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t r u t h o u t | For all of our friends in New York City - we have a special event tomorrow night at 7 PM in collaboration with the McNally Jackson bookstore and professor Mark Crispin Miller, who are hosting a panel discussion titled "News from Underground: Christianist Infiltration of America's Public Schools" (for more information visit the event page: http://bit.ly/w7u7rS ). Hope to see you there!
02.06
Noam Chomsky | Anniversaries From "Unhistory"
http://www.truth-out.org/anniversaries-unhistory/1328369965
Noam Chomsky, Truthout: "George Orwell coined the useful term 'unperson' for creatures denied personhood because they don't abide by state doctrine. We may add the term 'unhistory' to refer to the fate of unpersons, expunged from history on similar grounds."
Dissatisfaction With Komen Foundation Goes Beyond Planned Parenthood Break
http://www.truth-out.org/dissatisfaction-komen-foundation-goes-beyond-planned-parenthood-break/1328540107
J.A. Myerson, Truthout: "The controversy, in fact, served to highlight objections to Komen's conduct that were already in place. Chief among these is the accusation that the foundation's reduction of women's health to an apolitical charity matter degrades the efforts of feminist activists.... Genya Shimkin, a masters of public health candidate in community-oriented public health practice at the University of Washington, calls this the 'commodification of breasts and breast cancer.'"
Chris Hedges | Black Bloc: The Cancer in Occupy
http://www.truth-out.org/black-bloc-cancer-occupy/1328541484
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "The presence of Black Bloc anarchists - so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police and destroy property - is a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state.... Because Black Bloc anarchists do not believe in organization, indeed oppose all organized movements, they ensure their own powerlessness. They can only be obstructionist. And they are primarily obstructionist to those who resist."
Ellen Brown | Why State Attorneys General Shouldn't Settle on Robo-Signing
http://www.truth-out.org/why-state-attorneys-general-shouldnt-settle-robosigning/1328539546
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt: "A foreclosure settlement between five major banks guilty of 'robo-signing' and the attorneys general of the 50 states is pending for Monday, February 6th; but it is still not clear if all the AGs will sign.... The evidence to date suggests that 'robo-signing' was not a mere technical default or sloppy business practice but was part and parcel of a much larger fraud, the fraud that brought down the whole economy in 2008."
NYPD Muslim Spy Scandal Grows With Newly Revealed Plan to Target Shiite Mosques
http://www.truth-out.org/nypd-muslim-spy-scandal-grows-newly-revealed-plan-target-shiite-mosques/1328544457
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales, Democracy NOW!: "New revelations have emerged about the New York City Police Department's secret program to spy on Muslim communities. The Associated Press has just uncovered a confidential NYPD plan from 2006 to engage in targeted surveillance of Shiite mosques following increased tensions between the U.S. and Iran; the latest revelation on its secret intelligence operations focused on Muslim neighborhoods."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: China and Russia Veto Resolution Condemning Syrian Violence, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann/1328547386
In today's On the News segment: 600 Canadian activists rallied to protest tar sands on Saturday, Komen enlists former Bush press secretary for "crisis communications," DC's Park Police raid Occupy encampment there, and more.
The Deal That Saved Detroit (and Banned Strikes)
http://www.truth-out.org/deal-saved-detroit-and-banned-strikes/1328540787
Laura Flanders, The Nation: "You're going to be hearing a lot about the deal that saved Detroit in the next few months, not least because likely opponent Mitt Romney was against it. Then Governor Romney wrote in the fall of 2008 that if the big three auto companies received a bailout, 'we can kiss the American auto industry goodbye.' Romney bad; Obama good; Big Three back. The Deal with Detroit is gold dust for Democrats. Reality is a bit more complicated."
Army Officer Turned Whistleblower: How Many More Must Die?
http://www.truth-out.org/army-officer-turned-whistleblower-how-many-more-must-die/1328552914
Scott Shane, The New York Times News Service: "On his second yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis traveled 9,000 miles, patrolled with American troops in eight provinces and returned in October of last year with a fervent conviction that the war was going disastrously and that senior military leaders had not leveled with the American public."
