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This post was co-authored by Ellen R. Malcolm, EMILY's List Founder and Chair of the Board.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words -- and sometimes those words create a loud roar that changes the future of our country.
20 years ago today, Anita Hill's testimony in front of an all-male Judiciary Committee riveted women across the nation -- and galvanized them to action. Senator Barbara Mikulski, the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right, recalled repeatedly being asked why there weren't more women on the dais. "There are only two of us!" she'd answer. Women were furious -- and rightly so.
In the months after the hearings, membership in EMILY's List, the women's political network Ellen founded 27 years ago and Stephanie now leads, skyrocketed by 600%. We worked with women from all over the country to find and support a record number of women candidates, and 1992, the election following the Anita Hill hearings, became the legendary "Year of the Woman." Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Carol Moseley Braun, and Patty Murray went to the US Senate, and 19 new Democratic women were elected to the House.
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Anita Hill Speaks to Women in Sex Harassment Testimony Anniversary
New York, NY– Today marks the 20th anniversary of Anita Hill's powerful testimony against sexual harassment in the workplace, a historic moment honored in New York this Saturday.
Anita Hill, professor of social policy, law and women’s studies at Brandeis University will be the keynote speaker and honoree at the one-day commemorative conference, “Sex, Power and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later” held at Hunter College.
The New York-based conference will discuss present-day realities for women, facilitated by three panels of scholars, journalists, attorneys and activists. The conference will include highlights from First Run Feature's film, ‘Sex and Justice,’ about Hill's testimony at the confirmation hearings of U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, and "Speaking Truth to Power," a performance curated by V-Day Founder, Eve Ensler.
Anita Hill recently leant her voice to another groundbreaking woman in history when she recorded a narrative for the audio version of Women’s eNews history tour Opening the Way. Hill spoke as the voice of Elizabeth Jennings, the first African American to win a lawsuit against race discrimination on NYC public transit.
Listen to Anita Hill speak and find out more about Elizabeth Jennings, here.
To read about Women’s eNews history tour, visit: Opening the Way
Women's eNews are one of many co-sponsors supporting the Anita Hill conference in New York this weekend.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Sex, Power and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later will bring together three generations to witness, respond and analyze present day realities in law, politics, the confluence of race, class and gender, the persistent questioning of women’s credibility, issues of black masculinity and current cases of sexual harassment. The conference will also include highlights from First Run Feature’s film about Anita Hill’s testimony ‘Sex and Justice. For more info visit, http://www.anitahill20.org/
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Clarence Thomas; Corporate owned, corrupt, sleazy, tax dodging sexual predator. His Lover Reflects On DC Life, Love, Law
2011 September 22
tags: clarence thomas, Corporate owned, corrupt, Lillian McEwen, sexual predator, sleazy, supreme court corruption, tax dodging, WWHby Worldwide Hippies
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What a 'Scum Bag" Just my opinion WWH
By Andrew Kreig,OpEdNews – The featured guest today, Sept. 22, on my MTL Washington Update radio show will be author and retired federal judge Lillian McEwen. She will amplify on her powerful memoir of overcoming an abusive childhood in the nation’s capital to find happiness, including a tempestuous romance from the early to mid-1980s with future Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.
By coincidence, she served as counsel during her affair to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph Biden (D-Del.), the future Vice President who in 1991 presided over the controversial Thomas confirmation hearings. By intention, Democratic and Republican senators alike arranged the schedule to leave Anita Hill’sz sexual harassment testimony largely unsupported on camera. This paved the way for Senate 52-48 approval of the nation’s second black justice — by the narrowest vote in a century.
Several important features of this interview persuade me to preview it for OpEd News in exclusive post aside from a longer one here on my Justice Integrity Project site.
First, she is a rare, if not unique position, to make news. And that’s potential trouble, big trouble, for some who might otherwise seem above the fray after all these years. That includes Justice Thomas.
