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Are You Feeding Your Kids Fruits and Veggies Grown with Oil Wastewater?

February 23, 2018
Could a loophole in organic standards and food safety regulations mean that parents looking to feed their kids healthy food might end up giving them produce grown with wastewater from oil production? They might be, if they give them Halos mandarins, Grimmway Cal-Organic or Bunny Luv carrots, Bee...
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Julie Light
Families & The Federal Budget Gun Safety Immigration Maternal Justice

#5Actions of the Week: February 23, 2018

February 23, 2018
Did you know stories are one of our most powerful tools for changing hearts and minds? Stories are personal, they're real, and they really paint the picture of what's really happening on the ground. MomsRising has brought your stories around the importance of healthcare, early learning and food...
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Karen Showalter
Childcare & Early Education Gun Safety Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

How to Talk to Kids of All Ages About Difficult Subjects

February 23, 2018
One of the toughest jobs of parenting is talking to your kids about difficult subjects. It's hard enough to explain when Mr. Teddy Bear gets eaten by the washing machine. Or how their bike got stolen at school. It feels impossible to put into words the really big issues, such as violence, racism,...
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Caroline Knorr
Gun Safety Politics & Policy

Violence Against Children

February 23, 2018
“We see things that adults sometimes can’t see.” --Child participant, United Nations Study on Violence against Children Violence against children. For many people the words alone are unthinkable—the absolute worst of what humans are capable of doing. The school shooting in Parkland, Florida is a...
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Marian Wright Edelman
Food!

10 Easy Tips to Be Heart Healthy

February 22, 2018
It’s American Heart Month and we teamed up with the American Heart Association and food blogger and recipe developer Diana Rodriguez to chat all about being heart healthy. Last week’s tweet chat was all about Latinas and Heart health. THE BAD NEWS: Heart disease affects women of all backgrounds, it...
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Diana Limongi
Gun Safety

Debemos tomar medidas contra la violencia con armas de fuego

February 21, 2018
¡Ningún civil debe tener acceso a armas de asalto y cargadores de alta capacidad! Un antiguo alumno de la Preparatoria Marjory Stoneman Douglas, de 19 años, llegó armado a la escuela ayer en la tarde y mató a tiros a 17 personas, hiriendo a 14 personas más, cinco de las cuales se encuentran en...
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Xochitl Oseguera
Immigration

¡Separar a los niños de sus padres en la frontera es inhumano!

February 21, 2018
Como madres, padres y personas que se preocupan por los niños, le pedimos que proteja a los niños y familias y que rechace la política propuesta por el DHS que separaría a los niños migrantes de sus padres en la frontera. Esta política es inhumana, cruel e innecesaria y traumatizaría aún más a los...
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Carolina Rubio-MacWright
Maternal Justice

Women in Detention and Separation of Families 1.29 Tweetchat

February 20, 2018
MomsRising, along with special guests Women’s Refugee Commission and Human Rights Watch holds a Tweetchat on the topic of W omen in Detention and Separation of Families.
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Tasmiha Khan
Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy

The Human Needs Report: President Trump's FY19 budget request

February 20, 2018
The Coalition on Human Needs just released a special edition of the Human Needs Report focusing on President Trump’s FY19 budget request, including sections on select departmental budgets.
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Lecia Imbery
Gun Safety

On the Parkland School Shooting and Emerging Student Activism Around Gun Safety Reforms

February 20, 2018
The Parkland School Shooting last week that claimed the lives of 17 students and educators is a national tragedy. Our country’s moms once again mourn that even more people – this time, more children – have been added to the ranks of those victimized by our country’s gun violence epidemic with this...
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