Meryl Streep walked the red carpet with Ai-Jen Poo, the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, which works for "the respect, recognition, and includion in labor protections for domestic workers."
On the red carpet, Streep said, "I think that people are aware, now, of a power imbalance. And it's something that leads to abuse. It's led to abuse in our own industry, and it's led to abuse across the domestic workers' field of work, it's in the military, it's in congress, it's everywhere. And we want to fix that and we feel sort of emboldened in this particular moment to stand together in a thick black line dividing then from now."
Poo said, "I hope people see the momentum and the energy and the fact that we're uniting across all industries, and all communities, standing together, saying, we all deserve workplaces where we are safe and our work is valued and we can live and work with dignity. That's the future. We have momentum, and we want to say to everyone that they should join us. This is a movement where there is space for everyone and there is a role for everyone."
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