Second, this is an unusual opportunity for the thoughtful OpEd News readership to get involved in judicial affairs in a way that could actually make a difference. For some, that might mean asking McEwen a pointed question live on the show. Her segment begins at 12:17 (Eastern Time), and can be heard then also on archive. For others, it might be helping ensure that her perspectives, and those like it, are part of the court of public opinion that is the last bulwark of freedom against Supreme Court and other governmental abuse.
Here’s a prediction, based on pre-show interviews and reading a half dozen books, including her memoir and those by Thomas (200&) and Hill (1997), and attending the confirmation hearings myself in 1991:
If the McEwen perspective proved credible to a wide audience Clarence Thomasz and his backers would face more trouble than they could ever have believed possible after they thwarted Anita Hill’s testimony in 1991 and then trashed her in a long-running smear campaign. Read more…
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BOSTON — The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said on Friday that a recent telephone call to Anita Hill, the woman at the center of a 1991 furor at Thomas's confirmation hearing, was probably a mistake.
In October, Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist, left an unexpected voicemail suggesting Hill consider apologizing "for what you did with my husband" at the hearing 19 years earlier.
Hill is now a professor of social policy, law and women's studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. The message was left on her office answering machine.
The message "was probably a mistake on my part," Thomas said in an interview with The Daily Caller, a political website. She added that the incident was "a private matter."
During Clarence Thomas' 1991 confirmation hearings, Hill accused him, under oath, of making sexually inappropriate comments when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
"I certainly thought the call was inappropriate," Hill said after the October incident. "I have no intention of apologizing because I testified truthfully about my experience and I stand by that testimony."
On Friday Virginia Thomas announced she was resigning as head of Liberty Central, a non-profit conservative advocacy group that she founded in 2009. She said she will remain a consultant to the group.BOSTON — The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said on Friday that a... more
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It was not clear whether Justice Thomas knew his wife had contacted Hill. Thomas denied the sexual harassment allegations in 1991 and has referred bitterly to the incident in the years since, including in his 2007 memoir.
Supreme Court public information officer Kathy Arberg said Thomas was traveling and was not available for comment.
ABC News reported earlier Tuesday that Hill had received a message on her voicemail at work that said, "Good morning, Anita Hill, it's Ginni Thomas. I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband. So give it some thought and certainly pray about this and come to understand why you did what you did. Okay have a good day."
Hill told ABC News, "I have no intention of apologizing, and I stand by my testimony in 1991."It was not clear whether Justice Thomas knew his wife had contacted Hill. Thomas... more
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WASHINGTON – Virginia Thomas, the wife of Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court, left a message last weekend on the voice mail of Anita Hill, who accused her husband of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearings, a spokeswoman for Ms. Thomas confirmed on Tuesday.
In a message left at the office of Ms. Hill, who is now a professor at Brandeis University, Ms. Thomas apparently brought up Ms. Hill’s accusations against her husband during the 1991 hearings.
In response to questions about the call relayed through a publicist, Ms. Thomas confirmed that she had left a message on Ms. Hill’s voice mail.
“I did place a call to Ms. Hill at her office extending an olive branch to her after all these years, in hopes that we could ultimately get past what happened so long ago,” Ms. Thomas said in a statement provided to The New York Times.
“That offer still stands,” her statement went on. “I would be very happy to meet and talk with her if she would be willing to do the same. Certainly no offense was ever intended.”
Ms. Thomas did not explain why she had reached out to Ms. Hill at this time. Ms. Hill did not respond to calls to her office at Brandeis.
While Ms. Thomas described the call as an attempt to reach out, the university appeared to be taking the matter more seriously.
Andrew Gully, senior vice president of the Brandeis University communications office, confirmed that Ms. Hill had received the message and that she had turned it over to the campus department of public safety. That office, in turn, passed it on to the F.B.I.
ABC News quoted from the voicemail:
“Good morning, Anita Hill, it's Ginny Thomas,” it quoted from the voicemail. “I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband. So give it some thought and certainly pray about this and come to understand why you did what you did. Okay have a good day.”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/14/virginia-thomas-tea-party_n_498283.html... more
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