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Meet Tarana Burke, Activist Who Started “Me Too” Campaign to Ignite Conversation on Sexual AssaultActivist Tarana Burke says she started the “Me Too” campaign as a grassroots movement about a decade ago to aid sexual assault survivors in...

Meet Tarana Burke, Activist Who Started “Me Too” Campaign to Ignite Conversation on Sexual Assault

Activist Tarana Burke says she started the “Me Too” campaign as a grassroots movement about a decade ago to aid sexual assault survivors in underprivileged communities, where rape crisis centers and sexual assault workers weren’t going. We spoke with her in the Democracy Now! studio on Tuesday:

“For every R. Kelly or Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein, there’s, you know, the owner of the grocery store, the coach, the teacher, the neighbor, who are doing the same things. But we don’t pay attention until it’s a big name. And we don’t pay attention ‘til it’s a big celebrity. But this work is ongoing, because this is pervasive.”

Watch the full interview here. 

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In Japan, tens of thousands of people gathered on the island of Okinawa Sunday to demand the ouster of U.S. military bases. Activists said 65,000 people attended what they called the largest protest in two decades against the U.S. military presence.

For decades, Okinawa residents have pushed for ousting U.S. forces off the island, citing decades of rape and environmental harm by the U.S. military.

Read more on Sunday’s protest in Okinawa, including an interview with a protester.

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It’s a hunting ground, it’s a place where people are not safe, not because there’s a preponderance of perpetrators, but because there’s nothing in place to prosecute those people — and there’s no incentive to do so.
Amy Zeiring talks to Democracy Now! about the epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses. Her new film, “The Hunting Ground,” shows how colleges and universities across the nation are covering up sexual assaults and failing to protect students from repeat offenders.
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The first thing that really jumps out is the sheer pervasiveness of the brutality. Even those of us who have been looking at this for the last ten years may be ‘not surprised, but shocked.’
Reed Brody, counsel and spokesperson for Human Rights Watch, details the most recent findings of United States post-9/11 torture. He also details what is missing from the report in his interview on Democracy Now! today.
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After Tufts Found to Violate Title IX, How Student Rape Survivors Are Leading Movement for Reform

Long before celebrities and senators entered the picture, the battle against sexual assault on college campuses was led by students — many of them victims themselves — who have risen up to hold their schools accountable. 

Wagatwe Wanjuki joins Democracy Now! today to tell her story and to describe the education effort of the “Know York IX” campaign.

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Nearly 70 years ago the United States took over the Japanese island of Okinawa after one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. More than 200,000 people died, mostly Japanese civilians. Today the United States operates 34 military bases on the island and is planning to build a new state-of-the-art Marine base, despite mass protests. Watch Democracy Now! for our interview with a Japanese activist and a documentary filmmaker.

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On Veterans Day, we learn about the major issues facing veterans today — some of these statistics will shock you. Democracy Now! speaks with longtime writer and photographer Ann Jones, author of “They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars—The Untold Story.”

“While I have not written a book about policy, I think if people read the description of what actually happens to our soldiers in war and what they do when they come back from the war, you have to see this as a real indictment of war — and maybe Americans would stand up again and oppose it,” Jones says.

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Do you or a loved one serve in the U.S. military? If so, you better watch this. A shocking new report by the Pentagon has found that 70 sexual assaults may be taking place within the U.S. military every day. The report estimates there were 26,000 sex crimes committed in 2012, a jump of 37 percent since 2010. Most of the incidents were never reported. The findings were released two days after the head of the Air Force’s sexual assault prevention unit, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, was arrested for sexual assault. Democracy Now! airs highlights from Tuesday’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on military sexual assault and speaks with Anu Bhagwati of Service Women’s Action Network. “The numbers are outrageous, and I think we’ve reached a tipping point,” Bhagwati says. “The American public is furious.”

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