http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/02/01/arkansas-komen-affiliate-wants-reversal-of-planned-parenthood-decision Comments On: Arkansas Komen affiliate wants reversal of Planned Parenthood decision by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
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Posted by Arkansas Komen Foundation]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:27:39 -0600 Arkansas Times
Here is another.

"The Komen Foundation, creator of the 110-city Race for the Cure, is tied up in private interests that run counter to its charity-driven mission."

http://www.alternet.org/story/14014/

This organization, including those who work for them nationally and locally, looks uglier by the minute, now that the truth is out.

What a betrayal!

Since there are any number of ways to donate to non-political non-right-wing non-anti-women health care organizations, no one can ever again look at throngs of pink-clad participants in "Races for the Cure" without thinking: there go a mob of hateful lying hypocritical misogynist right-wing religious bigots.

New York's Mayor Bloomberg today personally donated $250,000 to Planned Parenthood . . .

. . . instead of giving it to hateful lying hypocritical misogynist right-wing religious bigots. THAT's what donations to SGK support, for all America to see.

Race for the Cruel. Lobbying for Big Corporate interests and right-wing theocratic politicians (and fighting to HIDE their machinations all these years because they know they'd be run out of town if they were honest) ON THE LIVES OF AMERICAN WOMEN (AND MEN) BATTLING BREAST CANCER.

Desperate to keep ripping off MILLION$ from innocent people of good will. Determined to continue filling their pockets by yelling, "Look over there at all the GOOD we do!"

No, SGK. YOU look.

Look at all the good OTHER organizations with similar missions do without doing all the BAD you do. SO bad you have to lie about it.

Never forget, Razorbabies: The Nazis gave the world the Volkswagen in 1933. Forget the six million lives. Look at all the good they did.

The article linked above was written ten years ago. The SGK organization was founded in 1982. Business as usual for 30 years.

Finally caught and exposed, one can only watch appalled as SGK reps weasel across all media.

Despicable.

Unconscionable.


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:42:55 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/01/1…
Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:39:17 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2…

Here's their home page. Click "contact us" in the lower right hand corner and tell them what you think.

http://www.jcpenney.com/jcp/default.aspx?&…
Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:29:24 -0600 Arkansas Times
What an organization. Did a lot of good, once upon a time, didn't it? Now?

Race for the Cruel.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/…


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:52:50 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content…
Posted by CyberBiker]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:33:45 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/…


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:28:00 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.ginandtacos.com/2012/02/02/race…
Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:25:36 -0600 Arkansas Times
Karen Handel and her anti-choice anti-women's health care backers have been looking for an excuse to defund Planned Parenthood ever since she was installed as SKG V-P. They INVENTED the "investigation" as justification.

That's their agenda. That's the kind of people they are. That's -- unbelievably but true -- what the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure stands for.

Thank you, Arkansas Komen Foundation, for your reassurances.

But as long as that's your name, as long as you're associated with the organization, that's what you stand for too.

America knows, now.

All SGK affiliates operate under the same right-wing anti-women's health care, anti-choice umbrella.

http://www.americablog.com/2012/02/top-rac…


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:08:36 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/…

Bryan Fischer of some family radio network was doing a little happy dance over the withdrawal of PP funding in which he admits the xtianist have been working for years to achieve this goal. His jubilation is covered in this segment on DemocracyNow.

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/2/after…

The xtianists, who are a minority of the larger Christian community, mistakenly believe they are traveling downhill with a tailwind in their quest to establish a
theocratic nation. Whether the issue is women's rights, unions, the environment, whatever, people are waking up and standing up.
Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:08:13 -0600 Arkansas Times
"Susan G. Komen's Founder Is Major GOP Donor, Ex-Bush Ambassador"

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/komen-…

Also, her hubby owned the chains Chili's, Maggiano's, and Macaroni Grill.
Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:39:23 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Arkansas Komen Foundation]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:22:20 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Patricia]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:10:23 -0600 Arkansas Times
" Nancy G. Brinker, who founded and leads the organization, said that the decision was made as part of a broad effort to use donations more efficiently."

NPR made that generalization. But, according to a video with Brinker I saw no evidence that the money previously used for PPH was reaching more breast exams than the 170,000 that PPH said it afforded. For something to be more efficient it has to have the same or better results for, in this case, less money.

"Susan G. Komen will always fight for and serve the people who need us the most. We won't rest until every woman — rich, poor, insured or uninsured — can face a life without breast cancer," said Brinker

Again, no indication in her video that the money previously used for PPH is reaching the same target population in some other manner. Therefore, to say they continue to serve the poor and uninsured is a lie.




Posted by Ron Rizzardi]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:51:42 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/01/why_the_ri…


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:31:22 -0600 Arkansas Times
Permit me to confess a delicate sensation of subcutaneous prickling whilst politely pursuing clarification.

Am I to understand the rules have changed? Ladies are now permitted to "crave"?

Wanton enough to associate with or discuss topics of direct or ancillary proximity to "pizza?"

Allow the word "pepperoni" to pass their lips, much less deliberately insert the object between them for gustatory debasement?

Surely no ladies of my acquaintance.

Nor, one would have presumed, among your own.

Lunch remains a possibility, though perhaps tea and finger sandwiches might be more ladylike given your recent intimations.


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:20:58 -0600 Arkansas Times
The topic was one of my earliest posts on this blog, three years or so ago. I recall Mr. Brantley confirming it in a post from his own experience and knowledge.

