by Andrea Smith | Apr 12, 2019 | Blog, Podcast
As the reality of climate destruction hits home with the California wildfires and flooded Midwest, young people in the United States are joining their European counterparts in holding strikes from school to demand immediate investment in Green New Deal legislation....
by Andrea Smith | Mar 29, 2019 | Blog, Podcast
Moms Demand, formed in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting, is breaking the lock the NRA has on our country’s legislators for more than a generation. Andrea Hildebran Smith interviews Kelly Moore of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America about...
by Andrea Smith | Mar 8, 2019 | Blog
Today’s episode starts with a true, day-in-the-life story of a ResistanceMom. Me. Yesterday was a podcast recording day, with a big guest I couldn’t wait to talk to, John Pavlovitz. It was really cool of him to agree to be interviewed at an as-yet unknown...
by Andrea Smith | Feb 17, 2019 | Blog
It is February and the government shutdown is over, but it’s effects continue to be enormous. The shutdown was the most direct and sustained attack on the institutions of our government that has happened in my lifetime. Workers and contractors sneered at,...
by Andrea Smith | Jan 25, 2019 | Blog
This week Andrea Hildebran Smith talks with Ashley Weitz, a leader in the #StandOnEveryCorner movement about the nationwide actions demanding an end to the Trump administration. Whether it’s the caging of kids at the border, or Trump’s apparent treasonous...
by Andrea Smith | Jan 19, 2019 | Blog
The news is just beginning to convey the extent of the damage caused by Trump’s shutdown. More than 800,000 people who work for the federal government have not been paid in weeks, producing ripple effects that could hobble or potentially decimate our economy. Half of...
