NEW YORK ― If you were looking at the courthouse in New York City where disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is currently on trial for multiple counts of sexual assault on Friday morning, it would have seemed pretty quiet. Dozens of women had gathered in the park facing the courthouse. They were a diverse group, wearing black with accents of red, many of them tying black mesh around their eyes and carrying totes emblazoned with “TIME’S UP” and Dolores Huerta quotes. Just before 11 a.m.
“It was very moving to see a group of women come together in their own terms and talk so openly, blatantly, and boldly, and fiercely about rape culture,” Mendoza said. “I was like, ‘Let’s do it in New York. Let’s translate it into English and let’s do it in New York.’” “We can say ... that this is not on us. This is on the system that doesn’t protect us, and doesn’t protect our basic human rights,” said Travieso, who sees the words of “Un Violador en Tu Camino” as almost a mantra.
Yasmeen Hassan, the global executive editor of Equality Now, was one of the women in attendance. She told HuffPost that she sees the Weinstein case as symbolic, “the epitome of what led to the Me Too movement.”
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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