Dean Baker | Debt, Toll Roads and Patents
http://www.truth-out.org/debt-toll-roads-and-patents/1328538574
Dean Baker, Truthout: "It's budget time, again. This means that the deficit hawks will be out in force warning us about the devastating debt burden that we are passing on to our children. So that this Halloween fright gang doesn't needlessly cause any kids to lose sleep, here's what parents can tell their children."
Egypt Defies US by Setting Trial for 19 Americans on Criminal Charges
http://www.truth-out.org/egypt-defies-us-setting-trial-19-americans-criminal-charges/1328538372
David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times News Service: "Egypt's military-led government said Sunday that it would put 19 Americans and two dozen others on trial in a politically charged criminal investigation into the foreign financing of nonprofit groups that has shaken the 30-year alliance between the United States and Egypt. The decision raises tensions between the two allies to a new peak at a decisive moment in Egypt's political transition after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak a year ago."
Six Things You Should Know About Arizona's Worse-Than-Wisconsin Attack on Public Workers
http://www.truth-out.org/six-things-you-should-know-about-arizonas-worse-wisconsin-attack-public-workers/1328554688
Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet: "Along with South Carolina's Nikki Haley and Indiana's Mitch Daniels, Arizona's Jan Brewer, not content with making her state the least friendly to immigrants and people of color, has decided to get in on the union-busting action as well, introducing a bill that makes Walker's and Kasich's attacks on public workers look mild."
E.J. Dionne | The Citizens United Catastrophe
http://www.truth-out.org/citizens-united-catastrophe/1328544789
E.J. Dionne, The Washington Post Writers Group: "The strongest case against judicial activism - against 'legislating from the bench,' is that judges are not accountable for the new systems they put in place, whether by accident or design. The Citizens United justices were not required to think through the practical consequences of sweeping aside decades of work by legislators, going back to the passage of the landmark Tillman Act in 1907, who sought to prevent untoward influence-peddling and indirect bribery."
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Last week, BuzzFlash at Truthout pointed out the GOP leanings of Nancy Brinker (http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13308) and her tightly held governance (http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13309) of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation. We provided evidence of Brinker's strong Republican donation ties, and the domination of the small (nine member) Komen board by Brinker's friends, Republican donors - and even her son.
In essence, the Komen Planned Parenthood debacle should not have been unexpected, as detailed in our exposes, since Brinker's return in late 2009.
Aside from leaning to the right since Brinker's return as CEO, there has been a long-standing complaint that Komen indulges in rampant "pinkwashing." This is the use of corporate "cause marketing" relationships with Komen, in return for donations to the foundation. (The Bank of America "pink ribbon" credit card is one such example.)
But it comes at a significant price, according to many observers. Take for instance a Mother Jones article (http://motherjones.com/environment/2011/09/breast-cancer-komen-bpa) that charges that Komen underplays the likely impact of toxic chemicals in causing breast cancer and other cancers. Why would Komen adopt such policies? Allegedly, according to Mother Jones, because many of its corporate sponsors would have their profits and images negatively affected by Komen recognizing the likely causal relationship.
Mother Jones gets to the specific issue, for example, of Komen having downplayed a relationship between BPA in plastics and cancer:
"In April 2010 Komen posted an online statement saying that BPA had been 'deemed safe.' And a more recent statement on Komen's website about BPA, from February 2011, begins, 'Links between plastics and cancer are often reported by the media and in email hoaxes.' Komen acknowledges in its older statement that the Food and Drug Administration is doing more studies on BPA, but also says that there is currently 'no evidence to suggest a link between BPA and risk of breast cancer.'
