For those new to this website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method used…
Thank you again to everyone who has supported my work in recent years and a special thank you to everyone who has helped keep a roof over our heads during this very difficult time for my family. Living in the same house for 12 years, especially through the chaos of the last three years, has…
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From our little family, to all of you… the biggest “Thank You!” we can offer! A note from Tamara (& Len): Dear friends, On behalf of our entire family, I cannot thank you enough for your help — and the huge difference it has made! I especially want to thank Jodi, for coordinating the…
In response to this post a friend set up a GoFundMe to try to help keep my family in our home. Here’s that link. Thank you. The impact of being persecuted for my advocacy work: Our home is scheduled to be sold in a foreclosure sale on February 21st, just two days after the…
Original title: I was arrested for stealing health insurance for my disabled children. WHY should you care about this story? It is a (relatively brief) summary of the past 2+ years of legal drama around my advocacy work (for those who have been following the tale). It was written primarily for my 30,000 fans and followers as…
I originally posted this live on Facebook on Tuesday 9/18/2018. This is our “Therapy Bunny” Louis Armstrong! We got Louis as a therapy bunny to help my 10 year old son Charlie have some positive interactions with an animal that likes to snuggle, but I think he’s really a therapy bunny for the whole family!…
I am sharing this with you today for no particular reason, except that over the past week or so, since we have been working long hours each day to [yet again] attempt to get my boys re-integrated into the public school system (after the “fiasco” – link here) every moment of every day seems to…
In November of 2017 I was illegally arrested on 9 counts of alleged felony theft for “welfare fraud.” I have been actively dealing with this persecution (a seemingly intentionally-orchestrated attempt to smear me and thereby shut down my advocacy work) for more than two years now; starting with the DOJ Inquiry initiated in March of…
Because this is my blog and I can post whatever I want here… I thought it would be fun/ funny to re-share this photo of my 6th grade class (Foster School, Mr. Collins, 1980, Hingham Mass!) with the world. Thanks Paula for sharing this photo with me. Looking back on the past provides so much…