Skip to main content

Together

Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

Here's How Prison and Jail Systems Brutalize Women, Especially Mothers

October 24, 2017
Considering our nation’s merciless criminal justice policies, it comes as no surprise that the United States has the largest prison population and highest incarceration rate in the world. What you may not know, however, is that women are a fast growing demographic of the prison population. There...
MomsRising Together
monifa's picture
Monifa Bandele
Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

Say NO to $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to wealthy corporations!

October 24, 2017
Over the next few weeks, the U.S. Congress will try to pass a tax package. While the promise was to make changes that would help families like yours and mine, the current track outlined in the budget would give $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to millionaires, billionaires, and giant corporations. Yes,...
MomsRising Together
Abbie Gately's picture
Abbie Gately
Breastfeeding MomsRising

We Stand Up For Eau Claire City Councilmember's Right to Breastfeed

October 24, 2017
MomsRising, VoteRunLead, & Emerge WI reprimand Eau Claire City Council for denying Catherine Emmanuelle access to her legislative seat and right to breastfeed.
MomsRising Together
MomsRising's picture
MomsRising
Take Action!
Family Economic Security MomsRising Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy

TAKE ACTION: Ask Senator Heinrich to Support Paid Family Leave!

October 24, 2017
Whether it’s to care for a newborn you swear already smiles, a mom who is ill, or a spouse battling cancer, being there for family is what matters and you shouldn't have to give up a paycheck to do it. Unfortunately for far too many working families, that is exactly what is happening right now. Because the United States is one of the only countries in the entire world without a national paid family and medical leave policy. But we can take action, right here in New Mexico, to change this!
MomsRising Together
Erin Bennett Leighton's picture
Erin Bennett Leighton
Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

Down Syndrome Awareness Month: Condescendence Is Not What We Need

October 23, 2017
Let’s be honest, as parents of a child, or children, with special needs of any kind, not just Down syndrome, it takes years to learn and understand that condescendence has nothing to do with inclusion, and in the end, it has nothing good to offer to our children. As the parent of two children with...
MomsRising Together
Eliana Tardio's picture
Eliana Tardio
Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

Victory in Defeating Graham-Cassidy!

October 23, 2017
As a vote on the Graham-Cassidy Bill seemed more and more likely in September, MomsRising members across the country headed to their Senators’ offices with cupcakes in hand (see pictures below) and a strong message: Protecting health care for moms, dads, and kids should be a *piece of cake*! Turns...
MomsRising Together
Isabella Higgins's picture
Isabella Higgins
Take Action!
Breastfeeding Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Maternal Justice MomsRising Politics & Policy

Councilwoman’s Right to Breastfeed Being Challenged

October 23, 2017
Stunned. Outraged. That’s how I felt yesterday when I saw the news that Councilwoman Catherine Emmanuelle in Eau Claire, Wisconsin was illegally barred from breastfeeding her baby at the council dais during council meetings--because the council president decided that breastfeeding didn’t meet “our standards of decorum” for meetings.
MomsRising Together
Tina Sherman's picture
Tina Sherman
Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

#CHIPworks - Meet Lois in Texas

October 23, 2017
The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) ensures that we always give our kids a winning hand of lifelong health! Republicans and Democrats created this critically important program in 1997 because it was a low-cost, sound investment in our children's health and future—and they were right !...
MomsRising Together
Isabella Higgins's picture
Isabella Higgins
Environmental Health Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Politics & Policy

Climate Change Is Here, Now, Affecting Us Intensely. Why Aren’t We Talking About It?

October 21, 2017
This piece originally appeared in the Daily Kos . To say that the last month has been intense is an understatement. I have family in Puerto Rico – my grandfather, aunt, uncle, cousins and the rest of my mother’s extended family– and like every other Puerto Rican on the island, they are feeling the...
MomsRising Together
Elisa Batista's picture
Elisa Batista
Families & The Federal Budget

51 Senators vote to slash Medicaid in order to pay for tax cuts for the rich

October 20, 2017
They also voted to cut Medicare, education, housing assistance, job training, home heating/cooling assistance, SNAP, Meals on Wheels, Head Start, environmental and public health protections, child care, help for people with disabilities…
MomsRising Together
Debbie Weinstein's picture
Debbie Weinstein

Pages

RSS