Philadelphia City Council 2017 Stated Meetings of Philadelphia City Council, 7 Dec 2017

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From YouTube: Councilwoman Sanchez to Sexual Harassment and Assault Survivors: We Believe You 12-7-2017

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From the Stated Meeting of Philadelphia City Council held Thursday, December 7, 2017:

Councilwoman María Quiñones-Sánchez (7th District) speaks on the wave of sexual harassment and sexual assault allegations reported nationally and locally in recent months.

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With your searches, Thank You, mr. president, I want to thank councilman David, oh and councilman, blackroll on all their work around the PPA and I, look forward to reading the report and what it'll mean for when we begin to have the conversation about the school district and and local control. I wanted to bring up two other very important issues and the first one I'll title.

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We believe you and I want to thank the women of Council, in particular, blond doll, Reynolds brown and the rest of the women of Council who together joined in a statement around sexual harassment and I, wanted to let women and men know that that we believe them and I'm outraged at the continuing stories and saddened by the reality that so many hostile workplaces exist, whether it's the halls of Congress news rooms, corporations and recently, we've heard some stories about our local nonprofits.

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We have a lot of work to do in this area, but the men and women should know we believe them and they need to tell their story.