'I think that's at best, misleading, and at worst, demonstrating really significant ignorance by whoever at the Komen Foundation wrote that,' said University of Missouri biology professor and BPA expert Dr. Frederick vom Saal in a telephone interview, reacting to Komen's 2011 BPA statement. 'When you think of this as a foundation that's out there supposedly protecting women from factors that are involved in breast cancer, I find that statement to be just astounding.'"
And how about Komen promoting another corporate "sponsor" by asking people to chow down on Kentucky Fried Chicken? Not so good for preventing breast cancer, according to one critic quoted in The New York Daily News: (http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/eat-fried-chicken-cure-kfc-fundraiser-susan-g-komen-group-raises-eyebrows-article-1.166080)
"With the KFC and Susan G. Komen collaboration, as blogger Yoni Freedhoff of Weighty Matters points out, consumers who buy the buckets of chicken are likely to also buy fries, gravy and soda, too. 'So, in effect, Susan G. Komen for the Cure is helping to sell deep-fried fast food and, in so doing, help fuel unhealthy diet and obesity across America, an odd plan given that diet and obesity certainly impact on both the incidence and recurrence of breast cancer,' Freedhoff wrote. And suggested that a possible alternative would have been for KFC to just hand over a check for breast cancer research to Susan G. Komen for the Cure."
And there are the flat out intimidation and scams that Komen is party to, according to Jezebel: (http://jezebel.com/5881401/how-the-susan-g-komen-foundation-lost-its-way)
"In 2010, they spent more than $1 million suing smaller charities that used the phrase 'for the Cure' in their names or in their events. The organization said that this was to prevent donor confusion. One fundraising program encouraged socially mobile cancer fighters to battle cancer themselves by mailing in Yoplait tops in order to prompt the company to make a 10-cent donation. Postage at the time was 37 cents; Yoplait prices varied."
A Minnesota Post article gets to the heart of pinkwashing: (http://www.minnpost.com/healthblog/2012/02/03/34819/planned_parenthood_controversy_also_exposes_komens_corporate_problem)
"Pinkwashing is the term used to describe when corporations claim to care about breast cancer by promoting 'pink' products or a 'pink ribbon' campaign (especially each October during 'Breast Cancer Awareness Month') while continuing to sell products that are linked to the disease. (One notorious example from a few Octobers ago was a company that promoted 'Pinky' vodka to women. Alcohol consumption is generally considered a risk factor for breast cancer....)
For several years, Komen - with the help of TPR Holdings, a New York-based company that makes many colognes and cosmetics and which donates $1 million a year to the charity - has marketed its own perfume, 'Promise Me.' It turns out, however, that the perfume contains several toxic chemicals (not listed on the label), including ones suspected of being carcinogenic. (Confronted with these findings, Komen said last fall that it is reformulating the perfume.)
But 'Promise Me' has another problem. Like so many of the other pinkwashing products hawked by companies, not much of the perfume's purchase price actually goes to breast cancer research."
There is no doubt that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has done some positive things for women with breast cancer, research and prevention.
But there is also little doubt that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has turned into a corporate branding machine that has, at times, by its very "cause marketing structure" valued enhancing the corporate profits of its sponsors over the negative impact on the development of breast cancer.
As one source noted in a Daily Beast column: (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/05/komen-for-the-cure-how-the-group-s-founder-courted-controversy.html) "Komen plays hardball and is determined to stay on top," says a member of another cancer organization, who declined to be identified. "Let's be honest about all this: people think of breast cancer as a charity, but it's really a major business."
