#1147 The thrill and horror of the Harvey Weinstein Effect
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 21 November 2017
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 11/21/2017
Today we look at gender-based harassment and assault, the revolution in thinking on the subject we are currently in the midst of and some ideas to institutionalize positive change
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Sexual Harassment, Revisited - On The Media - Air Date 10-26-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: Open Flames - Aeronaut
Ch. 4: Act 2: #MeToo is a movement just to be believed - Backtalk from @BitchMedia - Air Date 10-19-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: Streamer - Arc and Crescent
Ch. 6: Act 3: Understanding the Clinton legacy in the debate over sexual harassment - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 11-20-17
Ch. 7: Song 3: Marble Chase - Dorica
Ch. 8: Act 4: Alyssa Peterson on Campus Sexual Assault - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 11-3-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: Lakal - Speakeasy
Ch. 10: Act 5: Hollywood Actors: Sexual Abuse Of Boys Is "Rampant" - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 11-01-17
Ch. 11: Song 5: The Envelope - Aeronaut
Ch. 12: Act 6: How to facilitate reporting of harassment in the workplace - @offkiltershow - Air Date 11-17-17
Ch. 13: Song 6: Chilvat - Lillehammer
Ch. 14: Act 7: Rebecca Traister on the ‘Harvey Weinstein Effect’ - The Breach - Air Date 11-21-17
Voicemails
Ch. 15: A few thoughts on guns, race and gender - Margareet from Northern California
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 16: Final comments on working for gender equality while avoiding the unavoidable backlash (Reminder: Check out our Winter Fundraiser!)
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions)
ACTION & INFORMATION
Need help? Call the 24-hour National Sexual Assault Hotline toll-free: 1-800-656-HOPE
1 in 6 (Organization supporting men who have been sexually assaulted)
Know Your IX (Defending Title IX - Empowering students to stop sexual violence)
Your Reckoning. And Mine. by Rebecca Traister (The Cut)
Ellen Page on Brett Ratner Abuse & Reckoning (Ellen Page via Facebook)
There’s a little-known fund that goes to victims of sexual harassment on the Hill. You pay for it. (Vox)
Study: Hotel Housekeepers Are at Great Risk for Sexual Assault From Guests (New Republic)
700,000 Female Farmworkers Say They Stand With Hollywood Actors Against Sexual Assault (TIME)
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| 0:00.0 | If employers and employees take the steps to change workplace culture so that harassment |
| 0:07.6 | doesn't happen, unwelcome behavior doesn't happen, it will help everyone. |
| 0:16.3 | A quick reminder that we have launched our two-in-one fundraiser to raise funds for my upcoming |
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| 0:43.7 | And now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cups Today from On the Media, |
| 0:48.8 | Backtalk from Bitch Media, The Ezra Klein Show, Counter-Spin, The Young Turks, Off-Kilter, and The Bleach. |
| 1:01.0 | To read the news over the past two weeks, is to get the sense that at least in the nation's |
| 1:05.6 | most elite precincts, the party's finally over. Hollywood director James Tobak now being accused |
| 1:12.3 | by at least 38 women of sexual harassment and assault. |
| 1:15.2 | The Hart Steel fired from Vox Media after allegations of sexual harassment on which he admitted his guilt. |
| 1:21.6 | The only celebrity chef John Besch now accused of allowing a toxic culture in his restaurants |
| 1:26.9 | from the kitchens to the front office. |
| 1:28.8 | Wall Street Journal says that a fidelity investments tech fund manager has resigned. |
| 1:33.9 | You can read Bill O'Reilly struck a $32 million agreement with a longtime network analyst |
| 1:39.6 | to several allegations of sexual misconduct. |
| 1:41.7 | Amazon's Roy Price also resigned today after being put on leave last week after an allegation |
| 1:46.8 | of sexual harassment. Five women say Mark Halperin sexually harassed them while he was an |
| 1:51.7 | executive at ABC News. Since the news have disgraced Neuromax co-founder Harvey Weinstein's |
| 1:57.7 | sexual predations, accusations have been lodged and apologies issued from men in Hollywood, |
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