01/12/18 01/12/18 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> these are shocking and shameful comments from the president of the united states. no othery but there is word i can use but racist. amy: president trump is facing international condemnation after tong the word s* *holes describe african nations and haiti. but he used the full expletive.

duduring a privavate meeting on immigration, trump questioned why the united states should accept more immigrants from what he described as s* *hole he described as s* *hole countries rather than from places like norway. we will get response from the acclaimed haitian novelist edwidge danticat. thenen to "time's up!" that's the e rallying cry that's bringing together women from hollywood actresses to housekeepers to demand gender and racial justice and a world free of sexual harassment and assault. >> i hope people see the momentum in the energy and the fact we are uniting across all industries a and all communitie, standing together saying we all deserve workplaces where our valued and we can live and work with dignity. amy: we will speak to tarana burke, the founder of the metoo movement, actress shailene woodley and leading native american domestic worker and farmworker organizers. plus, a prominent imimmigrant rights activist is detained by ice in new york.

you will get all of the details. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president donald trump sparked international outrage thursday over a racist comment in which he said the u.s. should limit immigration from haiti, el salvador, and african nations in favor of immigrants from countries like norway. trump made the remarks during a meeting with congressional leaders amid discussions over the trump said, why are we having all these people from [bleep] countries come here?" this is haitian grassroots activist rene civil. last the trump administration announced it is ending temporary protected status for tens of thousands of haitian, nicaraguan, and sudanese living in the u.s.

is haitian grassroots activist rene civil. donald trumump is more than just a cancer on the world and not just drop the world, but particularly for the american people. he is a president destabilizing, a president of vulgar words who is unacceptable. amy: trump's remarks prompted "the new york daily news" to publish a banner headline on the front page featuring trumps likeness superimposed of a temoji with s* for brains. we will have more from florida to speak with edwidge danticat. the white house said thursday it will allowow states to impose wk requirement rules on many recipients of medicaid, the federally-run healthcare program. the move could force low-income people in at least 10 states to find employment or risk losing

access to healthcare. the white house insists the change would only target so-called able-bodied adults, and would not affect children or people with disabilities. "the new york times" is reporting that preresident trump will again stop short t of re-imposing harsh sanctions on iran while imposing new sanctitions on the ballistic missile program. the report comes as trump faces a deadadline todayay on whethero extend sanctions relief to iran for its compliance with a landmark 2015 nuclear deal. the deal was signed by number of european countries them alall of whom are urging president trump to remain in the agreement. jenna campaign, trump repeatedly said he would withdraw from the iran nuclear agreement, calling it the worst deal ever. on capitol hill, thousand representatives approved a bill to continue granting president trump the administration's sweeping powers to conduct foreign surveillance on u.s. soil. 256-164, the bill is passed. without objection, the motion to

reconsider is laid on the table. amy: 65 democrats joined 191 republicans in favor of the bill . among the supppporters were senr democrats including house minority leader nancy pelosi. critics note the law last the national security agency to collect personal cumin occasions of americans without their knowledge or consent as long as at least one party in the conversation is a a foreign national. the dragnet means millions of your citizens are affected. this is ted lieu. >> spying g on foreigners withot following the cotitution, at is ok. spying on americans without following the constitution, that is not ok. the fourth amendment does nonot itave an asterisks this is doesn't have to be followed. amy: a privacy limit was rejected -- amendment wawa rejected. president trump sowed consion ead of the vote, fst tweeng again fisa

