Author Archives: Julie Pippert
Bush’s Last Days in Office: Eliminating Women’s Rights, One by One
Back in mid-July, I wrote about a shocking proposal the Bush Administration wanted the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement. I wrote: In other women’s rights trampling, the Bush Administration is doing the quick step to achieve … Continue reading
Posted in Call to Action, Health Care, Women
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Urgent: California BPA bill needs your help!
Per an email from Amanda over at Enviroblog (EWG’s blog): California’s landmark bill, SB 1713, would ban bisphenol A from baby bottles and sippy cups, and it could be up for a vote as early as this afternoon. The … Continue reading
Posted in Call to Action
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Empowering girls: Hootchy Clothes and Mean Girls
Many thanks to guest poster Tracee Sioux for providing this thought-provoking essay: If you are using words like hootchy, skank, slut, whore or any other sexually derogatory word to describe the clothing (whether inappropriate or not) of any girl you … Continue reading
Posted in Girls
Tagged empowering girls, girls clothes, girls clothing, judging clothes, juicy couture, mean girls
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HHS new rules document proposes religious tenets as basis of health care for women
(Image: Source Zimbio. Photo by None/Getty Images North America. Taken at a a live taping of Meet the Press at NBC Studios July 13, 2008 in Washington, DC. Even Carly Fiorina, a top McCain surrogate, called birth control a choice.) … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Women
Tagged abortion, anti-choice, health and human services, pro-choice, pro-life, reproductive rights, women's health
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A contest! A prize! Tell us how you think moms and social change go together and be entered to win!
CONTEST DEADLINE: Wednesday, July 9, 2008. I think politics are for moms. It doesn’t matter that the system is not set up for it and the people in the system aren’t that great about accommodating moms—all those meetings! no childcare! … Continue reading
Posted in Awards and Props, Women
Tagged maternal is political, moms, motherhood, motherhood and politics, social change
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Home Depots nationwide now offering CFL recycling program
Such a fuss lately about the new, energy-efficient, long-lasting CFL lightbulbs. We all switched to be more green, and adjusted to the slightly odd cast of light and the funny swirls. I personally celebrated when they came out with short … Continue reading
Product Safety Bill Conference—and a call to action for food safety
Product Safety Bill Conference Annys Shin of the Washington Post is blogging live from the Product Safety Bill Conference. Click over and read her update, which includes a list of provisions for the bill. She’s got a fun and entertaining … Continue reading
Posted in Product Safety
Tagged bill conference, food inspection, food safety, imported food, Product Safety, salmonella tomatoes
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Health care crisis, lack of state and federal aid crushing American cities
A new report out highlights the economic threat the current health care system creates for American cities, which are typically ignored in the discussion about health care reform. The report, put out by Families USA—a nonprofit and nonpartisan national organization … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Government, Health Care
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Moms Speak Up Featured Blog at TodaysMama
The wonderful online and newsletter publication, TodaysMama, is featuring our blog this week! If you haven’t found TodaysMama before, you might take a minute to go explore it. The founders created it after they had questions about resources for moms … Continue reading
Posted in Awards and Props
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