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Media advisory

First-Ever MOMibuster Set for May 7

April 25, 2022
Paid Family & Medical Leave, Early Care & Education

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Moms, parents, caregivers, care workers, and leaders from across the country are turning the tables on Congress by filibustering them to send the message that, in order to succeed, America's families need a care infrastructure.

For Mother’s Day this year, MomsRising, the #CareCantWait Coalition, and dozens of allies are organizing something powerful and unprecedented: the first-ever MOMibuster. Moms, parents, caregivers, care workers and leaders from all over the country are turning the tables on Congress by filibustering them to send the message that, in order to succeed, families need a care infrastructure that includes affordable child care, free pre-K, paid family and medical leave, quality maternal health care for everyone, home- and community-based services, affordable prescription meds, monthly Child Tax Credit checks that are fully refundable, and a tax system that works for families.

Part Mother’s Day celebration, part plea for help, and part call to action, the 8-hour MOMibuster will feature 2- to 3-minute videos from moms, parents, caregivers, and leaders all over the country sharing their situations and the policies they need. It will include moms talking about how they were pushed out of the workforce during the pandemic, parents talking about missing time with their babies because they are without paid family and medical leave, grandparents sharing that they go without the care they need, and caregivers struggling to make ends meet despite impossibly low wages. 

The MOMibuster will be carried on the social media channels of MomsRising and more than 80 other organizations on Saturday, May 7, leading into Mother’s Day. This is part of a broad effort to help build momentum for Congress to take action on the issues that matter most to moms and families. The Mother’s Day MOMibuster will not only be promoted to viewers online, but will be projected on LED trucks in front of the U.S. Capitol on Mother’s Day weekend and for two days afterward. The coalition will place an ad in the DC edition of the NY Times the Friday before Mother’s Day; and deliver stories and paper flowers to all of Congress the Tuesday after Mother’s Day.

For details and to be connected to MOMibuster participants from different regions, of different ages, in different situations, contact lisa@momsrising.org and magen@momsrising.

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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.