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Edwidge danticat. Then to times up thats the rallying cry thats 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 and all communities, standing together saying we all deserve workplaces where our work is 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 immigrant 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. Im 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 . Trumps 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. Last year, the Trump Administration announced it is also ending temporary protected status for tens of thousands of haitians, nicaraguans, and sudanese immigrants living in the United States. This is haitian grassroots activist rene civil. Donald trump 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 trumps remarks prompted the New York Daily News to publish a banner headline on the front page featuring trumps likeness superimposed of a cartoonish poop emoji with s t for brains. We will have more from florida to speak with edwidge danticat. The white house said thursday it will allow states to impose work requirement rules on many recipients of medicaid, the federallyrun healthcare program. The move could force lowincome people in at least 10 states to find employment or risk losing access to healthcare. The white house insists the change would only target socalled ablebodied adults, and would not affect children or people with disabilities. The New York Times is reporting that President Trump will again stop short of reimposing harsh sanctions on iran while imposing new sanctions on the Ballistic Missile program. The report comes as trump faces a deadline today on whether to extend sanctions relief to iran for its compliance with a landmark 2015 nuclear deal. The deal was signed by number of European Countries them all 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 administrations sweeping powers to conduct Foreign Surveillance on u. S. Soil. 256164, 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 supporters were senior 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 foreign national. The dragnet means millions of your citizens are affected. This is ted lieu. Spying on foreigners without following the constitution, that is ok. Spying on americans without following the constitution, that is not ok. The Fourth Amendment does not have an asterisks this is it doesnt have to be followed. Amy a privacy limit was rejected amendment was rejected. President trump sowed confusion ahead of the vote, first tweeting against fisa single was he was referring to a discredited accusation trump made last march that president obama tapped his phones. Later on thursday gun he reversed course and tweeted his support after fisa reauthorization and got calls from republicans british authorities have rejected a bid to allow Julian Assange safe passage from the Ecuadorean Embassy in london, after ecuadors foreign minister said hed granted assange citizenship. The move came as the minister said there were Credible Threats to assanges life from thirdparty states. Assange first sought refuge and political asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in 2012, when he faced possible extradition to sweden amid a Sexual Assault 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 more than the woman in its lead role, Michelle Williams, for a reshoot of several scenes. The reshoot came after director ridley scott chose to edit actor spacey out of the nearlyfinished movie, when more than a dozen men accused spacey of Sexual Harassment and assault. After scott cast Christopher Plummer in spaceys role, actor Michelle Williams was given a per diem of 80 a day for the reshoot, which kept her away from her family over the thanksgiving holiday. Her costar, Mark Wahlberg, was paid 1. 5 million for the reshoots in a supporting role. News of the pay disparity comes just days after more than 1000 prominent actresses, writers and directors launched the times 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 nogo zones across holland. There are cars being burned. There are politicians that are being burned, hoekstra said at 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 the term fake news. On wednesday in the hague, hoekstra spoke to dutch reporters for the First Time Since he became u. S. Ambassador, repeatedly refusing to answer questions about his false comments. Would you please take back the remark about burned politicians . Thank you. Why dont you answer the question . Answer the question. This is the netherlands. You to answer questions. Amy ambassador hoekstra is a cofounder 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 sevenyearold girl was found raped and murdered in a District South of lahore. Zainab amin was last seen in surveillance camera video holding a mans 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 Assault and murder of children. In the occupied palestinian territories, Israeli Forces shot and killed two palestinian teenagers thursday, as protests continue to rage over President Trumps declaration of jerusalem as israels capital and over u. S. Plans to move its embassy to jerusalem. 16yearold Amir Abu Musaid was shot dead at a protest near the Israeli Border wall in the gaza strip. Meanwhile, another 16yearold, 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 jewishonly 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. Shes the second transgender person killed so far in 2018. On january 5, transgender rights advocate Christa Leigh steeleknudslien 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 sams club Stores Nationwide and laying off thousands of workers. Many of the Stores Closed abruptly on thursday without any warning to employees. The layoffs came as walmart said it would increase its companywide 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. Thats 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 walmarts layoffs while taking credit for the companys wage increases. President trump is set to undergo the first medical exam since his inauguration. Todays 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. Trump is 71 years old. He recently boasted of being a very stable genius amid widespread reports over his declining Mental Health. In puerto rico, the u. S. Army corps of engineers has acknowledged that armed federal agents entered a warehouse saturday operated 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 hurricane. In peru, thousands of protesters marched through the streets of lima thursday demanding that president Pedro Pablo Kuczynsk step down for pardoning the countrys 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 1990s. 