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01/10/17

It’s GO TIME for protecting the healthcare coverage our families depend on! The U.S. Congress is back on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. this week and some U.S. Senators are already talking about moving ahead with plans to roll back advances in healthcare coverage and gut the Affordable Care Act (...

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Felicia Burnett

Radio!

Podcast

01/10/17

On this show we get the inside scoop on what’s happening with Trump, with Congress, with journalism and more—as we get fired up to take action to help protect healthcare, women’s rights, and our economy. *Special guests include: David Hawkings, Senior editor at Roll Call, @davidhawkings ; Caitlin...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Health Care

01/09/17

On January 5th, MomsRising staff and volunteers gathered on Capitol Hill to announce our Week of Action for Healthcare and to deliver storybooks to key lawmakers. We had a number of meetings with lawmakers' healthcare staff and one thing is clear: Your voices make a difference! View our press...

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Felicia Burnett

Paid Family Leave

01/09/17

Hello Washington State MomsRising! This is a reminder that TODAY at noon PT, we’re hosting a conference call to hear from Secretary Perez about the US Department of Labor's #LeadOnLeave campaign and to learn more about the impact it has had here in Washington State. We'll also discuss the...

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Casey Osborn-Hinman

Family Economic Security Open Flexible Work Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

01/09/17

I value self-reliance. In fact, my favorite book as a young child was “The Little Red Hen,” with the chorus, “I’ll do it myself,” said the Little Red Hen. “And so she did”. In the story, the Little Red Hen asks for help from the other barnyard animals each step of the way in harvesting ingredients...

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Elizabeth Cox

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

01/09/17

America has become two separate and unequal societies, especially when it comes to opportunities for our children. Yet this can and must be reversed, for hope to be restored, and for America to keep its place in the global economy. These themes were conveyed by Harvard Professor Robert Putnam,...

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Dora Wang, M.D.

Childcare & Early Education Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

01/09/17

Our kids are listening. And with all of the toxic rhetoric that seemed to dominate the conversation in 2016 , it is more important than ever to talk to our families about diversity, inclusion, and activism to help build a better future going into 2017. Wondering how to get started? We’ve got you...

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Abbie Gately

Health Care

01/08/17

On Friday, I represented MomsRising at a meeting with Leader Nancy Pelosi and Representatives Bobby Scott and Frank Pallone to discuss the defense of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from being repealed. In attendance were also 50+ organizations that are working tirelessly to protect the healthcare of...

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Elyssa Schmier

Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

01/06/17

I begin each year with a women’s spiritual retreat at Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Haley Farm in Tennessee. This year Reverend Janet Wolf, Director of CDF Haley Farm and Nonviolent Organizing, shared a meditation based on Langston Hughes’ brilliant 1943 poem “Freedom’s Plow” that she had been using in her ministry on Tennessee’s death row consisting of both incarcerated “insiders” and “outsiders.” All of us were caught up in the poem’s descriptions of centuries of American struggle against oppression and for America’s promised dream of freedom and justice for all.

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Marian Wright Edelman

MomsRising Politics & Policy

01/06/17

Two weeks ago, MomsRising joined dozens of DC area faith leaders on Capitol Hill to pray together and speak out against the bigotry, systemic racism and white nationalism of Jeff Sessions, Trump's nominee for Attorney General. Now, civil right leaders and interfaith clergy are planning a Moral...

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