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Blog Carnivals Family Economic Security Food! Health Care

02/15/15

Tell us about your work and how it began. I was trained as a midwife in Great Britain in 1979 and moved to the United States in 1989. My experience has been quite diverse: European hospitals, American birth centers, clinics and homebirth environments. I’ve been instrumental in the regulation of...

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Jennie Joseph

Podcast

02/14/15

On Valentine’s week we embrace the rising tide to increase access to affordable childcare, to healthy food for all, to healthcare coverage through the Affordable Care Act, and to justice. It’s an ode to awesome policy—and covers how to build and grow positive change! It’s a love story for democracy...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Monifa Bandele, & Sara Alcid

Health Care

02/13/15

Calling all DC-area moms: we need you on Capitol Hill February 24th to help tell our stories and protect healthcare for ALL families. Will you join us??

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Elyssa Schmier

Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

02/13/15

February 13th is Tipped Wage Worker Day. Believe it or not, it has been 24 years since tipped wage workers have seen a raise. They still make $2.13/hour in many states. That is just crazy! We need to raise awareness, raise our voices, and raise the wage!

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Elyssa Schmier

Politics & Policy

02/13/15

I’m grateful for a powerful new book, Girls In Justice by artist Richard Ross, a follow up to his moving earlier Juvenile In Justice, which combines Ross’s photographs of girls in the juvenile justice system with interviews he gathered from over 250 detention facilities across the United States. If a picture is worth a thousand words, the deeply disturbing photographs speak volumes.

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Marian Wright Edelman

Politics & Policy

02/13/15

I want my kids to grow up in a world that embraces all people. It sounds so simple, but, as events of the last few years have shown, making that a reality requires hard work, painful setbacks, and for each of us to step outside of our comfort zones and speak up for what is right. That’s what the...

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Julie King

Blog Carnivals Family Economic Security Food! Health Care

02/13/15

My name is Rosetta M. Walls and I’m a former Breastfeeding Peer Counselor with HealthConnect One . I inadvertently became a counselor by taking the class to find out how to get my “Boob-Head” son off my breast. He was a little over one years old and I was totally exhausted from nursing. Amazingly,...

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Rosetta M Walls

Blog Carnivals Family Economic Security Food! Health Care

02/13/15

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Rosetta M Walls

Blog Carnivals Family Economic Security Food! Health Care

02/13/15

I have been educating and supporting mothers on breastfeeding since 1996. After having my first daughter Jaylin, I not only felt a connection between the two of us but also a connection to the experience of breastfeeding. It wasn’t until signing up for WIC services for my son in 2009, however, that...

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Dana Posley

Blog Carnivals Family Economic Security Food!

02/12/15

Tell us about ICTC and how it began. The International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC) began in 1991 as the first national Black midwifery non-profit organization in the US. We began out of the need for Black midwives to have an organized voice on local, national and international issues...

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