- ngle w heas referri to a discreted accusaon trump made lasmarch that presint obam tapped s phones lateon thursy gun he revers crse and eeted hi supporafter fisa reauorizatioand got cas fr republans brish ththorits have rected a bid to allow julian assange safe passage from the ecuadorean embassy in london, after ecuador's foreign minister said he'd granted assange citizenship. the move came as the minister said there were credible threats to assange's life from third-party states. assange first sought refuge andd political asylum in the ecuadorean embassy in 2012, when he faced possible extradition to sweden amid a sexual assssault investigation that has since been dropped. assange has always denied the allegations and calls the investigation a pre for his ultimate extradition to the united states to face prosecution under the espionage act. in hollywood, the studio behind the new film "all the money in the world" is under fire, following reports it paid actor mark wahlberg 1500 times mor

than the woman in its lead role, michelle williams, for a re-shoot of several scenes. the re-shoot came after director ridley scott chose to edit actor spacey out of the nearly-finished movie, when more than a dozen men accused spacey of sexual harassment and assault. after scott cast christopher plummer in spacey's role, actor michelle williams was given a per diem of $80 a day for the re-shoot, which kept her away from her family over the thanksgiving holiday. her co-star, mark wahlberg, was paid $1.5 million for the re-shoots -- in a supporting role. news of the pay disparity comes just days after more than a thousand prominent actresses, writers and directors launched the "time's up" project aimed at combating sexual abuse and harassment in the film industry. we will be speaking with some of them after the headlines. in the netherlands, u.s. ambassador pete hoekstra was grilled by dutch reporters wednesday about past islamophobic comments in which he blamed islamic immigrants for setting fires and creating no-go zones across holland.

"there are cars being burned. there are politicians that are being buburned," hoekskstra sait a conservative forum in 2015. last december, hoekstra denied making the remarks, telling a dutch television crew the reports were fake news. when hoekstra was then shown footage in which he made the comments, he denied he had even used t the term "fakee news." on wednesday in ththe hague, hoekstra spoke to dutch reporters fofor the first time since he became u.s. ambassador, repeatedly refusing to answerr questions about his s false commts. >> wouould you please take back the remark abo burned politicians? >> thank you. >> why don't you answer the question? answer the question. >> this is the netherlands. you to answer questions. amy: ambassador hohoekstra is sa co-founder of the house tea party caucus. he supports the death penalty, opposes abortion rights, and has spoken out against marriage equality and lgbtq rights.

in pakistan, protests have erupted nationwide after the body of a seven-year-old girl was found raped and murdered in a district south of lahore. zainab amin was last seen in surveillance camera video holding a man's hand as she walked near her home in the town of kasur. her body was later retrieved from a garbage dumpster. it was at least the 12th such incident in the district over the past year. on wednesday, thousands joined a funeral for zainab, protesting the failure of pakistani authorities to stop the sexual asassault and murdrder of child. in the occupied palestinian territories, israeli forces shot and killed two palestinian teenagers thursday, as protests continue to rage over president trump's declaration of jerusalem as israel's capital and over u.s. plans to move its embassy to jerusalem. 16-year-old amir abu musaid was shot dead at a protest near the israeli border wall in the gaza strip. meanwhile, another 16-year-old, omar qadous, was shot and killed in the northern west bank. the latest deaths came as israeli officials gave final approval to plans for over 350

new homes in jewish-only settlements in the west bank, in defiance of international law and multiple u.n. resolutions. meanwhile, here in the united states, the city council of new orleans, louisiana passed a resolution thursday pledging that the city will avoid investing in or contracting with companies that violate human rights. the resolution was drafted by the new orleans palestinian solidarity committee. its passage makes new orleans the first city in the south, and one of the largest u.s. cities, to join the bds movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction israel over illegal settlements and over its treatment of the palestinians. in los angeles, transgender activists are planning a "vigil of resistance" this evening, after a young trans latina woman from honduras was found murdered tuesday. people say they found the body of viccky gutierrez in a pico union district apartment, and suspected foul play. she's the second transgender person killed so far in 2018. on january 5, transgender rights advocate christa leigh steele-knudslien was found

beaten and stabbed to death inside her home in north adams, massachusetts. last year, at least 28 transgender people were murdered in the u.s., making it the deadliest year yet for the transgender community. walmart said thursday it is closing more than 60 sam's club stores nationwide and laying off thousands of w workers. many of the stores closed abruptly on thursday without any warning to employees. the layoffs came as walmart said it would increase its company-wide minimum wage from $9 to $11 per hour. the retailer lauded the massive tax bill recently passed by republicans and signed by president trump, saying its tax savings would allow it to pass along about $300 million to pay for higher wages. that's a small fraction of the estimated $2 billion a year the company will save from the tax cuts, according to the united food and commercial workers union. at the white house, press secretary sarah huckabee sanders and treasury secretary steven mnuchin both dodged questions about walmart's layoffs while taking credit for the company's wage increases..

