Chiu is in attendance to help correct the power imbalance imbued in both Trump's impeachment trial and Weinstein's rape trial. SOTU
"Having Rowena here with her powerful testimony to these incidents and the way these legal tools were used against her, knowing what this did to her own life, her own health, her own agency, is the real reason I wanted her to come," Clark told Refinery29. Trump, who himself has been, is part of the culture that kept Chiu silent for so long, she added."There is something about the State of the Union and looking this president in the eye and saying, 'You cannot erase us.
Another key part of BE HEARD is that it would ban companies from making workers sign mandatory arbitration clauses when they’re hired and certain types of nondisclosure agreements . In herstory, Chiu described the harrowing experience of being pressured into signing a restrictive NDA after the incident with Weinstein, including being made to stay in an office overnight"with the barest minimum of food and drink" for the negotiations.
Members of Congress, as well as the president, regularly bring guests to the State of the Union to draw attention to a certain piece of legislation or a cause. In 2018, at the height of the national conversation about sexual harassment and assault, several members of Congress. Clark brought Anny Gonzalez, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who had experienced sexual harassment at her job.
Chiu won't be the only survivor who has been in the news attending the State of the Union as the guest of a lawmaker.
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