Mark Karlin
Editor BuzzFlash at Truthout
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Glenn Greenwald: US Drones Targeting Rescuers and Mourners
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/05/u_s_drones_targeting_rescuers_and_mourners/
Robert Creamer | Last Friday, the GOP Had a Really Bad Day
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http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13310
New Poll Finds Obama Holds Edge Over Romney in General Election Match-Up
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-holds-edge-over-romney-in-general-election-matchup-poll-finds/2012/02/05/gIQA5JX0sQ_story.html
Yemeni Leader Faces Protests at the Ritz
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http://www.politicker.com/2012/02/06/yemeni-leader-faces-protests-at-the-ritz/
Robert Redford: The Battle for Jeju Island - How the Arms Race Is Threatening a Korean Paradise
Read the Article at OnEarth
http://www.onearth.org/blog/robert-redford-jeju-island-korean-paradise-threatened
The Real News Network: Militarization of the Dream Act
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http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7870
Angry at Komen? You Should Be Furious at Mitt Romney and the GOP
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-b-keegan/angry-at-komen-you-should_b_1252833.html
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<font><strong>Noam Chomsky | Anniversaries From "Unhistory"</strong></font>=
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Noam Chomsky, Truthout: "George Orwell coined the useful term 'unperson' fo=
r creatures denied personhood because they don't abide by state doctrine. W=
e may add the term 'unhistory' to refer to the fate of unpersons, expunged =
from history on similar grounds." <br />
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t></a> <br />
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<font><strong>Dissatisfaction With Komen Foundation Goes Beyond Planned Par=
enthood Break</strong></font><br />
J.A. Myerson, Truthout: "The controversy, in fact, served to highlight obje=
ctions to Komen's conduct that were already in place. Chief among these is =
the accusation that the foundation's reduction of women's health to an apol=
itical charity matter degrades the efforts of feminist activists.... Genya =
Shimkin, a masters of public health candidate in community-oriented public =
health practice at the University of Washington, calls this the 'commodific=
ation of breasts and breast cancer.'"<br />
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<font><strong>Chris Hedges | Black Bloc: The Cancer in Occupy</strong></fon=
t><br />
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "The presence of Black Bloc anarchists - so named b=
ecause they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, se=
ek physical confrontations with police and destroy property - is a gift fro=
m heaven to the security and surveillance state.... Because Black Bloc anar=
chists do not believe in organization, indeed oppose all organized movement=
s, they ensure their own powerlessness. They can only be obstructionist. An=
d they are primarily obstructionist to those who resist." <br />
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<font><strong>Ellen Brown | Why State Attorneys General Shouldn't Settle on=
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Ellen Brown, Web of Debt: "A foreclosure settlement between five major bank=
s guilty of 'robo-signing' and the attorneys general of the 50 states is pe=
nding for Monday, February 6th; but it is still not clear if all the AGs wi=
ll sign.... The evidence to date suggests that 'robo-signing' was not a mer=
e technical default or sloppy business practice but was part and parcel of =
a much larger fraud, the fraud that brought down the whole economy in 2008.=
" <br />
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<font><strong>NYPD Muslim Spy Scandal Grows With Newly Revealed Plan to Tar=
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Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales, Democracy NOW!: "New revelations have emerge=
d about the New York City Police Department's secret program to spy on Musl=
im communities. The Associated Press has just uncovered a confidential NYPD=
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In today's On the News segment: 600 Canadian activists rallied to protest t=
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<font><strong>The Deal That Saved Detroit (and Banned Strikes)</strong></fo=
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Laura Flanders, The Nation: "You're going to be hearing a lot about the dea=
l that saved Detroit in the next few months, not least because likely oppon=
ent Mitt Romney was against it. Then Governor Romney wrote in the fall of 2=
008 that if the big three auto companies received a bailout, 'we can kiss t=
he American auto industry goodbye.' Romney bad; Obama good; Big Three back.=
The Deal with Detroit is gold dust for Democrats. Reality is a bit more co=
