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

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Mon, 27 April 2020

On the #RADIO show this week we cover how you can get access to healthcare if you don’t have job-linked healthcare; the latest data on women, the workforce, and COVID-19; what’s happening with Unemployment Insurance and how to apply; and we close the show discussing Earth Day, environmental justice, and the climate crisis,

*Special guests include: Felicia Burnett, MomsRising, @MomsRising; Dr. C. Nicole Mason, Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), @IWPResearch; Elyssa Koidin Schmier, MomsRising, @MomsRising; and Jacqueline Patterson, NAACP, @NAACP.

Direct download: MomsRising_2020427-Ep355_mixdown.mp3
Category:politics -- posted at: 4:00pm EDT

Mon, 20 April 2020

#InThisTogether!

On the #RADIO show this week we cover how conservative leaders are trying to roll back reproductive rights while all eyes are on the pandemic; hear how you can get access to unemployment insurance and also get the latest on the direct cash payments; find out what you can do to support access to high quality, affordable childcare and how the whole system is under threat due to the coronavirus outbreak; and get the inside scoop on the resources available to small businesses and how you can help.

*Special guests include: Kelley Robinson, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, @PPFA; Elyssa Koidin Schmier, MomsRising, @MomsRising; Shaun Rose, Rock Spring Children’s Center, @ShaunMRose, @RSChildCenter;

Geri Aglipay, Small Business Majority, @SmlBizMajority

Direct download: MomsRising_2020420-Ep354_mixdown.mp3
Category:politics -- posted at: 4:00pm EDT

Mon, 13 April 2020

#COVID-19 - UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, STOPPING DISCRIMINATION, PAID SICK DAYS, PAID LEAVE, AND INCREASING ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER

On the #RADIO show this week we cover how you can get access to the new unemployment insurance provisions; steps you can take to help stop the dangerous increase in racist and xenophobic discrimination targeting Asian Americans; how to access the new federal emergency paid sick days and paid leave; and hear about the crisis in Detroit and how to lend a hand.

*Special guests include: Elyssa Koidin Schmier, MomsRising, @MomsRising; John Yang, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, @AAAJ_AAJC; Tanya Goldman, CLASP, @CLASP_DC; and Monica Lewis Patrick, We The People of Detroit, @WeThePeopleDet

Direct download: MomsRising_2020413-Ep353-mixdown.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:00pm EDT

Mon, 6 April 2020

How YOU can help & get help during the #COVID19 pandemic

On the #RADIO show this week we hear from #HealthCareVoters about the Our Lives On the Line digital Town Hall Tour, and get tips for ways to effectively fight for access to prescription drugs and healthcare during the coronavirus pandemic; we then learn about what’s in the Congressional #COVID19 relief package for you and what we still need to do; we hear from Masks for America and find out how YOU can help get masks to healthcare providers; and we close the show covering the One Fair Wage relief fund for restaurant and service workers, including how you can help and how you can apply.

*Special guests include: Rosemary Enobakhare, Health Care Voter, @HealthCareVoter; Elyssa Schmier, MomsRising, @MomsRising; Bob Bland, @bobblanddesign, Masks for America, www.Masks4America.org; and Nikki Cole, One Fair Wage, @onefairwage, www.OFWemergencyFund.org.

Direct download: MomsRising_2020406-Ep352_mixdown.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:00pm EDT