Not Done: Women Remaking America (2020) Movie Script
1
(National Anthem Playing)
COOPER: The 20th century
wasa whirlwind century in terms of
changing things for women.
I had the pleasure of
knowing my great-grandmother,
Little Mama we called her.
From her being born in 1903,
to me being born in
1980 was a huge shift in
what is possible for women.
You get the right
to vote in 1920,
the passage of the
Civil Rights Act in 1964.
And then in 1965
the Voting Rights Act.
Finally, everyone
gets the right to vote.
And then you begin to
have a veritable feminist
uprising in this country.
JORDAN: We are
attempting to fulfill the
promise of America.
COOPER: But when I
began teaching a decade ago,
my young women students
were very quick to tell me
they didn't know why they
needed to be feminists.
That all of their rights
had basically been won
and been secured.
STEINEM: I think after the
activists of the 70s began
to have children,
those children kind of felt
their mothers had done it,
and they didn't have to.
TRAISTER: In periods that
follow apparent successes,
what you get then is a
sense of complacency,
the sense that we fixed it.
OBAMA: We have come so far.
TRAISTER: The sense that,
that pernicious
sense that we're done.
CLINTON: I accept your
nomination for President of
the United States!
COOPER: Now the
tide has shifted and I see
an anger and a passion.
We're in a sea change, here.
DAKHIL: Something
awoke in women everywhere.
A primal scream, really.
SARSOUR: Follow women
of color, sisters and brothers.
Because when
we fight for justice,
we fight for it for all people.
CULLORS: Black Lives Matter
created a new playing field.
And I'm proud of us.
BURKE: MeToo is a tiny part
of a large movement that's been
happening for decades.
KANTOR: A lot did change in
the wake of these revelations,
and I think it's about
women coming together.
CRENSHAW: Then there'sthis
moment where it was, like,
"Oh my god,
we haven't progressed at
allsince Anita Hill came forward."
GAY: So some people
are outraged enough to
run for office.
UNDERWOOD: I'm Lauren Underwood,
running for Congress.
GARZA: This country is changing,
it's been changed,
and I think we
have an opportunity
this time to do it right.
RHIMES: We need to all
agree to be difficult, crazy,
bitches who need to go.
PROTESTORS: Black
Trans Lives Matter.
CULLORS: There is a new
found language around who
gets to claim feminism.
STEINEM: Now it's a
majority and it's unapologetic.
THUNBERG: Our
house is on fire...
STEINEM: Now we
know it's a revolution
IRON EYES: All
that movements are,
are devastation
and at the same time,
tremendous amounts of hope.
(overlapping chatter)
(Cheering)
DAUGHTER: Mom
why are you crying?
MOTHER: I got to vote
for a woman for president.
WOMAN: To push that button
next to a female's name was,
so awesome.
EMMETT: Maybe that's
why God's let me live this long,
he wanted me to
have one last thrill.
GARCIA-DANIELS: I know we're
gonna have a Madame President.
VOTER: We are all in
anticipation of a great
victory and a historic occasion.
GAY: I was very confident
on the election day.
I went and I voted early.
So I actually was going to
go to bed early because I was
just like, "Hillary's
totally got this in the bag."
And right before I decided
to go to my bedroom,
I started to notice that
the little meter on the
New York Times website that
was indicating the likelihood
of whoever was going
to win was leaving from
Hillary's side and moving
to Donald Trump's side.
WALLACE: And no
matter what happens,
Trump had a lot more
support, in a lot more states,
among a lot more people
than the polls detected.
KAPLAN: We were at
the Javits Center that night
with the Clinton campaign.
By about 9:00 at night
it was looking pretty bad.
It was kind of like walking
around a funeral, frankly.
CRENSHAW: First of
all, I just took to my bed.
I just couldn't move.
It felt like a future that we
could see ourselves in and
building off of the momentum
from the past eight years had
just disintegrated.
GAY: I think for those
of us who are Black,
it was easy to just be like,
"Yeah, white people
are going to white."
But the next day it was very
hard because I kept thinking
about what the world
was going to look like,
and what the world
was going to feel like,
and what my nieces were
going to be able to think
was possible for them.
CLINTON: I know we have still
not shattered that highest and
hardest glass
ceiling, but someday,
someone will and
hopefully sooner than we
might think right now.
And to all the little girls
who are watching this,
never doubt that you are
valuable and powerful and
deserving of every chance
and opportunity in the
world to pursue and
achieve your own dreams.
RICHARDS: I was not
surprised that Hillary Clinton lost.
I know there are many reasons
that people have given for why
she was not a great candidate.
But I think that ultimately
what was underlying a lot of
people's resistance was quite
simply that she was a woman.
And more specifically she
was a smart, competent woman.
Because she was about to
assume the most powerful
position in the world, and
she very much knew what
she would do with that power.
And I think that that's
what threatened people.
TRAISTER: For a lot of
white middle-class women,
it was this enormous
wake-up call.
Hillary Clinton was
just going to win.
Of course she was going to win.
Trump had been caught on tape
bragging about grabbing women
against their will.
Donald Trump was
an incompetent racist.
He wasn't going to win.
And the fact that he did,
opened the eyes of a lot of
people who had been
asleep for a long time.
MCGRATH: There was a woman
in our company who was in tears.
She's a white woman and
she was just talking about her
fears for her daughter.
Will she be able
to control her body?
What kind of
destiny will she have?
And then this young African
American woman said,
"You know, I hear you.
But I'm a black woman
from North Carolina,
and I've been done
dirty my whole life.
This is America.
This has always been America.
So welcome.
The water's warm."
TRAISTER: It made clear
to a lot of people who had
for a long time believed
the flattering lies
about this country and the
progress that it had made.
I think it woke a
lot of people up.
SARSOUR: The women's
march idea came from a retired
attorney in Hawaii, a woman
named Theresa Shook,
who literally just posted on
Facebook immediately after the
election results,
we have to march.
And immediately it went viral.
TRAISTER: There's
a lot of enthusiasm,
especially from middle-class
white communities.
And then there's a
critical response to this.
SARSOUR: Particularly
women of color were giving
kind of side-eye.
Like, "Mmm, yeah, I'm
supposed to follow some, like,
white ladies that never
marched with us before?"
I was feeling so
betrayed by my country.
I was feeling betrayed by
white women who voted for
Donald Trump at 53%.
And so I actually went in
the event and I commented
"I hope that you
include Muslim women."
And eventually
myself, Carmen Perez,
and Tamika D. Mallory,
all women of color,
were invited to join the
women's march in
a leadership position.
MALLORY: I come as an
angry black woman at all times
of my life.
SARSOUR: I have been
serving in my own community as a
civil rights activist
since the ashes of 9/11.
It absolutely felt the Women's
March was going to be a place
for me to redefine what it
looks like to have a women's
rights movement in America.
We specifically and by
design talked about race.
We cannot assume what
different women from different
backgrounds
prioritize as issues.
We cannot say that
reproductive rights is the
most important issue
for every community,
when you have Black mothers
who just want their Black sons
to come home to them at night.
Or undocumented women
who just want to come home and
not be separated
from their families.
And so we were figuring out
how to build an intersectional
movement that wasn't just
about the diversity of women,
but actually the diversity
of issues that impact us.
TRAISTER: Encouragement
of contentious dialogue between
participants, any mainstream
evaluator would have said,
"this is a huge risk."
And in fact they did.
You know, will people show up?
Are there going to be people,
people have been
excited about this,
but now somebody is saying
they have a problem with race.
When in fact, what the
organizers were betting on is
that it was going
to be a recipe for
strength moving forward.
FLIGHT ATTENDANT:
Ladies and Gentlemen we have
arrived in Baltimore.
I just want to know how
many of you are going to
the March on Washington?
(cheering)
You're going to the
women's march, right?
CROWD: Yes!
FLIGHT ATTENDANT: Let's
get a round of applause for all the
nasty women on board.
(cheering and applause)
WOMAN: If you're ready
to march on Washington,
let me hear you make some noise.
WILSON: I heard about
the march through two
other female firefighters.
We took the train
and the platform was
just filled with people,
in their pink hats,
we all were pushing
and cramming in.
SWISHER: I took my sons,
and a bunch of their male friends.
I couldn't get the hats
on them, but whatever.
I didn't wear one either.
FERRERA: I was at the march
in Washington DC and I was the
opening speaker.
Good Morning.
I didn't know that I
was going to be first up,
and then they were like,
"It's you!" and I
was like, "What?"
I am deeply honored to march
with you today as a woman,
and as a proud first
generation American born to
Honduran immigrants.
We are America.
PROTESTORS: This is
what democracy looks like.
WOMAN: Show me
what democracy looks like.
PROTESTORS: This is
what democracy looks like.
CRENSHAW: It was a
spiritualexperience to finally be able to
go to Washington,
DC as women of color...
WOMAN: I am my sisters keeper
I'm gonna say her name.
CRENSHAW: And to be
there with young people.
We flew a young woman from
my hometown to come with us,
and she would lead the
protest and the chants with us.
It was just great to see
that intergenerational
passing the torch.
STEINEM: This is the
upside of the downside.
SARSOUR: We thought a
quarter of a million people
were going to come and
about 1.2 million people came,
to the point that we
weren't even able to march
because we pretty much shut
downthe entire Capitol Hill area.
It was the largest
single-day demonstration
in American history.
TRAISTER: It was in cities
across the United States and
around the world.
It was in Antarctica.
KANTOR: And it happened
in some of the small and
medium-sized towns in
this country not the so-called
coastal elite enclaves.
CRENSHAW: I see this as
amoment of taking feminism back,
making feminism a project
that all of us can share.
CULLORS: Has it
been perfect? No.
No movement is
perfect, it can't be.
But the promise was an
intersectional movement.
TRAISTER: The one thing that'stoo
bad about the Women's March,
is that it's read as being
a reaction to Trump,
which by many
means, sure it was.
It was born on election
night and all of that.
But one of the reasons it was
important that the co-chairs
of the women's march came
from different movements
is because they knew
what was already bubbling.
Movements around Indigenous
rights, environmental justice,
immigration reform, mass
incarceration, gun violence,
all of which are of
course women's issues.
And it's in the
Obama administration,
that you see the development
of Black Lives Matter.
And that is a movement
that is founded by queer
black women in response
to systemic racial violence.
NEWSCASTER: It's
thestory that's ignited fierce
passions across the nation.
NEWSCASTER: Trayvon
Martin, an unarmed black teenager,
was shot down by a white
neighborhood watchman who
claimed self-defense.
PATRISSE: After the shooting
and killing of Trayvon Martin,
I watched as George Zimmerman
was acquitted on
every single count.
FOREWOMAN: We the jury
find George Zimmerman not guilty.
CULLORS: I was in shock.
It still leaves me breathless.
GARZA: I thought to myself,
there's no way that they
could let this man walk away
from murdering a child
who had done nothing to him.
CULLORS: So I went on social
media, looking for answers,
connection, resolve, reprieve.
And I went to
Alicia Garza's page,
who's one of my closest friends.
GARZA: I woke up in
the middle of the night.
