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🗓️ 27 January 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:00.0 | And it's not my fault, not where I was not how I dressed. And it's not my fault. |
0:06.7 | Now where I was not how I dressed. And the rapist was you. |
0:10.9 | Recognize that chant? It's the English version of the anti-rape anthem by Chilean activists that went viral. |
0:17.8 | This version is by a flash mob of more than 100 women performing outside of the New York |
0:23.0 | City courthouse where Harvey Weinstein will be tried for rape. At the front of that pack of women |
0:28.3 | was Nalini Stamp. She's the co-founder of the Resistance Revival Chorus and Dream Defenders and one of |
0:34.6 | the leaders of the Working Family Party. Nalini is that woman who inspired us to ask, |
0:40.1 | how does she do it all? She's here. So let's find out. Nalina, nice to meet you off the Twitter. |
0:46.8 | Thank you. Yeah, nice to meet you too. Thank you for having me, Elyssie. I'm very excited. |
0:50.3 | Amazing. What did it feel like to stand outside of that courthouse and then outside of a Trump building and say those words? |
1:02.7 | It felt cathartic. I mean, I didn't really, I've done a lot of actions over the last decade. And sometimes you feel you're excited about making the impact. You're |
1:12.9 | excited about engaging in it. But sometimes you're like, well, I've done this a lot. And there |
1:16.9 | was something different that happened to me being a survivor in my own right. Being able to point |
1:25.0 | and say, you know, a violator is you, like the violator is you, |
1:28.9 | like you are the rapist. |
1:30.4 | Like, it was so powerful. |
1:34.1 | And the fact that, especially when we were doing it in front of the Weinstein trial, you know, |
1:40.6 | you had the judges, you had the courts, you had their, you know, the story is and the, and the song goes, you know, it's the courts, it's the judges, it's the cops, like, it's the system, right? And to say that and to, to be there with all of those things was just so, so powerful. And then to ride the train, we actually had a woman, we did it on the train as well, and there was an elderly woman who |
2:01.0 | was sitting down and started to cry. And I just, she was right in front of me and I just swelled up with all of these emotions because I could just only think of what she was thinking as a woman watching all of these women on the subway, just packing this subway and enchanting this and saying it's not my fault. |
2:21.1 | The fault wasn't mine, not where I was, not how I dressed. You are the rapist. Where in your own |
2:28.6 | life do these words resonate? I was assaulted and it was one of those things when I was younger. I was about |
2:36.0 | 19 years old in a club, one of those teen clubs in New York. And my, for days later, people are like, |
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