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MomsRising Launches “A Peaceful Revolution” on the Huffington Post

September 10, 2007
Workplace Justice

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

New Blog Series Focuses on Work/Family Issues
MomsRising, a national online grassroots organization that promotes family-friendly policies, has joined forces with the highly-trafficked and prestigious Huffington Post to launch “A Peaceful Revolution,” a new series of blogs featuring leading thinkers in the fields of work life and balancing work and family.
 
Bloggers include MomsRising President Joan Blades and Executive Director Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner; Robert Drago, Professor of Labor Studies and Women’s Studies at Penn State, co-founder of the Take Care Net, and author of Striking a Balance; Irma Herrera, Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates; Mary Ann Mason, Professor at The University of California, Berkeley and Author of Mothers on the Fast Track and The Equality Trap; and John de Graaf, President of Take Back Your Time.
 
In the first blog, posted today, Blades writes, “This new Blog is about consciousness raising and culture change. Very few Americans realize that there is deep bias against mothers in this country and that we are undermining family’s ability to care for children. I began to understand this a few years ago when I learned that equal pay for equal work is just as big a problem today as it was 40 years ago.”
 
This week new blogs will be posted daily for five days in a row. Starting September 17, bloggers will post weekly. Blogs will also be cross-posted on MomsRising and some of the bloggers’ own web sites. To follow the conversation, and even comment, visit www.huffingtonpost.com.
 

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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.