Politics & Policy

July 2, 2015

Over the weekend, an educator and activist named Bree Newsome scaled the 30ft flag pole at the South Carolina State Capitol Building and removed the confederate flag. MomsRising.org fully supports Bree’s actions and is joining the growing chorus of organizations to call for all charges against Ms...

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Monifa Bandele

Food! Health Care Politics & Policy

July 1, 2015

Science Writer Maryn McKenna gave an excellent TedTalk about the looming antibiotics crisis, how we got here and what comes next. This is what I learned.

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Anya Vanecek

Health Care Politics & Policy

June 29, 2015

Maine could soon become the first state in 2015 to limit the shackling of pregnant women in prison. The bill against shackling is a priority for the Maine Alliance for Reproductive Freedom and an integral part of the ACLU of Maine ‘s focus on criminal justice reform. Twenty-one other states and the...

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Rachel Roth

Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy

June 28, 2015

I still cannot believe that I am married in 50 states. When my wife and I married, nearly nine years ago, we did so in the only place where it was legal. It was still a really big deal when the pastor said, "By the power vested in me by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts..." And today the echo of...

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Rev. Eliza Buchakjian-Tweedy

Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy

June 25, 2015

We won! The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor the Affordable Care Act , keeping the financial assistance that keeps health insurance affordable under King v. Burwell! Over 10,000 MomsRising members like YOU signed on to our People’s Brief to stand with the millions of Americans whose healthcare was...

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Jeannina Perez

Environmental Health Food! Politics & Policy

June 23, 2015

Across the country, consumers are standing up for public health by speaking out against the overuse of antibiotics in factory farming and as a result, the industry is changing. The following fast-casual restaurants have taken action to transition away from serving meat raised with antibiotics. By...

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Anya Vanecek

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Politics & Policy

June 23, 2015

We all know moms and educators like Sharonda Singleton-Coleman. At school she was running "cheek to cheek" with the students on her track team, pushing and motivating them to be the best they can be. At home she was being an amazing mother: raising teens, loving them, praying for them, smiling, and, (of course) hiding the TV remote so they didn’t have too much screen time. While this mother of three gave life and nurtured so many, her life was taken when she and eight others were gunned down in a vicious act of racial terrorism, the kind that has for too long been glorified by the iconography of the Confederate flag. It's time to take the confederate flags down. No child should lose their mother to racial terrorism. All families should be protected by our nation's promise of liberty and justice for all.

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Politics & Policy

June 19, 2015

Pro-voice is a practice of nonviolence rooted in conflict-transformation principles. It is a process to create fundamental change in the way our culture addresses personal experiences with abortion. Our pro-voice approach creates, replicates, and sustains strategies that grow culture change. Our...

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Joan Blades

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy

June 19, 2015

For Father's Day, let's honor dads by protecting key low-income tax credits that help 13 million working fathers and their families.

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Lecia Imbery

Politics & Policy

June 19, 2015

Deirdra Reed is a Senior Organizer at the Center for Community Change. Deirdra reflects here on the tragic shooting at the historic Charleston Church and the birthing of a black movement. When my sister-in-law was pregnant with her first child, she drove me crazy, calling me at all hours to tell me...

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