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The Briefing … ‘The Silence Breakers’ …
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Time magazine has named “The Silence Breakers” who started the #MeToo movement against sexual assault as 2017’s most influential “person”.
Time cited the experiences and testimony of actors Ashley Judd, Rose McGowan, Alyssa Milano and Terry Crews, activist Tarana Burke, hotel cleaner Juana Melara, strawberry picker Isabel Pascual, Oregon state senator Sara Gelser, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, former Fox News contributors Wendy Walsh and Megyn Kelly and the employee plaintiffs suing New York’s Plaza Hotel for “normalising and trivialising sexual assault” against its staff as instigating “one of the highest-velocity shifts in our culture since the 1960s” …
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Alex McKimmon, The Saturday Paper