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Wednesday, 31 October 07 :: think before you pink.. again.

this image brought to you by breast cancer action and their think before you pink campaign.

last day of this pink month. now, i'll admit, i actually do like the particular shade of pink that has found its way onto everything from water bottles, to m&m's to campbell's soup labels.. but the reason it's there is simply unacceptable.

so, i'll leave you with this last thought: this excellent link- how low will komen go, the winners, from the assertive cancer patient

disclaimer: while raising money for breast cancer is a noble cause, what isn't so noble is how much profit is made off the little bit raised. these same companies should be doing more. take all those profits, and well.. donate them to prostate cancer.. or, for crying out loud, give a measly $5 million to this band of parents who are doing all they can simply to make sure that their children get to graduate from high school. $5 million may seem like a big deal to some people, but to some of these companies - as we all know - it's just drop in the bucket. drop in the bucket vs a child's life. the next child could be the child of a CEO of one of these very companies, they may think differently then. lets hope it doesn't take getting to that point.

posted by brooke at October 31, 2007 03:55 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.