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Celebrate Women's Equality Day - Support Equal Pay Today!

08/28/13
This post explores the many ways in which fairness in the workplace has yet to be attained. We continue to work toward justice and economic freedom for all women and families. ~MomsRising Ed. On this Women's Equality Day - the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote - I'm...
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Moms Get Real About Race in America: A MomsRising.org Blog Carnival in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

08/28/13
This blog carnival was updated twice on Thursday, August 29th, 2013. Introduction by the members of the MomsRising Education Fund Board of Directors: Ai-jen Poo , Executive Director for National Domestic Workers Alliance Barbara Arnwine , President & Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee...
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On the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington – It’s Time for All of Us to Keep Marching

08/28/13
This week marks the 50thanniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, when hundreds of thousands of people mobilized for equality, jobs and freedom. The monumental event and the organizing that preceded and followed it helped lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting...
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Gun Safety

The March on Washington Through a Child's Eyes

08/28/13
This blog post originally appeared in the ACLU blog . I was at home when the March on Washington took place in 1963. My parents took my four older siblings with them, but at the last minute decided that, as the youngest, I should stay at home. I was furious about being left behind. My parents had...
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Immigration

50th Anniversary of Civil Rights March An Inspiration To Advance Humane Immigration Reform

08/27/13
April 10th, 2013 was a memorable day for me. I was in Washington, D.C. and participated, in what for me personally, was the largest rally I had ever attended. See pictures here. Tens of thousands of people of all heritages, hues, and life experiences, covered the lawn in front of the Capitol...
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What About Trayvon Martin's, Oscar Grant's and Marissa Alexander's Civil Rights?

08/27/13
According to Wikitionary, "civil rights" are personal liberties established by the 13th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Our quest for civil rights started as a movement that began in the 1900s, which was primarily led by blacks in an effort to establish rights for individual black...
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Carrie Smith

Affordable Care Act a Great Stride Towards Racial Justice

08/27/13
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I first came across this powerful quote during my college years. Today, as policy director of the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) , I think this...
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Priscilla Huang

What Happens to a Dream Deferred?

08/27/13
As we stand on the precipice of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, it is natural, almost reflexive, to look back and attempt to measure the extent to which we have come closer to that dream so beautifully articulated five decades before. Have we yet arrived at the day in which all of...
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Mami would put her two cents in about your seguro de salud if she knew about it...

08/27/13
As the daughter of two parents with limited English language proficiency, I am part of the dual-lingual generation (in my case Spanglish) that straddles the fine line between child, translator, and teacher to their parents. I hated this role when I was a child, often wishing that I could just be a...
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Fifty Years On: Toward a Politics of Inclusivity

08/27/13
My 5 year-old son and I have had two conversations about the police -- or “la policia,” as we call them – already this week. In the first, he declared to me that “all police are not bad.” That’s part of a larger and ongoing post-Trayvon talk we’ve been having this summer (more on that here ). Then...
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