Abortion Nexus: Citizenship
If the abortion bans in 8 states have you freaking out, tune in to our four-part series, The Abortion Nexus. In the first episode in this series, Ashleigh McGuire of Planned Parenthood describes how their activists from Pensacola to Key West defeated this ban in Florida this year. As the pressure builds already toward 2020, the work starts now to hold the line against abortion bans here and across the country.
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How to Hack an Election
Did you know most America’s voting machines either have a) easy ways to get hacked, b) were built by hard-right Republican donors, c) provide zero mechanism for auditing an election result that’s in question, or d) are so faulty that they’re a major cause of long lines and lost votes on election day? At a time when we chose our leaders by razor-thin margins, advocates are raising the alarm about election equipment. Election security researcher and advocate Jennifer Cohn speaks with ResistanceMom about why experts are increasingly advocating hand-marked, hand-counted paper ballots.
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Mueller, redacted
With the release of the redacted Mueller report, Trump’s control over the messaging regarding Russian collusion begins to come apart. The obvious falsehoods in Attorney General Barr’s summary letter to Congress begin to shred his credibility as the conversations about impeachment start in earnest. How and when the Democrats move on impeachment is the subject of my interview with Erin Conroy, a national leader of the #StandOnEveryCorner movement.
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Climate Strikers
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.
Andrea Hildebran Smith interviews Anna Grace Hottinger of MNCantWait, US Climate Strikes, and I Matter about the movement that is building a generation of organizers.
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read moreThe Moms Movement
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 the activists who are winning state and federal fights for gun safety measures. Building support networks for survivors of gun violence, Moms Demand shares their all-too-common stories with lawmakers in statehouse after statehouse.
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read moreParenting and Internet Policy
The hazards for kids online used to be evenly matched with standard parental worries about their interest in sex and their vulnerability to strangers. But the pervasiveness of violent pornography and political disinformation campaigns means the internet pose challenges for adults and children alike, for which most of us are unprepared.
This week on ResistanceMom, Andrea Hildebran Smith explores internet safety with author Nathan Fisk, whose book, Framing Internet Safety, critiques early attempts at regulating online speech.
read moreOne Rally at the End
“I was a full six hours behind the news cycle and didn’t know that Trump had announced he was going to declare a state of emergency to get money that Congress hasn’t approved. I couldn’t imagine organizing a rally by tomorrow…”
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How do we help our kids make sense of the attacks on our democracy? Can the work of resisting racism and defending democracy be something we can do side by side with our kids? Andrea Hildebran Smith talks with author and family therapist Rebecca Thompson Hitt about making sure we show our kids how to move through trauma to action.
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Andrea Hildebran Smith is a writer and activist who has worked in progressive advocacy and community radio for more than 30 years. She has worked on ballot measure and candidate campaigns, been a lobbyist and fundraiser fighting anti-gay ballot measures in red states and rural communities. She was the executive director of Kentucky Fairness Alliance, the public education director at GLAD in Boston, and founded an award-winning community garden in St Petersburg, FL, where she lives with her wife and son. |
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