Posts Tagged ‘mom’s rising

This Sunday is Mother’s Day and we’ve got the perfect gift for you to send to your mom – and all the moms you know and love… A movie starring them (it’s really cool)! As you know, the  Maine Women’s Lobby is fighting for Maine women – and the families they care for. This week [...]

The legislative session is over in Maine. It came to a close in April, and while the session came to a close during one of the warmest springs on record, unfortunately lawmakers legislature left workers out in the cold. That’s because they once again failed to pass L.D. 1665, a bill that would have provided [...]

Today, members of the Maine Women’s Lobby, along with our friends at MomsRising and the Maine People’s Alliance, will bring good fortune (in cookie form) to our legislators. That’s right, fortune cookies. Why? Because healthy workplaces are worth a fortune! And, because we want our legislators to know that the future of Maine’s families and [...]

Last week scores of you registered your support for paid sick days by voting for your favorite fortune. These personalized fortunes will be delivered to legislators in support of L.D. 1665, the paid sick days bill. Here are the lucky winners (in order of popularity): 1. Healthy workplaces are worth a fortune – support paid [...]


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  • Stacie Battles: Lets get this passed once and for all. Everyone deserves the same right to enter in a marital/legal [...]
  • Terry Donald: Lets all get together and work as hard as we can to get this passed. As I was told over and over aga [...]
  • Liz Betit: We have known for decades of the harmful affects of mercury and lead not only to humans but also to [...]
  • Lorraine Taft: Do not weaken our progress toward a safer environment. The Product Stewardship programs need to be k [...]
  • Phyllis vonHerrlich: Do not abandon the protective programs we have today. Many businesses have shown for decades that t [...]