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11/21/09
My usual approach to grassroots activism is to focus on making laws better: paid family leave, toxics, breastfeeding, you get the picture. Pretty much the usual issues that rightfully rile up today’s moms in the U.S. (that Moms Rising has thankfully plunked in the center of the proverbial “kitchen...
Lisa Frack's picture
11/20/09
Join us on Mon., 11/23 -- Stand Strong for Inclusive Health Reform (SF) Communities of color from across California are gathering at the health reform table because we are part of this country. Back in Washington, DC, people like Rep. Joe Wilson represent America’s worst. On Monday, November 23, in...
11/20/09
Earlier this month, the House of Representatives approved their health reform bill by a razor-thin margin. Now, opponents of health reform (i.e., highly-paid insurance industry lobbyists) are working to make sure that comprehensive health reform is stopped in the Senate. It's time to remind...
Ashley Boyd's picture
11/20/09
Twenty years ago today, leading nations of the world put aside conflicting interests and cultural differences to unite behind a common purpose -- the acknowledgment of the fundamental rights of the world's most important and most vulnerable population, our children. Indeed, the United Nations'...
Bruce Lesley's picture
11/20/09
Do men resent powerful women? One of the most intriguing statistics in “A Woman’s Nation,” the recently released survey by Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress, is this: 69% of women think men resent women who have more power than they do. Only 49% of men agree. Who knows who’s right...
Sharon Meers's picture
11/18/09
Families still reeling from the recession, feeling pessimistic about the future, and many of them struggling to cut back spending in order to cover health expenses – that is the portrait painted by the recent survey CCF conducted with Lake Research Partners. This is worrisome news for the fragile...
Say Ahhh's picture
11/18/09
Penelope is an 18 year old girl from a remote region of northern Zambia. She lost both of her parents to AIDS and had to drop out of school at age 13 to support herself and her siblings in the wake of her parents’ deaths. She, like 83 percent of girls in sub-Saharan Africa are not in secondary...
11/18/09
"When I started my faculty position, I occasionally would bring our 8-month-old to work. On several occasions my colleagues (male), would say, 'So, you're babysitting today, eh?" If our son had been with my wife, no one would have said she was babysitting, not being a parent. It discouraged me from...
Joan C. Williams's picture
11/18/09
Last night I saw a movie that started out with the rape and murder of a woman and her child. I wish I had been warned—why can’t there be a RAPE-FREE or RF rating on movies, along with PG14, R and X? Earlier this month, the Parents Television Council released a report saying that depictions of...
Amy Cross's picture
11/18/09
Recent reports have highlighted what S.T.O.P. has known for a long time: that the long-term consequences of foodborne illness are under-reported, under-diagnosed and not given nearly enough public health attention. The negative impact of this lack of attention comes in two forms. First, proper...

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