Earlier this week, I wrote a blog for Daily Kos outlining my discomfort around the Catholic Bishops’ attacks against the Affordable Care Act because of a mandate to cover birth control. Since then, I snail-mailed a letter to Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of the Archdiocese of Oakland, California, in the same contribution envelope I was sent [...]
About Elisa Batista
Elisa Batista is co-founder and co-moderator of the progressive parenting blog, MotherTalkers.com. She is also a staff member at the family advocacy group MomsRising.org, and a is a regular contributor at the Moms Clean Air Force blog. When she isn’t at a computer, she is with her two children or shamelessly watching bad reality TV. She can be found on Twitter @ElisaBatista.
Three Good Reasons Why Partisans Should Engage With the ‘Other’ Side
I am a partisan progressive. I am 34 years old, vote in every mid-term and presidential election and have never voted for a Republican in my life. I am a social justice activist and am married to one of the most prominent progressive activists in the country, Markos Moulitsas, publisher of the Daily Kos. You [...]
How Money Degrades Our Environment
Protecting the Clean Air Act as well as the Environmental Protection Agency should be our number one priority as parents. We can disagree on religion, politics and how we run our households, but as individuals we have no control over pollution, which is why our government needs to protect us from it. But what happens [...]
Immigration Policy: Let’s Keep Families Together for the Holidays
As the daughter of a Cuban immigrant father and Puerto Rican mother who grew up speaking Spanish and around immigrants with and without the right paperwork, I am very passionate about the human rights of immigrants. Because I have seen how hard undocumented immigrants work and understand that we ALL benefit from their labor whether [...]
Memo to Men: There ARE Women Leaders
Once again, I wanted to gouge my eyes after reading an article pointing out the lack of women leaders. This one appeared in Forbes and was titled, “Why Most Women Will Never Become CEO.” I chuckled upon reading the article, because really, the writer — a man! — tried to compliment us in this story. [...]
We All Suffer Under Immigration Laws Like Georgia’s
No matter where we were born or how we feel about controversial immigration laws like Arizona’s SB 1070 or Georgia’s AB 87, surely we can agree that all people, including immigrants who lack the right paperwork, should not have their human rights violated in this country. We, the citizens of the United States, are — [...]
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I Want My Mother Back
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Charles Ramsey and the Racial Language Barrier
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Brave’s Merida is Herself Again. But for How Long?
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Can “Maybe” Empower Our Children in Times of Fear?
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Voting ‘Yes’ for Schools, But ‘No’ to Giving My Time
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6 Things You Need To Know Right Now: Money Makes The World Go ‘Round
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Broad of the Week: The Latina Rebel of the Civil War
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Wolf Blitzer’s Faith-Based Journalism in Oklahoma
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Pope Francis on Religious Tolerance: Do Good. We Will Meet One Another There
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Voting ‘Yes’ for Schools, But ‘No’ to Giving My Time
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