president trump is set to undergo the first medical exam since his inauguration. today's physical, at the walter reed medical center outside washington, will not include a mental health screening, even though medicare recipients over 65 are routinely screened during physicals for cognitive function and possible safety risks. trtrump is 71 1 years old. hehe recently boasted of being a very stable genius amid and possible safetety risks.wids declining mental health. in puerto rico, the u.s. army corps of engineers has acknowledged that armed federal agents entered a warehouse saturday operarated by prepa -- the puerto rico electric power authority -- where they seized a massive amount of rebuilding materials. a spokesperson for the army corps told the intercept that prepa "lacked transparency in inventory and accountability" in its rebuilding operations, prompting federal officials to seize supplies and begin distributing them to contractors. about half of puerto ricans still have no electric power 114 days after hurricane maria made landfall, devastating the island. meanwhile, hospitals around the

u.s. are reporting acute shortages of iv drip bags, just as the flu season reaches its peak, after a major factory in puerto rico that produces the medical devices was badly damaged by the hurriricane. in peru, thousands of protesters marched through the streets of lima thursday demanding that president pedro pablo kuczynsk step down for pardoning the country's former dictator, the convicted murderer alberto fujimori. at the time of his pardon on christmas eve, fujimori had been imprisoned for crimes including ordering massacres by death squads in the 1990's. this is protester eliana carlin. [indiscernible] amy: president trump has

canceled plans for a state visit to great britain next month to open the new u.s. embassy in london, as british civil society groups promised to organize massive protests against any visit by trump. secretary of state rex tillerson is expected to attend in place of the president. in a twitter post late thursday, trump falsely blamed president obama for moving the u.s. embassy, tweeting -- "reason i canceled my trip to london is that i am not a big fan of the obama administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in london for 'peanuts,' only to build a new one in an off location for $1.2 billion. bad deal. wanted me to cut ribbon-no!" in fact, it was presidenent geoe w. bush who ordered the embassy move in 2008. and the e executive director of new york city's new sanctuary coalition has been detained by immigration and customs enforcement. ravi ragbir is a nationally-known immigrant rights activist whose wife and daughter are u.s. citizens. born in trinidad and tobago, ravi has lived in the united states for 27 years, but he

faces deportation because of a 2002 wire fraud conviction. democracy now! has closely followed ravi's case. he was on the show in march the day of his last check-in, when he was told to return in january. well, on thursday morning, ravi was taken into custody, sparking a peaceful protest that was met with police violence. democracy now's! renee feltz was there. >> at 26 federal pzaza in downwn manhattan, , ra ragbir met for s regular che-in. hands crankyr would d come out. he went in a company by his lawyer and wife and sevel l city cocounl membmbs and''s eightt lawmakers. after nearly t h hourscityty council speaker worry j johon came out with update. >> [indidiscernie] fainted when he s told hwawas beindedetain. an ambulance pulled up.

inple bieveved it had ravi handcus. new york police office f filin shocd peopleut of thway whwere shoining support, some crng. as the ambululancerove down brdwdway, ty c councilmembers sat down to blk k its y. weree violent handcuffed and marched away. at least 18 ople wer arrested. the police union later claim the ambulance was headed to a hospitital. hundreds regrouped hours later for a vigil in front of the ice was reportedly taken. wife joined in a jericho walk around the gel as she is often time with her husband in weekly vigils. >> he knows we are going to win this fight.