I started writing some
stuff on Facebook.
CULLORS: And she wrote
a love letter to black folks.
GARZA: And I wrote underneath
it that I love black people,
I love us, and that
our lives matter.
And Patrisse read it, and I
believe she put a hashtag in
front of it.
And I didn't know
what a hashtag was.
Cause, you know,
I'm not a millennial.
CULLORS: When I put the hashtag,
she definitely was
like, "What's was that?"
And I was like, "This
thing, we're going to make
this thing go viral."
Opal Tometi jumped on
board, and the three of us,
within days, started
Black Lives Matter,
which was an online
platform at first,
but by the time Michael
Brown was murdered,
really turned into
a global movement.
PROTESTERS: We want answers.
NEWSCASTER: On the
streets of Ferguson, Missouri,
outrage and anger.
Protestors of different ages
and races demanding answers in
the shooting death of
18-year-old Michael Brown at
the hands of a policeman.
Witnesses said Brown's
body lay in the street for hours.
GARZA: We organized a
freedom ride to Ferguson,
to witness, to support.
PROTESTERS: Black Lives Matter.
Black Lives Matter.
CULLORS: The mandate was
to show up for the people there,
and then go home and fight
because every place we lived
was Ferguson.
WOMAN: Whose lives matter?
CROWD: Black lives matter!
GARZA: It became an
international rallying cry.
SARSOUR: To see a
new iteration of a civil rights
movement led by
young black woman,
queer women most often at
the margins of society and see
them in this like leadership
position was very inspiring to
other marginalized people.
COOPER: They had learned
the lessons of the 1960s and 1970s
and all of the tales of Black
women experiencing sexism
in those movements,
experiencing homophobia.
And they said, this thing
we can do differently.
GARZA: Patrisse and I and
Opal have been really clear
from the beginning that
it's all of us or none of us.
Black women, black
queer and trans folks are
disproportionately impacted
by the criminal justice system,
by policing, by issues of
safety, violence, and harm.
And I think this decade has
been a decade of women saying
it's not only time for
change but that it's time that
we are leading the change.
KANTOR: Believe or not, the
Harvey Weinstein story started
with Bill O'Reilly.
MUIR: We begin tonight with
that bombshell announcement
from Fox News.
NEWSCASTER: Bill
O'Reilly the host of cable's
most popular show
for sixteen years,
out in the wake of that
growingsexual harassment scandal.
KANTOR: Something was
starting to shift, you could feel it.
Revelations about
Roger Ailes, Bill Cosby.
An Uber employee, became
a kind of whistleblower
at that company.
Now we're used to the idea
that powerful men could lose
their jobs for these reasons.
But this was like a change
in the whole weather system.
And that's when I
started working on the
Harvey Weinstein story.
TWOHEY: I was actually
home on maternity leave.
I was surrounded by diapers
and bottles and attempts at
sleep training.
When I got a phone call
from my colleague Jodi Kantor.
KANTOR: Megan had
been a sex-crimes reporter
for a long time.
She had done the
Trump allegations.
TWOHEY: Jodi had just
begun looking into these
rumors that this powerful
Hollywood producer
had preyed on actresses
and other women for decades.
KANTOR: Megan had a series
of really interesting objections
to the story at the beginning.
TWOHEY: As
investigative reporters,
you're really looking for
opportunities to help give
voice to the voiceless.
And it was hard for me to
conceive of some of these
famous Hollywood celebrities
as being victims who were in
need of help of
the New York Times
investigative reporting unit.
But, Jodi had made a case
to me which was that listen,
if these women have also been
victims of sexual harassment
it suggests that
nobody is immune.
KANTOR: We understood
some of what we were up against,
but we didn't
understand all of it.
TWOHEY: Harvey Weinstein
was one of the most famous and
influential producers
in Hollywood.
And he had been for decades.
LAWRENCE: Harvey, thank
you for killing whoever you had to
kill to get me up here today.
AFFLECK: Harvey Weinstein.
HUNTER: Harvey
and Bob Weinstein.
WILLIAMS: The
mishpucka Weinstein.
ZELLWEGGER: Harvey Weinstein.
DICAPRIO: Harvey
and Bob Weinstein.
CRUZ: Thank you
Harvey Weinstein.
WILLIAMS: Thank you to Harvey.
KIDMAN: Harvey.
SCORESE: I have to
thank Harvey Weinstein.
STREEP: And God,
Harvey Weinstein.
TWOHEY: Even when actresses
started to get on the phone
with us, they were
terrified to go on the record.
And that's why we
really threw ourselves into
collecting other
bodies of evidence,
the financial trail of payoffs.
KANTOR: I was secretly
meeting with Weinstein's
accountant of 30 years,
Irwin Reiter, who became
the kind of deep throat
of the Weinstein investigation
and was giving us essential
information and documents.
TWOHEY: Records that showed
that there were allegations as
recently as 2015.
So we were able to
afterbuilding this body of evidence,
go back to some of the
women who had been telling
us about their experiences
in secret and say,
"Listen, we're asking
you to go on the record
with this whole mountain of
evidence underneath you."
KANTOR: With only
days to go until publication,
Ashley Judd bravely
went on the record.
She became the first
actress to go on record.
And then, Laura Madden, a
mom in Wales went on the record.
She's a former
assistant of Weinstein.
She had a horrible story of
assault from a hotel room in
Ireland in 1992.
Mom of four kids,
recently divorced,
she was just days away
from breast cancer surgery.
And Laura was very worried
about going on the record.
She called her
daughters into her kitchen.
They thought that she wanted
to talk to them about the surgery,
but instead for the
first time she told them
her Weinstein story.
TWOHEY: What happened
next really shocked her.
They actually started to
open up to her about the
experiences that their
friends had gone through.
So, at the end of
that conversation,
she sent an email to us
saying that she didn't want
her daughters to grow up
in a world where this type of
abusive behavior was
acceptable and that she too
was prepared to
be a named source.
The day before the story was
published, Weinstein himself,
barged into the New
York Times, uninvited,
and insisting on
meeting with us,
trying to bully us
trying to intimidate us.
He had a team of high-priced
lawyers who were coming after
us who were
threatening to sue us.
KANTOR: He hired private
spies to try to dupe us.
TWOHEY: But in the end,
it was no match for the truth.
KANTOR: I still remember
the exact moment when we
hit the publish button.
We're all huddled around a
desk in the New York Times
Investigations Unit.
And then Rory Tolan,
one of our editors,
pushed the button.
TWOHEY: We kind of
watched with wonder as the story
started to take
off like wildfire.
NEWSCASTER: One of the
most powerful men in showbiz,
out of his company.
NEWSCASTER: The damning
report in the New York Times
detailing numerous sexual
harassment allegations
spanning decades.
NEWSCASTER: Another
explosive story today,
this time in "The New Yorker".
TWOHEY: Ronan Farrow
within days had also done his first
story about Harvey Weinstein.
And our phones, our emails,
were being flooded with women
who are coming forward,
telling their own stories of
abuse and harassment.
To just feel like the dam broke.
For us, those were the first
indications that there was a
real significant societal
shiftthat was starting to happen.
NEWSCASTER: And reaction
to the Harvey Weinstein scandal
exploding overnight...
NEWSCASTER: Millions of
women across the country and around
the world, sharing their
experience with sexual
harassment and abuse
online, using the #MeToo.
NEWSCASTER: That
movement took off last weekend,
when Alyssa
Milano highlighted it
on Twitter posting:
"If you've been sexually
harassed or assaulted,
write me too as a
reply to this tweet."
SARSOUR: The Metoo
movement hashtag went viral
because Alyssa
Milano made it go viral.
But the actual founder
of that movement was a
Black woman named Tarana Burke.
BURKE: The day
that it goes viral,
I saw a post that said
"Me Too" on Facebook.
I was so confused, I
was like, "What is this?"
I just saw that this
hashtag was trending.
And then I inboxed my
friend and said, what is this?
And she was like, "Oh,
girl, it's everywhere!
This is great!" You
know, like, "Congrat..."
kind of thinking it was me.
So that really is
what set the panic off.
The reality that I know of
other Black women whose work
has been erased, or
who they've been erased
from their work.
And people started
tweeting at Alyssa saying,
"This already exists."
She tweeted out the
informationas soon as she got it,
and acknowledged me after that,
and then reached out
to me after that and said,
"How can I be of help, how
can I amplify your work?"
And then three
days later we were on
national television together.
GUTHRIE: We're joined now
by Tarana Burke the creator of
the Me Too movement
and Alyssa Milano,
one of the actresses who
helped that hashtag go viral.
Do I have this right, you
just met each other in person
a few moments ago.
MILANO: We did, but
we text like 20 times a day.
BURKE: I could
never imagine this.
I could have never
envisioned something that
would be, that would
change the world.
I was trying to
change my community.
The 2005-2006 school year,
my best friend and I
had decided to start this
organization with black
and brown girls in Selma.
The girls who we
had in our program,
start telling us
about sexual violence
that they experienced.
And so, I practiced
deeplylistening to little black girls
when they told me the
truth about their lives.
And in the spaces
where they could not find
the strength to do that,
my story became
the impetus for it.
This happened to me too.
I know what you're holding.
And just the simple
act of believing them
changed everything.
WALSH: The way the
hashtag exploded on Twitter,
I think shows us that
while we all thought we
were alone, we're not.
TWOHEY: It felt like just
all of this hidden pain that
had affected
generations of women,
not just here in the
United States but
around the world,
being excavated.
KANTOR: And then very quickly,
it was stories about
other men as well.
NEWSCASTER: Matt Lauer
has been fired over reports of
inappropriate sexual behavior.
NEWSCASTER: More accusations
emerge against Mario Batali.
NEWSCASTERS: Brett
Ratner, also the subject...
Michael Oreskes. Mark
Halperin. Louis CK. Charlie Rose.
More women are speaking out...
James Toback. Roy Moore.
Leslie Moonves. Kevin Spacey.
Open Secret. Tavis
Smiley. Russell Simmons.
The wave of allegations
against powerful men
Growing larger by the day.
BURKE: It's about power.
Whether you are
Weinstein or Charlie Rose
or R. Kelly.
Whether it's in the workplace
or the church or the home.
It's the same thing.
TOLENTINO: I think MeToois
one of the best and most
tangible consequences
of feminism becoming
a mainstream ideology.
There were enough
feminist women in
positions of power
that the story couldn't
be buried anymore.
It was this tidal wave of
almost forced understanding,
that this is not a
women's issue, right?
it's a broad social ill.
It was time.
REPORTER: Any comment Harvey?
PORTMAN: It was right
after the Weinstein revelations
came out and of course
everyonewas feeling shocked like,
"How can we respond to this?
How can we change things?"
FERRERA: I was
invited by agents at CAA.
It was not a formal type thing,
it was just coming
together trying to figure out,
what could we
say in this moment?
What could we do in this moment?
DAKHIL: There was this
urgent feeling that if we didn't
do something immediately,
that this would be
some news cycle
that would wash out.
So I called Reese,
I called Natalie.
I called Shonda Rhimes,
who I don't know but she just
seemed like this superpower.
