| | | | Dear Newsletterreaders,
It's cold out there. Cold where we are, maybe colder where you are!
Here are some of our newsroom colleagues in snowglobe mode:
Enjoy the winter magic, and stay warm, folks! | | [ In Case You Missed It ] | |  | | This past September, Canada's Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) aired First Contact, a three-part documentary series that took six Canadians on a 28-day tour of indigenous Canada. Throughout the experience, the participants moved through different communities — from assimilated middle class families, to rural Inuit trappers up in Nunavut, to urban areas rife with the pathologies of blight. Bob spoke with two of the people behind the show, Vanessa Loewen and Jean La Rose, about its role in Canada's reconciliation process. Listen to it here. | |  | | (Hi! OTM Producer Jon here!) A while back, I transcribed a bunch of tape for this mysterious, very "New York" project for the folks over at Gimlet Media. I've been dying to hear the final result ever since. This week they've dropped their trailer, for a new show they're calling "Conviction." Sure it's technically "true-crime," but I'd describe it more as a classic New York City superhero movie — from what I've heard of it, at least. Check it out. | |  | | Facebook, the platform that brought you a genocide in Myanmar, the proliferation of junk news, and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, is finally taking steps to reassess some of its policies. On Monday, the company published a "draft charter" for a sort of Facebook Supreme Court: a consortium of 40 "global experts," who will weigh in on cases brought by users and the company regarding Facebook's rules on what can and can not be posted on the site. Sounds fancy, but will it work? Max Read breaks it down in New York Magazine. Read it! | |  | | The few American Indian stories most Americans learn in school tend to reinforce simplistic narratives of genocide, disease, and suffering. Those simplified narratives of Indian life prompted David Treuer, an Ojibwe professor at the University of Southern California, to offer a counter-narrative in the form of his book, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to the Present. This past fall, Treuer spoke with Brooke about the overlooked American Indian Movement that informed the viral 2016 protest at Standing Rock and the ways that Indians have been fighting for social and political change for centuries. Last week, the book finally went on sale, so we're re-upping this sprawling and deeply informative conversation. Listen here. | | | The knowns, the known-unknowns and the total unknowns in Venezuela. | | | Thanks for listening, and for reading. We love feedback, so please contact us with any questions or comments. We're busy, but we read them all, promise. | | | | | | |
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