Faster than a toddler crawling toward an uncovered electrical outlet and more powerful than a teenager's social networking skills, moms across the country are fanning out to dispel the unfounded rumors, misconceptions and lies about healthcare reform.

The effort, the SuperMom Healthcare Truth Squad, is spearheaded by MomsRising.org....

Michelle Obama isn't the only one flexing her right to bare arms. The millions of women proclaiming their friends as Mom of the Year this past week is nothing short of a national mom uprising. This week 7 million people viewed the MomsRising.org Mother of the Year...

Here's a quick question for you to use on unsuspecting friends at cocktail parties: What do Kevlar, engine mufflers, disposable cell phones, rotary engines, submarine lamps and telescopes, circular saws, elevated railways, medical syringes, windshield wipers, disposable diapers, fire escapes, and life rafts have in common?

Hmmmm........

While Wall Street rails against restrictions on executive salary bonuses placed by Congress in the economic-stimulus package, families are suffering. Bonuses? What planet are they on!? Some moms are selling their blood plasma several times a week to put food on the table.

We asked our MomsRising.org members this past...

With corporate bailout after bailout hitting the news, families struggling with a sinking national economy, and a new administration on the way in, we have a unique opportunity to make real--and tremendously overdue--progress for work and family economic security in our nation.

And, yes, progress is needed....

The morning after the election, I drove my kids to their school, which is situated in a strongly Republican neighborhood. Bleary-eyed from staying up late watching the election returns, I stepped out of the car and walked into my son's classroom. His teacher was already sitting at her desk in...

The other night, as the first and only vice presidential debate was starting; I was scrambling to get to my car from a rainy soccer field where I'd been standing on the sidelines with other parents while watching kids play. Jumping over mud puddles and dodging fast moving vehicles in...

Gov. Palin's recent answers to questions about sexism reveal that her experiences have been very different from that of the average American mother. If only the fight for equal rights was truly over for all of us!

ABC's Charlie Gibson asked, "Is it sexist for people to ask: How can...

Did you see that?! A mom on center stage at the Republican convention accepting the Vice Presidential nomination and holding a baby.

There are too few mothers in the boardrooms and high levels of political office, and we need more of them. In fact, women comprise only 16% of...

Mothers are in the mix. FINALLY. A major party nominee has broken the virtual "cone of silence" on the very real, shared motherhood issues that women in our nation face each and every day, proving there is indeed strength in the message that families need to be valued.

Not...

With Mother's Day today and more than 21,000 floral shops busy sending bouquets in honor of the occasion, most would agree that our nation generally supports "mom and apple pie," but the question, "Does our country do more than pay lip service to the important role of mothers?" becomes more...

A couple of months ago, a mother was kicked out of a museum in New York for breastfeeding, a perfectly legal act in that state. For some reason, mothers continue to suffer discrimination and humiliation for breastfeeding, even though doctors recommend breastfeeding for all infants.

The medical profession and the...

The image of Silda Wall Spitzer--corporate lawyer, mother of three, and wife of now former New York Governor--standing silently next to her husband as he publicly confessed is now etched in our national consciousness. That image, the picture of the pale, silently suffering wife (but definitely smart, she has a...

Surfing for the Super Bowl scores the other night, I came across a CNN poll asking people if they were more excited about the Super Bowl or Super Tuesday. To my surprise, significantly more were excited about Super Tuesday. Change is in the air; people young and old have caught...

My daughter, at eight years old, is delightfully strong-minded and smart in a way that only eight year olds can be. Her favorite movies these days are: Flipper, Happy Feet, The Wizard of Oz, Shrek II, and The Motherhood Manifesto. I'm embarrassed to say that she truly has watched the...

True or False: About half of all private sector workers don't have a single paid sick day.
Don't peek at the answer... think for a bit... Okay, we'll tell you...

A: True. Believe it or not, the United States doesn't have any state or federal...

Got tennis shoes?

A self-described "mom in tennis shoes," who also happened to be a U.S. Senator, helped pass the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) back in 1993. This law has been a real life-saver for tens of thousands of families. It allows people who work for...

Here's a special package of presents imagined by the mothers of MomsRising.org for President Bush--pleasantly arranged to fit a familiar holiday tune. So get your tuning fork ready, and sing along:

On the first day of Christmas,
Mothers gave to President Bush,
A full-time minimum wage job (which comes...

I almost got kicked out of a Flower & Garden Show for nursing my son ten years ago, but that pales in comparison to actually getting kicked off an airplane--as happened recently to a mother on a Delta Airlines flight in Vermont.

She was sitting on an airplane nursing...

But it's not over. It's only just beginning really. It's time to catch...