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10/07/09

Myself and about 20 other Moms Rising members and kids packed the room with supporters of the bill. Our kid’s fell asleep in the aisles listening to all the suits talk, they snacked away through lovely speeches in support of the bill from Rep Kay Khan and Ellen Story, and even made a couple security guards snicker!

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Marianne Bullock

Paid Sick Days

10/07/09

By Karen Pesapane, National Partnership (cross posted at the National Partnership's blog to support paid sick days ) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention keeps updating its guidelines to help child care and early childhood programs - - and all of us - - respond to influenza during the...

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Steffany Stern

Paid Sick Days

10/07/09

This is it! Today is the big day - there is a hearing in the Massachusetts State Legislature to talk about the Paid Sick Days bill. YEAH! And the MomsRising community is a big part of the action - we're delivering written copies of the stories moms have sent us about their experiences with paid...

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Julia Goodman

Food!

10/07/09

Our food supply could be safer than it is. Many of the hazards can be prevented. As an attorney, an activist and – most importantly – the mother of three, I know the most important thing the Senate can do right now is update the laws that protect the public from dangers on our dinner plates...

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Sandra Eskin

Paid Sick Days

10/06/09

I heard the wonderful Dr. Barbara Ferrer speak on Boston’s NPR station about the recent study conducted after this spring’s influenza/H1N1 outbreak. She was asked to comment on the fact that H1N1 had disproportionately affected blacks and Latinos in the Boston metro area and why this may be. Three-...

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Marianne Bullock

Food!

10/06/09

People often ask me how I manage to eat, given what I do for a living. It’s true—by all rights, I should be starving. As the lead author of the new report just released from Center for Science in the Public Interest , The Ten Riskiest Foods Regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration , today...

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Sarah Klein

Open Flexible Work

10/06/09

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog Written by MOTHERS volunteer Kelly Coyle DiNorcia ( ahimsamama.blogspot.com ) Before I became a mother, I spent long hours in the office. I probably logged sixty or seventy hours a week as an administrator for a non-profit organization on average - during busy...

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Valerie Young

Environmental Health

10/06/09

In August more than 32,000 MomsRising members and sent a letter to the CEO of Kraft asking her to keep harmful chemicals out of Mac and Cheese. Here's the main point of the letter: I applaud the decision you made to remove synthetic growth hormones, artificial colorings like yellow #5, and chemical...

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Sarah Francis

Health Care

10/05/09

The over one million members of MomsRising have one top priority and that's our kids. We're willing to wear our support for health reform that works for America’s kids on our sleeves. And we're asking our legislators to wear it on their lapel. MomsRising is collecting photographs of members of...

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Donna Norton

Open Flexible Work

10/01/09

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog The US Senate decreed in 2003 that October be designated Work and Family Month . This year's observance started off with a BANG this morning with the Washington Post announcing on its front page that the "opt out revolution", i.e. working women leaving the board...

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Valerie Young