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| 0:27.0 | Ola ITT Familia, it's Mariano Rosa here. |
| 0:33.0 | And it's Hulio Rico-Lo-A-Loe-Lah. |
| 0:35.0 | What's up, fam? |
| 0:36.0 | So listen, we're about to drop our live show from Jackson, Mississippi, which was... |
| 0:40.0 | Oh, Bueno, I, you know, I have this really now soft spot in my heart from Mississippi, I got to tell you. |
| 0:47.0 | We had a really intimate crowd, which was super energetic by the way also, very deep conversation with two badass women who had been at the forefront of |
| 0:57.0 | immigrant rights and criminal justice reform in Mississippi. |
| 1:00.0 | You know what happened in Mississippi was that days after the massacre in El Paso |
| 1:05.0 | targeting Latinos and Mexicans and Mexican Americans there was an ice raid there |
| 1:10.3 | and so we're talking about that and connecting this all back to the primary election |
| 1:15.4 | season and I also was able to do some reporting for Latino USA so stay tuned for |
| 1:20.4 | that but before we get to our Mississippi show, oh gee, like a couple of things |
| 1:25.8 | happened over this weekend. Huh, huh. In the state called Nevada. Yeah, the Nevada |
| 1:31.5 | Caucus was Saturday and if you've been following ITT, right? |
| 1:35.4 | The results shouldn't be surprising. |
| 1:37.4 | Bernie Sanders declared the winner by a huge, huge margin. 96% of the precincts have reported results at the time of what we're |
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