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03/23/10
Here's an inspiring example of a way to multiply your own consumer power.
03/23/10
Cross-posted at MotherTalkers . This is an historical moment that I can't get out of my head so my apologies in advance for writing, yet, another piece on healthcare reform. This is an issue near and dear to my heart and one of three issues -- education and higher education spending are the other...
Elisa Batista's picture
03/22/10
Once in a while you get the chance to make a really big difference, and we just did! Yesterday we helped change the course of history – for the United States, and for our families. For almost 100 years, Americans have been trying to expand healthcare coverage, and last night a bill finally passed...
Kristin's picture
03/21/10
UPDATE: Last night health reform passed the House. Representative Loretta Sanchez voted YES. Interested in what passage of this bill means for you and your family? Here's a terrific, interactive article from the New York Times today, titled, " How The Healthcare Overhaul Could Affect You" . One big...
Kristin's picture
03/19/10
Every once in awhile, history sneaks up on us. In movements past, the sting of injustice couldn’t be more clear. Bold acts of violence interspersed within wide-ranging systems of injustice, made the steady march towards civil rights an obvious moral imperative in need of correction. Yet, somehow,...
Avis Jones-DeWeever's picture
03/19/10
Over the past year, Administrator Jackson has pledged that her agency is back at work defending children’s health by ending environmental injustices, but when it comes to ending mountaintop removal, the agency is stalled.
Renee Blanchard's picture
03/18/10
The imminent vote on health reform is going to be incredibly close. We've got to pump up the volume to help make sure it passes. That's right: It's time to make sure our voices are heard once again by Congress that healthcare reform is critically important to our nation's families in order to...
Donna's picture
03/18/10
Each year approximately 87 million Americans -- 5 million in New York alone -- are made ill by contaminated food. Of those, 371,000 are hospitalized with foodborne illness, and 5,700 die. In 2010 America, this is simply unacceptable. The fact is, our food safety laws have not truly been overhauled...
Kirsten Gillibrand's picture
03/17/10
In 1978, I discovered my child was attending an elementary school built on top of a 20,000 ton, toxic-chemical dump in Niagara Falls, New York. As a mom, I was outraged! That shocking discovery spurred me and my neighbors to lead a three-year struggle to protect our children and families from the...
Lois Marie Gibbs's picture
03/17/10
“What happened? Let’s listen to both sides of the story…” Moms are natural mediators, we help kids resolve their conflicts all day long. But when it comes to our own problems with neighbors, co-workers or our kids’ schools, we can feel frazzled and helpless. Calling police is stressful, courts...

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