Business and Professional Women endorse Obama

Washington, DC -- Deborah L. Frett, CEO of Business and Professional Women/PAC joined other women leaders at a press conference in mid-September to announce their support for Senator Barrack Obama for President of the United States.
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Got milk substitute?

There is a lot of debate about whether or not cow’s milk is good – or appropriate – for people at all. On the plus side, it is a valuable source of protein, as well as calcium, both which are necessary to help build bones and keep them strong. Although there studies showing that humans are unable to absorb this calcium source, and many people have trouble digesting dairy products at all.
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Celebrating International Women’s Day and the Global Women’s Agenda

International Women’s Day (IWD), March 8th, was born at the turn of the last century — a time of economic and political turbulence. Celebrated around the world, IWD is rooted in the global movement for women’s rights, including the right to vote, the right to equal pay, and the right to live free of violence. It is celebrated in small villages and big cities, all over the world.
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Strength in numbers: financial services benefit women at all economic levels

As we celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, I am inspired by women like Maria Landa of Peru who at 17 learned how to weld from the humanitarian organization CARE. She then took out a loan — which she repaid in just a year — to start a successful welding business. Today, Maria’s company makes everything from toys to jet engines, and she is at the top of her field.
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Are Short Term Financial Gains Killing Our Planet? How Reforms to Capitalism Can Save the Environment

The polar ice caps are melting, species are facing extinction and our climate has become more erratic than ever before. It is impossible to deny the need for intense change in the face of today’s gathering ecological crises. Now that scientific facts support the theories behind global warming, why aren’t more people paying attention—and how do we stop the damage?
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Long Term Care Awareness Week – A Great Time to Seek Advice and Plan

The week of November 4 – 10 has been declared Long Term Care Awareness Week by the American Association of Long Term Care Insurance. Think about it, all of knows someone who has needed long term care, whether recovering from an accident or illness. At those times, they frequently have to rely on friends and family for support, as they are generally on unpaid leave from work, and don’t have insurance to cover long term care.
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Save affordable housing

Few people are aware that one of the last means of affordable housing is under attack in our state. Mobile home parks offer many people, especially retired folks, a way to afford a home. Most have sold their family home and paid-in-full for a manufactured home, so they can live mortgage-free in retirement, paying a small rental fee on a rent-controlled lot.
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Sicko shows a single-payer system is the way to go

Michael Moore examines the U.S. health care system in Sicko and comes to the obvious conclusion: the only way to repair our broken system is to replace the health insurance companies with a single-payer system.
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Boxer Introduces Violence Against Children Act

I recently joined Senators Joe Biden (D-DE) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in introducing the Violence Against Children Act of 2007, legislation I wrote that would provide a comprehensive approach to combating violent crimes against children, including tougher penalties, assistance for local law enforcement, and help for the children who are victims.
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New Bill Supports Aid for All Children

An extra $139 per month might not mean a lot for everyone's budget, but to a single mother who is struggling to provide for her two children on a CalWORKs monthly grant of $584, it can mean food on the table when she runs out of food stamps by the middle of the month, enough money to buy diapers for an infant, or shoes for a child who is preparing to go to school.
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Radical Women Condemns the U.S. Supreme Court Decision to Ban Abortion Procedure

Radical Women condemns the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold Gonzalez v. Carhart, which bans a specific abortion procedure on the outrageous grounds that women don't always make good choices. We are appalled that the Court elevates the rights of a fetus above those of a living, breathing female. By criminalizing this medical procedure, the five majority Justices strike another blow to a woman's fundamental right to control her own body.
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Focus of Cancer Care Should be on Prevention

We all know someone who has cancer or who has survived a cancer diagnosis, or we may be one of the many women who has been diagnosed with cancer. One in three women in the U.S. will develop cancer, and more than 500,000 Americans will lose their struggle with cancer this year alone.
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