Had to talk fast before
she hung up on me.
RHIMES: I'm a writer, I
didn't know any of these
women at all, really.
But I said, yes,
cause I was mad.
What I remember most
is that Natalie Portman
brought her baby.
And so then there
was a little, tiny baby girl
in the meeting,
PORTMAN: Maha
was like, "Bring her.
If you can't bring her to this,
you can't bring her anywhere."
SOLOWAY: One of
the things I said to Maha
right away is like, "Do
you have people of color?
Do you have queer people?
Do you have trans people?"
What we all know, like
everybody has to be there.
RHIMES: It wasn't a
white woman's movement,
which was nice because
I wasn't gonna stay if
it was, obviously.
It was a group of women
from different parts of the
business who didn't know
each other well or had not,
you know, collaborated before.
But immediately,
it was a sisterhood.
SOLOWAY: I was kind
of singing Hamilton a lot.
I was pounding on
the table and going,
"I want to be in the
room where it happens.
The room where it..."
I'm like, "Guys, we're in
the room where it happens!
It's happening!
It's happening, happening..."
And this was before we even
had the name Time's Up.
We weren't sure what
we were going to call it.
We were maybe going
to call it the name of
Natalie Portman's baby.
TCHEN: Towards
the end of the meeting,
Katie McGrath and
Rashida Jones back and forth
to each other,
just sort of said,
"Time is up,
time's up on all
of this behavior!"
Someone may have slammed
their hand on the table.
And then it was like,
"Oh, that's our name,
Time's Up."
FERRERA: The
meetings got bigger,
and they were on the East coast,
and they were on the West coast.
And what had been ignited in
women was a conversation that
was so much more
than sexual harassment.
Yes, we shared those stories,
but we also shared
the stories about the
inability to get paid more,
the inability to be taken
seriously as a producer
or a director.
All the way down to howpeople
treat you when you speak.
RHIMES It was just a really
interesting experience of
realizing that it wasn't just
us thinking these things,
it was a collective realization.
KAPLAN: In the '70s, during
the second wave of feminism,
there was really an effort
for women to get together in
groups and talk to each
other about their experiences.
And those groups were called
consciousness raising groups.
And so the sense I have
of what we were doing
is it was a new kind of,
current version of
consciousness raising.
But this time, with women
who really had a lot more power
than women ever had before
and who were determined to use it.
SHAW: The first thing
we talked about is,
"This just can't be
a bitch session."
And the beauty of it is
that we had the letter,
the "Dear Sisters" letter.
FERRERA: This letter that had
been posted in Time Magazine.
It was the president of
the National Women's
Farm Workers Association.
RAMIREZ: Farm worker women
had been organizing around the
issue of sexual harassment
for about three decades.
So when the stories broke
about Harvey Weinstein,
we knew that just as brave as
these women were to speak out,
that there were going to be
powerful people who are going
to try to silence them.
And we wanted them to
understand that there were
people who were
going to stand with them.
"Dear Sisters, we wish to
say that we're shocked to learn
that this is such a pervasive
problem in your industry.
Sadly we're not surprised
because it's a reality we know
far too well.
Please know that
you are not alone.
We believe and stand with you.
In solidarity, Alianza
Nacional De Campesinas."
SHAW: America
read the letter out loud.
People were tearing up.
PORTMAN: Mnica said, "You know,
they tell us as farm workers,
"No one cares about you.
You're in the shadows, shut up."
And then they tell you,
"No one cares about you,
you're like so fortunate in
the spotlight, shut up."
And she said,
"But they're telling
all of us to 'shut up.'
And that's what we can't do."
FERRERA: It was such
a revolutionary act of love.
They saw past vast
things that divide our
experiences in this world,
and chose to
stand in solidarity.
RHIMES: And I think that's
what really started the idea
that we wanted to do something
that mattered for people.
You know, it wasn't just
about us and our problem,
it was about helping all women.
NEWS ANCHOR: A new
initiative led by some of Hollywood's
most powerful women is
taking on sexual harassment.
The coalition called Time's
Up was announced yesterday.
NEWS ANCHOR: The initiative
establishing a legal defense
fund for working class women,
backed by $13
million in donations.
TCHEN: The real object of
the fund is to make sure that
low-income women, like the
janitors like the farm workers
like home health workers
who don't have the means,
know now that they have
access to legal resources.
NEWS ANCHOR: Time's Up
is also urging women to wear
black to next Sunday's
Golden Globes
to speak out about sexual
harassment as well as gender
and racial inequality.
RAMIREZ: It was awesome.
We walked arm-in-arm down
the red carpet and look into
camera after camera and
we sent the message that we
were standing together
and that people basically
needed to buckle up and
get ready because things
were about to change.
MEYERS: It's 2018, marijuana
is finally allowed and sexual
harassment finally isn't.
NEWSCASTER: One of
Hollywood'smost famous parties turned
into a protest Sunday night.
HAYEK: Time's Up.
STREISAND: Folks, time's up.
NEWSCASTERS: Female
lawmakers taking a stand
against sexual harassment.
NEWSCASTER 2: They work
black today just like women and men
at the Golden Globes.
WAITHE: Time's up
on the abuse of power.
MONAE: We come in
peace but we mean business.
RAMIREZ: This moment
feels incredibly different.
It's like people are
finally paying attention.
NEWSCASTER: McDonald's
workers across the country,
hitting the sidewalks today
to protest sexual harassment
at the company.
NEWSCASTER:
Outside the state capitol,
they're demanding
theGovernor sign a bill protecting
immigrant female janitors.
PROTESTORS: Se si puede!
Se si puede! Se si puede!
RAMIREZ: As women of
color in low-paid positions,
we have been speaking
out and taking action to
change the laws for a long time.
BARRETT: And we are gonna fight,
until we get the National
Domestic Workers
Bill of Rights.
Thank you.
NEWSCASTER: Thousands
of Google employees told their
bosses today: Time's Up.
PROTESTER: We
demand structural change.
RAMIREZ: And now, since the
Me Too breakthrough moment,
we've created conditions
so that people can no longer
ignore the problem anymore.
PROTESTORS: Time is
up. Time is up. Time is up.
Time is up. Time is up...
(applause)
TRUMP: Tonight, it is myhonor
and privilege to announce
that I will nominate Judge
Brett Kavanaugh to the
United States Supreme Court.
NEWSCASTER: We're following
breaking news concerning
Supreme Court nominee
Brett Kavanaugh.
NEWSCASTER: A woman has
come forward publicly accusing
Supreme Court nominee Brett
Kavanaugh of assaulting her at
a party when they
were both in high school.
TWOHEY: Talk about one of
the most complicated stories to
emerge in the Me Too movement.
This was not somebody
who ever wanted to be
on the national stage.
KANTOR: Christine Blasey
Ford was just a serious,
quiet, private person
and she finds herself in
the thunder dome
of American politics.
It's ablaze with the
Me Too movement.
But it's also inflamed
with the opposition,
and with Republicans who
see her as trying to take down a
Supreme Court nominee.
It becomes
basically full-out war.
PROTESTERS: Feminism
has been destroying our country
for the last fifty years.
We are the silent majority
and we are silent no more.
KANTOR: In the political sphere,
these stories become
totally politicized,
they become completely partisan.
And the women and the real
issue almost gets forgotten.
CRENSHAW: That was a
littlebit like Friday the 13th, like,
it just it keeps coming back.
MITCHELL: The
parallels are eerie.
A female college professor
reluctant to publicly accuse a
powerful man nominated
for the Supreme Court of
past sexual misconduct.
Days before a vote, forced
out of the shadows when
her identity is revealed.
HILL: My name is Anita F. Hill.
NEWSCASTER: Humiliated
and accused of lying by some
senators on what was then
an all-male judiciary committee.
HEFLIN: Are you a scorned woman?
HILL: No.
NEWSCASTER:
But in the Me Too era,
will it play out the same way?
KANTOR: So this woman sort
of walks onto the public stage
and everybody's looking
at her for the first time.
FORD: I am here today
not because I want to be.
I am terrified.
I am here because I believeit
is my civic duty to tell you
what happened to me,
while Brett Kavanaugh and I
were in high school.
KANTOR: She had this kind
of high-pitched, girlish voice,
but she also had this sort
of firmness and certainty.
FORD: I tried to yell for help.
When I did, Brett put his
hand over my mouth to
stop me from yelling.
This is what terrified me the
most and has had the most
lasting impact on my life.
It was hard for me to breathe,
and I thought that Brett
was accidentally going
to kill me.
TRAISTER: The bar
for being plausible,
for having your story
heard has to be so high
for these women.
And they had to come in and
describe with almost surgical
precision everything that
had happened to them.
FORD: Indelible in the
hippocampus is the laughter,
the uproarious laughter
between the two.
And they're having
fun at my expense.
GAY: One of the frustrating
things is that it has been
proven that sexual assault
survivors or victims can
sometimes have
trouble recalling details.
MITCHELL: You said that you do
not remember how you got home.
Is that correct?
FORD: I do not remember.
GAY: And I couldn't tell
you how I got home from
when I was raped.
It was 33 years ago.
I couldn't tell you,
like, the route I took.
I couldn't tell you any
of the significant details.
All I knew is that I had
my bike with me and
those details don't matter.
DURBIN: Dr. Ford, with
what degree of certainty do you
believe Brett Kavanaugh
assaulted you?
CHRISTINE FORD: 100%.
DURBIN: 100%.
GAY: The other thing that
I found very heartbreaking,
was the detail that
she has multiple
front doors in her house,
that she's so afraid of not
being able to escape any
given situation that she built
two front doors in her house.
That's such, that's
how you also know she's
telling the truth,
because it's such
a weird thing to do.
Only trauma could make
someone do something that weird,
and also that unaesthetic.
CRENSHAW: After
Christine Blasey Ford finished
I was watching Fox
News and some of
them even said, wow.
So what's the next move?
Is he gonna withdraw?
Is the President gonna
force him to withdraw?
BAIER: Anybody
can be critical or not.
But it is a totally different
thing after you hear it.
WALLACE: This was extremely
emotional, extremely raw,
and extremely credible.
CRENSHAW: And I don't know.
Was it a half hour later
when Kavanaugh came in and
basically, you know,
threw what can only be
described as a fit?
KAVANAUGH: I demanded a
hearing for the very next day.
This confirmation process
has become a national disgrace.
My family and my
name have been totally
and permanently destroyed.
KANTOR: Brett Kavanaugh
came out swinging.
He was visibly angry.
He was on the attack.
KLOBUCHAR: There has never
been a case where you drank so
much that you didn't
remember what happened
the night before,
or part of what happened?
KAVANAUGH: You're
asking about blackout.
I don't know, have you?
KLOBUCHAR: Could you
answer the question, Judge?
CRENSHAW: No woman
could go in sputtering,
just losing it all
out of a sense
of righteous indignation.
That's not available
for a woman.
Like Anita, they have
to maintain their poise.
Like Christine Blasey Ford,
she has to give no hint of
being angry or resentful.
