Amid the ongoing fallout from sexual assault and harassment allegations against Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, a former contestant on “Celebrity Apprentice” has subpoenaed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign for all documents relating to her and any other women who have accused the US president of unwanted sexual contact. We look at how this has reignited a conversation about sexual assault with women using the #MeToo hashtag, and speak with activist Tarana Burke, who started the campaign about a decade ago. “Me Too’ is so powerful, because somebody had said it to me, and it changed the trajectory of my healing process,” Burke says. We also speak with Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, and Soraya Chemaly, a journalist who covers the intersection of gender and politics.
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AMY GOODMAN: “Know My Name” by Courtney Love. Courtney Love said this week her 2005 public warning to women about serial predator Harvey Weinstein got her blacklisted by the powerful Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency, writing, “Although I wasn’t one of his victims, I was eternally banned by CAA for speaking out against #HarveyWeinstein #rape.” This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González, as we talk about the latest news right now.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, those allegations were not being made against disgraced —
SUMMER ZERVOS: [He repeated my words back to me] — “Get real” — as he began thrusting his genitals. He tried to kiss me again, with my hand still on his chest. And I said, “Dude, you’re tripping right now,” attempting to make it clear I was not interested.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Those allegations were not being made against disgraced Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, but against now-President Donald Trump. That is Celebrity Apprenticecontestant Summer Zervos describing her 2007 encounter with Trump in which she says Trump kissed her on the lips, pressed his body against hers and…