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I am fasting for families

04/02/14
Editor’s Note: More than 1,200 women from 70 organizations are fasting in 35 states for immigration reform that keeps families together and treats women fairly this month. The month of fasting will culminate April 7-9th, 2014 when 100 women will fast in DC for 48 hours. Click here to sign the...
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Lynne Dodson
Family Economic Security Families & The Federal Budget

Oregonians: Let's End General Electric's $3 Billion Tax Refund

04/02/14
General Electric got $3 billion in U.S. income tax refunds between 2008 and 2012. You read that right: They paid LESS THAN ZERO in taxes. You probably paid more than they did! We have a chance right now to close two of the biggest tax loopholes that let them do it -- but we have to act really fast...
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Frank Clemente
Environmental Health

Feeling BLAH About Walgreens

04/02/14
When I think of my drugstore, I think, “HEALTH!” and “WELLNESS!” After all, that’s where I go to pick up bandages for boo-boos, cold medicine for the sniffles, and medications for reducing fevers and relieving pain. That’s where my pharmacist gives me the antibiotics that stop simple infections...
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Gloria Pan

Who are the Real Mothers of Invention?

04/02/14
In today's Civil Beat, an online Hawaii public affairs outlet created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, inventor Lisa Brothers writes about how Patsy Mink's Title IX legislation intersects with pending patent legislation, mothers, and the US road to innovation. Brothers is a single mother and nurse,...
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Shay Chan Hodges
Immigration

I will fast for those who have been silenced

04/02/14
Editor's Note: More than 1,200 women from 70 organizations are fasting in 35 states for immigration reform that keeps families together and treats women fairly this month. The month of fasting will culminate April 7-9th, 2014 when 100 women will fast in DC for 48 hours. Click here to sign the...
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Victoria Rumsey
Immigration

I will fast as a mother of a four-year-old son

04/01/14
Editor's Note: More than 1,200 women from 70 organizations are fasting in 35 states for immigration reform that keeps families together and treats women fairly this month. The month of fasting will culminate April 7-9th, 2014 when 100 women will fast in DC for 48 hours. Click here to sign the...
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Jennifer Bernstein
Immigration

I am fasting for an immigration reform that strengthens families

04/01/14
Editor's Note: More than 1,200 women from 70 organizations are fasting in 35 states for immigration reform that keeps families together and treats women fairly this month. The month of fasting will culminate April 7-9th, 2014 when 100 women will fast in DC for 48 hours. Click here to sign the...
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Beth Messersmith
Immigration

I am fasting for compassion towards immigrant families

03/31/14
Editor's Note: More than 1,200 women from 70 organizations are fasting in 35 states for immigration reform that keeps families together and treats women fairly this month. The month of fasting will culminate April 7-9th, 2014 when 100 women will fast in DC for 48 hours. Click here to sign the...
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Lupe Rodriguez
Immigration

I am fasting as a mother, a granddaughter, and North Carolina activist

03/31/14
Editor's Note: More than 1,200 women from 70 organizations are fasting in 35 states for immigration reform that keeps families together and treats women fairly this month. The month of fasting will culminate April 7-9th, 2014 when 100 women will fast in DC for 48 hours. Click here to sign the...
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Daniel Moore
Immigration

I am fasting to repair a broken immigration system that ignores the ties of family and love

03/31/14
Editor's Note: More than 1,200 women from 70 organizations are fasting in 35 states for immigration reform that keeps families together and treats women fairly this month. The month of fasting will culminate April 7-9th, 2014 when 100 women will fast in DC for 48 hours. Click here to sign the...
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Erin Oshiro

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