And even within
this narrow terrain,
she still loses her
credibility when he comes on
and basically performs as
a person who is righteously
indignant, entitled, and angry
that he should even have to
answer any questions.
SENATOR: Clerk may continue.
Mrs. McCaskill.
McCASKILL: No.
SENATOR: Mr. McConnell?
MCCONNELL: Aye.
KANTOR: At the end of the
day, the political math prevailed,
and he was confirmed.
TWOHEY: There were so
manypeople who came to see Dr. Ford
as the hero of the
Me Too movement.
She was flooded with tens
of thousands of letters from
victims of sexual assault
and sexual harassment.
But she also became a
vehicle for the backlash,
a symbol of the Me Too
movement gone too far.
WOMAN: I can
ruin someone's life,
I can ruin someone's family,
and we can do it all in the
name of the Me Too movement.
INGRAHAM: It's up to each
of us, to defend our sons,
brothers, and your husbands,
to make sure a travesty like this
does not happen again.
KANTOR: Well, what's
so confounding is that
everything's changed
and nothing's changed.
In the year or so of Me
Too, so many companies and
organizations were figuring
out better ways to deal with
these very difficult
kinds of allegations.
And it felt like the
Senate hadn't made
that much progress.
In fact, some of the senators
who Christine Blasey Ford
faced were the exact same
people who Anita Hill faced
all of those years before.
PROTESTERS: November is coming!
November is coming!
November is coming!
UNDERWOOD: Tonight,
November 6th, 2018,
I stand before you as
this community's first
congresswoman elect.
Women have stepped forward.
We are marching for the
first time, starting groups,
many people getting
politicallyinvolved for the first time.
There was a real sense of,
"Our country needs
us to step forward."
I felt that what I
could do was run.
SARSOUR: In the first year
afterDonald Trump was inaugurated,
over 20,000 women
got up and ran for office
around the country,
anywhere from school boards
to Congress to the US Senate.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: My gosh.
NEWSCASTER: Tuesday brought
celebrations across the US for
the record-breaking number
of women who made history
with their victories.
They ran and won in
unprecedented numbers...
(overlapping chatter)
PRESSLEY: We won? We won?
SARSOUR: Over 100
women went to Congress.
And not just any women.
TLAIB: We're going to Congress!
SARSOUR: Muslim women went
toCongress and indigenous women
went to Congress.
Latinas for the first time
from a state like Texas,
went to Congress.
The youngest black woman ever.
The youngest women ever.
UNDERWOOD: For the first
time in our country, it's women,
from the Speaker on down,
who are the loudest, boldest,
most powerful voices
coming out of Capitol Hill.
PRESSLEY: Our squad is big.
Our squad includes any person
committed to building a more
equitable and just world.
UNDERWOOD: And that has
just turned the power dynamics
here on Capitol
Hill on its head.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: I am
here because I have to show my
parents that I am their
daughter and they did not
raise me to accept
abuse from men.
GAY: We don't have to
agree with every position
that they hold.
What matters is
that they're there,
learning the rules and
also challenging the rules.
UNDERWOOD: I frequently
get stopped in the hallways.
By security, or staff.
People who just don't
think that someone like me
could be an elected
member of the house.
I don't think it's too much
to ask for people to consider
that perhaps I should
be where I'm at.
COOPER: I'm the kind of
feminist that believes that
representation still matters.
When we got to 2018 Ayana
Pressley and Ilhan Omar and
AOC, they didn't
come out of nowhere.
GARZA: Pop culture-wise,
black women in general
are killing it.
DAVIS: I got a life too.
WASHINGTON: You
want me, earn me.
COOPER: 2012.
Olivia Pope, "Scandal."
Shonda Rhimes,
who had cut her teeth
and built an empire with
shows like "Grey's Anatomy"
and "Private Practice,"
debuts the first primetime
drama in 40 years
with a black female lead.
I got together with my friends
and every Thursday night we
tweeted "Scandal" together.
All of a sudden it
challenged our possibilities
of representation.
POPE: If you don't
getsubpoenaed this never happened.
COOPER: Olivia Pope is a fixer.
And her iconic line,
in all of TV was...
POPE: It's handled.
COOPER: Finally, the world
was being allowed to know just how
capable and talented we were.
We also knew that this could
happen when you had black
women showrunners and
black women decision-makers.
NEWSCASTER: Well this
is a major coup for Netflix.
It just recruited TV
producer Shonda Rhimes
from Disney's ABC.
RHIMES: I did feel very much
when I made the move from ABC
to Netflix and it caused
such a ripple that
it was a power move,
a realization that I
was leading a way that
hadn't been done before.
Which I hadn't even
really been thinking about.
I had mostly just
been thinking about,
this is what I want,
this is how I want it,
this is how I want to
build it, I have a vision,
I'm going that way.
This is a huge deal because
Shonda made, listen to this,
2 billion, $2 billion for ABC.
RHIMES: I think it's important
for women to own their power,
and own their accomplishments,
and own their paydays.
Women do not brag enough.
Men brag about everything.
Even things that
aren't things...
let me take a deep breath, and
on behalf of women everywhere,
in the name of not
leaving my sister hanging,
I will brag and I got to say,
this is harder than I thought.
I remember calling my
attorney and saying, like,
"If I say this, is it true?
Are we sure that it's true?"
And he was like,
"Yes, we're sure,
we're absolutely 100%
sure." And I was like,
"But if I say it out loud..."
He was like, "What's
wrong with you?
We're sure. It's fine."
And when it got time to say it,
I felt sick to my stomach.
It was very interesting.
And I felt like I was
doing something wrong,
which was also interesting,
which made me feel like I
really had to say it.
I am the highest paid
showrunner in television.
My hands are shaking.
Maybe true equality will
happen when they stop putting
qualifiers in front of my name.
When I'm not a black
female showrunner,
I'm just a showrunner.
Because they never
say that a white guy is
a white male showrunner,
which I'm always
really tempted to do.
GAY: The thing about
progress is that you have to
acknowledge it
when it's being made.
And it is being made right now.
It's a question of, how do
we sustain this progress.
The real shift is going to
happen when you see more
executives who are more diverse.
I've pitched a number of
projects when a white man has
sat across the table and
said to me, why should I care?
In this day and age,
that they don't inherently
think that they should care
about the lives of others is
a measure of how
far we have to go.
PROTESTORS: Say
his name, George Floyd.
Say his name, George Floyd.
Say her name, Breonna Taylor.
O'DONNELL: Americans
are in the streets tonight,
demanding justice
after the death of
George Floyd in Minneapolis.
TODD: For nearly two weeks,
thousands of protestors across
the country and around the
world have captured a shift in
public attitudes on
race and policing.
NEWSCASTER: They were
motivatedby George Floyd's death,
but they came to
remember someone else too.
MARCHERS: Breonna Taylor.
NEWSCASTER: This is a
true grassroots movement,
united by that common
belief that Black Lives Matter.
CROWD: Black lives matter!
WILLIS: Repeat after
me, I believe in my power,
CROWD: I believe in my power.
WILLIS: I believe in our power.
CROWD: I believe in our power.
WILLIS: I believe
in black trans power.
CROWD: I believe
in black trans power.
WILLIS: After the
murder of George Floyd,
and so many black trans people,
I felt a duty to raise my voice.
Because as a Black trans woman,
there's still so much risk,
even in leaving our
doors each morning.
NEWSCASTER: The rally
comesdays after two black transgender
women were killed in
Ohio and Pennsylvania.
It also follows the Trump
administration's roll back of
protections against gender
identity discrimination
in healthcare.
WILLIS: I don't think any
of us anticipated the sheer
number of folks.
Many of us hadn't
reallyexperienced anything like that,
a rally specifically for
Black Trans lives that
have so many people.
You know, oftentimes black
trans folks were on our own
in our mourning,
in our resilience.
And this was just so different.
It felt like lightning
struck and just,
a tide was turning.
We have been told
that we are not enough.
And the truth is that
we're more than enough.
Even within the
feminist movement,
there has been a history of
exclusion of black women,
Trans women, lesbian and
queer women, disabled women.
You know, Susan B. Anthony,
Elizabeth Cady Stantonwere
white supremacist as hell.
But, you know, the power
of feminism is the need for it
to continuously evolve
and be expansive.
Black trans women in
particular give us windows of
possibility to what the world
will be like when all of us
are less encumbered by
restrictive ideas of who were
supposed to be.
And what continues to give
me faith is the young folks on
the street see the connections
between the various movements
quicker than older
generations have been able to.
IRON EYES: Young people
have for so long been dealing with
all of these really
systemic and huge issues.
If I'm not fighting
against the climate crisis,
I'm fighting for
Indigenous rights.
If I'm not fighting
for indigenous rights,
I'm still a brown person.
And then I'm still a woman.
Which is also like a super
power at the same time.
It is everyday regular
people, like me and Greta,
it is us who are
going to change this,
it is us who have
the responsibility
to make our voices heard.
THUNBERG: It
should not be that way,
we should not be the ones
that are fighting for the future,
and yet, here we are.
WADLER: I am here today to
acknowledge and represent the
African American girls
whose stories don't make
the front page of every
national newspaper.
I am here to say, never
again for those girls too.
PROTESTORS:
Fighting for justice.
Justice and DACA.
STEINEM: I've never seen
this much activism in my life,
in all of my long life.
When I look at 16-year-olds,
and 22-year-olds,
I always say, "Ah, I just
had to wait for some of
my friends to be born.
I'm so glad to see you."
GAY: The role of
feminism right now
I think is to remind ourselves
we cannot be complacent.
And really make ourselves and
people around us uncomfortable
so that we create change.
CRENSHAW: There are those
who are going to tell us that the
project of equality
is over with.
As far as I'm concerned,
as long as we
have to worry about
whether we can be assaulted
because of who we are.
As long as we have to worry
about whether we're going to
get paid the same thing
for the work that we do,
as long as we can pretty much
predict who's going to be the
CEO of a fortune 500 companywho's
going to clean the office,
then we are not done.
CULLORS: I'm not
done making a ruckus.
SARSOUR: We're not
done building a country that
respects the dignity of
all those who reside here.
GAY: We're not done until
every woman in this country
can walk down the
street and feel safe.
KANTOR: We're
not done reporting.
TCHEN: We are inching our
way towards workplaces where
everyone feels safe and
able to reach their full potential,
but we are not done.
We are far from done.
CROWDS: Equal pay,
equal pay, equal pay.
RAPINOE: I'm gonna
fight for equal pay.
Equal pay, as the great
Serena Williams says,
until I'm in my grave.
UNDERWOOD: We're not done
until we have a Congress that
looks like the American people.
COOPER: In a world where
women are still doing most of the
child rearing across raceand
most of the household labor,
we definitely need
female representation
and female leadership.
HARRIS: I'm so proud to
stand with you and I do so
mindful of all the heroic and
ambitious women before me,
whose sacrifice, determination,
and resilience makes
my presence here
today even possible.
GARZA: We are not done
transforming this country into
what it has always
promised that it would be.
SARSOUR: So there's
some sort of, like,
running line where we
keep passing to one another,
until one day this
country realizes
its full potential.
