What Equality Looks Like Terry O'Neill

What Equality Looks Like has wrapped up projection. Thank you for listening and please join me on a new podcast, Persisting. This is a podcast for progressive activists who believe our country can live up to its promise if we persist in civic engagement and holding our government officials accountable. 
Each week we discuss the topics that matter most because of their impact on our lives and country. We identify the underlying issues, the progressive road forward and concrete actions we can take to make a difference - now. 
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Alexa and Terry talk about Joe Biden's progressive agenda, the impeachment of whats-his-name, and ridiculous Republican double standards

There's more than one reason to celebrate January 20, 2021.  
 
This is a podcast for progressive activists who believe our country can live up to its promise if we persist in civic engagement and holding our government officials accountable.

Each week we discuss the topics that matter most because of their impact on our lives and country. We identify the underlying issues, the progressive road forward and concrete actions we can take to make a difference - now.

In the podcast's finale, Terry O'Neill reflects more about what equality means, and how we can best achieve it. 
"Equality, to me, would mean that historically marginalized people would be seen, and heard, and respected, and supported, no less than the privileged and powerful. When I say marginalized people, I mean communities of color, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and in particular women within those communities."

This year, despite Donald Trump’s reign of corruption, racism, and xenophobia, and despite a lot of pre-election polling that turned out to be very wrong, white women voted much the same way they did in 2016: half or a little over half voted for Trump, while only 43-45% voted for Biden. Why? And what should progressive, antiracist feminists be thinking about the coming years? 

Alexa Maros is a co-founder of PDX Persist, a grassroots organization headquartered in Portland, Oregon dedicated to achieving big structural change; racial, economic and gender justice; and making government work for all of us, not just those at the top. If that sounds familiar it should. That's the vision Elizabeth Warren laid out when she ran for president.