Health Care

December 21, 2016

Last week, a team of us from MomsRising spread out and met with nearly half of the U.S. Senators' healthcare staff about the importance not unilaterally kicking 30,000,000 people off healthcare coverage. We delivered stories from MomsRising members from across the country and life saver candies to...

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Felicia Burnett

Health Care MomsRising Near You Politics & Policy

December 21, 2016

Last week, I was fortunate enough to go to Capitol Hill and share my health care story with legislators and their staffs. As someone who benefits greatly from the Affordable Care Act, also known by Obamacare, it was important for me to let politicians know how repealing the law and not replacing it...

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Abbie Gately

Health Care

December 20, 2016

This Wednesday the 21st marks the winter solstice, the longest night of the year and the first day of winter. The solstice is significant on many levels, but for me, it always signifies an invitation to honor and embrace the time of year when nature calls us to go inward. We live in a culture that...

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Renee Trudeau

Health Care

December 19, 2016

I always wanted to become a mother. I dreamed of taking prenatal yoga classes and wearing cute pregnancy t-shirts. I craved waddling around town with my very own pregnancy belly. But for me, and one out of every seven U.S. women, pregnancy and the first year postpartum was anything but rainbows and...

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Maureen Fura

Health Care

December 16, 2016

My name is Julie Walters, and two years ago I wrote to you as a MomsRising volunteer about my daughter, Violet, who has a rare, life-threatening health condition that causes her to have hundreds of seizures. Before healthcare reform, there was a limit on Violet’s health coverage. Now there’s not...

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Julie Walters

Health Care

December 13, 2016

Maya, my client, is wading through some swampy waters with a nonprofit she’s invested a huge amount of time, energy and money in. Active on the board for more than 12 years, she can clearly see all the challenges that the group is facing and it’s easy to come up with a list of all the things that...

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Renee Trudeau

Environmental Health Gun Safety Health Care MomsRising

December 12, 2016

Today, MomsRising, Girls for Gender Equity, w omen, trans and gender non-conforming New Yorkers anchored a presser at City Hall to call on Council to pass the Right To Know Act. I n communities across the city, women and trans* and gender non-conforming New Yorkers face gender-specific humiliation...

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Diarra Diouf

Health Care

December 12, 2016

Tell us why quality, affordable, health coverage matters to you! http://action.momsrising.org/survey/healthcare-stories/ We must protect all of the gains we’ve made in health coverage. Everyone agrees that there is still work to be done to expand affordability and accessibility in our healthcare...

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Felicia Burnett

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Family Economic Security Food! Gun Safety Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

December 9, 2016

How Grassroots Organizing and Popular Protest Defeated NC’s Bathroom Governor As a lifelong North Carolinian, I really appreciated this data-based analysis from Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling on how the Governor lost his re-election effort (the first to do so in NC history). First, polls show...

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Ruby Sinreich

Health Care Maternal Justice

December 8, 2016

The New Jersey legislature attempted to stand up for the rights of incarcerated pregnant women, children and others by passing S51, which would have restricted the use of solitary confinement in state prisons. By vetoing this important legislation, Governor Christie has shown that he has no concern...

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