(music playsthrough credits)
(National Anthem Playing)
COOPER: The 20th century
wasa whirlwind century in terms of
changing things for women.
I had the pleasure of
knowing my great-grandmother,
Little Mama we called her.
From her being born in 1903,
to me being born in
1980 was a huge shift in
what is possible for women.
You get the right
to vote in 1920,
the passage of the
Civil Rights Act in 1964.
And then in 1965
the Voting Rights Act.
Finally, everyone
gets the right to vote.
And then you begin to
have a veritable feminist
uprising in this country.
JORDAN: We are
attempting to fulfill the
promise of America.
COOPER: But when I
began teaching a decade ago,
my young women students
were very quick to tell me
they didn't know why they
needed to be feminists.
That all of their rights
had basically been won
and been secured.
STEINEM: I think after the
activists of the 70s began
to have children,
those children kind of felt
their mothers had done it,
and they didn't have to.
TRAISTER: In periods that
follow apparent successes,
what you get then is a
sense of complacency,
the sense that we fixed it.
OBAMA: We have come so far.
TRAISTER: The sense that,
that pernicious
sense that we're done.
CLINTON: I accept your
nomination for President of
the United States!
COOPER: Now the
tide has shifted and I see
an anger and a passion.
We're in a sea change, here.
DAKHIL: Something
awoke in women everywhere.
A primal scream, really.
SARSOUR: Follow women
of color, sisters and brothers.
Because when
we fight for justice,
we fight for it for all people.
CULLORS: Black Lives Matter
created a new playing field.
And I'm proud of us.
BURKE: MeToo is a tiny part
of a large movement that's been
happening for decades.
KANTOR: A lot did change in
the wake of these revelations,
and I think it's about
women coming together.
CRENSHAW: Then there'sthis
moment where it was, like,
"Oh my god,
we haven't progressed at
allsince Anita Hill came forward."
GAY: So some people
are outraged enough to
run for office.
UNDERWOOD: I'm Lauren Underwood,
running for Congress.
GARZA: This country is changing,
it's been changed,
and I think we
have an opportunity
this time to do it right.
RHIMES: We need to all
agree to be difficult, crazy,
bitches who need to go.
PROTESTORS: Black
Trans Lives Matter.
CULLORS: There is a new
found language around who
gets to claim feminism.
STEINEM: Now it's a
majority and it's unapologetic.
THUNBERG: Our
house is on fire...
STEINEM: Now we
know it's a revolution
IRON EYES: All
that movements are,
are devastation
and at the same time,
tremendous amounts of hope.
(overlapping chatter)
(Cheering)
DAUGHTER: Mom
why are you crying?
MOTHER: I got to vote
for a woman for president.
WOMAN: To push that button
next to a female's name was,
so awesome.
EMMETT: Maybe that's
why God's let me live this long,
he wanted me to
have one last thrill.
GARCIA-DANIELS: I know we're
gonna have a Madame President.
VOTER: We are all in
anticipation of a great
victory and a historic occasion.
GAY: I was very confident
on the election day.
I went and I voted early.
So I actually was going to
go to bed early because I was
just like, "Hillary's
totally got this in the bag."
And right before I decided
to go to my bedroom,
I started to notice that
the little meter on the
New York Times website that
was indicating the likelihood
of whoever was going
to win was leaving from
Hillary's side and moving
to Donald Trump's side.
WALLACE: And no
matter what happens,
Trump had a lot more
support, in a lot more states,
among a lot more people
than the polls detected.
KAPLAN: We were at
the Javits Center that night
with the Clinton campaign.
By about 9:00 at night
it was looking pretty bad.
It was kind of like walking
around a funeral, frankly.
CRENSHAW: First of
all, I just took to my bed.
I just couldn't move.
It felt like a future that we
could see ourselves in and
building off of the momentum
from the past eight years had
just disintegrated.
GAY: I think for those
of us who are Black,
it was easy to just be like,
"Yeah, white people
are going to white."
But the next day it was very
hard because I kept thinking
about what the world
was going to look like,
and what the world
was going to feel like,
and what my nieces were
going to be able to think
was possible for them.
CLINTON: I know we have still
not shattered that highest and
hardest glass
ceiling, but someday,
someone will and
hopefully sooner than we
might think right now.
And to all the little girls
who are watching this,
never doubt that you are
valuable and powerful and
deserving of every chance
and opportunity in the
world to pursue and
achieve your own dreams.
RICHARDS: I was not
surprised that Hillary Clinton lost.
I know there are many reasons
that people have given for why
she was not a great candidate.
But I think that ultimately
what was underlying a lot of
people's resistance was quite
simply that she was a woman.
And more specifically she
was a smart, competent woman.
Because she was about to
assume the most powerful
position in the world, and
she very much knew what
she would do with that power.
And I think that that's
what threatened people.
TRAISTER: For a lot of
white middle-class women,
it was this enormous
wake-up call.
Hillary Clinton was
just going to win.
Of course she was going to win.
Trump had been caught on tape
bragging about grabbing women
against their will.
Donald Trump was
an incompetent racist.
He wasn't going to win.
And the fact that he did,
opened the eyes of a lot of
people who had been
asleep for a long time.
MCGRATH: There was a woman
in our company who was in tears.
She's a white woman and
she was just talking about her
fears for her daughter.
Will she be able
to control her body?
What kind of
destiny will she have?
And then this young African
American woman said,
"You know, I hear you.
But I'm a black woman
from North Carolina,
and I've been done
dirty my whole life.
This is America.
This has always been America.
So welcome.
The water's warm."
TRAISTER: It made clear
to a lot of people who had
for a long time believed
the flattering lies
about this country and the
progress that it had made.
I think it woke a
lot of people up.
SARSOUR: The women's
march idea came from a retired
attorney in Hawaii, a woman
named Theresa Shook,
who literally just posted on
Facebook immediately after the
election results,
we have to march.
And immediately it went viral.
TRAISTER: There's
a lot of enthusiasm,
especially from middle-class
white communities.
And then there's a
critical response to this.
SARSOUR: Particularly
women of color were giving
kind of side-eye.
Like, "Mmm, yeah, I'm
supposed to follow some, like,
white ladies that never
marched with us before?"
I was feeling so
betrayed by my country.
I was feeling betrayed by
white women who voted for
Donald Trump at 53%.
And so I actually went in
the event and I commented
"I hope that you
include Muslim women."
And eventually
myself, Carmen Perez,
and Tamika D. Mallory,
all women of color,
were invited to join the
women's march in
a leadership position.
MALLORY: I come as an
angry black woman at all times
of my life.
SARSOUR: I have been
serving in my own community as a
civil rights activist
since the ashes of 9/11.
It absolutely felt the Women's
March was going to be a place
for me to redefine what it
looks like to have a women's
rights movement in America.
We specifically and by
design talked about race.
We cannot assume what
different women from different
backgrounds
prioritize as issues.
We cannot say that
reproductive rights is the
most important issue
for every community,
when you have Black mothers
who just want their Black sons
to come home to them at night.
Or undocumented women
who just want to come home and
not be separated
from their families.
And so we were figuring out
how to build an intersectional
movement that wasn't just
about the diversity of women,
but actually the diversity
of issues that impact us.
TRAISTER: Encouragement
of contentious dialogue between
participants, any mainstream
evaluator would have said,
"this is a huge risk."
And in fact they did.
You know, will people show up?
Are there going to be people,
people have been
excited about this,
but now somebody is saying
they have a problem with race.
When in fact, what the
organizers were betting on is
that it was going
to be a recipe for
strength moving forward.
FLIGHT ATTENDANT:
Ladies and Gentlemen we have
arrived in Baltimore.
I just want to know how
many of you are going to
the March on Washington?
(cheering)
You're going to the
women's march, right?
CROWD: Yes!
FLIGHT ATTENDANT: Let's
get a round of applause for all the
nasty women on board.
(cheering and applause)
WOMAN: If you're ready
to march on Washington,
let me hear you make some noise.
WILSON: I heard about
the march through two
other female firefighters.
We took the train
and the platform was
just filled with people,
in their pink hats,
we all were pushing
and cramming in.
SWISHER: I took my sons,
and a bunch of their male friends.
I couldn't get the hats
on them, but whatever.
I didn't wear one either.
FERRERA: I was at the march
in Washington DC and I was the
opening speaker.
Good Morning.
I didn't know that I
was going to be first up,
and then they were like,
"It's you!" and I
was like, "What?"
I am deeply honored to march
with you today as a woman,
and as a proud first
generation American born to
Honduran immigrants.
We are America.
PROTESTORS: This is
what democracy looks like.
WOMAN: Show me
what democracy looks like.
PROTESTORS: This is
what democracy looks like.
CRENSHAW: It was a
spiritualexperience to finally be able to
go to Washington,
DC as women of color...
WOMAN: I am my sisters keeper
I'm gonna say her name.
CRENSHAW: And to be
there with young people.
We flew a young woman from
my hometown to come with us,
and she would lead the
protest and the chants with us.
It was just great to see
that intergenerational
passing the torch.
STEINEM: This is the
upside of the downside.
SARSOUR: We thought a
quarter of a million people
were going to come and
about 1.2 million people came,
to the point that we
weren't even able to march
because we pretty much shut
downthe entire Capitol Hill area.
It was the largest
single-day demonstration
in American history.
TRAISTER: It was in cities
across the United States and
around the world.
It was in Antarctica.
KANTOR: And it happened
in some of the small and
medium-sized towns in
this country not the so-called
coastal elite enclaves.
CRENSHAW: I see this as
amoment of taking feminism back,
making feminism a project
that all of us can share.
CULLORS: Has it
been perfect? No.
No movement is
perfect, it can't be.
But the promise was an
intersectional movement.
TRAISTER: The one thing that'stoo
bad about the Women's March,
is that it's read as being
a reaction to Trump,
which by many
means, sure it was.
It was born on election
night and all of that.
But one of the reasons it was
important that the co-chairs
of the women's march came
from different movements
is because they knew
what was already bubbling.
Movements around Indigenous
rights, environmental justice,
immigration reform, mass
incarceration, gun violence,
all of which are of
course women's issues.
And it's in the
Obama administration,
that you see the development
of Black Lives Matter.
And that is a movement
that is founded by queer
black women in response
to systemic racial violence.
NEWSCASTER: It's
thestory that's ignited fierce
passions across the nation.
NEWSCASTER: Trayvon
Martin, an unarmed black teenager,
was shot down by a white
neighborhood watchman who
claimed self-defense.
PATRISSE: After the shooting
and killing of Trayvon Martin,
I watched as George Zimmerman
was acquitted on
every single count.
FOREWOMAN: We the jury
find George Zimmerman not guilty.
CULLORS: I was in shock.
It still leaves me breathless.
GARZA: I thought to myself,
there's no way that they
could let this man walk away
from murdering a child
who had done nothing to him.
CULLORS: So I went on social
media, looking for answers,
connection, resolve, reprieve.
And I went to
Alicia Garza's page,
who's one of my closest friends.
GARZA: I woke up in
the middle of the night.
