-Many people who I know who were farm workers,
even people in my own family,
had experienced sexual harassment and violence.
There just were no services to help people with that problem.
-Wake of the "Me Too" movement,
some prominent women in Hollywood
are joining forces now to say, "Time's up".
-That is the name of a new coalition formed
to address sexual harassment issues
in the entertainment industry,
and actually in workplaces nationwide.
-So, I'd never done a live interview like that one before,
and I was definitely scared.
There was a point in the interview
when the reporter said something --
I think it was well-intentioned,
but it just came out the wrong way.
-That Hollywood actresses in that industry,
which you think of as a high-profile industry,
and women who do have a lot of power,
and yet the focus here, now, through this Time's Up campaign,
is for women who don't have that pow-- Women just working --
-And even though I was completely terrified
of that interview, like, that comment just, like,
struck me in a way, it just didn't sit well,
because I feel like that's been part of the --
the misconception about farm worker women
and other low-paid women.
People think that farm worker women are not powerful?
Farm worker women are very powerful
and have been organizing for a long time around this issue,
and we have the experience,
not just of having suffered from this problem,
but we also have the experience of years of organizing
that we wanted to bring forward
to support the women in Hollywood.
To some people, the movement in their eyes
began on January 1, 2018, when Time's Up was announced,
or maybe some think that the movement began
on October 15 of 2017,
when the Me Too breakthrough moment happened.
But the truth is that there have been many people
who have been working across the country
on anti-sexual violence measures for many, many years.
Tarana Burke started her project in 2006,
long before the breakthrough moment.
Farm worker women as a movement
have been organizing around that issue
for more than three decades.
There are also women in hotels and janitors
and so many other industries
that have been mobilizing to try to combat the problem,
because it's something they experience every day.
And I actually believe that it was the long track record
and the foundation that was set on this work years and years ago
that made it possible for us to really take advantage
of the breakthrough moments when they happened.
There's a misconception that, in movements,
all the work happens at the national level.
And that you see sort of, you know,
maybe one or two leaders who are speaking for thousands
and thousands of people as national representatives.
But what you don't see is the groups of five
and ten people who are gathering in their local coffee shop,
or who, you know, are pulling people together to, you know,
carpool to go to a bigger city to go to a march, et cetera.
And the work that we're doing locally, we're connecting it
with the work that we're doing nationally.
It's the small groups of people,
it's the five and ten people who are like-minded
who come together and get behind a cause,
that are really the heart of the movements that we're leading.
We can make the biggest change by building coalitions
and building power in the local communities
where we live and where we work.
Si, se puede!
Si, se puede! Si, se puede!
Si, se puede!
And if we can make change at the local level,
then we can help drive change at the national level.