and that nobody is backing down. >> ice said late thursday that ravi had "exhausted his petitions and appeals." his lawyer disagreed and told democracy now! what happens when ravi was told he was being deported. >> we went to the check-in withravi and his wife amy and we were told by the immigration representative that they would be trying to enforce a deportation order and taking him in. it was horrible news to receive. we have been in conversations raviice for many years and has been receiving states of with hisnd recognition contributions as a leader, family ties, executive director of the new sanctuary coalition, and also in recognition of the legal challenges that we have filed that would actually have a chance of resolving his case and allowing h him to stay here. ththey did not allow me e to

accompany hihim as he left the building. they put handcuffs around d him and led himim to a a secure parf the facility, and escortedee out. so i have not been able to talk to him since that moment, to reassure him that we continue to fight for him. but i believe he knows what is happening here. this is the kind of community mobilization,, community support that he has certainly galvanized for other people who have been in similar situations. i think he would take great comfort in knowing that the community has rallied behind him. amy: ravi ragbir's lawyer alina das. thanks to democracy now's! renee feltz and nat needham for that report. a federal court has now responded to an appeal ravi's lawyers filed thursday, setting a new hearing for january 29, and issuing a tempororary stay f removal and a temporary order blocking ravi's transfer away from the new york regigion. this comes as ice's online

detainee locator system lists ravi as being detained in florida at the krome detention facility and neither his family nor his lawyers know for sure where he's been taken. we'll continue to follow the case and you can watch democracynow.org for updates. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. back after this rake. breaeak. ♪ [music break]

amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war anand peace report. i'm m amy gogoodman. internationanal condemnation of donald trump is growing after reports the president after an expletive during a meeting about immigrants from africa, haiti, and el salvador. while meeting with lawmakers trump reportedly said -- "why do we want all these people from africa here? they're s* *hohole countries. we should have more people from norway." trump also reportedly said -- "why do we need more haitians? take them out."

earlieier this morningng, trump wrote on twitter -- "the lingwood used by me at the w what waswas top but really tough with the outlandish proposal made a big setback for daca." trump's comments come weeks after "t"the new y york timemes" reported trump had alslso disparaged haitians and nigerians duduring a closed-door meeting in june. trump said nigerians would never "go back to their huts" if they came to visit the united states. as for haitians trump said they "all have aids." trump's latest remarks come just after his administration announced it is ending temporary protected status for up to 250,000 salvadorans who have been living in u.s. since at least 2001. lalast year, the trump administrationon announced it is also ending temporary protected status for tens of thousands of haitians, nicaraguans, and sudanese immigrants living in the united states. remarks haveole been condemned th across the globe.e. we're not using the actual

expletive he used. the united nations high cocommissioner for human rights rupert colville decried trump's remarks. >> these are shocking and shameful comments from the states.t of the united states i'm sorry, but there is no other word one can use but racist. you cannot dismiss the entire countries and continents [bleep] whose entire populations are not white, therefore are not welcome. the positive comment on norway makes the underlying sentiment very clear. and like the earlier comments made miller fine mexicans and muslims, the policy proposals targeting entire groups on grounds of nationality or religion and the reluctance to clearly condemn the anti-semitic and racist actions of the white supremacists in charlottesville

-- all of these go against the w worldl values the has been striving so hard since world war ii. amy: in south africa, jessie duarte of the african national congress also criticized trump. [bleep] country.ol we are not in any position to stop the president saying something they wish to say, but all we can say is that developing countries do have difficulties. those difficulties are not small matters. it is not as if the united states doesn't have difficulties. millions of unemployoyed people are in the u.s.. millions of people who don't have health care services or access to education. would not make comments as derogatory as that about any has any can of social, economic, or other difficulty. amy: and in haiti, longtime activist rene civil said trump should be reminded of haiti's

history. >> in the name of the haitian people, we are part of a patriotic emergency that is fighting for real change in haiti. we demand a donald trump apologize before the entire continent as well as before haiti. the country whose blood has been used by ancestors who have served with their minds and bodies to liberate the united states itself from slavery. country.not a a [bleep] it is the mother of liberty. amy: trump's remarks prompted his hometown paper, "and you''re barely news" to publish on its cover in illustration featuring trump's likeness superimposed emoji cartoononish poop with the headline "s for br ains." we go now to florida where we are joined by the acclaimed haitian-american novelist edwidge danticicat, a novelist speaking to us s from orlando, flolorida.