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 ribbonno in fact, it was president george w. Bush who ordered the embassy move in 2008. And the executive director of new york citys 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 ravis case. He was on the show in march the day of his last checkin, 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 nows renee feltz was there. At 26 Federal Plaza in downtown manhattan, ravi ragbir met for his regular checkin. Some raise their hands cranky would come out. He went in a company by his lawyer and wife and several City Council Members ands eight lawmakers. After nearly two hours, City Council Speaker worry johnson came out with an update. [indiscernible] he said ravi fainted when he was told he was being detained. An ambulance pulled up. People believed it had ravi in handcuffs. New York Police Officers violently shoved people out of the way who were shouting support, some crying. As the ambulance drove down broadway, City Council Members sat down to block its way. They were violently handcuffed and marched away. At least 18 people were arrested. The police union later claim the ambulance was headed to a hospital. Hundreds regrouped hours later for a vigil in front of the ice jail where ravi was reportedly taken. Ravis wife joined in a jericho walk around the jail as she has often done 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 thatravi 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 checkin with ravi 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 with ice for many years and ravi has been receiving states of removal and recognition with his 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 him to stay here. They did not allow me to accompany him as he left the building. They put handcuffs around him and led him to a secure part of the facility, and escorted me 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 ragbirs lawyer alina das. Thanks to democracy nows renee feltz and nat needham for that report. A federal court has now responded to an appeal ravis lawyers filed thursday, setting a new hearing for january 29, and issuing a temporary stay of removal and a temporary order blocking ravis transfer away from the new york region. This comes as ices 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 hes been taken. Well 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. Im amy goodman. Back after this break.  [music break] amy this is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. International 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 . Theyre s hole countries. We should have more people from norway. Trump also reportedly said why do we need more haitians . Take them out. Earlier this morning, trump wrote on twitter the language used by me at the daca meeting was tough, but what was really tough was the outlandish proposal made a big setback for daca. Trumps comments come weeks after the New York Times reported trump had also disparaged haitians and nigerians during a closeddoor 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. Trumps 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. Last year, the Trump Administration announced it is also ending temporary protected status for tens of thousands of haitians, nicaraguans, and sudanese immigrants living in the United States. Trumps s hole remarks have been condemned across the globe. Were not using the actual expletive he used. The United Nations high commissioner for human rights Rupert Colville decried trumps remarks. These are shocking and shameful comments from the president of the United States. Im 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 antisemitic and racist actions of the White Supremacists in charlottesville all of these go against the universal values the world has been striving so hard since world war ii. Amy in south africa, Jessie Duarte of the African National Congress Also criticized trump. Is not a [bleep] country. 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 doesnt have difficulties. Millions of Unemployed People are in the u. S. Millions of people who dont have Health Care Services or access to education. And we would not make comments as derogatory as that about any country that has any kind of social, economic, or other difficulty. Amy and in haiti, longtime activist rene civil said trump should be reminded of haitis 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. Haiti is not a [bleep] country. It is the mother of liberty. Amy trumps remarks prompted his hometown paper, the New York Daily News to publish on its cover an illustration featuring trumps likeness superimposed over a cartoonish poop emoji with the headline s for brains. We go now to florida where we are joined by the acclaimed haitianamerican novelist edwidge danticat, a novelist speaking to us from orlando, florida. Author of a number of books, including the farming of bones which won an american book award. She was born in haiti and came to the United States when she was 12. Were speaking today to edwidge and almost a after trumps s hole comment on the eighth anniversary of the devastating haitian earthquake that killed as many as 300,000 people. Edwidge danticat, welcome to democracy now your response to President Trump . My response is total 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 salvadorans and his remark, as 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 did not deny that he said this. I mean, there were so Many Congress members in the room. What does it mean for haitianamerican families, both the policy, what youre 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 wont be going to school today and inevitably, it will 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 doesnt mean we are not human beings, that we dont have dreams, that were not trying very hard to keep our country going. So it is very disparaging. Amy edwidge danticat, what would you say if you are meeting with President Trump today at the white house . I dont think i would 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 consequences in the lives of ordinary people. We are ready see online 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 exercise certain prejudices 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 bully pulpit in the whole world is affecting individual people. I dont 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 saying from this very high position of power affects the future of nations, affects 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 them to be have prejudices exercised against them, and in some cases, violence assaults possible on their bodies. This would give permission to certain kinds of people. We become than hyper visible in our vulnerability because we are being signled 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 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 , today we mourn, tomorrow we fight. Amy edwidge danticat, thank you for joining us, haitianamerican novelist speaking to us from orlando, florida author of several books, including the farming of bones, which won an american book award. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, im amy goodman. As we turn to a growing chorus of women declaring times up yes, thats the rallying cry thats 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 wasnt 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 aijen 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. Susan sarandon brought media justice activist rosa clemente. Amy poehlers guest was saru jayaraman, president of restaurant opportunities center. Emma watson brought marai larasi, executive director of the british antiviolence group imkaan. Laura dern attended with Monica Ramirez, president of the National Farmworker womens 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. Were here because of tarana. Were here because tarana started a movement and she played to deceive years ago and it caught fire. She started the Metoo Movement. I thought i would have to raise my daughter to learn to have to protect yourself in a dangerous world. I think because of the work that she has done in the work im learning how to do, we actually have the opportunity to hand our children a different world. I am moved beyond measure to be standing next to this woman. I have tears in my eyes and a 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 reshoot all the money of the world it was decided kevin spacey would be taken out since he has been accused of Sexual Assaulting boys and young men for decades, that the reshoot, Michelle Williams got 1000 and Mark Wahlberg got 1. 5 million for that same reshoot. The activist attended the Golden Globes wrote in a collective statement 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 color, and women who have faced 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 times up Legal Defense fund has already raised 16 million for Legal Support for people who have experienced Sexual Harassment in the workplace. Well, for more, were joined by five of the incredible women who helped launch the times 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, assault, or exploitation. She herself a Sexual Assault survivor, now a senior director at girls for gender equity. She walked the red carpet at sunday nights Golden Globe Awards with actress Michelle Williams. She also, tarana burke, dropped the ball new years eve but actually, quite literally. She was the one who dropped that ball on new years eve because of her prominence in this movement today. In chicago, aijen poo, the executive director for the national Domestic Workers alliance is with us, codirector of caring across generations. Her recent piece for cosmopolitan is titled, i was Meryl Streeps plus one at the Golden Globes. In washington, d. C. , Monica Ramirez is the cofounder and president of the National Farmworker womens alliance. In seattle, washington, calina lawrence is an artist, activist, and enrolled member of the suquamish tribe. She attended sundays Golden Globes with actress Shailene Woodley. Shailene woodley is joining us by democracy now video stream, the awardwinning 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 globe for big little lies. 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 about timesup, taran, i would 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 im surprised, but i am just im not. I think this is consistent with who we have seen as donald trump as the president , as the entrepreneur in new york. I think his use of vile language 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 talked 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. Somebody like ravi being arrested who has worked tirelessly for Immigration Rights and on behalf of immigrants in new york and the United States being arrested on a day it is indicative of what we are facing with this president. Amy aijen poo, you represent so many women in the United States. Executive director of the Domestic Workers alliance. When you heard the comments from President Trump, calling people from countries outside norway like african countries, haiti, el salvador, and others s hole countries . I mean, this is i was not surprised, but i also want to say this is not normal and we cannot normalize this. People who are caring for some of the most precious elements of our lives, our children, our aging parents, i mean, undocumented immigrants, immigrants the people he is targeting are people who are so deeply embedded in the fabric of this country, people who are leaders in the Community Like ravi, and they are being targeted. And the people who are targeting them in an inhumane way are being emboldened and we cannot normalize it. Amy Monica Ramirez, you walked the red carpet last sunday. You are part of the Timesup Movement. You are cofounder and president of the National Farmworker womens alliance. Your response . It is completely outrageous. I think it is more important than ever before that individuals like us who stand with immigrants, stand against racism and hate, that we continue to use our voices to assure people who are being targeted know that we have their backs and that what is being said about them is wrong, that we dont agree with that. It is not normal. Were not going to accept it. Unless we use our voices to speak out about this being hugely problematic and wrong, individuals are going to go farther into the shadows. We have to do everything we can to be supportive of those individuals who are feeling pressured and hated upon right now because of these kinds of remarks that are emboldening people who do seek to harm them. Amy i would to bring calina lawrence into this conversation, the original people of this country, native american of the suquamish tribe. You are at the Golden Globes sunday. You representing native american women in this country so often and the victims of Sexual Assault when we talk about those issues, but as you listen to the president talking about immigrants from other countries, your thoughts . First of all, hi, amy, it is so good to speak with you today. One of the first things that comes to my mind is a lot of native people in our country have engaged in what is called no bands on stolen land. It is completely ironic that there is so much rhetoric around i mean, it really doesnt make any sense to me. And i want to go back to what you were saying earlier, how there is no Mental Health section of his physical coming up. I think we should really find a way to make that a requirement. Amy that is interesting, what you are raising, President Trump for the first time going to walter reed for a medical exam which is supposedly going to be made public. It is not clear whether he will have a mental exam, and extensive one, which many have been calling for. The white house has suggested he wont. Even if he does, it is not clear would be made public to people here. Absolutely. A lot of native people have been standing in solidarity with all of those he is directly targeted. We recognize that as many of these amazing women have said, we have not normalized this. We will not accept this. We will do what we can to advocate across communities and use it as an opportunity to continue uniting. Amy Shailene Woodley, before we go to a break and then talk about the whole metoo initiative, which includes racial and Sexual Harassment, your thoughts now outside of the United States as you continue to do your work today were speaking to you in france can you talk about what you heard yesterday . Maybe you heard