mplicated." <br />
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<font><strong>Army Officer Turned Whistleblower: How Many More Must Die?</s=
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Scott Shane, The New York Times News Service: "On his second yearlong deplo=
yment to Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis traveled 9,000 miles, patrol=
led with American troops in eight provinces and returned in October of last=
year with a fervent conviction that the war was going disastrously and tha=
t senior military leaders had not leveled with the American public." <br /=
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hawks will be out in force warning us about the devastating debt burden th=
at we are passing on to our children. So that this Halloween fright gang do=
esn't needlessly cause any kids to lose sleep, here's what parents can tell=
their children." <br />
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<font><strong>Egypt Defies US by Setting Trial for 19 Americans on Criminal=
Charges</strong></font><br />
David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times News Service: "Egypt's military-le=
d government said Sunday that it would put 19 Americans and two dozen other=
s on trial in a politically charged criminal investigation into the foreign=
financing of nonprofit groups that has shaken the 30-year alliance between=
the United States and Egypt. The decision raises tensions between the two =
allies to a new peak at a decisive moment in Egypt's political transition a=
fter the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak a year ago." <br />
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<font><strong>Six Things You Should Know About Arizona's Worse-Than-Wiscons=
in Attack on Public Workers</strong></font><br />
Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet: "Along with South Carolina's Nikki Haley and Indiana=
's Mitch Daniels, Arizona's Jan Brewer, not content with making her state t=
he least friendly to immigrants and people of color, has decided to get in =
on the union-busting action as well, introducing a bill that makes Walker's=
and Kasich's attacks on public workers look mild." <br />
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judicial activism - against 'legislating from the bench,' is that judges a=
re not accountable for the new systems they put in place, whether by accide=
nt or design. The Citizens United justices were not required to think throu=
gh the practical consequences of sweeping aside decades of work by legislat=
ors, going back to the passage of the landmark Tillman Act in 1907, who sou=
ght to prevent untoward influence-peddling and indirect bribery." <br />
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<p><em>
<p>Last week, BuzzFlash at Truthout pointed out the <a href=3D"http://org2.=
democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DnHH%2FnjciwQgYVw1W82p72dyeWBE=
%2Fg1EJ"><font color=3D"#cc0000">GOP leanings</font></a> of Nancy Brinker a=
nd her <a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3DPI3AGke9vEz7Ze%2F0tBei3dyeWBE%2Fg1EJ"><font color=3D"#cc0000">tightly he=
ld governance</font></a> of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation. We =
provided evidence of Brinker's strong Republican donation ties, and the dom=
ination of the small (nine member) Komen board by Brinker's friends, Republ=
ican donors - and even her son.</p>
<p>In essence, the Komen Planned Parenthood debacle should not have been un=
expected, as detailed in our exposes, since Brinker's return in late 2009.<=
/p>
<p>Aside from leaning to the right since Brinker's return as CEO, there has=
been a long-standing complaint that Komen indulges in rampant "pinkwashing=
." This is the use of corporate "cause marketing" relationships with Komen,=
in return for donations to the foundation. (The Bank of America "pink ribb=
on" credit card is one such example.)</p>
<p>But it comes at a significant price, according to many observers. Take f=
or instance a <a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=
=3D2&c=3D6nv%2FC0ajyQDCofwfuyhibouzTEXiAaJB"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Mother=
Jones article</font></a> that charges that Komen underplays the likely imp=
act of toxic chemicals in causing breast cancer and other cancers. Why woul=
d Komen adopt such policies? Allegedly, according to Mother Jones, because =
many of its corporate sponsors would have their profits and images negative=
ly affected by Komen recognizing the likely causal relationship.</p>
<p>Mother Jones gets to the specific issue, for example, of Komen having do=
wnplayed a relationship between BPA in plastics and cancer:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In April 2010 Komen posted an online statement saying that BPA had been =
"deemed safe." And a more recent statement on Komen's website about BPA, fr=
om February 2011, begins, "Links between plastics and cancer are often repo=
rted by the media and in email hoaxes." Komen acknowledges in its older sta=
tement that the Food and Drug Administration is doing more studies on BPA, =
