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01/05/12
2011 closed with good news out of Kentucky. On Friday Governor Steve Beshear refused to approve a Louisville hospital merger that threatened patient choice . Compassion & Choices, MergerWatch, the National Women's Law Center and other national advocacy organizations joined local activists to...
Barbara Coombs Lee's picture
01/04/12
Our family will always remember this holiday season as the time Sugar died. Sugar was a mixed breed, mostly lab/border-collie type. She exhibited the best character traits of every gene she carried and seemed to bear none of any breed’s drawbacks. She was a real credit to her species. A member of...
Barbara Coombs Lee's picture
01/03/12
Happy new year! How are your new years resolutions going? Last week, we talked about a few ideas for non-toxic New Years resolutions . If you're trying one of these resolutions, testing a non-toxic resolution of your own, or just recommitting yourself to detoxing your life in the new year, these...
Claire Moshenberg's picture
12/31/11
There are less than 24 hours until the end of this year--and the first official 2012 Presidential election nominating process is happening this coming Tuesday. The time is now. We need to move quickly to launch MomsVote 2012 to bring forward the voices (and power!) of women and moms in the national...
Kristin's picture
12/28/11
WOW! The outpouring from MomsRising members to help launch MomsVote 2012 has been jaw-dropping. But we haven't reached our goal of $30,000 yet. Turbo charge MomsVote 2012: Today, your donation will be matched dollar for dollar, so your impact will be doubled, and your donation will enable us to...
Kristin's picture
12/28/11
It can feel like a toxic world out there, but MomsRising is here to help. Every Tuesday on the MomsRising blog , you can find new information on how to eliminate dangerous chemicals and toxins that are in every day products. Topics have ranged from choosing sunscreen and beauty products, to making...
Claire Moshenberg's picture
12/27/11
“I think that no one should live in fear of being deported and separated from their families. I believe that the way we are in our families, taking care of each other, is how we should live in the world. My family is partly immigrants, but we have the privilege of having citizenship. I want to use...
Lisa Moore's picture
12/27/11
Go to the gym. Get organized. Start a new hobby. There's a list of three common new years resolutions, which doubles as a list of resolutions I've made and haven't kept a hundred times over. But my non-toxic resolutions? Those I've kept, because I've made them easy and concrete. Two years ago, I...
Claire Moshenberg's picture
12/24/11
I’ve always had what seemed to me to be a healthy mistrust of the outside world. I grew up in New York City in the 1970’s, an era often thought of as “Woody Allen’s New York”, where neurosis reigned supreme and everything was the color brown. Through therapy, philosophy studies and meditation, I’ve...
Ali Smith's picture
12/22/11
At MomsRising we're always looking out to make sure that mothers and families are treated fairly in our nation. In 2009, we saw a video that shocked us : two young children crying, alone in a car, reaching out for their mother who'd been taken away by deputies wearing ski masks after being stopped...
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