#MilitaryMon: Is Commissary Shopping the Best Way to Eat Healthy?
April 3, 2017
Tips on how to stay healthy while shopping at the commissary (or off base!).
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Human Needs Report: Advocates' defeat ACA repeal bill, FY17 & FY18 spending work, Supreme Court confirmation and more
April 3, 2017
The Coalition on Human Needs just released our latest edition of the Human Needs Report. Read on for articles on advocates' work to defeat the ACA repeal bill, FY17 & FY18 budget and appropriations work, a Supreme Court confirmation vote and more.
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* New -> #5Actions to Start the Week!
April 3, 2017
Happy Monday! We hope you're enjoying these early days of spring. While the seasons change, our need to speak out, loudly and regularly, about the issues that matter remains. Without further ado, here are our top 5 actions of the week! You can do all five of the actions on one day, or spread them...
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Standing for Dual Language Programs
April 2, 2017
*** Want more information on raising multilingual children? Visit MomsRising's bilingual parenting resource site: http://action.momsrising.org/survey/bilingual_baby/?source=blog I strongly believe in the value of dual language programs. I took several years of French in high school but never quite...
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A Time to Break Silence
March 31, 2017
Fifty years ago on April 4, 1967, our prophet Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the historic speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” at New York City’s Riverside Church. It was his first major public antiwar speech and a powerful warning that a rise in racial hatred, militarism and violence...
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#ProtectOurCare Meet Mark in Maryland
March 31, 2017
Quality, affordable healthcare coverage is incredibly important to families in the U.S. MomsRising has recieved thousands of messages from our volunteers with stories about why the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare), Medicaid, CHIP, and Medicare matter for the health of their families. This #...
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"It's better to prevent than to lament:" On children's oral health
March 30, 2017
My values and perspectives on life have been heavily influenced by my mother—a woman of no formal academic education but whose wisdom surpasses that of many. She was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, and as a single mother she fought hard to give her 2 daughters the opportunities that she...
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Head Smacker: Trump wrongly claims corporate taxes are too high
March 29, 2017
President Trump’s address to Congress last month gave us in the human needs community much to smack our heads about. As the Coalition on Human Needs' Debbie Weinstein noted in this piece about Trump’s false promises, he promised better health care while working to repeal the ACA; thanks in part to...
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#RADIO: Keep Marching!
March 29, 2017
Special guests on the #Radio show this week include: Dayna Farris-Fisher, Cancer Survivors Network, @ PPact ; Julie Morgenstern, award winning author, @JulieMorgenstrn ; Lois Frankel, United States Representative, @RepLoisFrankel ; Bill Finkbeiner, political analyst, @BillFinkbeiner HOW TO LISTEN...
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Please Read: School Food is Not Fake News
March 29, 2017
Something often heard from conspiracy theorists but not taken seriously is the idea that American news was being manipulated. Apparently, it is a tactic once used by intelligence agencies and now with the amount of control the public has over global media, “fake news” has become a commercial...
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