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03/25/13

This blog post was written in favor of the Bring Rodrigo Home campaign, which is calling for the return of Rodrigo Guzman and his family who, despite their contributions to their community, were detained by ICE and returned to their native Mexico. I am admittedly liberal in many of my political...

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Anne-Marie Praetzel

03/23/13

I opened my daughter’s history book the other day and it hit me all over again. We may be in the 21st century, but our history is still the history of men. Men who were kings, who invented machines, conquered weaker nations, compelled religious conversions, made scientific discoveries, sailed to...

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Valerie Young

MomsVote

03/22/13

Many people forget that young people rallied for and fought hard to lower the voting age to 18-years-old. On March 23, 1971, this demand became a reality; Congress proposed the 26th Amendment, which lowered the minimum voting age to 18, and a majority of states ratified it soon after. Today Rock...

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Caitlin Maguire

Immigration

03/22/13

My name is Reyna Diaz Mayida and my life changed in Houston, Texas on January 10, 2013. Houston was where my family and I were refused entry back into the US from Mexico. It was where we were turned away from coming home to Berkeley, California. I always returned to Mexico to renew my passport and...

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Reyna Diaz

03/21/13

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) turns three this week, and already this toddler has been extraordinarily helpful to children and families in California and across the nation. Millions of California children and families have already benefited from the ACA. Thanks to the ACA , 2.1 million California...

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Michele Stillwell-Parvensky

03/21/13

Three years ago this Saturday, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama. Since then, the law has both derisively and lovingly been re-named "ObamaCare". Whatever we choose to call it - health reform, the ACA, ObamaCare - this groundbreaking law...

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Ashley Boyd

03/21/13

One of the most important priorities for any family is being able to access quality, affordable health care. We all get colds, we all have preventive care needs, and we all need health care coverage. And when we deal with our own health care crises, its our family we turn to for support. However,...

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Ashley Wheeland

Immigration

03/21/13

Like so many other Americans, I am proud of my immigrant roots. My mother came to this country as a child with her family from Austria. She never finished high school because she had to work to support her family. My dad was the only one of nine children to be born in America, and the only one to...

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Senator Barbara Boxer

03/21/13

The reference to the question, “What’s in a name?”, quoted in the Shakespearean classic, Romeo and Juliet, probes the significance of a surname and family lineage when it comes to measuring someone’s character. The idea is to suggest that a name is of little to no significance, or, at least, that’s...

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Lorraine Gonzalez

03/21/13

Dear Affordable Care Act, Happy birthday, old friend! I can’t believe it was just three years ago that you were born – and I can’t believe in just three years what a difference you’ve made in our lives. You’re a wonderful, wonderful law, and I can’t thank you enough. My pre-existing conditions don’...

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