A message from Breast Cancer Action:
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Why does BCA so fiercely object to Breast Cancer Awareness Month? What is so wrong with pink ribbon marketing? Why on earth would corporations involved in the treatment and diagnosis of women with breast cancer try to control how the public understands the disease?
Curious about the answers to these questions? Join us for the first of our monthly webinars, “The Politics of Breast Cancer”– a crash course on the “pinking” of breast cancer, environmental causes of the disease and the corporate interests that control what the public hears about the epidemic. Details are below:
Title: The Politics of Breast Cancer
Date: Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
Time: 10:00AM – 11:00 AM PDT
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
We will record the webinar content and make it available here, for those who are unavailable during the webinar.
We look forward to hearing your take on our work!
Breast Cancer Action carries the voices of people affected by breast cancer to inspire and compel the changes necessary to end the breast cancer epidemic. BCA provides information to anyone who needs it via newsletters, web sites, and a toll-free number and organizes people to do something besides worry. BCA also advocates for policy changes directed at achieving true prevention through understanding and eliminating the causes of breast cancer; working toward a true cure with treatments that don’t nearly kill people or cause other diseases; and assuring universal access to quality health care. BCA is committed to the precautionary principle of public health: First, do no harm. They work with other organizations to encourage the use of environmentally safe alternatives to ways of doing business that we know—or have reason to believe—are harmful. BCA also sifts through the stacks of misinformation that now circulate about breast cancer. What you won’t learn in the newspaper or on television—or sometimes even from your doctor—is on their web site or in the highly acclaimed publication, the BCA Source.
I would be very interested in learning as much as I can.
Thank you in advance……Alli…..