Ashley Judd at Milken Conference Says Time’s Up Organization Aiming To Be Self-Sustaining

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Stacy Smith and other #MeToo and Time’s Up activists said Monday that the work to reduce sexual harassment has not waned in the months since Hollywood and other industries have been forced to reckon with longstanding gender abuses and disparities.Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, Judd said the #MeToo movement has been able to build on the work of activists like Tarana Burke, who first launched the movement years ago.Judd was among the first women to go on the record last fall about her experience with disgraced Hollywood titan, Harvey Weinstein.

In the months since, dozens of men have been felled by allegations of sexual misconduct, including most recently, a conviction of sexual assault against Bill Cosby — the first of the #MeToo era.As the panel was unfolding, news broke that Judd had filed a lawsuit against Weinstein,

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