of current public writings & statements on the #metoo movement, including last Sunday's announcement of a new organization called "Times Up" formed by Hollywood women pooling their resources to combat workplace sexual harassment; it includes $13 million donated (so far) for a legal defense fund for women.

We'll also be looking at other ideas of how to harness the energy and consciousness of the #metoo movement and connect it with the other issues of women's lives.

Special guests: Julian Vigo, Gail Dines

Julian Vigo is a scholar, filmmaker and human rights consultant; author of the recent Feminist Current article: "Admitting Complicity Is Not Enough--Men Need to Understand and Challenge the Full Breadth of Sexism." (https://tinyurl.com/y9zzdk2n)

We'll be discussing how the current spate of male (and sometimes female) pundits and "stars" comparing the severity of various forms of sexual abuse sidesteps the issue of the "structural misogyny" that connects them all.

Gail Dines is a professor of sociology at Wheelock College in Boston and author of "Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality." She is a recipient of the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America, presenter of Tedx talks and is a radical feminist and Marxist speaker (Left Forum, 2014).

We'll be looking looking at the going-forward possibilities for the #metoo movement and analyzing the arguments of the powerful backlash that is emerging against it.

In our feminist news segment we'll be covering stories on how women in many countries are taking up the #metoo theme; the easing of restictions on dress codes for women in Iran; "feminism" as the "word of the year"; a new Ohio law outlawing abortion if a fetus shows signs of "Down Syndrome"; Reproductive Rights in 2017 and what to expect in 2018.. and more...