News release MomsRising, the rapidly-growing grassroots online organization for moms (and anyone who has a mom), today applauded Governor Chris Gregoire for signing into law a strong paid family leave insurance bill. MomsRising was a driving force behind the measure, generating more than ten thousand emailed letters to legislators, as well as calls and deliveries of cookies, flowers and Polaroid photos of parents and children who would benefit from this long overdue policy.
MomsRising Newsroom
May 8, 2007
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May 8, 2007
News release MomsRising, the year-old online grassroots organization that champions family-friendly issues like paid leave, expanding afterschool programs, educational television and health care coverage for all children, has teamed up with Farley’s Coffee to offer a special MomsRising blend in regular and decaf. Priced at just $14.99 a pound and available for purchase online, the sales of this special blend help support MomsRising’s work. Farley’s Coffee, Inc. is an independent, minority-run small business.
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April 21, 2007
News release MomsRising, the rapidly-growing grassroots online organization for moms (and anyone who has a mom), today hailed Washington legislators for sending Governor Chris Gregoire a strong paid family leave insurance bill. MomsRising was a driving force behind the measure, generating more than ten thousand emailed letters to legislators, as well as calls and deliveries of cookies, flowers and Polaroid photos of parents and children who would benefit from this long overdue policy.
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March 28, 2007
News release MomsRising, the rapidly-growing grassroots online organization for moms (or anyone who has a mom), will demonstrate the statewide and nationwide support for Washington State’s Family Leave Insurance legislation by exhibiting a string of several hundred specially-decorated baby outfits commonly known as “onesies” on the Capital Campus at:
9:45am, Thursday, March 29
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February 6, 2007
News release Olympia, WA – Calling it a “national embarrassment” that the United States doesn’t have a paid family leave law, MomsRising Executive Director Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner today urged the Washington State legislature to pass the Family and Medical Leave Insurance bill, HB 1658. The bill would create a family and medical leave insurance program that would pay benefits weekly to employees who take time off from work to bond with a newborn or newly placed child, care for seriously ill family members or recover from their own serious health condition.
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November 21, 2006
News release News that a ticket agent forced a mother off a Freedom Air flight run by Delta Airlines for breastfeeding on-board infuriated the MomsRising community last week, generating more than 19,000 signatures on a petition to Delta Airlines since last Friday. Launched earlier this year as an online grassroots organization that supports motherhood and family issues, MomsRising quickly mobilized its members through an email alerting them to the incident and asking them to sign the petition and contact the airlines.
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September 28, 2006
News release MomsRising.org, the new online grassroots organization with more than 55,000 members that took the country by storm this summer, is now poised to come into your home. Hot on the heels of their groundbreaking book, The Motherhood Manifesto, MomsRising Executive Director Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner and President Joan Blades (founder of MoveOn.org) joined Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christopher Dodd, Edward Kennedy and Barack Obama for the Capitol Hill premiere of the film by the same name this evening.
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May 4, 2006
News release Just in time for Mother’s Day, a new online grassroots movement to harness mom power is coming to a computer near you. MomsRising.org is reaching out to an often overlooked, yet deeply important, segment of our population, mothers, and bringing them together to work for common sense solutions to shared problems. With 82% of women becoming mothers by the time they are 44, according to the U.S. Census, this group packs a powerful punch of latent political and community strength.
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