Feminist Peace Network

I try to avoid quoting people who are quoting me because, aside from being a bit egotistical, it gets quite circular. But I’m going to make an exception and share this very perceptive Sept. 25th critique of shopping and racing for a breast cancer cure that was posted on SoundingBalance:

“We don’t need to be running around our neighborhoods in pink to find a cure for Breast Cancer. We need to be marching on Washington DC.

We don’t need to be cheering each other on in Pink Survivor T-Shirts, or weeping with each other over tragic losses. We need to demand a Universal Healthcare Policy, one that will provide quality care for all women diagnosed with any cancer - not just the oh, so marketable ‘breast cancer’…implicitly sympathizing with all husbands and lovers who are, shall we say, ‘deprived of pleasure’.

We don’t need to be purchasing Product or investing in Commodity controlled by the MIP Complex. We need to demand, as Marshall succinctly puts it, a national policy.

This October, write, call and petition your Senators and Representatives, and then telephone them, again, and again, and again. And, again.”

I like the way this woman thinks!

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