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04/03/12

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO, Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org So many news stories that relate to children’s environmental health, it’s hard to keep up! The FDA Rejects BPA Ban in Packaging Late in the day last Friday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

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Rachel Sarnoff

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

04/03/12

Getting ready for Easter this weekend? Do it the nontoxic way! There are easy, affordable, nontoxic alternatives for everything from egg dyes to Easter sweets. And you'll be in good company: Last year, the White House started making the annual White House Easter Egg Roll greener by using...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health Food!

04/03/12

I love Seder, and I would never want to give up any of the traditional pieces of the meal, or any of the traditions my family shares. Luckily, I can make Seder less toxic without losing any of the components that I love, and you can too! A few simple changes will drastically reduce toxic chemicals...

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Claire Moshenberg

Open Flexible Work

04/03/12

Cross-posted at Out of My Head An article on Salon.com made the rounds yesterday about returning to a 40 hour work week . Sound familiar? The new ideal was to unleash “internal entrepreneurs” — Randian übermenschen who would devote all their energies to the corporation’s success, in expectation of...

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Jennifer Spencer

04/03/12

There are bedtime stories and there are wake-up stories. The stories I heard last week in Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the We Belong Together delegation , were wake-up stories. They were stories that opened my eyes to the harrowing human dimensions of HB 56 – the nation’s harshest immigration...

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Sammie Moshenberg

Immigration

04/03/12

Cross-posted at Huffington Post Latino Voices . I woke up at 3:30 yesterday morning to catch a flight to Birmingham, Alabama. Although I had gotten about 4 hours of sleep, I was full of energy as I prepared to travel with the We Belong Together Women's Human Rights Delegation to Alabama . I have...

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Marielena Hincapie

Immigration

04/03/12

Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in First Focus , an advocacy organization for children and families. Last week I had the honor of joining women leaders from around the country as part of the We Belong Together human rights delegation to Alabama, whose recent passage of the most...

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Wendy Cervantes

03/30/12

“I’m sorry ma’am, the hospitals only have to provide care to you in emergency circumstances. They don’t have to provide you with anything else.” It’s been two years since the ACA became law. Since then, we’ve heard grumbles from the left, the right and everywhere in between. Last year I wrote about...

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Bernadette Segura

Food!

03/30/12

You did it! Thousands of MomsRising members joined the chorus of concerned consumers about the presence of pink slime, also known as “LFTB” (lean, finely textured beef) in cafeterias, restaurants and supermarkets. Your voice made the difference and major changes have been made within corporations...

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Monifa Bandele

03/30/12

A study published this month paints a troubling picture. Imagine palliative care doctors, working to deliver the best possible comfort care to their patients. Yet even as they meet the recognized best practices of their profession, their colleagues are judging their covert intentions and moral...

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