author of a number of books, inincluding "the farming of bon" which won an american book award. she was born in haiti and came to the united states when she was 12. we're speaking today to edwidge and almost a after trump's s* *hole comomment on the eighth anniversary of the devastatingng haitian earthquake that killed as many as 300,000 people. edwidge danticat, welcome to democracy now! your response to president trump ? is totalponse condemnation. it was a very racist remark, which shed light on earlier decisions that have been made by the administration. for example, about temporary protected status being eliminated for haitians and , asadorans and his remark

reported by "the new york times" about all haitians having aids. it seems like once again haiti is being used as a foil and baiting his bait and feeding haiti as red meat. it is extremely sad that it has happened also in the shadow of this day. today was going to be an extraordinary sad day for many of us who lost our family members, lost our friends in the devastating earthquake. so this is even more salt on our wounds. not surprising because of the nature of this presidency and the way this president conducts himself, but it is a terrible slight. it is completely racist. especially the way he paralleled haiti and africa, which is a continent, not a country. someone should tell him. and describing them in this

manner and contrasting them to norway. amy: seems to be redefining the term "white house" where he lives in washington. and what he wants to see in this country. edwidge danticat, we have been playing the responses of people around the world from south africa, one of those at as donald trump calls them s* *hole but uses the full expletive. this morning, kind of denying this in a tweet. yesterday when the white house was asked about this, they d did not deny that he said this. i mean, there were so many congress members in the room. what does it mean for haitian-american families, both the policy, what you're facing, the loss of what so many communities are facing, haitian communities and salvadoran, the loss of tps, but also for your kids? would people hear these terms? >> that is exactly where i was

going to go. now there are so many haitian children who won't be going to school today and inevitably, it --l come up and they will their parents are going to have to explain to the children what the president has said and what kind of country they actually come from, and a country like haiti that has had difficulties but also the u.s. has played a hand in creating certain types of situations that has led to the level of poverty that we have -- which doesn't mean we are not human beings, that we don't have dreams, that we're not trying very hard to keep our coununtry going. disparaging. amy: edwidge danticat, what would you say if you are meeting

with presidedent trump today at the white house? >> i don't think i wowould be meeting with president trump, but i would use this opportunity you have given me to tell him to just stop it. stop it. he is spewing white supremacist views that have real consequencnces in the e lives of ordinary people. we are ready see onlinine people who are saying "of course what he is saying is true." and there are people who will act on it when they meet people like us, who will exercicise certain prejudicess that affects the lives of people he is talking about. but that also can lead to actual violence against our bodies, against our children. so i think he needs to realize what he is saying from the biggest bulllly pulpitit in the whole world is affecting individual people. i don't know that he cares because i think he is just doing these things and i think also --

this is what he believes, but what he is s saying from this vy high position of power affects ththe future o of nations, affes the lives of individuals, affects how people -- how policy is created. and now you have all of these white supremacists and racists who feel empowered because basically the president of the united states has put a target on the backs of these people who he has described in this way, for them to be ridiculed, for prejudices-- have exercised against them, and in some cases, a violence, assaults , popossible on their bodies.. this would give permission to certain kinds of people. we become than hyper visible in our full durability y because we are been signaled out not once, once with the aids and the tps and now with this, and as a

group of people is haitians and people from africa and he is singling out people for and making us targets for all kinds of p possible attacks amy: finally, on this anniversary, this eighth anniversary of the earthquake in haiti that killed up to 300,000 haitians? >> yes. what we would have been doing today would have been remembering and thinking about our dead and commemorating these losses. but sadly, this has been muddled by this vicious attack by the president against our people at this time. so it is important -- we are still going to remember. we are still going to mourn, but jesus saying that many people have been saying since the election of the president,t,

