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Victory for Moms! Tide Agrees to Reformulate!

Posted January 29th, 2013 by

You did it! Procter & Gamble has just agreed to reformulate Tide and Tide Free & Gentle to drastically reduce the levels of the cancer-causing chemical 1,4-dioxane! Learn more. In just one short year, you moved the biggest consumer product company on the planet to make this change.  Together, we not only made a difference [...]

Posted Under: H: Environmental Health

Children Take their “Wish for the Holidays” to Capitol Hill

Posted December 19th, 2012 by

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 take my parents away, and I promise I [...]

Posted Under: Immigration Uncategorized

Non-Toxic Holiday Shopping Guide!

Posted December 3rd, 2012 by

Women’s Voices for the Earth’s Non-Toxic Shopping Guide has everything you need to make responsible choices without compromising the fun and excitement of gift-giving. With this Guide, you can use your consumer power to tell and show companies that you demand safer products!

The federal budget: A high-stakes love story

Posted October 23rd, 2012 by

In 2011, I taught two summer courses, directed a federal budget research organization and paid taxes. Taxes are the dues I pay for living in a democracy. Like you, I contribute at the local, state, and federal levels. I want us to fall a little bit in love with the federal budget and there’s no [...]

Will They Still Love Us Tomorrow? Women and the Foreign Policy Debate

Posted October 22nd, 2012 by

Last week was “women’s week” in the presidential debate, and the candidates fought over the girls in their stump speeches at every stop afterwards. Monday’s face-off moves on to foreign policy; the women in the binders and the equal pay issue will likely be left in the paper shredder along with last week’s talking points. [...]

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Vote Early. Vote Often.

Posted October 16th, 2012 by

Okay, that was sort of a joke. You can’t really vote often. You can only vote once. But you may vote early if you want to! In 36 states and the District of Columbia you are allowed to vote before election day, for any reason. It’s an awfully good idea – no last minute snafu, [...]

OMG! There’s a CANCER-Causing Chemical in This?!

Posted October 15th, 2012 by

Baby Emma just found out Tide’s toxic secret—and she’s shocked that her favorite detergents are contaminated with a cancer-causing chemical!

Posted Under: H: Environmental Health

Stop! Don’t Listen to Advice that Women Can Plan Our Way to Worklife Fit

Posted September 13th, 2012 by

I am so fed up with advice from people telling women that if they just make the right personal choices at the right time in the right order then there is no problem fitting career, marriage, and kids into our lives. That’s a load of crap. If anyone had been able to figure out a [...]

To Procter & Gamble: Stop Gambling with Our Health

Posted September 10th, 2012 by

An open letter from Women’s Voices for the Earth to one of the biggest consumer product companies on the planet: make the obvious moral decision to remove a cancer-causing chemical from Tide® and Tide Free & Gentle®.   Dear Mr. McDonald, We’d like to point out some serious discrepancies between P&G’s stated principles and its [...]

Posted Under: H: Environmental Health

Election 2012: What’s the budget impact on moms and families?

Posted August 14th, 2012 by

If there was ever any doubt that the U.S. federal budget would claim center-stage in the 2012 presidential race, it vanished with Mitt Romney’s selection of House Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) as the GOP Vice Presidential nominee. Although Mitt Romney has emphasized he will run on a Romney budget, not a Ryan budget, he [...]

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