Yesterday, Chicago’s fast food and retail workers stood up and said ENOUGH! The corporations they work for are raking in huge profits, but they don’t pay their employees – mostly adults with families to support – enough to cover the most basic needs like food, rent, health care, and transportation. “Some months I have to [...]
MomsRising.org is thrilled to team up with the Supermoms Against Superbugs campaign! As the mother of two young girls, it is extremely important to me that parents and physicians have as many tools as possible in our toolbox to help keep all children healthy and safe. That’s why when we heard about the dangers of [...]
African-American children suffer from obesity at a greater rate than any other group of children in the United States. There are many complex factors that contribute to this epidemic. But one factor, junk foods sold in schools, is being tackled by moms and dads nationwide. The USDA recently proposed nutritional guidelines on food sold in vending [...]
We can’t wait to see you this Saturday, March 2, 2013 at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott Hotel, located at 333 Adams Street in downtown Brooklyn. We’ve got lots of great people coming out and all we need is YOU! Here is the Food Power agenda! Don’t forget to register – http://action.momsrising.org/signup/FoodPower/ 10:30 – 11:00 – [...]
Imagine if you were the mother of someone who was found innocent, by irrefutable new DNA evidence, after having been wrongly imprisoned and placed on death row for a crime he/she did not commit. For any mother, it would be horrifying. Shockingly, death sentences for innocent people are not rare. Nationally, 142 people condemned to [...]
Whatever your cultural or ethnic background, conversations inevitably turn to food this time of year. Do you celebrate Thanksgiving or just “get together”? Do you eat meat and is it free-range? Are the vegetables organic? What is a healthy dessert? Gluten free? What about sugar? And then there is the ever-present concern; how will we all [...]
Last week, MomsRising.org along with over a hundred New Yorkers rolled on City Hall for a stroller brigade in support of working parents and their children. In addition to our partners at A Better Balance, Community Service Society, Make the Road NY, Working Families NY, and ColorOfChange, moms and dads came from all over the [...]
Summer break is coming to an end way too soon (or maybe not soon enough!). Kids will be going back to school to get a heavy dose of reading, writing, math, and (for many kids) junk food. That’s right! Monday, the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine released a report by Bridging The Gap, which found [...]
Have you been following the campaign for paid sick days in New York City? It’s a major economic issue for working moms. Here’s what Susan Saradon had to say on twitter: @susansaradon “SF study says #paidsickdays good for business, aren’t abused by workers. Hope it will be put to a vote. Will talk to Cty Council Spkr.” [...]
Did you hear the news? We scored BIG last week! The National Day of Action calling on Members of Congress to sponsor the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2012 was a HUGE success. MomsRising and our partners rallied over 240k people to sign letters to their U.S. House members to support the Fair Minimum Wage Act! Your voices [...]
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