Best of the Left Podcast : #1147 The thrill and horror of the Harvey Weinstein Effect

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Air Date: 11/21/2017

Today we look at gender-based harassment and assault, the revolution in thinking on the subject we are currently in the midst of and some ideas to institutionalize positive change

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

Ch. 2: Act 1: Sexual Harassment, Revisited - On The Media - Air Date 10-26-17

Ch. 3: Song 1:  Open Flames - Aeronaut


Ch. 4: Act 2: #MeToo is a movement just to be believed - Backtalk from @BitchMedia - Air Date 10-19-17

Ch. 5: Song 2:  Streamer - Arc and Crescent


Ch. 6: Act 3: Understanding the Clinton legacy in the debate over sexual harassment - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 11-20-17

Ch. 7: Song 3:  Marble Chase - Dorica


Ch. 8: Act 4: Alyssa Peterson on Campus Sexual Assault - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 11-3-17

Ch. 9: Song 4:  Lakal - Speakeasy


Ch. 10: Act 5: Hollywood Actors: Sexual Abuse Of Boys Is "Rampant" - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 11-01-17

Ch. 11: Song 5:  The Envelope - Aeronaut


Ch. 12: Act 6: How to facilitate reporting of harassment in the workplace - @offkiltershow - Air Date 11-17-17

Ch. 13: Song 6:  Chilvat - Lillehammer


Ch. 14: Act 7: Rebecca Traister on the ‘Harvey Weinstein Effect’ - The Breach - Air Date 11-21-17


Voicemails

Ch. 15: A few thoughts on guns, race and gender - Margareet from Northern California

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics


Ch. 16: Final comments on working for gender equality while avoiding the unavoidable backlash (Reminder: Check out our Winter Fundraiser!)

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone

(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions


ACTION & INFORMATION 

Need help? Call the 24-hour National Sexual Assault Hotline toll-free: 1-800-656-HOPE

RAINN Action Center 

1 in 6 (Organization supporting men who have been sexually assaulted)

Know Your IX (Defending Title IX - Empowering students to stop sexual violence)

Your Reckoning. And Mine. by Rebecca Traister (The Cut)

Ellen Page on Brett Ratner Abuse & Reckoning (Ellen Page via Facebook)

There’s a little-known fund that goes to victims of sexual harassment on the Hill. You pay for it. (Vox)

Study: Hotel Housekeepers Are at Great Risk for Sexual Assault From Guests (New Republic)

700,000 Female Farmworkers Say They Stand With Hollywood Actors Against Sexual Assault (TIME)


Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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