well welcome i'm david bruce and this is the creative good where we are continuing our series on the me two campaign and i think you're going to like this episode we're going to take a look at what happened with the weinstein revelation i mean that seemed to release dark meat to campaign even though that hashtag been around for a number of years boy when that one took place it on its own on the social network and we're going to take a look at well what happened yeah and and as always m s n b c put some of their news items under a creative commons tag which means you can share it you can use it free to reuse as you to put so we are and  but this is very good i've seen an awful lot of stuff that just kind of condenses what happens and this is very good and i think it will bring you up to speed if you are not up to speed and if you've been watching it for a while i think this will help you to kind of put all the little pieces together can textural eyes yes so without any further ado let's take a look at what of the most powerful men in hollywood disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein is reportedly headed to rehab amid a storm of sexual harassment and assault allegations the scandal has exposed a dirty hollywood secret that apparently wasn't much of a secret at all as a bombshell stor the new york times in the new yorker suggest weinstein's misconduct was widely known for or at least rumored among entertainment industry insiders and apparently weinstein staff and even his board of directors more on that in a moment but now that silence has been broken with more than two dozen women coming forward by multiple media outlets accusing weinstein of everything from harassment to rape one of the women one of those women is a member of is an italian model who went to the n y p d after she says actually stipulated payments he would have to make to the company if he was caught harassing or assaulting people can you please explain yeah i mean it's quite unbelievable that anybody would have an employment contract of this kind but according to the two thousand and fifteen contract he signed with his own company weinstein co he has to pay two hundred fifty thousand dollars in a fine to the company if they are subject to any kind of a lawsuit from any of these women in a second instance he would have to pay five hundred thousand third instance seven hundred fifty thousand but that doesn't seem to be any stipulation whatsoever that he would lose his job if these claims keep coming back again and again now the board has said they believed they knew there were settlements prior to this contract and they have said that they believe these relationships were consensual and these payments were simply to pay off these women not to talk about them  is fighting this he is saying look i there's no grounds for you to fire me i have the right of arbitration and i have the right of mediation and they will have a conversation with harvey's lawyer next remain on in the organization whether he will stay there will will no this afternoon but joy i just wanted to also mention that bob weinstein the brother gave an explosive interview to hollywood reporter that they published just now and at the heart of that story you have bob saying they're looking to sever their financial relationship with harvey harvey has a twenty percent stake in the company as long as that's the case you're going to have business partners coming forward such as obviously with roy price that it was on studios also under fire for sexual her over sexual harassment claims of a former playboy playmate named carrie stephens who is accused all over stone of sexual assault for the director had defended harvey weinstein and then he also pulled out of a deal with with the weinstein company it's really sort of you know all over the place at this point in lives you know you've worked in the entertainment industry for quite some time co creator of the daily show for the as you still don't know the idea that you had alone with him the idea that his brother had no idea you know i mean this is this is horrifying to think so many people including the board were aware of his behavior and the only thing they want to do is find him no one except weinstein himself would create in a movie could be they have that behavior with nobody knowing it's ridiculous to assume you they're reckless they're careless and it has to be orchestrated i mean  and to even be shocked that somebody with power would do this is it's insulting to all of us really i mean we all read stories we know dean martin was the guy that got checks for all those you know there was always  been the body man to bring the women there's always been the ways that people are vulnerable and in the state now where people are demanding their agency and they're demanding their respect mediocre people who rose to power who then could hang on to that power by if i see you join jerry reed and i see that you can see through me you're going to be destroyed right when that is the prevalent and dominance in our industry that's what we have to figure out how to fix and you have a one steams or lea you know that the stories are and they get it but both were in story as well the new york times story that he would do this sort of combination of things to keep media from from catching him to ratan people to sue them if you come out with this or threaten the women i guess they felt threatened at least that their careers would be destroyed women have come forward you know just it's not the top tier women that are making accusations because the people who he you know the people who are willing to talk he could just torch torch their careers so this is basically a threat to the women even being able to get into the industry and rising industry a he's targeting women when they're in their early twenty's i mean i don't think that's a coincidence because we're talking about an abuse of power right if you believe meryl streep that she had no idea that this was happening you understand why because she was already something was already made straight a certain stature and he needs her more than she needs him in that dynamic and so i think that we have to understand how this works in terms of the cultural conversation this is an abuse of power by certain men a minority of men not the majority of men and they're making a choice and so he used his position of power to exploit and take advantage of women who were a lot less vulnerable he had an m o he's doing it to twenty two year olds twenty year olds who are just trying to break in and i keep thinking about actresses who seem to be on the rise and then disappeared i want to know what happened to them i don't know whether it was harvey or someone else i think that there is a lot more that we're going to find out in the coming weeks and downs of what was going on in hollywood you know and i think in hollywood and beyond because you know it's a out there in the world since the one nine hundred sixty s allegedly people must have know you've got a man in the white house and donald trump of these same things who does not come from the media world who got to the television world but basically comes from business