I started writing some
stuff on Facebook.
CULLORS: And she wrote
a love letter to black folks.
GARZA: And I wrote underneath
it that I love black people,
I love us, and that
our lives matter.
And Patrisse read it, and I
believe she put a hashtag in
front of it.
And I didn't know
what a hashtag was.
Cause, you know,
I'm not a millennial.
CULLORS: When I put the hashtag,
she definitely was
like, "What's was that?"
And I was like, "This
thing, we're going to make
this thing go viral."
Opal Tometi jumped on
board, and the three of us,
within days, started
Black Lives Matter,
which was an online
platform at first,
but by the time Michael
Brown was murdered,
really turned into
a global movement.
PROTESTERS: We want answers.
NEWSCASTER: On the
streets of Ferguson, Missouri,
outrage and anger.
Protestors of different ages
and races demanding answers in
the shooting death of
18-year-old Michael Brown at
the hands of a policeman.
Witnesses said Brown's
body lay in the street for hours.
GARZA: We organized a
freedom ride to Ferguson,
to witness, to support.
PROTESTERS: Black Lives Matter.
Black Lives Matter.
CULLORS: The mandate was
to show up for the people there,
and then go home and fight
because every place we lived
was Ferguson.
WOMAN: Whose lives matter?
CROWD: Black lives matter!
GARZA: It became an
international rallying cry.
SARSOUR: To see a
new iteration of a civil rights
movement led by
young black woman,
queer women most often at
the margins of society and see
them in this like leadership
position was very inspiring to
other marginalized people.
COOPER: They had learned
the lessons of the 1960s and 1970s
and all of the tales of Black
women experiencing sexism
in those movements,
experiencing homophobia.
And they said, this thing
we can do differently.
GARZA: Patrisse and I and
Opal have been really clear
from the beginning that
it's all of us or none of us.
Black women, black
queer and trans folks are
disproportionately impacted
by the criminal justice system,
by policing, by issues of
safety, violence, and harm.
And I think this decade has
been a decade of women saying
it's not only time for
change but that it's time that
we are leading the change.
KANTOR: Believe or not, the
Harvey Weinstein story started
with Bill O'Reilly.
MUIR: We begin tonight with
that bombshell announcement
from Fox News.
NEWSCASTER: Bill
O'Reilly the host of cable's
most popular show
for sixteen years,
out in the wake of that
growingsexual harassment scandal.
KANTOR: Something was
starting to shift, you could feel it.
Revelations about
Roger Ailes, Bill Cosby.
An Uber employee, became
a kind of whistleblower
at that company.
Now we're used to the idea
that powerful men could lose
their jobs for these reasons.
But this was like a change
in the whole weather system.
And that's when I
started working on the
Harvey Weinstein story.
TWOHEY: I was actually
home on maternity leave.
I was surrounded by diapers
and bottles and attempts at
sleep training.
When I got a phone call
from my colleague Jodi Kantor.
KANTOR: Megan had
been a sex-crimes reporter
for a long time.
She had done the
Trump allegations.
TWOHEY: Jodi had just
begun looking into these
rumors that this powerful
Hollywood producer
had preyed on actresses
and other women for decades.
KANTOR: Megan had a series
of really interesting objections
to the story at the beginning.
TWOHEY: As
investigative reporters,
you're really looking for
opportunities to help give
voice to the voiceless.
And it was hard for me to
conceive of some of these
famous Hollywood celebrities
as being victims who were in
need of help of
the New York Times
investigative reporting unit.
But, Jodi had made a case
to me which was that listen,
if these women have also been
victims of sexual harassment
it suggests that
nobody is immune.
KANTOR: We understood
some of what we were up against,
but we didn't
understand all of it.
TWOHEY: Harvey Weinstein
was one of the most famous and
influential producers
in Hollywood.
And he had been for decades.
LAWRENCE: Harvey, thank
you for killing whoever you had to
kill to get me up here today.
AFFLECK: Harvey Weinstein.
HUNTER: Harvey
and Bob Weinstein.
WILLIAMS: The
mishpucka Weinstein.
ZELLWEGGER: Harvey Weinstein.
DICAPRIO: Harvey
and Bob Weinstein.
CRUZ: Thank you
Harvey Weinstein.
WILLIAMS: Thank you to Harvey.
KIDMAN: Harvey.
SCORESE: I have to
thank Harvey Weinstein.
STREEP: And God,
Harvey Weinstein.
TWOHEY: Even when actresses
started to get on the phone
with us, they were
terrified to go on the record.
And that's why we
really threw ourselves into
collecting other
bodies of evidence,
the financial trail of payoffs.
KANTOR: I was secretly
meeting with Weinstein's
accountant of 30 years,
Irwin Reiter, who became
the kind of deep throat
of the Weinstein investigation
and was giving us essential
information and documents.
TWOHEY: Records that showed
that there were allegations as
recently as 2015.
So we were able to
afterbuilding this body of evidence,
go back to some of the
women who had been telling
us about their experiences
in secret and say,
"Listen, we're asking
you to go on the record
with this whole mountain of
evidence underneath you."
KANTOR: With only
days to go until publication,
Ashley Judd bravely
went on the record.
She became the first
actress to go on record.
And then, Laura Madden, a
mom in Wales went on the record.
She's a former
assistant of Weinstein.
She had a horrible story of
assault from a hotel room in
Ireland in 1992.
Mom of four kids,
recently divorced,
she was just days away
from breast cancer surgery.
And Laura was very worried
about going on the record.
She called her
daughters into her kitchen.
They thought that she wanted
to talk to them about the surgery,
but instead for the
first time she told them
her Weinstein story.
TWOHEY: What happened
next really shocked her.
They actually started to
open up to her about the
experiences that their
friends had gone through.
So, at the end of
that conversation,
she sent an email to us
saying that she didn't want
her daughters to grow up
in a world where this type of
abusive behavior was
acceptable and that she too
was prepared to
be a named source.
The day before the story was
published, Weinstein himself,
barged into the New
York Times, uninvited,
and insisting on
meeting with us,
trying to bully us
trying to intimidate us.
He had a team of high-priced
lawyers who were coming after
us who were
threatening to sue us.
KANTOR: He hired private
spies to try to dupe us.
TWOHEY: But in the end,
it was no match for the truth.
KANTOR: I still remember
the exact moment when we
hit the publish button.
We're all huddled around a
desk in the New York Times
Investigations Unit.
And then Rory Tolan,
one of our editors,
pushed the button.
TWOHEY: We kind of
watched with wonder as the story
started to take
off like wildfire.
NEWSCASTER: One of the
most powerful men in showbiz,
out of his company.
NEWSCASTER: The damning
report in the New York Times
detailing numerous sexual
harassment allegations
spanning decades.
NEWSCASTER: Another
explosive story today,
this time in "The New Yorker".
TWOHEY: Ronan Farrow
within days had also done his first
story about Harvey Weinstein.
And our phones, our emails,
were being flooded with women
who are coming forward,
telling their own stories of
abuse and harassment.
To just feel like the dam broke.
For us, those were the first
indications that there was a
real significant societal
shiftthat was starting to happen.
NEWSCASTER: And reaction
to the Harvey Weinstein scandal
exploding overnight...
NEWSCASTER: Millions of
women across the country and around
the world, sharing their
experience with sexual
harassment and abuse
online, using the #MeToo.
NEWSCASTER: That
movement took off last weekend,
when Alyssa
Milano highlighted it
on Twitter posting:
"If you've been sexually
harassed or assaulted,
write me too as a
reply to this tweet."
SARSOUR: The Metoo
movement hashtag went viral
because Alyssa
Milano made it go viral.
But the actual founder
of that movement was a
Black woman named Tarana Burke.
BURKE: The day
that it goes viral,
I saw a post that said
"Me Too" on Facebook.
I was so confused, I
was like, "What is this?"
I just saw that this
hashtag was trending.
And then I inboxed my
friend and said, what is this?
And she was like, "Oh,
girl, it's everywhere!
This is great!" You
know, like, "Congrat..."
kind of thinking it was me.
So that really is
what set the panic off.
The reality that I know of
other Black women whose work
has been erased, or
who they've been erased
from their work.
And people started
tweeting at Alyssa saying,
"This already exists."
She tweeted out the
informationas soon as she got it,
and acknowledged me after that,
and then reached out
to me after that and said,
"How can I be of help, how
can I amplify your work?"
And then three
days later we were on
national television together.
GUTHRIE: We're joined now
by Tarana Burke the creator of
the Me Too movement
and Alyssa Milano,
one of the actresses who
helped that hashtag go viral.
Do I have this right, you
just met each other in person
a few moments ago.
MILANO: We did, but
we text like 20 times a day.
BURKE: I could
never imagine this.
I could have never
envisioned something that
would be, that would
change the world.
I was trying to
change my community.
The 2005-2006 school year,
my best friend and I
had decided to start this
organization with black
and brown girls in Selma.
The girls who we
had in our program,
start telling us
about sexual violence
that they experienced.
And so, I practiced
deeplylistening to little black girls
when they told me the
truth about their lives.
And in the spaces
where they could not find
the strength to do that,
my story became
the impetus for it.
This happened to me too.
I know what you're holding.
And just the simple
act of believing them
changed everything.
WALSH: The way the
hashtag exploded on Twitter,
I think shows us that
while we all thought we
were alone, we're not.
TWOHEY: It felt like just
all of this hidden pain that
had affected
generations of women,
not just here in the
United States but
around the world,
being excavated.
KANTOR: And then very quickly,
it was stories about
other men as well.
NEWSCASTER: Matt Lauer
has been fired over reports of
inappropriate sexual behavior.
NEWSCASTER: More accusations
emerge against Mario Batali.
NEWSCASTERS: Brett
Ratner, also the subject...
Michael Oreskes. Mark
Halperin. Louis CK. Charlie Rose.
More women are speaking out...
James Toback. Roy Moore.
Leslie Moonves. Kevin Spacey.
Open Secret. Tavis
Smiley. Russell Simmons.
The wave of allegations
against powerful men
Growing larger by the day.
BURKE: It's about power.
Whether you are
Weinstein or Charlie Rose
or R. Kelly.
Whether it's in the workplace
or the church or the home.
It's the same thing.
TOLENTINO: I think MeToois
one of the best and most
tangible consequences
of feminism becoming
a mainstream ideology.
There were enough
feminist women in
positions of power
that the story couldn't
be buried anymore.
It was this tidal wave of
almost forced understanding,
that this is not a
women's issue, right?
it's a broad social ill.
It was time.
REPORTER: Any comment Harvey?
PORTMAN: It was right
after the Weinstein revelations
came out and of course
everyonewas feeling shocked like,
"How can we respond to this?
How can we change things?"
FERRERA: I was
invited by agents at CAA.
It was not a formal type thing,
it was just coming
together trying to figure out,
what could we
say in this moment?
What could we do in this moment?
DAKHIL: There was this
urgent feeling that if we didn't
do something immediately,
that this would be
some news cycle
that would wash out.
So I called Reese,
I called Natalie.
I called Shonda Rhimes,
who I don't know but she just
seemed like this superpower.
