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Nandita Bajaj Joins FSM as Co-Director
I am ecstatic to be joining the Fair Start Movement as the part-time voluntary co-director. I resonate deeply with FSM's philosophy that is centered on the rights and well-being of current and future children and how those rights are inextricably linked to...
Fair Start: Let’s Stop Counting People, and Start Making People Count
It’s this simple: If we – each one of us – wants to be coming from a place of justice, we have to prioritize giving every child a fair start in life. That means reforming our family planning systems - through high incentives and entitlements - to ensure all future...
Texas Abortion Fight: A New Way Forward?
The move by Texas to ban abortions in the earliest stages of a woman's pregnancy is part of the long running war between those focused on the potential life of the fetus, and those focused on women's autonomy. The Fair Start Movement intends to file amicus - or friend...
New Book: The Most Effective Solution to the Crises We Face Today
Why are we facing climate and other ecological crises, massive inequality, and decaying democracies? How did things not get better than they were in the past? As a new peer-reviewed book by folks at the Fair Start Movement makes clear, these problems derive from a...
Justice Without a Fair Start in Life? Don’t Fall for It. Help us Target Companies Greenwashing and Hurting Our Kids.
Welcome to the Tell the Truth Campaign Which corporations and nonprofits are benefitting from unsustainable and inequitable family planning – the biggest driver of the climate and inequality crises – while pretending to further environmental and social justice?...
Worried About Having Children in the Climate Crisis? Your Human Rights Were Violated. Fight Back.
The UN has been obligated to interpret the promise of Article 16 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that of a right "to found a family," in a way that would protect the right for all generations equally. This includes those in the middle of the Twentieth...
There Is One True Political Border, Dividing the Just and Unjust. Take Action.
The greatest power we have over others is the power of creation, to create future generations - the majority of people - and shape their destinies. We do this through family planning policies, and practice, at the first border of human power. We can pursue policies...
How to See and Fix the Fundamental Mistake at the Heart of Our Climate, Inequality and Other Crises
There is a common mistake in all of our language and thinking that drives many of the crises we face today. Our brains have trouble perceiving how time and space interact, and this usually leads to bad long-term decision making. For example, we know promoting a...
The Scam of the Century, and Who to Target for Payback
Who has the most at stake when we have children? The children, given the impact on their lives. One would think, then, that in designing family planning systems our governments - which undertook that task in the mid-20th Century - would make them child-centric. They...
The world is still headed for catastrophic levels of global warming, according to a new UN report https://trib.al/MriOn3p
Nearly time to say your goodbyes. The fishing industry (entanglement in crab and lobster pot lines) is killing roughly 10% of the population of 336 North Atlantic right whales yearly. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10129757/Population-North-Atlantic-right-whale-declined-10-2020-336-lowest-20-years.html
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