i mean this when you think back to the access hollywood tape he describes how it happens when you're a star or when you're a star maker you can just do this stuff and we elect yeah fifty three percent of white women voted for him so i think a lot of us are having p t s d this week because it's coming on the heels of the one year anniversary of learning all of this stuff about my facebook feed my facebook memories come up and i'm  writing about all the new women coming forward with stories about donald trump and you know i've just got such certainty in my voice a year ago that this man cannot be elected president because of these revelations and then he was  if it's wrong and you have to talk about the victims i was asked by some media outlets last week why didn't start life make fun of harvey wanted to because i worked at some of them like before why does that matter let's talk about the victims in changing cultural norms women feel empowered to come forward and me it really we can we talk around this all the time we have for you for women and i am a guy talking like until you know not to get all i can religiously but the the good samaritan is something we need to look at because what made the good samaritan good is when they saw that person line by the side of the road they didn't say what will happen to me if i help that person they said what will happen to that person if i don't help him until we ha allies and people who witness this and the question first what will happen to the person of i don't help we were going to be stuck in this conversation it was over and we have one more woman i want to clear back in just for a while because one of the things that i've heard this morning clear is that there are now hollywood executives who are thinking twice about taking meetings with women who are thinking twice about doing recruiting meetings and trying to distance themselves because that actually hurts women's ability to get jobs is that is that are you hearing in your reporting that kind of thing starting to happen  i haven't at all but that is stunning and terrible but i think in hollywood how do you avoid meeting women i mean most of the business is about like putting beautiful women on the screen so i'm mystified as to how that would happen but as ever lawyers control much of what most of us do in america so i'm guessing they're probably warning folks that they work for get somebody else in the room or you might get sued and who knows what what might be said about you but i mean that to me is shocking and i mean just to go back to the social media aspect of this and having women come together to speak out and support each other i think twitter played a huge role in helping rose mcgowan keep going and going after people and requesting the board members step down and calling out month damon and ben affleck obviously twitter got in trouble for taking rose's account down because they said that she violat the terms and then today we have the kind of the hash tag that women should kind of boycotts which is today in protest which is kind of an interesting thing women getting together and saying when we've had enough of this i'm going to stand for any more but i think that is how you have to be and the idea that they are suddenly protective of women is shocking right that there are so outraged by this know that they've been they've been creating actually a culture where this is acceptable where the women who work for them smart women some of them brilliant women are nonetheless groomed to look a certain way to show their legs to be a sex object on television because that's what these guys in their homes are roger ailes once described them to me the fifty five to dead demographic these guys in their homes want to that's what they want to see you know and so it creates this it furthers this notion that women are ornamental and i think we're going are fed up that i think that donald trump being the president has actually shifted the conversation because it's so plain as day he was caught on tape saying i touched a woman without her consent anderson cooper in a debate said you know that sexual assault i mean that completely reframe the conversation and when he won the election american women marched millions of them all over the  world and here in the united states because i think we're at a point i've spoken to so many women this week who are just pissed off about up we don't want to be treated this way we don't want to be harassed or walking around the street we don't want to be harassed in the boardroom and we want men who don't harass asked to call each other women who are really responsible for an awful lot of the me two campaign the first one you're going to see is the one who started the whole thing and the second is the actress who promoted the thing and these are the two i would say the two most significant women behind me two campaign so who are they you'll see in just a second these this is part of the time magazine promotion for their person or persons of the year campaign and so because  promotional material we post it here on creative commons even though technically it's not in the creative commons it falls under the category of publicity and we are very happy to publicize the person of the year t magazine two thousand and seventeen yes we are you've got to get it get it and boy it's it's going to be one of those magazines that is a story all right without any further ado let's let's connect with these two very important women and they are when you go through something as traumatic as sexual violence is a way to to close up your protection the way you protect yourself is like you shroud and the disclosure not just disclosure but then the subsequent having somebody else connect with you and say you're not alone and that it just frees you if you from the chain you don't have to give the details because the details really don't matter if somebody is bold and stands up and tells their story and you're not ready to do that and that's not where you are in your journey to just simply say me too is powerful but it's soft needs to can be a conversation starter or it can be the whole conversation worth why not fight back what else are easily it's another little piece of information which i thought was rather interesting as i was searching the internet for creative commons me to kind of things and this is mindshare you know i mean we don't live in a one gender world you know it's a two gender world and men have reactions to it and so i thought this was very good about that and i want you to see it and i'll be back right after this well there you have it another exciting adventure here on creative good and where we should all things in the creative commons creative commons is where people post videos that they do th want to be shared and we're happy to share them here and especially when they relate to a particular topic that we want to explore and in this case we wanted to explore the me two campaign well this is episode two  and we have more episodes coming we're going to get into some really interesting aspects of the me to campaign but until then i'm david the bruce i'll see you next time and you'll be kind to people will