In partnership with the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, to empower cleaning and service workers, many of whom are minorities and recent immigrants, to engage in participatory research and promote government policies and company practices that reduce their exposures to…
To increase educational and training opportunities on abortion and reproductive health for medical students and residents, and to reform medical school curricula and training to include abortion and reproductive health.
To protect and expand access to family planning and reproductive health care for low-income and uninsured women through the federally funded Title X program, the nation’s family planning program.
To expand insurance coverage of contraceptives using litigation, research, policy analysis, public education, coalition building and media relations.
To compel the HoltraChem Manufacturing Company and Mallinckrodt Inc. to clean up mercury-contaminated sediment in the Penobscot River and Bay caused by a chemical manufacturing facility in Orrington, Maine, which was operated by these companies.
To implement a successful pre-apprenticeship training program for residents of New York City public housing.
To support fifteen Latina women in a community-based approach to microenterprise/workforce development.
To raise public and policymaker awareness about the health impacts of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed mercury rule.
To create a sustainable and effective job training program for disadvantaged youth.
To expose the Bush Administration’s poor record of enforcing environmental laws by: working with environmental officials in key states to build support for and implement policies that demonstrate the stark differences between the lax federal approach and more responsible state…