The Decemberists Withdraw Support of Susan G. Komen Foundation (their keyboardist had breast cancer)

[LynneSin]

Decemberists Withdraw Support of Susan G. Komen Foundation

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/decemberists-withdraw-support-of-susan-g-komen-foundation-20120202#ixzz1lI4FX9Lv

The Decemberists have withdrawn their fundraising support for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation after the organization's decision to stop providing funding for Planned Parenthood.

The rockers have realigned themselves with Planned Parenthood's Breast Health Emergency Fund since Komen withdrew funding for breast cancer examinations on Tuesday. Komen claimed that a change in their grants policy prevented them from contributing further, though Planned Parenthood insisted that the foundation had bowed to pressure from anti-abortion groups.



The Decemberists are deeply troubled by Komen for the Cure's recent decision to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, a vital resource in the battle against breast cancer. Providing cancer screenings to low income women is integral to the prevention and defeat of breast cancer and it is unconscionable that Komen should politicize this very important issue by bowing to the fear campaign being waged against PP by the right. We've decided to redirect the proceeds of the Team Jenny t-shirts and buttons away from Komen for the Cure. 100% of the net profits of these items will be instead donated to Planned Parenthood's Breast Health Emergency Fund

More about Jenny Conlee, the keyboardist from The Decemberists who is a breast cancer survivor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Conlee

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. Let the backlash begin~

folks... we are at war with a group of people who want to take out Country down from within.

There is no negotiating any more. The lines have been drawn.

Time to pick a side.

[atreides1]

2. Cicero said it best

Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”


And this is the plan of the Republican party along with their religious and corporate puppet masters...to destroy this country from within.

[niyad]

3. chillingly prescient, wasn't he?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

4. Love The Decemberists; didn't realize that about the keyboardist.

Good for them for taking an unequivocal stand.

[gopiscrap]

5. Good! Hope for folks follow their lead!