Breaking Through with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (Powered by MomsRising)
On the radio show this week we cover what’s happening in our nation’s capitol and the benefits coming your way due to the passage of the American Rescue Plan; hear the latest on how we can best push for progress, pay equity, and women’s leadership from the Center for America Progress; find out how we can both create good jobs and enable parents to work by investing in our child-care infrastructure (which we need to do yesterday); and we discuss the need for pay equity — and the Paycheck Fairness Act  — as we hear a story of an up close and personal experience with unfair pay.
 
*Special guests include: Donna Norton, MomsRising, @MomsRising; Jocelyn Frye, Center for American Progress, @amprog; Julie Kashen, The Century Foundation, @TCFdotorg; and Claudia Tristan, @MomsRising. 
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On the radio show this week we cover whats in the American Rescue Plan for YOU and how you can access those benefits; the Equality Act thats moving forward in Congress and what you can do to help make this critically important bill pass; how you can help stop anti-Asian hate and violence; and we hear about a new initiative called We As Ourselves and discuss the importance of the invest and divest frame as we advance public policies.

*Special guests include: Laura Peralta-Schulte, The Network Lobby, @NETWORKLobby; Kierra Johnson, National LGBTQ Task Force, @TheTaskForce; Jennifer Wang, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, @NAPAWF; and Monifa Bandele, TimesUpNow, We As Ourselves, MomsRising, @TIMESUPNOW, @MomsRising

Date Recorded 3/18/21 

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On this radio show we cover how policy relating to the fair treatment of all immigrant families is moving forward and what you can do to help; whats in the American Rescue Plan for YOU!; how and why were finally going to get to paid leave for all; and the ways in which the American Rescue Plan can help businesses.

*Special guests include: Xochil Oseguera, MomsRising MamsConPoder, @MomsRising @MamsConPoder; Amy Matusi, National Womens Law Center, @NWLC; Dawn Hucklebridge, Paid Leave for All; @PaidLeaveforAll; and Ron Busby, US Black Chambers of Congress, @usblackchambers

Date Recorded: 3/11/21 

Direct download: MomsRising_20210314-Ep388_mixdown.mp3
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On the #radio show this week, we cover the power to make change at the city and local levels and how to build the capacity of municipal leaders to develop and sustain early childhood systems that support young children, prenatal through age three and their families; the latest priorities for the Womens March and how YOU can get involved; new polling about the priorities of women and what that means in terms of change in motion at our nations capitol; tips on activism, engagement, and power building with UltraViolet

*Special guests include: Jammie Albert, The National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education, and Families, @leagueofcities; Tabitha St. Bernard Jacobs, Womens March, @womensmarch; Dr. C Nicole Mason, Institute for Womens Policy Research (IWPR), @IWPResearch; Sonja Spoo, Ultraviolet, @UltraViolet 

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On the #radio show this week we cover upcoming investments in building our nation’s infrastructure, including childcare, and how you can most effectively make your voice heard by leaders at the very top; next up we cover the importance of speaking out against the over 1000% increase in hate crimes against people in the Asian American Pacific Islander community; after that we cover the importance of reducing gun violence by increasing community safety and advancing justice; and we close the show giving a political power pep talk, along with advocacy advice to help advance real change.
 
*Special guests include:  Nina Perez, MomsRising, @MomsRising; Miriam Yeung, author and advocate, @miriamyeung; Greg Jackson, Community Justice Action Fund, @cjactionfund; Reggie Hubbard, MoveOn, @MoveOn
Direct download: MomsRising_20210228-Ep386_mixdown.mp3
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