"today we mourn, tomorrow we fight." amy: edwidge danticat, thank you for joining us haitian-american , novelist speaking to us frfrom orlando, florida author of several books, including "the farming of bones," which won an american book award. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, i''m amy goodman. as we turn to a growing chorus of womenen declalaring "time's " yes, that's the rallying cry that's bringing together women from hollywood actresses to housekeepers to demand gender and racial justice and a world free of sexual harassment and assault. the movement launched on sunday night at the golden globe awards, where the red carpet went dark, and many dressed in black to show their solidarity with the movement. it wasn't just actors and actresses. a number hollywood stars brought social justice activists with them to the golden globes this year. meryl streep attended the ceremony with ai-jen poo, director of the national domestic workers alliance. shailene woodley was accompanied by suquamish tribe member calina

lawrence. emma stone brought tennis champ and lgbt advocate billie jean king. susasan sarandon brought media justicice activistst rosa cleme. amy poehler's guest was saru jajayaraman, president of restaurant opportunities center. emma watson brought marai larasi, executive director of the british anti-violence group imkaan. laura dern attended with monica ramirez, president of the national farmworker women's alliance. and michelle williams walked the red carpet with #metoo movement founder tarana burke. this is michelle williams, who was nominated for best actress in a motion picture drama, speaking with ryan seacrest on the red carpet before the ceremony. >> we're here because of tarana. taranaeree because started a movement and she played to deceive years ago and it caught fire. she started the etoooo movement. i thought i would have to raise my daughter to learn t to have o dangerousurself in a

world. i think becauause of the work tt she has done in the work i'm learning how to do, we actually have the opporortunity to hand r children a different world. i am moved beyond measure to be standing next to this woman. i have tears in my eyes and aa smile on my face. amy: that was michelle williams, speaking on the red carpet on sunday night. it came out that when they had to reseshoot "all the money of e world" it was decided kevin spacey would be taken out since he has been accused of sexual assaulting boys and young men ,or decadades, that the reshoot michelle williams got $1000 and mark wahlberg got $ $1.5 million for that same reshoot. the activist attended the golden globobes wrote in a collective statemenent -- "many of us identify as survivors of sexual harassment, assault and violence ourselves and we believe we are nearing a

tipping point in transforming the culture of violence in the countries where we live and work. we believe that people of all genders and ages should live free of violence against us. and, we believe that women of cocolor, andnd womenho h have fd generations of exclusion -- indigenous, black, brown and asian women, farmworkers and domestic workers, disabled women, undocumented and queer and trans women -- should be at the center of our solutions." less than a week after it launched, the titime's up legal defensnse fund has already raisd $16 million for legal supppport for people who have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace. well, for more, we're joined by five of the incredible women who helped launch the time's up movement and were all at the golden globes. here in new york city, tarana burke is the founder of the #metoo movement. she established the organization in 2006 to focus on young women who have endured sexual abuse, assasault, or exploitation. she heherself a sesexu assault susurvivor, now a senior directo at girirls for gender r equityt. she walked the red c carpet at sunday night's golden globe awards with actress michelle williams.

she also, tarana burke, dropped the ball new year's eve -- but actually, quite literally. she was the one who dropped that ball on new year's eve because of her prominence in this movement today. in chicago, ai-jen poo, the executive director for the national domestic workers alliance is withth us co-directr , of caring across generations. her recent piece for cosmopolitan is titled, "i was meryl streep's "plus one" at the golden globes." in washington, d.c., monica ramirez is the co-founder and president of the national farmworker women's alliancece. in seattle, washington, calina lawrence is an artist, activist , and enrolold memberer of thee suquamish tribibe. she attended sunday's golden globes with actress shailene woodley. shailene woodley is joining us by democracy now! video stream, the award-winning actress who has starred in films including "the divergent series," and "the fault in our stars," and has appeared in the tv series "secret life of the american teenager." she was nominated for golden lies."or "big little

