reporter: eve ensler is theevening's guest of honor. role model for many ofthe women in the audience. >>ladies and gentlemen, thenext president of the unitedd states, eve ensler!reporter: eve ensler enjoys her applause, but she's never seenherself as a celebrity. ms. ensler: so much of my lifehas been about being on the frontlines, struggling in thearts where i had to struggle every day of my life in thetiniest little theaters at te beginning of my career to littleholes in the middle of nowhere to little towns.and the same with my activism. i have been doing direct action,i have been doing organizing for people across the globe cometogether to dance in defiane of the injustices women suffer.dance as protest. the campaign has supporters allover the world, from new yor, to berlin, to dehli.ms. ensler: music, dance, song, hip hop, poetry, spoken word,theatre. we need to make art. we need to make love.art brings us into our bodies. it catalyses sexual energy andwe all need to have a lot of sex.reporter: that's the sort of message her fans a

when we come back, eve ensler joins us. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: you will be hearing more from alynda segarra later in the broadcast. this is s democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. when president trump signed his first second-order in to january temporarily ban refugees and people from seven majority-muslim nations, he said it was needed, in part, to protect women. a little-nototiced part of the executive order reads, "thee ununited statates should not a t those who engage in acts of the kitchen or hatred, including honor killings." some have noticed the irony. both the man who signed the order, donald trump, and the man who drive to the order, his chief strategist steve bannon, in the past have been accused of committing violence against women. during the presidential campaign, trump boasted about sexual assaulting women and grabbing them "by thepussy." eight women have now come forward and accused donald trump of sexual assault and harassment. in the 1980's, his ex-wife sa

also tomorrow one billion rising, the organization founded by edith ensler is holding a rally to callntion to the working rights of women. joining us now eve ensler, author of "the vagina monologues" and the cofounder of restaurant opportunities united, which is a cosponsor of tomorrow's rally. eve, what are you expecting tomorrow? >> well, i'm very, very excited. >> you're easily excited. >> no, because i think we're going to see stage two of this ever evolving burgeoning women's movement and focusing on workers, which is where we need to be focusing. we've been looking at women workers, and we've been working for six months with a wonderful coalition of women's rights advocates looking at what's really going on with women workers and the violence they're suffering, for example, at the workplace. it turns out 1 out of 3 women, just like 1 out of 3 women in the world report they have suffered rape or battery, 1 out of 3 women in the workplace report or don't report, but have suffered sexual intimidation, sexual assault, unwanted touching, and it's a serious, serious issue in the workp

we will get the latest, then we speak to playwright eve ensler