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A screening of<BR>
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</B>Co-founder of MoveOn.org and MomsRising.org<BR>
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Co-author of the <I>The Motherhood Manifesto </I>book<BR>
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Executive Producer the<I> </I>documentary film<BR>
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Thursday, October 18, 6:30 pm<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><B>Joan Blades</B>, well known for co-founding the e-advocacy group MoveOn.org with Wes Boyd, has set out to empower the motherhood movement with a new organization, MomsRising.org. With this online effort, she and co-founder Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner hope to mobilize citizen activists and existing organizations to push for stronger maternity leave laws, improved health care coverage, and fair wages, among other issues. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><B><I>The Motherhood Manifesto</I></B> documentary was produced by longtime PBS veteran John de Graaf (“AFFLUENZA”) and NOVA producer/director Laura Pacheco and photographed by five-time Emmy winner Diana Wilmar. <BR>
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Do more “family friendly” policies make economic sense for our country? Does an active online community necessarily translate into political influence? Blades joins the Ford Hall Forum to screen the <I>The Motherhood Manifesto</I> and to explore the Internet’s ever-changing role in our political process.<BR>
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