(Brooklyn Reporter) Faced with the threat of a boycott by actress-activist Alyssa Milano, organizers of the Women’s March are standing behind Brooklyn native Linda Sarsour in a flap that is revealing serious frictions within the #MeToo movement.
The Women’s [March] leaders posted a statement on their Facebook page on Nov. 8 praising Sarsour, one of the women who organized the historic and massive protest march in Washington, D.C., that took place on Jan. 21, 2017, the day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated.
Milano, the actress and women’s rights advocate credited with helping to start the #MeToo movement, told the Advocate in an Oct. 30 interview that she will not agree to be a speaker at the next Women’s March unless Sarsour and another Women’s March organizer, Tamika Mallory, denounce controversial statements about Jews made by Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan.