Had to talk fast before
she hung up on me.
RHIMES: I'm a writer, I
didn't know any of these
women at all, really.
But I said, yes,
cause I was mad.
What I remember most
is that Natalie Portman
brought her baby.
And so then there
was a little, tiny baby girl
in the meeting,
PORTMAN: Maha
was like, "Bring her.
If you can't bring her to this,
you can't bring her anywhere."
SOLOWAY: One of
the things I said to Maha
right away is like, "Do
you have people of color?
Do you have queer people?
Do you have trans people?"
What we all know, like
everybody has to be there.
RHIMES: It wasn't a
white woman's movement,
which was nice because
I wasn't gonna stay if
it was, obviously.
It was a group of women
from different parts of the
business who didn't know
each other well or had not,
you know, collaborated before.
But immediately,
it was a sisterhood.
SOLOWAY: I was kind
of singing Hamilton a lot.
I was pounding on
the table and going,
"I want to be in the
room where it happens.
The room where it..."
I'm like, "Guys, we're in
the room where it happens!
It's happening!
It's happening, happening..."
And this was before we even
had the name Time's Up.
We weren't sure what
we were going to call it.
We were maybe going
to call it the name of
Natalie Portman's baby.
TCHEN: Towards
the end of the meeting,
Katie McGrath and
Rashida Jones back and forth
to each other,
just sort of said,
"Time is up,
time's up on all
of this behavior!"
Someone may have slammed
their hand on the table.
And then it was like,
"Oh, that's our name,
Time's Up."
FERRERA: The
meetings got bigger,
and they were on the East coast,
and they were on the West coast.
And what had been ignited in
women was a conversation that
was so much more
than sexual harassment.
Yes, we shared those stories,
but we also shared
the stories about the
inability to get paid more,
the inability to be taken
seriously as a producer
or a director.
All the way down to howpeople
treat you when you speak.
RHIMES It was just a really
interesting experience of
realizing that it wasn't just
us thinking these things,
it was a collective realization.
KAPLAN: In the '70s, during
the second wave of feminism,
there was really an effort
for women to get together in
groups and talk to each
other about their experiences.
And those groups were called
consciousness raising groups.
And so the sense I have
of what we were doing
is it was a new kind of,
current version of
consciousness raising.
But this time, with women
who really had a lot more power
than women ever had before
and who were determined to use it.
SHAW: The first thing
we talked about is,
"This just can't be
a bitch session."
And the beauty of it is
that we had the letter,
the "Dear Sisters" letter.
FERRERA: This letter that had
been posted in Time Magazine.
It was the president of
the National Women's
Farm Workers Association.
RAMIREZ: Farm worker women
had been organizing around the
issue of sexual harassment
for about three decades.
So when the stories broke
about Harvey Weinstein,
we knew that just as brave as
these women were to speak out,
that there were going to be
powerful people who are going
to try to silence them.
And we wanted them to
understand that there were
people who were
going to stand with them.
"Dear Sisters, we wish to
say that we're shocked to learn
that this is such a pervasive
problem in your industry.
Sadly we're not surprised
because it's a reality we know
far too well.
Please know that
you are not alone.
We believe and stand with you.
In solidarity, Alianza
Nacional De Campesinas."
SHAW: America
read the letter out loud.
People were tearing up.
PORTMAN: Mnica said, "You know,
they tell us as farm workers,
"No one cares about you.
You're in the shadows, shut up."
And then they tell you,
"No one cares about you,
you're like so fortunate in
the spotlight, shut up."
And she said,
"But they're telling
all of us to 'shut up.'
And that's what we can't do."
FERRERA: It was such
a revolutionary act of love.
They saw past vast
things that divide our
experiences in this world,
and chose to
stand in solidarity.
RHIMES: And I think that's
what really started the idea
that we wanted to do something
that mattered for people.
You know, it wasn't just
about us and our problem,
it was about helping all women.
NEWS ANCHOR: A new
initiative led by some of Hollywood's
most powerful women is
taking on sexual harassment.
The coalition called Time's
Up was announced yesterday.
NEWS ANCHOR: The initiative
establishing a legal defense
fund for working class women,
backed by $13
million in donations.
TCHEN: The real object of
the fund is to make sure that
low-income women, like the
janitors like the farm workers
like home health workers
who don't have the means,
know now that they have
access to legal resources.
NEWS ANCHOR: Time's Up
is also urging women to wear
black to next Sunday's
Golden Globes
to speak out about sexual
harassment as well as gender
and racial inequality.
RAMIREZ: It was awesome.
We walked arm-in-arm down
the red carpet and look into
camera after camera and
we sent the message that we
were standing together
and that people basically
needed to buckle up and
get ready because things
were about to change.
MEYERS: It's 2018, marijuana
is finally allowed and sexual
harassment finally isn't.
NEWSCASTER: One of
Hollywood'smost famous parties turned
into a protest Sunday night.
HAYEK: Time's Up.
STREISAND: Folks, time's up.
NEWSCASTERS: Female
lawmakers taking a stand
against sexual harassment.
NEWSCASTER 2: They work
black today just like women and men
at the Golden Globes.
WAITHE: Time's up
on the abuse of power.
MONAE: We come in
peace but we mean business.
RAMIREZ: This moment
feels incredibly different.
It's like people are
finally paying attention.
NEWSCASTER: McDonald's
workers across the country,
hitting the sidewalks today
to protest sexual harassment
at the company.
NEWSCASTER:
Outside the state capitol,
they're demanding
theGovernor sign a bill protecting
immigrant female janitors.
PROTESTORS: Se si puede!
Se si puede! Se si puede!
RAMIREZ: As women of
color in low-paid positions,
we have been speaking
out and taking action to
change the laws for a long time.
BARRETT: And we are gonna fight,
until we get the National
Domestic Workers
Bill of Rights.
Thank you.
NEWSCASTER: Thousands
of Google employees told their
bosses today: Time's Up.
PROTESTER: We
demand structural change.
RAMIREZ: And now, since the
Me Too breakthrough moment,
we've created conditions
so that people can no longer
ignore the problem anymore.
PROTESTORS: Time is
up. Time is up. Time is up.
Time is up. Time is up...
(applause)
TRUMP: Tonight, it is myhonor
and privilege to announce
that I will nominate Judge
Brett Kavanaugh to the
United States Supreme Court.
NEWSCASTER: We're following
breaking news concerning
Supreme Court nominee
Brett Kavanaugh.
NEWSCASTER: A woman has
come forward publicly accusing
Supreme Court nominee Brett
Kavanaugh of assaulting her at
a party when they
were both in high school.
TWOHEY: Talk about one of
the most complicated stories to
emerge in the Me Too movement.
This was not somebody
who ever wanted to be
on the national stage.
KANTOR: Christine Blasey
Ford was just a serious,
quiet, private person
and she finds herself in
the thunder dome
of American politics.
It's ablaze with the
Me Too movement.
But it's also inflamed
with the opposition,
and with Republicans who
see her as trying to take down a
Supreme Court nominee.
It becomes
basically full-out war.
PROTESTERS: Feminism
has been destroying our country
for the last fifty years.
We are the silent majority
and we are silent no more.
KANTOR: In the political sphere,
these stories become
totally politicized,
they become completely partisan.
And the women and the real
issue almost gets forgotten.
CRENSHAW: That was a
littlebit like Friday the 13th, like,
it just it keeps coming back.
MITCHELL: The
parallels are eerie.
A female college professor
reluctant to publicly accuse a
powerful man nominated
for the Supreme Court of
past sexual misconduct.
Days before a vote, forced
out of the shadows when
her identity is revealed.
HILL: My name is Anita F. Hill.
NEWSCASTER: Humiliated
and accused of lying by some
senators on what was then
an all-male judiciary committee.
HEFLIN: Are you a scorned woman?
HILL: No.
NEWSCASTER:
But in the Me Too era,
will it play out the same way?
KANTOR: So this woman sort
of walks onto the public stage
and everybody's looking
at her for the first time.
FORD: I am here today
not because I want to be.
I am terrified.
I am here because I believeit
is my civic duty to tell you
what happened to me,
while Brett Kavanaugh and I
were in high school.
KANTOR: She had this kind
of high-pitched, girlish voice,
but she also had this sort
of firmness and certainty.
FORD: I tried to yell for help.
When I did, Brett put his
hand over my mouth to
stop me from yelling.
This is what terrified me the
most and has had the most
lasting impact on my life.
It was hard for me to breathe,
and I thought that Brett
was accidentally going
to kill me.
TRAISTER: The bar
for being plausible,
for having your story
heard has to be so high
for these women.
And they had to come in and
describe with almost surgical
precision everything that
had happened to them.
FORD: Indelible in the
hippocampus is the laughter,
the uproarious laughter
between the two.
And they're having
fun at my expense.
GAY: One of the frustrating
things is that it has been
proven that sexual assault
survivors or victims can
sometimes have
trouble recalling details.
MITCHELL: You said that you do
not remember how you got home.
Is that correct?
FORD: I do not remember.
GAY: And I couldn't tell
you how I got home from
when I was raped.
It was 33 years ago.
I couldn't tell you,
like, the route I took.
I couldn't tell you any
of the significant details.
All I knew is that I had
my bike with me and
those details don't matter.
DURBIN: Dr. Ford, with
what degree of certainty do you
believe Brett Kavanaugh
assaulted you?
CHRISTINE FORD: 100%.
DURBIN: 100%.
GAY: The other thing that
I found very heartbreaking,
was the detail that
she has multiple
front doors in her house,
that she's so afraid of not
being able to escape any
given situation that she built
two front doors in her house.
That's such, that's
how you also know she's
telling the truth,
because it's such
a weird thing to do.
Only trauma could make
someone do something that weird,
and also that unaesthetic.
CRENSHAW: After
Christine Blasey Ford finished
I was watching Fox
News and some of
them even said, wow.
So what's the next move?
Is he gonna withdraw?
Is the President gonna
force him to withdraw?
BAIER: Anybody
can be critical or not.
But it is a totally different
thing after you hear it.
WALLACE: This was extremely
emotional, extremely raw,
and extremely credible.
CRENSHAW: And I don't know.
Was it a half hour later
when Kavanaugh came in and
basically, you know,
threw what can only be
described as a fit?
KAVANAUGH: I demanded a
hearing for the very next day.
This confirmation process
has become a national disgrace.
My family and my
name have been totally
and permanently destroyed.
KANTOR: Brett Kavanaugh
came out swinging.
He was visibly angry.
He was on the attack.
KLOBUCHAR: There has never
been a case where you drank so
much that you didn't
remember what happened
the night before,
or part of what happened?
KAVANAUGH: You're
asking about blackout.
I don't know, have you?
KLOBUCHAR: Could you
answer the question, Judge?
CRENSHAW: No woman
could go in sputtering,
just losing it all
out of a sense
of righteous indignation.
That's not available
for a woman.
Like Anita, they have
to maintain their poise.
Like Christine Blasey Ford,
she has to give no hint of
being angry or resentful.