but also says that there is currently "no evidence to suggest a link betwee=
n BPA and risk of breast cancer."</p>
<p>"I think that's at best, misleading, and at worst, demonstrating really =
significant ignorance by whoever at the Komen Foundation wrote that," said =
University of Missouri biology professor and BPA expert Dr. Frederick vom S=
aal in a telephone interview, reacting to Komen's 2011 BPA statement. "When=
you think of this as a foundation that's out there supposedly protecting w=
omen from factors that are involved in breast cancer, I find that statement=
to be just astounding."</p>
</blockquote>
<p>And how about Komen promoting another corporate "sponsor" by asking peop=
le to chow down on Kentucky Fried Chicken? Not so good for preventing breas=
t cancer, according to one critic quoted in <a href=3D"http://org2.democrac=
yinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DPvdbH41KCDgQwkpVY3Nzg9yeWBE%2Fg1EJ"><=
font color=3D"#cc0000">The New York Daily News</font></a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>With the KFC and Susan G. Komen collaboration, as blogger Yoni Freedhoff=
of Weighty Matters points out, consumers who buy the buckets of chicken ar=
e likely to also buy fries, gravy and soda, too. "So, in effect, Susan G. K=
omen for the Cure is helping to sell deep-fried fast food and, in so doing,=
help fuel unhealthy diet and obesity across America, an odd plan given tha=
t diet and obesity certainly impact on both the incidence and recurrence of=
breast cancer," Freedhoff wrote. And suggested that a possible alternative=
would have been for KFC to just hand over a check for breast cancer resear=
ch to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>And there are the flat out intimidation and scams that Komen is party to=
, according to <a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=
=3D2&c=3DQP1saYpGVJy5HS2sRYWK3dyeWBE%2Fg1EJ"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Jezebe=
l</font></a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In 2010, they spent more than $1 million suing smaller charities that us=
ed the phrase "for the Cure" in their names or in their events. The organiz=
ation said that this was to prevent donor confusion. One fundraising progra=
m encouraged socially mobile cancer fighters to battle cancer themselves by=
mailing in Yoplait tops in order to prompt the company to make a 10-cent d=
onation. Postage at the time was 37 cents; Yoplait prices varied.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>A <a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DZ=
KGIiJQ66OjgCwFpwsP7udyeWBE%2Fg1EJ"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Minnesota Post a=
rticle</font></a> gets to the heart of pinkwashing:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Pinkwashing is the term used to describe when corporations claim to care=
about breast cancer by promoting "pink" products or a "pink ribbon" campai=
gn (especially each October during "Breast Cancer Awareness Month") while c=
ontinuing to sell products that are linked to the disease. (One notorious e=
xample from a few Octobers ago was a company that promoted "Pinky" vodka to=
women. Alcohol consumption is generally considered a risk factor for breas=
t cancer....)</p>
<p>For several years, Komen - with the help of TPR Holdings, a New York-bas=
ed company that makes many colognes and cosmetics and which donates $1 mill=
ion a year to the charity - has marketed its own perfume, "Promise Me." It =
turns out, however, that the perfume contains several toxic chemicals (not =
listed on the label), including ones suspected of being carcinogenic. (Conf=
ronted with these findings, Komen said last fall that it is reformulating t=
he perfume.)</p>
<p>But "Promise Me" has another problem. Like so many of the other pinkwash=
ing products hawked by companies, not much of the perfume's purchase price =
actually goes to breast cancer research.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>There is no doubt that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has do=
ne some positive things for women with breast cancer, research and preventi=
on.</p>
<p>But there is also little doubt that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foun=
dation has turned into a corporate branding machine that has, at times, by =
its very "cause marketing structure" valued enhancing the corporate profits=
of its sponsors over the negative impact on the development of breast canc=
er.</p>
<p>As one source noted in a <a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/di=
a/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DTXZsZs469hnm6zXTa68UuNyeWBE%2Fg1EJ"><font color=3D"#c=
c0000">Daily Beast column</font></a>: "Komen plays hardball and is determin=
ed to stay on top," says a member of another cancer organization, who decli=
ned to be identified. "Let's be honest about all this: people think of brea=
st cancer as a charity, but it's really a major business."</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
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