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Childcare & Early Education Health Care Maternal Justice

05/06/22

It’s Mother’s Day weekend, and we are looking forward to celebrating (and activating!) with all the moms in our lives on Sunday. We also have several ways for you to join us online and share your story with our team. Tomorrow is our MOMibuster - an online, day-long filibuster to demand care...

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Sue Anne Reed

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget MomsRising

05/05/22

What comes to mind when you think of a filibuster? Sneakers with suits , sore feet, phone books, long novels, green eggs & ham , and even pointless drivel. Sometimes it means doing a lot just to end up doing nothing at all. Usually the filibuster delays the inevitable; most recently it means...

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Selina Maldonado

MomsRising Social & Emotional Development

05/03/22

I took a page out of my own book! The Human Herd: Awakening Our Natural Leadership was released into the wild last month. It was terrifying! Soul crushing anxiety. So, on the eve of the book release, I did what I learned to do staying sober in recovery--and what I've learned from the horses and...

MomsRising Education Fund

Beth Anstandig

MomsRising

05/03/22

On the radio show this week we get a glimpse into the Power+ Summit with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and hear from Dr. C. Nicole Mason, President and CEO of IWPR, @IWPResearch; as well as Eve Rodsky , New York Times best-selling author of Fair Play, @eve_rodsky, and, Reshma...

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Health Care Maternal Justice MomsRising MomsRising Near You Politics & Policy

05/03/22

Last night, you might have been watching the Met Gala or wrapping up your normal Monday evening activities when a leaked draft opinion of the Supreme Court’s vote to overturn abortion rights landed in our news notifications. Their only goal: to strike down Roe v. Wade, decided in 1973, and strip...

MomsRising Education Fund

Diarra Diouf

Gun Safety MomsRising Politics & Policy

05/02/22

It’s time to END youth incarceration here in NH and instead focus on investments in services and supports that create opportunities for New Hampshire youth. Join me in calling on Gov. Sununu to close the Sununu Youth Services Center for good. What has happened and continues to happen to NH youth is...

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Kelsey Reyes

Immigration MomsRising

05/02/22

We are so relieved that the Biden administration is putting an end to the use – or misuse – of Title 42, a policy started by the Trump administration to deny asylum-seekers their right to seek safety in the United States. But we’re still not in the clear of ending this policy that is a violation of...

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Donna Norton

Maternal Justice MomsRising

05/02/22

More than forty years have passed since pregnancy discrimination became illegal, yet pregnant workers are not always receiving the accommodations needed to ensure their wellbeing. Over the last decade the PWFA has been introduced many times but only recently passed the House in May of 2021 and then...

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Selina Maldonado

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A graphic image with a blue background and text that reads MOM-entum.]

MomsRising

05/02/22

Friends, it’s finally spring, and MOMentum is blooming all around, thanks to you.

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Kerri Karvetski

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Immigration Maternal Justice

04/29/22

We’ve gathered your stories, of why Care Can’t Wait (Thank you!), And in a few days… it’s gonna be May. As April wraps up, we’re not slowing down. In anticipation of Mother’s Day, we are pushing Congress to pass robust family-centered legislation. We must ensure the wellbeing of pregnant workers,...

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Selina Maldonado