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North Carolina Moms Urge Legislators to Build a Strong Foundation for Kids

June 11, 2010

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Moms and Kids to Build Block Tower Outside Legislative Building to Urge Lawmakers to Remember Kids in Budget Negotiations
North Carolina moms and kids will build a giant tower out of children’s building blocks outside the Legislative Building before delivering individual blocks with messages attached to lawmakers working on the state budget, urging them to build a strong foundation for North Carolina kids:
 
10:00 AM, Tuesday, June 15
Portico of the North Carolina Legislative Building
W. Lane Street between N. Salisbury and N. Williams St
Raleigh, North Carolina
 
The block tower will spell out “Build Our Future,” and each block delivered will have a note attached from a North Carolina parent urging legislators to protect programs that give kids a great start and a solid foundation, like Smart Start, NC Health Choice, and infant mortality prevention programs. MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground grassroots organization for moms and everyone who has a mom, generated the messages through e-outreaches to its North Carolina members.
 
In the upcoming closed-door negotiations, North Carolina legislators will be considering proposals to cut the budget for several children’s programs, including Smart Start and NC Health Choice. MomsRising and its allies are urging the legislature to continue funding those programs which are so critical to helping children get a good start in life.
 
MEDIA NOTE: MomsRising North Carolina Chapter Leader Beth Messersmith will be on-site and available for comment.
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.