and we will talk about that as well. we want to welcome you all to democracy now! as we have you all here to talk , i wouldmesup, taran to begin with you. as you listen to the words that donald trump was reportedly used yesterday to describe people from haiti, africa, el salvador, though he seems to be trying to take it back today, talking about people from -- i want to the actual words used, s* *hole -- your thoughts? >> i want to say i'm surprised, but i am just -- i'm not. i think this is consistent with who we have seen as donald trump as the president, as the entrepreneurur in new york. vile languagee of in front of so many people might be surprising, but i am not surprised. he named these three places, but

it is clear to me he means people of color in general. contrasting it with having more immigrants from norway. i am thinking about ravi who we talklked about earlier on the show. amy: the immigrants rights activists who has lived here for decades. they arrested him yesterday. two city council members arrested, 18 people altogether, hundreds of people in new york trying to stop that arrest and deportation. >> those two things happening on the same day, that is not lost on me. beingdy like ravi arrested who has wkeked tirelelely for immigration rights and on behalf of immigrants in w yoyork and the united stetes beg arrest on ay -- it i indicativof whate are fang with is esident. amy: ai-n poo, yorepresen so manwomen in t united stat. executive rector o the

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opinions, and this is what we''e gogoing to do about it -- whichs why i feel so honored to be heard today y because thesese wn we are talking to are the women who are standing up and protecting and using their bodies andnd theirir voices and their s souls to ensure that everyone in our country has a a safe place to be in a safe place to belong, and that justice i is seenen despite the leadershipp f our current t government. amy: we're going to go to break and come back to this discussion. that is shailene woodley, who is nominated for a golden globe for her role in the film -- in the tv series "big little lies," where she playays and abused woman, as do other women in this tv series, not to mention one of the children. this is democracy now! we will be back in a minute. ♪ [music break]

amy: "generations" by our guest, calina lawrence. speaking to us from washington, state. at is one of the activists the golden globes. togetherbringing hollywood actresses to housekeepers to demand racial .nd gender justice the movement launched sunday night at the golden globes when the red carpet went dark, many dressed in black to show their solidarity with the movement will stop a number of hollywood stars brought social justice activists like calina lawrence, who was brought to the goldenen globes by our other guest today, shailene woodley, who is a for a golden globe for "the little lies," a remarkable production,

extremely strong women dealing with issues of sexual assault and abuse. here in new york, tarana burke walked the red carpet and she is really founder of the #metoo movement, established over 10 years ago to focus on girls and women in sexual abuse, now director of girls for gender equity. the executive director for the national domestic workers alliance and she's the co-director of caring across generations. monica ramirez is co-founder and president of the national farmworker women's alliance. i want t to go to ai-jen poooo. yes, you got a lot of attention as an activist at the golden globes heart #metoo of this movement.#timesup what are you hoping will come out of this from hollywood actresses to domestic workers? soone of the things that is powerful about what was happening and what is happening is the incredible unity that we

are seeing across diverse industries and communities, where women are coming forward, standing together to support all survivors, and in bringing forward all of the stories that we need to hear in order to find solutions that leave no one behind. domestic workers, for example, have been left out -- along with farmworkers and monica will say more about that -- but domestic workers have an excluded from some of the most days of protections that many of us take for granted. everything from their right to overtime to the righght to organize and many antidiscrimination and excludent protections domestic workers. so we want to make sure that every single woman is protected and can live and work with safety and dignity. and what we're seeing in this moment is incredible momentum and incredible unity so we can realize that goal.

