While I haven't shared here recently, I've been active with my efforts to raise breast cancer awareness.I encourage anyone checking out this post to look at yapstuff.org

Komen and Politics

When I make a donation to a political organization, I expect them to use the money for political purposes. When I participate in the race for the cure and ask my friends and family to donate to a world without breast cancer, I don't expect a political agenda...

Roz Hill of YapStuff.org is in the US this month

Roz and I are friends for five years, though I've not heard her voice until yesterday, when she left a voice mail on my phone. She has a charming accent from down under, proper as expected. More importantly, her message... She's leading a charge of breast cancer awareness, that knows no gender. Male, Female equal. We all have the same tissues after all. I am grateful to Roz and YapStuff.org for what they do and I'm trying to be a part of their mission. Please check out http://www.yapstuff.org or on Youtube/yapstuff.

Thank you

Yapstuff.org

Yapstuff is raising a generation of people aware breast cancer knows no gender.

Race for the cure date is set

We're beginning a new fundraising year. If you are interested in joining our team use this link:

http://race.komenoregon.org/site/TR/Race/PortlandRacefortheCure/262357320?px=1381584&pg=personal&fr_id=1130

If you can't join us and would like to make a donation, use this link:

http://race.komenoregon.org/site/TR/Race/PortlandRacefortheCure/1158456214?pg=team&fr_id=1130&team_id=51952&JServSessionIdr004=43x0ackt12.app201a

Bottles for Boobs on Earth Day

In this economic environment, fundraising is a challenge - even for a great cause like like ending breast cancer. Our team, "Busking for Boobs" is always looking for new ways to raise money and awareness for breast cancer.

On Earth Day (Apr 22), members of the team went to a local Safeway grocery store to redeem deposits on bottles and cans collected over the past few months. This is what we found.

Sad News

Earlier this week, we received incredibly sad news. Melanie Shouse, a devoted MoveOn Council leader in St. Louis and tireless health care advocate, passed away after a battle with breast cancer.
Melanie was a true fighter. While she was involved in many issues with MoveOn, she always said health care was her heart—and even after treatments began, she came to every single health care rally, speaking out about the injustices she was suffering under our broken health care system.
Melanie's story is a painful reminder of why we need to fight as hard as we can to get real health care reform passed, now.
Our friends at TrueMajority are gathering messages of condolence to deliver to Melanie's family this weekend. The email they sent is below. To add your message, just click this link.
http://www.truemajority.org/MelanieShouse/moveon
Thanks for all that you do.
–Kat, Keauna, Ilya, Lenore, and the rest of the team