Activism

Please note deadline to make your voice heard to STOP the TRAIN Act is Thursday, September 22nd! The most current misguided effort in the war on our children’s right to breathe clean, healthy air is the TRAIN Act of 2011, spearheaded by Majority Leader Cantor...

Imagine this scene: Some maniacs have tied your children to a train track–then hopped on the train, released the brakes, and sent a mighty engine roaring down the track. Right for your children. That’s what’s going on in Washington DC right now. The train is,...

September is considered a time for fresh beginnings. Once Labor Day hits, it’s back to school. No more slow summer pace. It’s a time for new starts. The last week of August, I left New York City in a hurry, rushing to escape Hurricane Irene....

As a contractor, I am a jack of all trades: I write, moderate an online community and translate, usually from English to Spanish. Most recently, a friend and I translated a 110-page document released by PolicyLink and The California Endowment called, “Why Place and Race...

During a recent clean air discussion on our Black and Married With Kids Facebook page, someone left a comment that the EPA wasn’t necessary. In the same keyboard stroke, that commenter proclaimed, “big companies need do the right thing.” Well guess what? Without being regulated...