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   It's been one year since more than 1,000 women in entertainment   
   joined forces to combat workplace sexual misconduct across   
   industries with the formation of Time's Up. Amber Tamblyn, Emma   
   Watson, Shonda Rhimes, Tracee Ellis Ross, Eva Longoria and the   
   founders of the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund spoke to CNN about   
   what’s changed in the past year and what’s to come. Listen and   
   read their reflections below.   
      
   Eva Longoria   
   Eva Longoria   
   Actress   
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   00:54   
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   Tina Tchen   
   Tina Tchen   
   Partner at Buckley Sandler and co-founder of the Time's Up Legal   
   Defense Fund   
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   00:48   
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   Emma Watson   
   Emma Watson   
   Actress   
   “Personally, I feel Time's Up has helped cultivate a sense of   
   community between women in my industry. People assume female   
   actors all know each other and hang out, but we’re often quite   
   isolated in an industry that can feel like an atomising force   
   rather than a bonding one. Thinking back to the watershed #MeToo   
   moment at the end of 2017, women in the industry were reaching   
   out to each other, sharing experiences, organizing together in a   
   way I hadn’t seen happen before. There was a sincere realization   
   of the power of unity, which is something that women in other   
   industries have of course known for some time!   
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   Shonda Rhimes   
   Shonda Rhimes   
   Producer   
   “Accountability looks like these cases finally going to trial.   
   Accountability looks like not getting a 9-figure golden   
   parachute on your way out the door after a number of sexual   
   harassment complaints. Accountability looks like Terry Crews   
   refusing to be shamed. Also accountability looks like survivors   
   being heard and being believed. Accountability looks like men   
   taking responsibility for changing the damaged culture they have   
   benefited from. Accountability looks like a day when women of   
   all kinds are treated equally and believed equally no matter   
   what the circumstance of the assault or harassment. Or maybe   
   that is just what I hope the future looks like for my daughters."   
   Amber Tamblyn   
   Amber Tamblyn   
   Actress   
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   01:14   
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   Hilary Rosen   
   Hilary Rosen   
   Political consultant and co-founder of the Time's Up Legal   
   Defense Fund   
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   00:49   
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   Fatima Goss-Graves   
   Fatima Goss Graves   
   President & CEO of the National Women's Law Center and co-   
   founder of the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund   
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   01:18   
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   Tracee Ellis Ross   
   Tracee Ellis Ross   
   Actress   
   "The 'Dear Sisters' letter and the lead-up to last year’s Golden   
   Globes stand out to me as incredible and unprecedented moments.   
   Being a part of this hard-working group of women who were   
   willing to lean in to each other, roll up our sleeves and lead   
   the charge was life changing. We were a motley band of nimble,   
   organized and tireless ladies. We took control of the narrative,   
   redefined how we relate to one another and we all got to feel   
   how much we are on the same team. I experienced shared power in   
   a way that I didn’t know was possible. Culture and patriarchy   
   has spent a lot of energy siloing us off and Time's Up brought   
   us together both in purpose and in comfort. Those early moments   
   of Time's Up fueled me with a new kind of courage. I learned and   
   continue to learn so much from these able, smart, wise, kind,   
   bold women whom I now call my friends."   
   Lisa Borders   
   Lisa Borders   
   President & CEO of Time's Up   
   “My most memorable moment during this past year relative to   
   Time's Up was hearing the ‘clarion call’ from Oprah Winfrey as   
   she gave her Golden Globes’ acceptance speech. Her words   
   resonated for me after having endured racial slurs growing up in   
   the Deep South and being underestimated as a woman and a person   
   of color throughout my professional career. I felt a sense of   
   renewed confidence and an urgent sense of duty to help others   
   ‘see the light’ of women’s voice and value."   
   Nina Shaw   
   Nina Shaw   
   Partner at Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein & Lezcano and   
   founding member of Time's Up   
   "My involvement with Time’s Up has been profoundly life   
   changing. I have never been satisfied with the status quo and to   
   find a similarly minded group of people and to be part of a   
   movement that is changing lives has renewed my faith that   
   individuals can band together and make real lasting change.   
   While I have always called out egregious behavior; I now engage   
   in conversations about the gateway behaviors to abuse like   
   incivility, intolerance and bystander silence. I have found that   
   one can present a different perspective in a way that invites   
   respectful dialogue. I am also surprised at my own former lack   
   of awareness as to how pay inequality based on gender   
   differences impacts women for their lifetimes, making them more   
   liable to live in poverty in their old age. I am going to fight   
   this battle for safety and equity in the workplace until it is   
   won."   
   Robbie Kaplan   
   Robbie Kaplan   
   Co-Founder of Times Up Legal Defense Fund and founding partner   
   of Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP   
   "I’ve been astonished by the power and prevalence of #MeToo and   
   #TimesUp. The feeling in the courtroom at the last hearing in   
   the Harvey Weinstein criminal case a couple of weeks ago was   
   absolutely electric. While all the actresses and activists were   
   sitting respectfully in the courtroom, what they were really   
   doing both literally and figuratively was bearing witness — not   
   only to the criminal charges against Harvey Weinstein, but to   
   what generations of women had to endure in silence. That silence   
   is now broken and just as there is no going back to the days of   
   the closet for LGBT people, retreating passively is no longer an   
   acceptable alternative for women either."   
      
   https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/01/entertainment/times-up-   
   movement-anniversary/index.html   
          
      
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