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Healthy Tomorrow's Annual Meeting Nov. 27

Tuesday, November 27, at 7:00 pm  Learn more about the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow's current legislative priorities and other advocacy activities at AHT's annual meeting  at the Plymouth Church of Framingham . The featured speaker will be the new MA Department of Public Health's Commissioner John Auerbach. The meeting is free and open to the public. For more info contact Ellie Goldberg, 617 965-9637.

MassPTA is part of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow governing board -- the leadership of the coalition representing over 160 health, labor, faith, and environmental organizations and 1900 individual activists and concerned citizens.  The Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow is advocating on many fronts -- the legislature, Gov. Patrick's administration, and the media -- to protect children and families from the preventable illnesses and disablities caused by toxic chemicals. AHT members are working to promote policies to reduce hazardous materials in our products, homes, workplaces, and water, food and air.  AHT tests children's products for lead.




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Bottled Water Wastes Energy

Carbon Conscious Consumer
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Break the Bottled Water Habit

Carbon Conscious Consumer
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Mom's Movie Celebrates Good School Food

Tuesday, November 13, 7 - 9 p.m.
Join Worcester Parents for Better School food and the Massachusetts Public Health Association for a free premier screening of the movie  Two Angry Moms : Fighting for the Health of America's Kids  at the Worcester Public Library, 3 Salem Square, Worcester, MA.

What are our children eating in school, and how is it impacting their learning, their behavior and their health?  Find out about leaders in the better school food movement.   See solutions that are working in school systems across the country.  

Registration:  Sara Kanevsky, 508-414-0976 sara.kanevsky@gmail.com
or Jennier Moiles, 508-335-7836 jmoiles@charter.net

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RISK WATCH TOOLS

Risk Watch Unintentional Injuries includes learning modules and grade-specific CD-ROM student workbooks (grades K-6) with content targeting eight major risk areas that kill or injure children every year, including:
Motor Vehicle Safety
Fire and Burn Prevention
Choking, Suffocation and
Strangulation Prevention
Poisoning Prevention
Falls Prevention
Firearms Injury Prevention
Bike and Pedestrian Safety
Water Safety
Risk Watch Unintentional Injuries Curriculum Set
$306.00* Non-Member Rate  $275.40* Special Member Rate
 *Plus $7.95 handling fee. CA Residents: applicable sales tax will apply. NFPA cannot ship to PO boxes. Prices valid through 12/31/07.
Order  
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Getting the lead out.

Lead is a heavy metal that causes brain damage, especially in the fetus and developing child. This week the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow (AHT) and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics called attention to the fact that lead is regulated in water, food, soil and pint but not in other consumer products such as lipstick. The repeated recall of lead-contaminated toys made in China also shows the lack of regulatory oversight and control of a wide variety of products sold to Massachusetts consumers. 

AHT's Safer Alternatives Bill would prohibit lead (and nine other toxic chemicals such as flame retardents and plasticizers) in products such as cosmetics and children's toys. The goal is to promote better protection from ingredients that cause asthma, brain damage, cancer, birth defects, learning and behavior disorders, Parkinson's disease, and other preventable illneses and disablities.

MassPTA is a member of the governing council of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow.  Tell your friends, colleagues and legislators that you support the Safer Alternatives Bill.  For more information on the Safer Alternatives Bill and how you can help speed its passage go to http://www.healthytomorrow.org/resources.html .

For more information on personal care products go to  http://www.safecosmetics.org.
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State Children's Health Insurance

As you know, President Bush vetoed bipartisan legislation that would
have reauthorized and expanded the State Children's Health Insurance
Program (SCHIP).  There is a coordinated movement underway to influence
Representatives who voted against the House/Senate compromise bill, to
have them vote to override the veto.  There will be a vote on October 18
and we need 25 Reps to change their vote.  One of the lead organizations
on this push is the Coalition on Human Needs, an organization we work
closely with regularly.  They are seeking state and local organizations
to sign on to letters they will be sending to members of Congress.  If
you live in CA, FL, GA, IL, IN, MI, NJ, NY, NC, OH, PA, or VA, please
consider signing your state PTA on to the state letter and asking your
local units to do the same.

If you do not live in one of those states, we still need your help!
Please ask your members to call their Representatives and Senators and ask them to vote for the veto override.  We need to make sure that everyone that voted for the legislation votes for the veto override. You can call toll-free at 1-800-828-0498.
Thanks!

Todd B. Haiken
Acting Manager, Public Policy
National PTA
202-289-6790, ext. 204
thaiken@pta.org
everychild. onevoice.
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INCLUDING SAMUEL

The Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI), with help from the Federation for Children with Special Needs, will host the Boston movie premiere of the documentary "Including Samuel." This was written and produced by Dan Habib, a photojournalist.  The 55 minute documentary is insightful and powerful. The film is centered around Dan's son Samuel (who has cerebral palsy) and the issues/challenges/successes regarding inclusion. There are several other stories throughout, including that of local activist Keith Jones, a young woman with schizophrenia, a boy with autism, and others.

The Boston movie premiere will occur on Tuesday, December 4th at 6:30PM at the Campus Center at UMass Boston. There will be a panel discussion after the movie with Dan Habib, Keith Jones, and parents.

The event is free.

Sign up to attend on our website:
http://www.communityinclusion .org/includingsamuel/
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CAMPAIGN FOR COMMERCIAL FREE CHILDHOOD

ACT AGAINST AXE

Last week, as part of its much lauded Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, Unilever released "Onslaught", a video that examines disturbing images of women in beauty-industry advertising before ending with the message, "Talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does."

It's an important message, and the campaign has received many accolades for challenging the standards of the beauty industry. But there's one big problem: Unilever is the beauty industry. When it comes to promoting sexualized stereotypes and marketing an unhealthy body image in order to sell girls on the idea that they need products to improve the way they look, Unilever - the world's second biggest advertiser and manufacturer of diet aids, cosmetics, skin whiteners, and other beauty products - is a major offender.

Unilever also makes Axe, a brand of male grooming products whose marketing promotes the objectification and sexual humiliation of women (see, for example, http://www.theaxeeffect.com /axevixens.html ).   Even as Unilever is celebrated for its Dove campaign, it markets Axe to boys on the Internet, through advertising in magazines with large youth readership such as Maxim, and on MTV where its sexist and degrading ads are seen by girls and boys of all ages. On MySpace and other Internet sites, Axe is promoted by an all female singing group, the Bom Chicka Wah Wahs, whose suggestive theme song and video is all about how the smell of Axe makes women lose control sexually (sample lyric: "If you have that aroma on, you can have our whole band").

Please take a moment to go to http://salsa.democracyinaction .org/o/621/t/734/campaign.jsp ?campaign_KEY=15685 and tell Unilever that its time to ax the Axe campaign.

Unilever marketers claim that the Real Beauty campaign is designed to promote girls' self-esteem "and help free ourselves and the next generation from beauty stereotypes." If they're serious about this goal, they'll begin by looking in the mirror and end their degrading Axe campaign.

Tell Unilever: "Bom Chicka Wah Wah" is not "Real Beauty" by going to http://salsa.democracyinaction .org/o/621/t/734/campaign.jsp ?campaign_KEY=15685 .

Thanks,

The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
http://commercialfreechildhood .org/
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