Change Will Come
Julio is joined by guest co-host Jamilah King. They talk with ITT All-Stars Andrea Gonz\xe1lez-Ram\xedrez, senior writer at GEN by Medium, and Dr. Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University and co-host of the podcast FAQ NYC, on the Biden-Harris transition, their upcoming administration's policies, and Puerto Rico\u2019s election results. They also discuss the latest on the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.\xa0 ITT Staff Picks: - \u201cBy pushing for Puerto Rican statehood to benefit themselves, mainland liberals are making Puerto Rico a political pawn once again.\u201d In his latest for NBC News, Julio Ricardo-Varela explains why white liberals must let the people of Puerto Rico decide on statehood.\xa0 - \u201cThe most precious resource the U.S. health-care system has in the struggle against COVID-19 isn\u2019t some miracle drug. It\u2019s the expertise of its health-care workers\u2014and they are exhausted.\u201d Ed Yong writes about how the third pandemic surge is pushing health-care workers to the limit for The Atlantic. - \u201cOrganizations that have worked relentlessly for months to turn out the vote for Biden did not even take a weekend off to celebrate. Instead, they immediately unveiled detailed plans outlining all the executive actions a Biden-Harris administration could take within its first 100 days: from immediate student debt relief, to generous \u201cpeople\u2019s bailouts\u201d as part of its Covid-19 response, to the highly detailed \u201cFrontlines Climate Justice Executive Action Platform,\u201d backed by a coalition of powerful groups and published by the think tank Demos.\u201d\xa0writes Naomi Klein for The Intercept. Photo credit:\xa0AP Photo/Andrew Harnik \xa0
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