All Blog Posts

02/25/12

Recently I had the pleasure of meeting Gloria Pan, campaign director of MomsRising, and learned that this unique organization has become involved in the efforts to improve air quality. After years of delays, new regulations enforcing the Air Image from Baylor Health Care System Art for Asthma 2009...

MomsRising Together

Sumita B. Khatri, MD, MS

02/24/12

In spite of decades of anti-obesity programming, awareness of negative health outcomes associated with obesity, and attention from very important individuals – including First Lady Michelle Obama – the obesity epidemic continues to worsen nationally, hitting African-American families the hardest...

MomsRising Together

Felicia DeHaney

02/24/12

During Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, a popular magazine for teens, XXL Magazine, ran a video interview with hip-hop artist Too $hort where he encouraged teenage boys to “turn girls out” by pushing them "up against the Image by Flickr user Leo Reynolds wall.” The recording artist continued,...

MomsRising Together

Monifa Bandele

Environmental Health

02/24/12

Last month I reached out for help from fellow moms across the nation. In the summer of 2010, my daughter’s best friend stood in the Gulf with tears streaming down her face as oil washed ashore in Alabama. Saving this region for our children and grandchildren means a lot to those moms who live along...

MomsRising Together

Tammy Herrington

02/24/12

I cover the recent furor on Komen, the pink ribbon, and how disassociated our political geography is from the real lives of women. With thanks to Susan Barnett and her wonderful weekly program, 51% http://bit.ly/zsdTtq

MomsRising Together

Carla Goldstein

02/24/12

It's Black History Month once again and MomsRising is celebrating with a blog carnival that will bring you a diverse selection of voices and perspectives to deepen our collective appreciation of this time. Some might ask why, in this era of a Black president and televised public funerals of Black...

MomsRising Together

Cheryl Contee

Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days

02/23/12

Photo: Mimi Ho, member of Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Association, with her children, her friend's child and their nanny, Xiao Ying, who cares for them. Like the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, Oscar night is a night of American togetherness. On February 26, we'll all be serving up...

MomsRising Together

Gayle Kirshenbaum

Paid Family Leave Health Care

02/23/12

A few weeks ago, we asked MomsRising members to sign our petition urging Congress to support paid family leave, and the response was huge. Nearly 10,000 people signed the petition so far. We want to keep up the MOMentum and get to 15,000! Click here to sign the petition (And if you’ve already...

MomsRising Together

Ruth Martin

Health Care

02/23/12

During one of the recent Republican Presidential debates in Florida, a woman in the audience shared her story and asked a simple question: My name is Lynn Frazier and I live here in Jacksonville. I found myself unemployed for the first time in 10 years and unable to afford health care benefits...

MomsRising Together

Ashley Boyd

Health Care

02/23/12

Over and over we see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops confuse the right to exercise their religion with a right to impose their religion on Americans who don’t share it. This is not a subtle difference. And, as Bill Moyers points out in the context of their intransigence on access to birth...

MomsRising Together