Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Paid Family Leave
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver-paid-family-leave
Many American companies do not offer paid leave after the birth of a child, which means they probably shouldn’t run sappy Mother’s Day ads.
#Uplift: God Bless These Women!
▻http://randalmatheny.com/2015/05/09/poem-women
I honor our mothers and mothers-to-be!
Mums making history, an inspiring Mother’s day story.
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/mums-making-history-an-inspiring-mothers-day-story
Like mother, like daughter. Activist mothers, juggling family commitments with intense contributions to famous social movements. Filmed on Mother’s day at the Bentley Blockade, 4 days before the...
Bahraini photographer among 29 jailed for up to 10 years
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/bahraini-photographer-among-29-jailed-10-years
A Bahraini woman holds a portrait of her detained son as she takes part in an anti-government protest in solidarity with jailed activists and in celebration of Mother’s day in the village of Abu Saiba, west of Manama, on March 21, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Mohammed al-Shaikh) A Bahraini woman holds a portrait of her detained son as she takes part in an anti-government protest in solidarity with jailed activists and in celebration of Mother’s day in the village of Abu Saiba, west of Manama, on March 21, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Mohammed al-Shaikh)
A Bahraini court on Wednesday jailed 29 people, including an award winning photographer, for up to 10 years for an alleged attack on a police center in April 2012. A judicial source and (...)
Protest in Juárez seeks missing-women progress
►http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_20598347
On Thursday, Mother’s Day in Mexico, more than 50 relatives of several missing young women protested outside the state prosecutor’s office and criticized the lack of progress in the investigations.