Chelsea Handler to
Lead Anti-Trump ‘Women’s March’ at Sundance Film Fest
by Daniel Nussbaum 5 Jan 2017
Talk show host Chelsea Handler is set to lead a
“Women’s March” at the Sundance Film Festival
in January to protest the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.
The march, set for January 21, will reportedly be held as
part of a nationwide series of simultaneous marches set for the same day in all
50 states.
The flagship march, set to occur in Washington D.C., is
expected to draw more than 100,000 participants and has drawn endorsements from
some anti-Trump celebrities, including
Amy Schumer.
The Park City, Utah march is not sponsored by the
Sundance Film Festival, which runs from January 19 to the 29 this year. Variety
reports
that Handler will also host a rally following what’s being dubbed “The Women’s
March on Main.”
“Sundance has always been a platform for
change, not only for filmmakers and filmmaking but also for big ideas for the
future,” Handler said in a statement. “If there’s anything I learned in the
last year, it’s that we need to be louder and stronger than ever about what we
believe in, so I joined some incredible women from around the country to bring
our voices together in the streets of Park City. The Women’s March on Main will
be an opportunity for the creative community and those in Utah to stand beside
those in D.C.”
Handler has been an outspoken critic of Trump since well
before Election Day. She previously posed semi-nude
with an anti-Trump message scrawled on her back, and has also posed with a piñata
bearing Trump’s likeness.
In an interview at Variety‘s Entertainment and
Tech Summit in September, the 41-year-old talk show host said
that Trump “represents everything that’s wrong in the world.”
“It’s always a good thing to be able to look at
somebody and be like, ‘That’s the worst thing that could happen,’” she said.
“And I think we should keep him in the spotlight. Not as president, obviously,
but, you know, as The Apprentice or whatever that show is called.”
After Trump defeated former Democratic presidential
contender Hillary Clinton in November, Handler penned an essay
in which she criticized white women for voting for the Republican.
“We don’t just have a problem with men supporting women
in this country; we have a problem with women supporting women,” she wrote in
the essay for Arianna
Huffington’s new company Thrive Global.
“We can wake up America and American women to do a better job going forward; to
create an activist fire under women to start treating other women and our
America with more respect than we have obsequiously shown for our traditional male
dominators.”
Thrive Global
Arianna
Huffington is the founder of Thrive
Global, and a director at the Center
for Public Integrity.
Note: Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Center for Public Integrity.
Margery Tabankin
is the treasurer for the Barbra
Streisand Foundation, and a director at the People for the American Way.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the People for the American Way, the Sundance Institute, and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Norman
Lear is a director at the People for
the American Way, and married to Lyn
Davis Lear.
Lyn Davis Lear
is married to Norman Lear, a trustee
at the Sundance Institute, and a
trustee at the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art.
Sundance
Institute is the sponsor of the Sundance
Film Festival.
Barbra Streisand
is a trustee at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, the founder of the Barbra
Streisand Foundation, and a board member for the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Center for Public Integrity.
Arianna
Huffington is a director at the Center
for Public Integrity, and the founder of Thrive Global.
Saban
Family Foundation was a funder for the Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center, and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Haim
Saban is the VP for the Saban Family
Foundation, an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a benefactor for the Saban Center for Middle East Policy.
Saban
Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
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