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12/20/12

Last April I wrote a blog about Facebook’s purchase of Instagram ( Stupid Fat Hobbit, You Ruins it! ). In the blog I discussed how I left Facebook in 2010, and how I joined Instagram shortly thereafter, and how I now wondered about being pulled back into the FB empire. I moved to Instagram shortly...

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Amalia Deloney

Childcare & Early Education Food!

12/19/12

Pssst…your child’s favorite cartoons on Nickelodeon aren’t as cute and innocent as they look. In fact, they’re quite guilty of teaching your child to want junk food and to pester you for these unhealthy products. They’re making your child believe that junk foods are “kids’ food” and that’s what...

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Carol Hazen

Health Care

12/19/12

An excerpt from Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks , a new film and TED Book from Tiffany Shlain. In 2008, my father was diagnosed with brain cancer. During his illness, I began to think a lot about time, how little of it we have, and how connections are meaningless unless we connect deeply. But...

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Tiffany Shlain

12/19/12

Piece Written by Jillian Gilchrest , blogger for CTWorkingMoms and resident of Connecticut What a weekend. What a week. Such a horrible act of violence has shook us all and flipped life on it’s head. My heart goes out to the families, the teachers, the Newtown community, first responders, elected...

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CT Working Moms

Immigration

12/19/12

By Emily Butera, Senior Program Officer for Migrant Rights and Justice, Women's Refugee Commission and Kate Kelly, Washington College of Law Distinguished Fellow, Women's Refugee Commission “Children need to be with their parents so they can succeed. I just want to be with my family. Please don’t...

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Emily Butera

Family Economic Security

12/19/12

I have spent 20 years working for social change, and I have come to realize that we need to find new ways to reach people, let them know what's at stake, and inspire them to action. Just look at our budget debate. Even though progressives may win on taxes, the conversation is still dominated by out...

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Van Jones

12/18/12

When I dropped my kids off at school yesterday, I was filled with a sense of dread and sadness that I've never felt before. I know I'm not alone. While our lives will and must go on, we need to act now to protect our children and communities. Over 100,000 others have done that by signing our open...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Immigration

12/18/12

On June 15, 2012, the Obama Administration announced a new policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) that allows undocumented youth who meet specific requirements to apply for a two-year protection from deportation and for work authorization. When the policy was announced, advocates for...

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Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas

Health Care

12/17/12

When you are the mother of a child with severe disabilities you can’t help but worry about what’s going to happen to her once you are gone. When she is your only child and when your partner is the only likely family member who can survive you, it feels perilous. You really hope your society has a...

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Emily Townsend

Family Economic Security Health Care

12/16/12

By now, most people who pay attention to the news have heard about the “fiscal cliff.” The problem: Most people don’t know what the fiscal cliff actually is, or how it will impact their families. The term “fiscal cliff” is shorthand for a series of events that will occur at the end of 2012 that...

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