amy: monica ramirez, you represent the farm workers alliance. your speaking to us from d.c., deeply involved in the move. can you talk about what farmworkers face? >> sure. migrant farmworker women specifically are extremely vulnerable workers in our workforce. they make on average $11,000 a year compared to the $16,000 year made by their male counterparts. sexual violence against them in the workplace is widespread with women reporting and 80% to 90% and the few studies done about the prevalence of sexual violence against them. it is so common that farmworker greenrefer it to it as motels. we have been fighting against these issues as well as things like pesticide exposure and other kinds of safety issues that farmworker women and other farmworkers face in our nation because they, too, are excluded from major protections in the protections that exist do not

adequate address their needs because it is so difficult for farmworkers to come forward given the reliance on employers for housing and transportation and other things an extreme poverty they are living in. withe proud to be working our sisters here, participating in this show and all of us that are part of the #timesup because we had together we can make a difference and bring in those with the most marginalized, those perceived to be the most powerful so we can make the changes required. farmworker women strongly believe thahat the matter what workplace you are working income you deserve protections. just like farmworker women do. we're going to get there by woworking together. s speak, calinad lawrence, about native american women and what they face.e. when we talk about rates of sexual abuse, we must multiplyly this so many times when we talk about native women so vulnerable

in this country. >> absolutely. the violence against native women is 10 times the national rate. four out of five women experience violence -- excuse me, four out of five native american women are on the receiving end of violence. i think one in three are exposed to domestic violence. that wef the things definitely had time to share space about when we met as a collective group right before the globes was that although we also experience this epidemic in the workplace, we experience it in our home, on college campuses, in the streets. this is an ongoing, obviously has been ongoing since colonial invasion. it has been ongoing since the boarding school eras where they stripped our children from

families and abuse them in religious boarding schools. those things have been inherited. the patriarchal violence that we have been on the receiving and still very much exists today. work happeningof not only around collecting these stories and this information, but really working in the communities to shift our psychological approach to start ask the comfortable questions and hold more folks accountable as to what contributes to our dehumanization. missing and murdered indigenous women usa, missing and murdered indigenous women in canada, differentso many chapters of missing and murdered indigenous women that are consistently working around the clock. one of the things different that is really

difficult, obviously, the as sovereign nations and government to government relations, it is often difficult to really track the actual numbers because the fact that most of the time, convictions cannot happen on reservations if committed by non-native violators and vice versa. a lot of times when native women are violated off of the trauma, theirheir experiences never see investigation and they rarely have attained justice. tois an incredible necessity be included in the conversation and say that we have been doing this work for essentially 500 years, and we will continue to do this work in solidarity with those who now share this -- what is now the united states.

but they share this land with us , and we are really honored to offer the resources and t the tactics that we have used to women who are doing the same work in theieir respective communities. amy: shailene woodley, you took calina to the golden globes. she was your plus onene. can you talk about that movement? and also the #timesup movement overall, specifically, concretely, so far the fund of barely has raised steen million dollars -- $16 million for people who have experienced sexual and, i assume, racial abuse as you talk ababout sexual harassment and racial injustice? calina and i have been fortunate enough toto be friends were couple of years now and work together on a few differenent movemements. when i first found out about #timesup, i haveve to admit i ws

not one of the founders in the entertainment industry. i was not part of the group of women who came together originally to create #timesup. i joined the movemenent later r. i just wanted to make that clear. but whwhen i firstst read aboutt and i received the invite of empowerment to bring someone or to wear black and sort of got the download on what everyone was aiaiming for the golden globes, i realize that in their messaging, almlmost every single miminority group was m mentioned amongst t women except for r nae american women and indndigenous women. that is a common t theme thahate see constantly. i am not native, but it is --ething that i recognize as we saw standing rock blaster and some people begin to pay attention to native americans and indigenous people overall. then i kind of waned and people have not been includingng that community in the movement overall.

calinana was the first one i called. was s it, what arere you doing january 7? she said, i'm free, i'm in, whatever it is, let's go. amy: what was it like to join? .ou traversed these worlds you were at standing rock. a-list actress in hollywood. what wasas it like to bring thee actresses togegeer with the acactivists? >> it was gorgeous. it was very emotional. it was the first time in my life that i gone to an award show and when i looked in people's eyes, i saw nothing but authenticity and nothing but a genuine desire to learn more. and a genuine desire to use our platform for purpose that is far larger than just our own lives.