March 2012
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The Healthcare Law...explained simply →
The storybook explanation of the healthcare law on CNN
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Fruits, Veggies, and Pesticides Facts →
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With one decision, the FDA can begin to rid food...
The federal Food and Drug Administration will announce its decision on whether to ban bisphenol A from food packaging by next weekend! Environmental Working Group, our supporters and many like-minded organizations have been fighting for this moment for years. But for just as long, the food and chemical industries - and their lobbyists - have been striving to make sure it never comes. The food and...
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New Silent Spring Study Strengthens Case for... →
Breast Cancer Action (BCAction) is a national, feminist, grassroots education and advocacy organization working to end the breast cancer epidemic
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“The U.N. says 70 percent of the world’s poor are women, yet when women and...”
– Hibaaq Osman, Founder of Karama, Egypt
via Huffington Post
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International Women's Day: What's happening around...
Women around the world live very different lives, and in the same way, International Women’s Day looks very different across the globe. This article is a great (short) summary of what’s happening in certain countries today to “celebrate” International Women’s Day. (source)
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March 7 on FM: Celebrating International Women's... →
Feminist Magazine celebrates and interrogates this historic day of women
Listen in as Lynn Harris Ballen, Celina Alvarez, Denise Zepeda, and Ariana Manov discuss what IWD means, what it doesn’t mean, and why everyone should care. The podcast includes a brief history of the day, which began in the United States 101 years ago and then spread rapidly to other countries, interviews with Emily...
Celebrate International Women's Day →
Hey everyone! Today is International Women’s Day. Global feminist community, Gender Across Borders is hosting a day-long event for bloggers, writers, humanitarian organizations to write about IWD. Check out the live blog at the GAB website throughout the day!
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How social networks can solve the Healthcare... →
This was an interesting article I came across off “The Guardian.” Lucien Engelen looks at how new technologies can change patient care models in the context of rising demand for healthcare, shortages of skilled staff and restrictive budgets.
The premise here is that we have essentially taken away healthcare from those that need it most. It has become centralized in institutions...
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Watch Sick Around the World - a global look at... →
Interested in health policy? To examine and understand the inadequacies of health care in America, T.R. Reid (a Washington Post foreign correspondent) takes a look at different health care systems around the world. His work is featured in this PBS Frontline Program, Sick Around the World, and also in his book, The Healing of America: A global quest for better, cheaper, and fairer health care.
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