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10/13/11

With no school on Columbus Day in New York City, organizers of #OccupyWallStreet (OWS) put out a call for children to join them in lower Manhattan for an OWS Children’s Assembly. My kids and several of their friends attended, and worked their way into the inner-circle of children ranging in age...

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Monifa Bandele

10/12/11

The International Museum of Women is holding a call for submissions for creative work related to motherhood! Submit your work by Oct. 31 and you could win a $1,000 Community Choice award! http://imow.org/exhibitions/call_for_submissions?key=331 The mission of I.M.O.W. is to value the lives of women...

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Emilia Aiello

Environmental Health

10/12/11

Chalk up a win for moms around the country. After years of battle, the chemical industry has reversed its longstanding position against restrictions on the controversial chemical bisphenol A, known as BPA, and asked the Food and Drug Administration to revise regulations on the use of the chemical...

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Senator Dianne Feinstein

10/12/11

by Marianne Schnall The following interview originally appeared at Feminist.com . Marianne Schnall: Thank you for taking the time to talk to me, because I know how busy you are. I was really interested and inspired to learn about Off the Sidelines. What made you decide to launch the Off the...

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Marianne Schnall

Health Care

10/12/11

Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner who died a few weeks ago must have been smiling down on the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winners, all of them mothers, and heroines for peace and justice from environments that are usually so hostile to women’s success. Like them, Wangari’s was an...

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Homa Tavangar

Paid Sick Days

10/12/11

Photo is of PCSW's Executive Director (at podium) surrounded by Connecticut legislators in support of paid sick days. This year Connecticut became the very first state to mandate that employers must provide a minimum standard of paid sick days for their employees. It seems that there is a wide-...

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Michelle Noehren

Childcare & Early Education

10/12/11

If you peruse the latest list of Fortune 500 CEOs, it's easy to notice what they have in common: there are almost no women among them. In fact, women lead only 12 of the FORTUNE 500 companies , down from 15 the previous year. Couple that with the fact that there are only 17 female Senators , and it...

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Laila Brenner

Blog Carnivals MomsVote

10/12/11

When it passed, we recognized the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as the greatest advance for women’s health in a generation. This new law is already beginning to eliminate the punitive and predatory insurance practices that have penalized women and families for decades, and instead bringing us closer to...

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Debra L. Ness

Environmental Health Health Care

10/11/11

Halloween is here! Well, almost. And while the kids in your life are probably thrilled about the sugary jack-o-lantern strewn bonanza that is Halloween, the parent side of Halloween planning is a bit more tricky (The phrase “How is the store out of costumes already?! HOW?!” comes to mind). Look, in...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health

10/11/11

The explosion that took place on April 20, 2010, and the resulting 250 million gallons of oil that spilled into the Gulf continues to challenge our region. This week, the Save Our Gulf Waterkeepers released their report “ State of the Gulf: A status report from the Save Our Gulf Waterkeepers in the...

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