Bracing for pinkness

Today is September 30. Back at the beginning of September, I asked all of you to take a pledge against pinkification and focus on real needs. Here is the pledge again:I (state your name [and not the Animal House version]) promise that during the month of Pinktober, formerly known as October, I will not arbitrarily purchase pink items or donate to pink causes with out first researching how much actually goes to breast cancer research or screening services. I will first research them using services such as Charity Navigator (www.charitynavigator.org) to ensure they are legitimate.I also promise that I will not support pinkification efforts to paint things pink, light up buildings in pink, or other such activities.Thank you.Its been a month. Have you researched other causes? Have you rejected any pinkification efforts already?I have been asked to be in a newspaper article (which they actually print on pink paper during the month of October) and declined. I have already been approached for donations because its breast cancer awareness season. October will be a blur of pink, with the internet and phones and mail full of requests to help with pinkification efforts. The media will also be full of rehashed breast cancer research from the past few years. This does nothing. It does not help. We do not need awareness. We need research. And a cure would be really nice. I just learned this morning that another 36 year old woman, Jen Smith of LivingLegendary.org, died of metastat...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - Category: Cancer Tags: pinkification pink washing cancer awareness Source Type: blogs