#1160 Backlashes (#MeToo and the Women's Movement)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 January 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 1/26/2018
Today we take a look at some of the nuances of the #MeToo movement and the predictable backlash to it as well as the backlash to Trump in the form of the one-year anniversary Women's March
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
Ch. 2: Act 1: Explaining the Aziz Ansari story - Backtalk from Bitch Media - Air Date 1-25-18
Ch. 3: Song 1: The Envelope - Aeronaut
Ch. 4: Act 2: #MeToo Backlash - @FullFrontalSamB - Air Date: 01-18-18
Ch. 5: Song 2: Lahaina - Cloud Harbor
Ch. 6: Act 3: Feminist Lessons From the Third Wave - On the Media - Air Date 1-19-18
Ch. 7: Song 3: Gullwing Sailor - Migration
Ch. 8: Act 4: Understanding the prevalence of harassment in the workplace - @offkiltershow - Air Date 11-17-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: Discovery Harbor - Cloud Harbor
Ch. 10: Act 5: “The Year of Our Awakening” Global Protests Mark Anniversary of Women’s March & Trump Inauguration - @DemocracyNow - Air Date 01-22-18
Ch. 11: Song 5: Paper Feather - Migration
Ch. 12: Act 6: Raise Women’s Voices By Fighting Voter Suppression via @Let_AmericaVote - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 13: Song 6: Cicle Veroni - Cicle Kadde
Ch. 14: Act 7: Kimberlé Crenshaw speech at the Women's March - Sojourner Truth Radio - Air Date 1-23-18
Voicemails
Ch. 15: NYC March #1 - Alan from Connecticut
Ch. 16: March #2 - Alan from Connecticut
Ch. 17: Good news on the gerrymandering front in Pennsylvania - Erin from Philadelphia
Ch. 18: Pessimistic about defeating gerrymandering - Annie from Alabama
Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
Ch. 19: Final comments on being optimistic and the wrongheadedness of seeing people as complex and 3-dimensional
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Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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The Surprising Ways Voter Suppression Particularly Hurts Women (Alternet)
Women's March 2018 Isn't About Trump —It's About Upending The Entire Political System (Newsweek)
Voter Suppression Targets Women, Youth and Communities of Color (Issue Advisory, Part One) (NOW.org)
In NC, Voter Suppression Hits Women & People of Color Hardest. (Southern Coalition for Social Justice; 2014)
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| 0:29.0 | Now, welcome to this episode of the award winning best of the left podcast in which we |
| 0:33.5 | shall examine the accusations against Aziz Ansari not for the story itself but as a lens |
| 0:40.8 | through which to see and understand some of the more nuanced aspects of the Me Too movement. |
| 0:46.5 | We will make our way through understanding the backlash to the Me Too movement that has |
| 0:50.8 | arrived right on schedule. |
| 0:53.0 | Be reminded of the prevalence of sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace and use all of |
| 0:58.4 | that as a launch pad into some of the speeches from the last weekend's one year anniversary |
| 1:03.3 | women's march. |
| 1:04.8 | Then stick around to the very end where I will explain why it makes perfect sense to be |
| 1:09.5 | optimistic about the future of gerrymandering and why it's wrong to say that people are |
| 1:15.3 | complex three-dimensional characters as many so often like to claim. |
| 1:20.6 | Our clips today come from Backtalk from Bitch Media, full frontal with Samantha B, on the |
| 1:26.1 | media, off-kilter, democracy now and so John or truth radio. |
| 1:33.8 | Grace met Aziz Ansari at a party. |
| 1:45.6 | They made a date to hang out in New York. |
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