Breaking Through with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (Powered by MomsRising)

On the #RADIO show this week we cover the government shutdown, re-opening, and what’s happening next; we get the inside scoop from a structural engineer about the literal faults in Trump’s ridiculous wall; we hear the impact of using children’s access to healthy food as a political football; and get inspired by some moving legislation that will improve our democracy and help make sure every vote counts.


*Special guests include: Donna Norton, MomsRising, @MomsRising; Amy Patrick, structural engineering consultant, @TunedMassDamsel Jim Weill, FRAC President, @fractweets; and Daniel Weiner, Brennan Center, @BrennanCenter.
 
featuring music from bensound.com
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This is a rebroadcast of our January 7 show.

On the #RADIO show this week we talk about the many reasons to celebrate that historic numbers of women and people of color just took office in the U.S. House and what it could mean to our daily lives; get the inside scoop on when, where, and why to march this January 19th from the co-President of the Women’s March, Tamika Mallory; hear from dream hampton about her new docu-series that is breaking viewer records, Surviving R. Kelly; and find out about a newly released report on the overly high levels of discrimination against #Breastfeeding workers.


*Special guests include:  Donna Norton, MomsRising, @MomsRising; Tamika Mallory, co-President, Women’s March, @womensmarch, @TamikaDMallory; dream hampton, award-winning filmmaker, producer, author and MomsRising team member, @dreamhampton; and Jessica Lee, Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, @WorkLifeLawCtr.
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On the #RADIO show this week, we covered the Women's March on January 19th and how you can march; why even businesses love the new Washington Paid Family/Medical Leave law; the powerful win relating to Cyntoia Brown regaining freedom; and get the inside scoop on how a bipartisan bill for universal background checks for gun purchases is moving through the US Congress.

*Special guests include:: Linda Sarsour, Women’s March, @Womensmarch, @lsarsour; Julia Gorton, Washington Hospitality Organization, @WAhospitality; Beatriz Beckford, MomsRising,
@MomsRising; and Chelsea Parsons, Center for American Progress, @amprog

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On the #RADIO show this week we talk about the many reasons to celebrate that historic numbers of women and people of color just took office in the U.S. House and what it could mean to our daily lives; get the inside scoop on when, where, and why to march this January 19th from the co-President of the Women’s March, Tamika Mallory; hear from dream hampton about her new docu-series that is breaking viewer records, Surviving R. Kelly; and find out about a newly released report on the overly high levels of discrimination against #Breastfeeding workers.


*Special guests include:  Donna NortonMomsRising, @MomsRising; Tamika Mallory, co-President, Women’s March, @womensmarch, @TamikaDMallory; dream hampton, award-winning filmmaker, producer, author and MomsRising team member, @dreamhampton; and Jessica Lee, Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, @WorkLifeLawCtr.
Direct download: MomsRising_20190106_Ep306_mixdown.mp3
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