And even within
this narrow terrain,
she still loses her
credibility when he comes on
and basically performs as
a person who is righteously
indignant, entitled, and angry
that he should even have to
answer any questions.
SENATOR: Clerk may continue.
Mrs. McCaskill.
McCASKILL: No.
SENATOR: Mr. McConnell?
MCCONNELL: Aye.
KANTOR: At the end of the
day, the political math prevailed,
and he was confirmed.
TWOHEY: There were so
manypeople who came to see Dr. Ford
as the hero of the
Me Too movement.
She was flooded with tens
of thousands of letters from
victims of sexual assault
and sexual harassment.
But she also became a
vehicle for the backlash,
a symbol of the Me Too
movement gone too far.
WOMAN: I can
ruin someone's life,
I can ruin someone's family,
and we can do it all in the
name of the Me Too movement.
INGRAHAM: It's up to each
of us, to defend our sons,
brothers, and your husbands,
to make sure a travesty like this
does not happen again.
KANTOR: Well, what's
so confounding is that
everything's changed
and nothing's changed.
In the year or so of Me
Too, so many companies and
organizations were figuring
out better ways to deal with
these very difficult
kinds of allegations.
And it felt like the
Senate hadn't made
that much progress.
In fact, some of the senators
who Christine Blasey Ford
faced were the exact same
people who Anita Hill faced
all of those years before.
PROTESTERS: November is coming!
November is coming!
November is coming!
UNDERWOOD: Tonight,
November 6th, 2018,
I stand before you as
this community's first
congresswoman elect.
Women have stepped forward.
We are marching for the
first time, starting groups,
many people getting
politicallyinvolved for the first time.
There was a real sense of,
"Our country needs
us to step forward."
I felt that what I
could do was run.
SARSOUR: In the first year
afterDonald Trump was inaugurated,
over 20,000 women
got up and ran for office
around the country,
anywhere from school boards
to Congress to the US Senate.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: My gosh.
NEWSCASTER: Tuesday brought
celebrations across the US for
the record-breaking number
of women who made history
with their victories.
They ran and won in
unprecedented numbers...
(overlapping chatter)
PRESSLEY: We won? We won?
SARSOUR: Over 100
women went to Congress.
And not just any women.
TLAIB: We're going to Congress!
SARSOUR: Muslim women went
toCongress and indigenous women
went to Congress.
Latinas for the first time
from a state like Texas,
went to Congress.
The youngest black woman ever.
The youngest women ever.
UNDERWOOD: For the first
time in our country, it's women,
from the Speaker on down,
who are the loudest, boldest,
most powerful voices
coming out of Capitol Hill.
PRESSLEY: Our squad is big.
Our squad includes any person
committed to building a more
equitable and just world.
UNDERWOOD: And that has
just turned the power dynamics
here on Capitol
Hill on its head.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: I am
here because I have to show my
parents that I am their
daughter and they did not
raise me to accept
abuse from men.
GAY: We don't have to
agree with every position
that they hold.
What matters is
that they're there,
learning the rules and
also challenging the rules.
UNDERWOOD: I frequently
get stopped in the hallways.
By security, or staff.
People who just don't
think that someone like me
could be an elected
member of the house.
I don't think it's too much
to ask for people to consider
that perhaps I should
be where I'm at.
COOPER: I'm the kind of
feminist that believes that
representation still matters.
When we got to 2018 Ayana
Pressley and Ilhan Omar and
AOC, they didn't
come out of nowhere.
GARZA: Pop culture-wise,
black women in general
are killing it.
DAVIS: I got a life too.
WASHINGTON: You
want me, earn me.
COOPER: 2012.
Olivia Pope, "Scandal."
Shonda Rhimes,
who had cut her teeth
and built an empire with
shows like "Grey's Anatomy"
and "Private Practice,"
debuts the first primetime
drama in 40 years
with a black female lead.
I got together with my friends
and every Thursday night we
tweeted "Scandal" together.
All of a sudden it
challenged our possibilities
of representation.
POPE: If you don't
getsubpoenaed this never happened.
COOPER: Olivia Pope is a fixer.
And her iconic line,
in all of TV was...
POPE: It's handled.
COOPER: Finally, the world
was being allowed to know just how
capable and talented we were.
We also knew that this could
happen when you had black
women showrunners and
black women decision-makers.
NEWSCASTER: Well this
is a major coup for Netflix.
It just recruited TV
producer Shonda Rhimes
from Disney's ABC.
RHIMES: I did feel very much
when I made the move from ABC
to Netflix and it caused
such a ripple that
it was a power move,
a realization that I
was leading a way that
hadn't been done before.
Which I hadn't even
really been thinking about.
I had mostly just
been thinking about,
this is what I want,
this is how I want it,
this is how I want to
build it, I have a vision,
I'm going that way.
This is a huge deal because
Shonda made, listen to this,
2 billion, $2 billion for ABC.
RHIMES: I think it's important
for women to own their power,
and own their accomplishments,
and own their paydays.
Women do not brag enough.
Men brag about everything.
Even things that
aren't things...
let me take a deep breath, and
on behalf of women everywhere,
in the name of not
leaving my sister hanging,
I will brag and I got to say,
this is harder than I thought.
I remember calling my
attorney and saying, like,
"If I say this, is it true?
Are we sure that it's true?"
And he was like,
"Yes, we're sure,
we're absolutely 100%
sure." And I was like,
"But if I say it out loud..."
He was like, "What's
wrong with you?
We're sure. It's fine."
And when it got time to say it,
I felt sick to my stomach.
It was very interesting.
And I felt like I was
doing something wrong,
which was also interesting,
which made me feel like I
really had to say it.
I am the highest paid
showrunner in television.
My hands are shaking.
Maybe true equality will
happen when they stop putting
qualifiers in front of my name.
When I'm not a black
female showrunner,
I'm just a showrunner.
Because they never
say that a white guy is
a white male showrunner,
which I'm always
really tempted to do.
GAY: The thing about
progress is that you have to
acknowledge it
when it's being made.
And it is being made right now.
It's a question of, how do
we sustain this progress.
The real shift is going to
happen when you see more
executives who are more diverse.
I've pitched a number of
projects when a white man has
sat across the table and
said to me, why should I care?
In this day and age,
that they don't inherently
think that they should care
about the lives of others is
a measure of how
far we have to go.
PROTESTORS: Say
his name, George Floyd.
Say his name, George Floyd.
Say her name, Breonna Taylor.
O'DONNELL: Americans
are in the streets tonight,
demanding justice
after the death of
George Floyd in Minneapolis.
TODD: For nearly two weeks,
thousands of protestors across
the country and around the
world have captured a shift in
public attitudes on
race and policing.
NEWSCASTER: They were
motivatedby George Floyd's death,
but they came to
remember someone else too.
MARCHERS: Breonna Taylor.
NEWSCASTER: This is a
true grassroots movement,
united by that common
belief that Black Lives Matter.
CROWD: Black lives matter!
WILLIS: Repeat after
me, I believe in my power,
CROWD: I believe in my power.
WILLIS: I believe in our power.
CROWD: I believe in our power.
WILLIS: I believe
in black trans power.
CROWD: I believe
in black trans power.
WILLIS: After the
murder of George Floyd,
and so many black trans people,
I felt a duty to raise my voice.
Because as a Black trans woman,
there's still so much risk,
even in leaving our
doors each morning.
NEWSCASTER: The rally
comesdays after two black transgender
women were killed in
Ohio and Pennsylvania.
It also follows the Trump
administration's roll back of
protections against gender
identity discrimination
in healthcare.
WILLIS: I don't think any
of us anticipated the sheer
number of folks.
Many of us hadn't
reallyexperienced anything like that,
a rally specifically for
Black Trans lives that
have so many people.
You know, oftentimes black
trans folks were on our own
in our mourning,
in our resilience.
And this was just so different.
It felt like lightning
struck and just,
a tide was turning.
We have been told
that we are not enough.
And the truth is that
we're more than enough.
Even within the
feminist movement,
there has been a history of
exclusion of black women,
Trans women, lesbian and
queer women, disabled women.
You know, Susan B. Anthony,
Elizabeth Cady Stantonwere
white supremacist as hell.
But, you know, the power
of feminism is the need for it
to continuously evolve
and be expansive.
Black trans women in
particular give us windows of
possibility to what the world
will be like when all of us
are less encumbered by
restrictive ideas of who were
supposed to be.
And what continues to give
me faith is the young folks on
the street see the connections
between the various movements
quicker than older
generations have been able to.
IRON EYES: Young people
have for so long been dealing with
all of these really
systemic and huge issues.
If I'm not fighting
against the climate crisis,
I'm fighting for
Indigenous rights.
If I'm not fighting
for indigenous rights,
I'm still a brown person.
And then I'm still a woman.
Which is also like a super
power at the same time.
It is everyday regular
people, like me and Greta,
it is us who are
going to change this,
it is us who have
the responsibility
to make our voices heard.
THUNBERG: It
should not be that way,
we should not be the ones
that are fighting for the future,
and yet, here we are.
WADLER: I am here today to
acknowledge and represent the
African American girls
whose stories don't make
the front page of every
national newspaper.
I am here to say, never
again for those girls too.
PROTESTORS:
Fighting for justice.
Justice and DACA.
STEINEM: I've never seen
this much activism in my life,
in all of my long life.
When I look at 16-year-olds,
and 22-year-olds,
I always say, "Ah, I just
had to wait for some of
my friends to be born.
I'm so glad to see you."
GAY: The role of
feminism right now
I think is to remind ourselves
we cannot be complacent.
And really make ourselves and
people around us uncomfortable
so that we create change.
CRENSHAW: There are those
who are going to tell us that the
project of equality
is over with.
As far as I'm concerned,
as long as we
have to worry about
whether we can be assaulted
because of who we are.
As long as we have to worry
about whether we're going to
get paid the same thing
for the work that we do,
as long as we can pretty much
predict who's going to be the
CEO of a fortune 500 companywho's
going to clean the office,
then we are not done.
CULLORS: I'm not
done making a ruckus.
SARSOUR: We're not
done building a country that
respects the dignity of
all those who reside here.
GAY: We're not done until
every woman in this country
can walk down the
street and feel safe.
KANTOR: We're
not done reporting.
TCHEN: We are inching our
way towards workplaces where
everyone feels safe and
able to reach their full potential,
but we are not done.
We are far from done.
CROWDS: Equal pay,
equal pay, equal pay.
RAPINOE: I'm gonna
fight for equal pay.
Equal pay, as the great
Serena Williams says,
until I'm in my grave.
UNDERWOOD: We're not done
until we have a Congress that
looks like the American people.
COOPER: In a world where
women are still doing most of the
child rearing across raceand
most of the household labor,
we definitely need
female representation
and female leadership.
HARRIS: I'm so proud to
stand with you and I do so
mindful of all the heroic and
ambitious women before me,
whose sacrifice, determination,
and resilience makes
my presence here
today even possible.
GARZA: We are not done
transforming this country into
what it has always
promised that it would be.
SARSOUR: So there's
some sort of, like,
running line where we
keep passing to one another,
until one day this
country realizes
its full potential.
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