As politicians at home and abroad continue to reel from last Friday’s outburst between Trump and Zelensky in the Oval Office, Olivia Julianna takes some time to speak with Representative Tom Suozzi. They talk about the future of Ukraine, a fractured media space, needing people to get engaged, and compromise.
Olivia Julianna is a Texas Democratic Strategist and Gen Z firebrand. She is an abortion rights activist, democracy organizer, and political influencer. With over 1 million followers across TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram, her content has accumulated over 1 billion views, changing the political landscape and putting youth voices front and center in the fight for our future.
Representative Tom Suozzi serves New York's Third Congressional District. He sits on the Committee on Ways and Means, the Subcommittee on Oversight, and the Subcommittee on Tax.
Great interview Olivia! You go girl!
Rep. Suozi, unfortunately the kind of capitalism practiced in the United States has tipped over into vulture capitalism, which most of the ruthless billionaires and all the big companies and their executives practice. This is very bad for democracy and by far the majority of its citizens.
I thought Covid and how trump reacted to it would be enough to wake people up to how ignorant and incompetent he was. I was wrong. America and Americans are going to really have to suffer before the alarm clock finally goes off. And remember this, after three years of the Great Depression Hoover still got almost 40% of the vote. Not everyone has a clock.
Great discussion
Loved listening to Olivia Julianna and Tom Suozzi. Great information. We need Tom Suozzi's voice. We need young journalists like Olivia to inspire and inform all generations.
Olivia made a good comment that I hadn’t really considered. The youth of today haven’t lived through, learned nor understand history.
The holocaust? Maybe they’ve heard of it. But don’t understand the seriousness.
The fight for voting rights and women’s rights? They’ve always been able to vote.
Abortion? It’s always been available.
Segregation? Before their time.
And schools don’t do a good job teaching history and how you have to learn from it to not repeat it.
That was all more recent when I was in school so it didn’t seem so far away. And we read about the events. We watched movies about these events. We went to museums and learned about these events.
Although you can search these on the Internet, it’s not the same as learning about them in and with a group where you can discuss the events.
Somehow this history needs to be preserved and taught to every person.
Maybe then people won’t vote against democracy.
This comment is a little off-topic but I want to opine on the wearing of the pink in Congress last night. I appreciate the desire to make a statement but dammit, I’m in mourning. The whole country is in mourning. So, I’ve decided to wear nothing but black until my human rights are restored and I am welcomed by my country as a full citizen. Until then — and it may be a very looooong time — I, a 72-year-old white woman, will wear nothing but black in public. Black is SERIOUS, black is no nonsense and not taking no for an answer, black is putting our heads down and getting to work. There’s a time for pink but it’s not now. Join me and pass it on.
This was great! Thank you, Olivia & Tom. I especially appreciate Tom's parting advice to young people: work hard and stick to your values. My great-grandfather would say: Be your own self-reliance! It is beautiful advice and it holds up under all kinds of adversity.