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03/21/12
Eighteen years ago, Dr. Peter Goodwin led the fight to grant Oregonians the right to end-of-life choice. I was honored to work alongside Peter as a co-campaigner and call him a friend. Both as a physician and an advocate, he promoted honesty in facing death. This month he confronted his own...
Barbara Coombs Lee's picture
03/21/12
Today, a pesticide that scientists have called "one of the most toxic chemicals on earth" is being pulled out of strawberry fields and off the U.S. market altogether. I love good news. And this victory is a big one. It's a win for kids living and going to school near strawberry fields. It's a win...
Kristin Schafer's picture
03/21/12
For English, click here . Es fácil y sencillo: el acta del cuidado de salud a bajo precio es algo BUENO para nuestra comunidad. Te voy a explicar porque: 1.Más niños tendrán acceso a seguro médico. Actualmente más de 3 millones de niños latinos viven sin seguro médico y 1,7 millones de ellos...
Lorena Garcia's picture
03/21/12
Para español, haga clic aquí . Plain and simple: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a GOOD thing. Let me tell you four reasons why: 1.More children will be covered with health insurance. Currently over 3 million Latino children are not covered and of those, 1.7 million qualify for...
Lorena Garcia's picture
03/21/12
During the Republican primary in Florida, Mitt Romney announced to an audience that his strategy on immigration was “self-deportation.” Many people in the audience were puzzled, some laughed and others applauded. But what did Romney really mean when he proposed a strategy of self-deportation? Delmy...
Jacinta Gonzalez's picture
03/21/12
It was only this morning that I learned of Erica Delgado’s story. Erica was an undocumented immigrant in Wyoming who — after being confronted by ICE agents — set fire to her mobile home, killing herself and her 11-year-old daughter. Erica was terrified that she would be separated from her daughter...
Mallika Dutt's picture
03/21/12
I am excited and honored to be joining the Women’s Human Rights Delegation in Birmingham, Alabama this week as part of the We Belong Together campaign. I am going for my grandmother and my mother. Because of them, I have the privilege to be an advocate for, to listen and speak out against our...
Helly Lee's picture
03/21/12
As practically a native Alabamian, I can tell you that there are many great things about the state. It is a beautiful place and as the state song says, from north to south, east to west, it offers its citizens beauty of the land. Also from the song is a promise to "give all I have, hand, brain,...
Ruth Ann Powers's picture
03/21/12
On March 21st and 22nd, I will join the We Belong Together Women’s Human Rights Delegation to Alabama to lend a voice for infants and toddlers in these efforts to protect immigrant families. Today in America, over 20% of children under age six have immigrant parents and approximately 93% of those...
Kelsey Quigley's picture
03/21/12
“HB 56 has devastated our community in many ways,” shared Trini in November at the first organizing training for immigrants living under Alabama’s new anti-immigrant law, considered to be the worst in the nation. “But the worst part is psychological. We used to have a life. We were active in our...
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