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10/13/11

The boldest attack on the Denver Paid Sick Leave Voter Initiative isn’t from the Chamber of Commerce. With large majorities supporting the November 2011 ballot measure, opponents know they have to do more than simply argue against the common sense notion that people shouldn’t go to work sick. They...

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Donald Cohen

Paid Sick Days

10/13/11

Denver mommies and daddies with their babies, toddlers and preschool-aged children expressed their outrage that businesses don’t provide paid sick days to workers who interact with the public as they spoke out in favor of Initiative 300 at Hirshorn Park playground today. The parents pointed out...

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Jenny Davies-Schley

Paid Sick Days

10/13/11

Voting moms will have an opportunity to make Denver a healthier place to live by voting yes on the Paid Sick and Safe Time Initiative 300, a measure that will protect our city’s health, support our families and strengthen our economy. This is a very important issues for moms, dads and kids because...

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Jenny Davies-Schley

10/13/11

With no school on Columbus Day in New York City, organizers of #OccupyWallStreet (OWS) put out a call for children to join them in lower Manhattan for an OWS Children’s Assembly. My kids and several of their friends attended, and worked their way into the inner-circle of children ranging in age...

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Monifa Bandele

10/12/11

The International Museum of Women is holding a call for submissions for creative work related to motherhood! Submit your work by Oct. 31 and you could win a $1,000 Community Choice award! http://imow.org/exhibitions/call_for_submissions?key=331 The mission of I.M.O.W. is to value the lives of women...

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Emilia Aiello

Environmental Health

10/12/11

Chalk up a win for moms around the country. After years of battle, the chemical industry has reversed its longstanding position against restrictions on the controversial chemical bisphenol A, known as BPA, and asked the Food and Drug Administration to revise regulations on the use of the chemical...

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Senator Dianne Feinstein

10/12/11

by Marianne Schnall The following interview originally appeared at Feminist.com . Marianne Schnall: Thank you for taking the time to talk to me, because I know how busy you are. I was really interested and inspired to learn about Off the Sidelines. What made you decide to launch the Off the...

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Marianne Schnall

Health Care

10/12/11

Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner who died a few weeks ago must have been smiling down on the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winners, all of them mothers, and heroines for peace and justice from environments that are usually so hostile to women’s success. Like them, Wangari’s was an...

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Homa Tavangar

Paid Sick Days

10/12/11

Photo is of PCSW's Executive Director (at podium) surrounded by Connecticut legislators in support of paid sick days. This year Connecticut became the very first state to mandate that employers must provide a minimum standard of paid sick days for their employees. It seems that there is a wide-...

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Michelle Noehren

Childcare & Early Education

10/12/11

If you peruse the latest list of Fortune 500 CEOs, it's easy to notice what they have in common: there are almost no women among them. In fact, women lead only 12 of the FORTUNE 500 companies , down from 15 the previous year. Couple that with the fact that there are only 17 female Senators , and it...

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