{"id":54029,"date":"2018-10-24T13:20:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T17:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=54029"},"modified":"2018-10-24T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T20:29:17","slug":"sold-out-metoo-talk-to-be-streamed-live-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/10\/sold-out-metoo-talk-to-be-streamed-live-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Sold-out #MeToo talk to be streamed live online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sold-out talk from a key figure in the #MeToo movement will be streamed live online on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BrockUHRE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brock\u2019s Human Rights and Equity Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tarana Burke, an American civil rights activist often credited with starting the #MeToo movement more than a decade ago, is giving a talk on behalf of Brock\u2019s Office of Human Rights and Equity at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Born in the Bronx, N.Y., Burke founded the #MeToo movement in 2006 to raise awareness about the high occurrence of sexual assault and harassment in society. The movement gained significant steam in 2017 with the rise of #MeToo as a hashtag after allegations of sexual assault by film producer Harvey Weinstein went public. <em>Time Magazine<\/em>\u00a0named Burke and other high-profile female activists it dubbed \u201cthe silence breakers\u201d as the\u00a0<em>Time<\/em>\u00a0Person of the Year for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Burke talk follows last year\u2019s address at Brock University by Lieutenant General, the Honorable Rom\u00e9o\u00a0Dallaire, on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong> Tarana Burke Speaking Engagement<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> Sean O\u2019Sullivan Theatre, Brock University(for those who already have tickets) or streaming live on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BrockUHRE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brock\u2019s Human Rights and Equity Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Monday, Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sold-out talk from a key figure in the #MeToo movement will be streamed live online on Brock\u2019s Human Rights and Equity Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[7057,5502,7058],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54030,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54029\/revisions\/54030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}