Skip to main content

Together

Once Upon a Now

April 3, 2012
There are bedtime stories and there are wake-up stories. The stories I heard last week in Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the We Belong Together delegation , were wake-up stories. They were stories that opened my eyes to the harrowing human dimensions of HB 56 – the nation’s harshest immigration...
MomsRising Together
Sammie Moshenberg's picture
Sammie Moshenberg
Immigration

My Hope: A Fear-Free Alabama

April 3, 2012
Cross-posted at Huffington Post Latino Voices . I woke up at 3:30 yesterday morning to catch a flight to Birmingham, Alabama. Although I had gotten about 4 hours of sleep, I was full of energy as I prepared to travel with the We Belong Together Women's Human Rights Delegation to Alabama . I have...
MomsRising Together
Marielena Hincapie's picture
Marielena Hincapie
Immigration

What the Youth of Alabama Taught Me

April 3, 2012
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in First Focus , an advocacy organization for children and families. Last week I had the honor of joining women leaders from around the country as part of the We Belong Together human rights delegation to Alabama, whose recent passage of the most...
MomsRising Together
Wendy Cervantes's picture
Wendy Cervantes

Thanks to ACA, More Cancer Patients Have Hope

March 30, 2012
“I’m sorry ma’am, the hospitals only have to provide care to you in emergency circumstances. They don’t have to provide you with anything else.” It’s been two years since the ACA became law. Since then, we’ve heard grumbles from the left, the right and everywhere in between. Last year I wrote about...
MomsRising Together
Bernadette Segura's picture
Bernadette Segura
Food!

Pink slime is on the run!

March 30, 2012
You did it! Thousands of MomsRising members joined the chorus of concerned consumers about the presence of pink slime, also known as “LFTB” (lean, finely textured beef) in cafeterias, restaurants and supermarkets. Your voice made the difference and major changes have been made within corporations...
MomsRising Together
monifa's picture
Monifa Bandele

Vigilantes in Scrubs

March 30, 2012
A study published this month paints a troubling picture. Imagine palliative care doctors, working to deliver the best possible comfort care to their patients. Yet even as they meet the recognized best practices of their profession, their colleagues are judging their covert intentions and moral...
MomsRising Together
Barbara Coombs Lee's picture
Barbara Coombs Lee
Environmental Health

New News on Cleaners

March 30, 2012
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World Cleaning used to be a simple thing. You learned what to use from your parents and bought the same products when you moved into your own house. But new reports just emerging may make you rethink choosing some of those...
MomsRising Together
Rachel Sarnoff
Environmental Health Health Care Food!

Ban BPA!

March 29, 2012
We are so fed up with bisphenol-A (BPA). It's highly toxic, our families are being exposed to it left and right, and, now we have a chance to help get rid of it! In just two days the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is going to issue a final decision on whether or not BPA should be banned from...
MomsRising Together
Claire Moshenberg's picture
Claire Moshenberg

Mothers Without Custody: Some 2 Million Women Feel the Stigma

March 29, 2012
By Jackie Krasas After a divorce, most people assume that children reside primarily with mothers. However, census data tell us that there are at le­ast 2.5 million households run by single fathers. For most of these fathers, there is a noncustodial mother (NCM). Not that we would know it. NCMs are...
MomsRising Together
Amy Cross's picture
Amy Cross
Environmental Health

There’s No Sunscreen for Burning Lungs

March 28, 2012
Did you know kids bre athe up to seven times more air than adults? According to the American Lung Association, when they breathe smog, it’s like getting a sunburn on their airways, and can possibly provoke asthma attacks, stunt their growing lungs , and could even lead to cancer . We have good news...
MomsRising Together
Gloria Pan's picture
Gloria Pan

Pages

RSS