Breaking Through with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (Powered by MomsRising)
DESCRIPTION: On the radio show this week we cover the Women’s March; what’s coming and how you can get marching too; we dive into the breaking good news about student loan cancellation; we cover Black Breastfeeding Week, the barriers to breastfeeding, and how to break them down; and we close the show covering the super powers of YOUR voice and your votes.

 

*Special guests include: Rachel O'Leary Carmona, Women's March, @womensmarch; Melissa Byrne, Project Springboard and student loan cancellation advocate, @mcbyrne; Kimberly Seals Allars, Founder @irthapp, co-founder of Black Breastfeeding Week, and author of The Big Let Down: How Medicine, Big Business and Feminism Undermined Breastfeeding; and Amanda Brown Lierman, SuperMajority, @supermajority
 
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DESCRIPTION: On the radio show this week we cover democracy on the line, Unity 22, and the campaign to increase Black voter turnout ahead of the midterm elections; we hear about the just-passed Inflation Reduction Act and how it can lower your prescription drug and healthcare costs; we find out how to combat white supremacist hate and what happened with the FBI raid on MarALago; and we hear the latest with the United State of Women.

 

*Special guests include: Melanie Campbell, Black Women’s Roundtable, National Coalition On Black Civic Participation, @NCBCP; Donna Norton, MomsRising, @MomsRising; Lindsay Schubiner, Western States Center; @WStatesCenter; Jordan Brooks, United State of Women (USOW), @USOW.

 

Direct download: MomsRising_20220821_Ep440-mixdown.mp3
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On the radio show this week we cover the fight for bodily autonomy and abortioncare; what the rising generations of voters want and need; why media matters and how to fight back against purposeful disinformation; and we close the show diving into the power and impact of your vote.

*Special guests include: Jacqueline Ayers, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund, @PPFA & @PPact; Antonio Arellano, NextGen, @NextGenAmerica; Angelo Carusone, Media Matters for America, @mmfa; and Andrea Hailey, Vote.org, @votedotorg 

Direct download: MomsRising_20220815_Ep436-REAIR-mixdown.mp3
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On the #RADIO show this week, we celebrate the abortion-care victory in Kansas,  cover how YOU can help move forward tax fairness and affordable prescription drugs, and find out about a new way the fight for paid family/medical leave is moving forward!
 

*Special guests include: Emily Wales, Planned Parenthood Great Plains, @PPact and 

@PPFA

 Frank Clemente, Americans For Tax Fairness, @4TaxFairness; Lucy Westerfield, Patients for Affordable Drugs NOW, 

@P4ADNOW; and Dawn Hucklebridge, Paid Leave PAC, 
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ORIGINALLY DEBUTED: July 25, 2022

On the radio show this week we cover the fight for reproductive healthcare, including abortioncare, and how you can help; what’s happening with raising the wages of people in America; where there is hope in democracy; and the release of the COVID vaccine for young children. 

 

*Special guests include: Ann Marie Benitez, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, @LatinaInstitute; Saru Jayaraman, One Fair Wage & Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley, @onefairwage; Donna Norton, MomsRising/MamasConPoder, @MomsRising @MamasConPoder; and Dr. Yvonne “Bonnie” Maldonado, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases, @AmerAcadPeds.
Direct download: MomsRising_20220724_Ep437-mixdown.mp3
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On the radio show this week, we cover the epidemic of gun violence and the next steps we need to take to solve it; get the scoop on prescription drug pricing reform and how relief may soon be coming your way; hear the latest in the childcare crisis and which solutions are moving forward and how; and listen to an update on access to reproductive healthcare and how you can lend a hand!
 

*Special guest include: Po Murray, Newtown Action Alliance, @NewtownAction; Bailey Reavis, Families USA, @FamiliesUSA; Julie Kashen, The Century Foundation, @TCFdotorg; Tina Sherman, MomsRising, @MomsRising

Direct download: MomsRising_20220801_Ep438-REAIR-mixdown.mp3
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