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MOMocrats MOMochat: After Wisconsin

The MOMocrats continue their Run, Mama Run campaign highlighting progressive, pro-choice female candidates with one of FOUR military veterans running for Congress in 2012.

Aryanna Strader is gunning for the seat of virulent, anti-choice Pennsylvania Representative Joe Pitts -- the man Aryanna says started the War on Women. Cynematic, Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills will talk to Aryanna about military service, being a young mother AND taking on such a well-entrenched Congressman that he ran unopposed in 2010..

MOMocrats MOMochat: Women Are Veterans, Too

When it comes to women in legislative office, the US ranks mind-bogglingly low: 90th in the world...  and the election of 2010 was the first year when Congress LOST women in office. Is it any wonder so much anti-woman legislation has been voted into law this term?

We need to bring more progressive, pro-choice women into office, on local and state levels as well as Federal. Groups like EMILY's List and Women's Campaign Fund are doing the hard work of identifying candidates, training and seeding their campaigns with funding -- but it's not enough.

Today, MOMocrats launches its 2012 version of Run, Mama Run: an online tool that will give users the ability to easily find and support women candidates all over the country. California Assembly candidate Torie Osborn joins Cynematic, Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills.

When it comes to women in legislative office, the US ranks mind-bogglingly low: 90th in the world...  and the election of 2010 was the first year when Congress LOST women in office. Is it any wonder so much anti-woman legislation has been voted into law this term?

We need to bring more progressive, pro-choice women into office, on local and state levels as well as Federal. Groups like EMILY's List and Women's Campaign Fund are doing the hard work of identifying candidates, training and seeding their campaigns with funding -- but it's not enough.

Today, MOMocrats launches its 2012 version of Run, Mama Run: an online tool that will give users the ability to easily find and support women candidates all over the country. California Assembly candidate Torie Osborn joins Cynematic, Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills.

Experts say JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion loss is likely the tip of the iceberg. If they were hedging this way, so are the other banks that are even bigger now than when they were "too big to fail" in 2008. Forget the Volcker Rule - we need to bring back Glass-Steagall to prevent these behemoths from gambling with FDIC-insured customer funds. With Karoli, Cynematic and Donna Schwartz Mills.

Experts say JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion loss is likely the tip of the iceberg. If they were hedging this way, so are the other banks that are even bigger now than when they were "too big to fail" in 2008. Forget the Volcker Rule - we need to bring back Glass-Steagall to prevent these behemoths from gambling with FDIC-insured customer funds. With Karoli, Cynematic and Donna Schwartz Mills.

The same night the President announced his evolution on marriage quality, we learned that his GOP rival was a prep school bully. But he's very, very sorry if his hurtful actions offended anyone. Karoli, Cynematic and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss this and other political news of the week.

The same night the President announced his evolution on marriage quality, we learned that his GOP rival was a prep school bully. But he's very, very sorry if his hurtful actions offended anyone. Karoli, Cynematic and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss this and other political news of the week.

It's Teacher Appreciation Week, and parent volunteers at schools around the country are knocking themselves out to thank the professionals who educate our children. And while our teachers are pleased to receive Starbucks cards and be feted at school luncheons, nothing beats giving them the respect they deserve.  Teaching in 2012 is a difficult job made more so by candidates and elected officials who score political points by criticizing public education, stripping teachers unions of their rights to negotiate and pushing for privatization schemes with an eye toward dismantling America's public education system. 

National Education Association Vice President Lily Eskelsen is our guest this week.  Lily,  an elementary teacher from Utah, is one of the highest-ranking labor leaders in the country and one of its most influential Hispanic educators (she's an Obama appointee to the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, whose goal is to expand education opportunities and improve education outcomes for Hispanic students.)