Midterms 2018: Young Folks Be Voting
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We start our ITT midterm elections countdown with a focus on the younger generation. Julio speaks to Sarah Audelo, executive director of the Alliance for Youth Action and two youth organizers that have been organizing in their communities and are raising their voices this election season: Yatziri Tovar, from Make The Road Action, and Gariyana Williams, from YO Save Our Streets. ITT Staff Picks
- FiveThirtyEight's analysis on the young vote in the Midterm Elections.
- Gen Z activists target youth ahead of midterms with #WhyDoYouVote campaign, from NBC.com.
- Read the We Are Texas report on the young Latino vote in that state, by Jolt.
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| 0:00.0 | If we have folks in our state senate and our assembly in our Congress representing us and not attacking our community, |
| 0:08.0 | that affects real people and you have the privilege to make a change. |
| 0:13.0 | Hey, welcome to In the Thicke a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Julio Ricardo Barrea flying solo today because my co-host |
| 0:25.8 | Mariano Hosa is already in Mexico City doing some original reporting. Joining us from Washington, D.C. |
| 0:34.1 | Is Sarah A'Oello Executive Director at Alliance for Youth Action? |
| 0:38.4 | Hey, Sarah. |
| 0:39.6 | Hey, how y'all doing? |
| 0:41.4 | Good, good, good. And joining us from our Harlem studio are two amazing youth organizers. |
| 0:48.0 | 26-year-old Yatsidi Tovar, an undocumented activist and member of Make the Road action and 20 year old |
| 0:54.5 | got a yanna Williams organizer with yoseavar streets theater of oppressed NYC and a |
| 0:59.6 | delegate with dignity in schools what's's up, Yatsidian? |
| 1:03.3 | Hi. Hey everyone. |
| 1:05.3 | All righty, this is like a special time for in the thick because you guys are the first |
| 1:11.7 | episode of our special mid-terms elections coverage. |
| 1:15.3 | So welcome. |
| 1:16.3 | Like I'm so excited that you guys are here. |
| 1:17.8 | So we're going to focus on one section of voters and that's you voters. You know we've heard this in the past right that |
| 1:25.7 | voter turnout for midterms is typically lower for presidential elections but |
| 1:31.4 | then there's this recent Gallup poll that just came out that showed |
| 1:34.1 | that enthusiasm is higher than normal for this year's midterms. So I wanted to kind of |
| 1:40.7 | get young voices to talk about this because we want to know like where |
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