it when you woke up this morning, President Trumps term for people in africa and haiti and salvador in other places . I did hear it when i woke up this morning. And i have to just echo what everyone else has said, it is completely unacceptable. There are no words that can appropriately describe how atrocious that comment is in his overall narrative that he is sending out to not just our country, but to every country around the world. It is not the narrative of all americans. It is not the narrative of most americans. I think it is important to continue using our voices to help elevate another narrative, which is, again, this will not be normalized and that there is so much energy and work being done on the ground by so many different people. All of these women that were talking to today that are lifting other voices, that are shifting paradigms, that are supporting communities, that are standing up in the face of all adversities and saying this might be the rhetoric that is occurring on the media and this might be what our president is saying, but this is not the reality of our thoughts and our opinions, and this is what were going to do about it which is why i feel so honored to be heard today because these women we are talking to are the women who are standing up and protecting and using their bodies and their voices and their souls to ensure that everyone in our country has a safe place to be in a safe place to belong, and that justice is seen despite the leadership of our current government. Amy were 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 plays 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. She is one of the activists at the Golden Globes. Timesup bringing together hollywood actresses to housekeepers to demand racial and 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 Golden Globes by our other guest today, Shailene Woodley, who was up 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. Aijen poo the executive director for the national Domestic Workers alliance and shes the codirector of caring across generations. Monica ramirez is cofounder and president of the National Farmworker womens alliance. I want to go to aijen poo. Yes, you got a lot of attention as an activist at the Golden Globes, part of this Timesup Movement. What are you hoping will come out of this from hollywood actresses to Domestic Workers . One of the things that is so 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 right to organize and many antidiscrimination and harassment protections exclude 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 were 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 Women refer it to it as green 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. We are proud to be working with 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 who are the most marginalized with those perceived to be the most powerful, so we can make the changes required. Farmworker women strongly believe that the matter what workplace you are working income you deserve protections. Just like Farmworker Women do. Were going to get there by working together. Amy if you could speak, calina lawrence, about native american women and what they face. When we talk about rates of sexual abuse, we must multiply 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. So one of the things that we 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 end still very much exists today. There is a lot of work happening 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 there are so many different chapters of missing and murdered Indigenous Women that are consistently working around the clock. One of the things 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 nonnative violators and vice versa. A lot of times when native women are violated off of the reservation, their trauma, their experiences never see investigation and they rarely have attained justice. It is an incredible necessity to 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 the tactics that we have used to women who are doing the same work in their respective communities. Amy Shailene Woodley, you took calina to the Golden Globes. She was your plus one. Can you talk about that movement . And also the Timesup Movement overall, specifically, concretely, so far the fund of barely has raised 16 million for people who have experienced sexual and, i assume, racial abuse as you talk about Sexual Harassment and Racial Injustice . Yes, so, calina and i have been fortunate enough to be friends were couple of years now and Work Together on a few different movements. When i first found out about timesup, i have to admit i was 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 Movement Later on. I just wanted to make that clear. But when i first read about it and i received the invite of empowerment to bring someone or to wear black and sort of got the download on what everyone was aiming for the Golden Globes, i realize that in their messaging, almost every single Minority Group was mentioned amongst women except for native american women and Indigenous Women. That is a common theme that we see constantly. I am not native, but it is something that i recognize as we saw Standing Rock blaster and some people begin to Pay Attention to native americans and Indigenous People overall. Then it kind of waned and people have not been including that community in the movement overall. Calina was the first one i called. Was it, what are you doing january 7 . She said, im free, im in, whatever it is, lets go. Amy what was it like to join . You traversed these worlds. You were at Standing Rock. You are an alist actress in hollywood. What was it like to bring these actresses together with the activists . 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 peoples 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. What was also beautiful about what happened on sunday the Golden Globes was that as much as we were spreading the message of the Timesup Movement and spreading the message of solidarity, it was not a disrespectful movement. It was not disrespectful to all of the other actors and artists who were there who were being praised for their artistry. Other was an awareness and a mindfulness about the Bigger Picture that i have not personally seen in this industry before on this level. And being someone who does traversed the world, we all have our strengths and weaknesses, and we all have very different gifts. But for all of us, if we come together and we unify, which is the underlying message of what we have been talking about, those strengths and weaknesses will balance out and we will be able to do so much more because our voices will be that much louder. Amy tarana burke, from dropping the ball in new york to the Golden Globes, your final comment . And then we will post part two online. I agree with shailene. This was an amazing moment for us and i think it symbolizes amy we have to leave it there. I will be speaking in colorado tonight. Im amy goodman. Thank you for joining us. 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