My point then as now: research your giving so you know how much goes to the actual Mission versus how much toward salaries and fund-raising, travel, national dues and incidentals.

The Rock is hardly alone in this. Many "wonderful" non-profits are little more than social organizations where people pay / donate to A-List fund-raising events that get their pictures in local society magazines alongside upscale ads, with which products they're forever after subliminally associated in readers' minds.

They feel good because they believe they're contributing to a worthy cause. Actually, they're paying people's salaries, paying for expenses connected with those fund-raising events, covering costs of travel to conventions, giving a percentage to the national organization, and incidentally what's left over goes to the Mission and the individuals it ostensibly serves. Leftovers.

Plus all or a portion of supporters' "donations" are tax write-offs.

(The ones who protest these facts loudest are the most guilty of them.)

As a rule, however, non-profits do not go to extremes like the SGK Race-for-the-Cure group to conceal and deny their actual political agenda -- which in this case means furthering their right-wing anti-women goals of defunding Planned Parenthood and eliminating abortion.

The deception, denial and underlying misogyny of their well-financed minority fundamentalist theocracy is what's proved so immediately devastating now that it's public knowledge.

SGK may try to reverse their decision. They may try to take it back or explain or justify or distract from it.

But the trust has been irrevocably damaged.

In a cosmic irony, their hidden faith-based agenda has broken faith with their formerly unsuspecting constituents: their supporters, their clients and families who now know all.

Shed no tear for Karen Handel and her minions. Be happy the truth won out.

Two points:

1) Breast cancer research will continue.

2) There are more honest, less contaminated and deceptive organizations deserving of your volunteer time and money.

Unless you enjoy paying hypocrites to misplace their ethics, neglect their Mission and shoot themselves in the foot.


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:53:54 -0600 Arkansas Times
I appreciate the letter from Ms. McBryde, but I really can't stand to see anything pink right now. It is going to be very hard for me to watch the NFL in October. Some state and federal buildings change their lights to pink in October too. BLLLLEEECH.

Besides, why save our breasts if we females just get arrested for not wearing a shirt in public? NIPPLE EQUALITY NOW.
Posted by sylviat]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:59:27 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by yapperjohn]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:42:12 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Ron Rizzardi]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:28:47 -0600 Arkansas Times
SGK made up the stupid "investigation" policy, they can change it just the same.
Posted by Ron Rizzardi]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:23:46 -0600 Arkansas Times
I, too, was thinking of friends and acquaintances associated with the local SGK affiliate and wondering how they felt. I'd be pretty demoralized. It would be easier for me to rationalize SGK's skewed financial priorities if I knew at least a portion of those donor funds were going to provide health care for less fortunate women. Now, not so much.

I would imagine your schedule is as busy as a visiting head of state's when you touch down briefly in La Rock, but we really should have lunch. My treat.

Posted by Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:53:15 -0600 Arkansas Times
Amazing! Not an hour ago I found myself thinking of you -- and here you are! It's like some call-my-name-and-I'll-be-there you've-got-a-friend moment!

There's another heartbreaking -- or not -- aspect to the SGK debacle. One which Ms. McBryde now faces as the executive director of the Arkansas affiliate.

Another ED in another state all but cried last night as we discussed her dilemma at length.

Basically, she's forced to admit that she works for and publicly represents an organization that purports to be dedicated to finding a cure for breast cancer, only now is exposed as a right-wing anti-woman political organization hiding behind a sham "noble cause."

75% of the monies raised by SGK do NOT go towards breast cancer research, but toward administration (salaries) and fund-raising (events, publications, marketing, etc.).

SGK stands exposed as an anti-abortion right-wing political organization in disguise, doing everything it can to force its (religious) agenda on women.

Planned Parenthood, by contrast, is not. It offers objective medical and health information to women, and their choice of what course(s) they personally choose to pursue. It is pro-women, non-religious, non-political.

My friend proudly accepted her position years go, unaware of the behind-the-scenes agenda that is now all too obvious around the country. She must do her best to present her organization and employer in the best possible light -- though that's now become an exercise in duplicitous marketing rather than serving the ostensible Mission Statement.

"I feel like a fraud," she said, close to tears. "I can't keep doing this. If I stay on, people will think I agree with what they did. They will think I'm anti-choice. Anti-women. But I need the job. It's horrible. I've actually thought about relocating. This is less than 24 hours, you realize. It's like they pulled the rug out from under me."

I can only imagine Ms. McBryde feels the same.

Or maybe she doesn't. Maybe she's anti-choice too and fine with her organization (and those allied with it, including local and national corporate sponsors) being determined to shut down Planned Parenthood and punish women.

Maybe Ms. McBryde feels justified that only 25 cents of every dollar she raises from well-intentioned but duped donors actually goes toward breast cancer research while 75% goes toward marketing an anti-woman right-wing political agenda which, as long as she remains, she represents.

Time, one supposes, shall tell.


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:29:05 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:21:19 -0600 Arkansas Times
I'm so sick of adding people & groups to my Shit List. I walked passed a Halliburton truck today and thought about slashing the tires...I DON'T WANT TO HAVE THESE THOUGHTS! Can't wipe my ass with Koch Angel Soft toilet paper any more, no more Brawny, been skipping Burger King for the way they treated OWS folks...and on and on. This Uniter-Divider shit has got to go!
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:00:08 -0600 Arkansas Times