{"id":41763,"date":"2014-10-28T10:32:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41763"},"modified":"2014-10-28T10:32:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:32:19","slug":"activists-accuse-komen-foundation-of-pink-washing-fracking-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/10\/28\/activists-accuse-komen-foundation-of-pink-washing-fracking-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists Accuse Komen Foundation of Pink Washing Fracking Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141028Uprising\/2014_10_28_komen.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Karuna Jaggar <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141028Uprising\/2014_10_28_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/komen_fracking.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The Susan G. Komen Foundation is in the news again and it&#8217;s not for a good reason \u2013 again. This time the nation&#8217;s leading foundation raising money for breast cancer research and awareness, has been shamed by activists for partnering with a company engaged in the controversial practice of fracking or hydraulic fracturing &#8211; a form of gas and oil extraction that uses toxic chemicals and contributes to pollution and climate change. <\/p>\n<p>The fracking company, Baker Hughes, showed off its partnership with Komen by proudly displaying drill bits painted bright pink with the tagline, &#8220;doing our bit for the cure.&#8221; The company is distributing a 1000 such bits to oil fields all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble with this obvious case of pink-washing is that some of the very same chemicals such as Naphthalene and Lead, that Komen Foundation lists on its website as potentially cancer-causing chemicals, are used by fracking companies to drill for oil and gas. <\/p>\n<p>The group Breast Cancer Action, which has criticized the practice of pink washing, started a petition publicly calling on the Komen Foundation to &#8220;stop fracking with our health,&#8221; which more than 150,000 people signed. BCA confronted Komen&#8217;s founder, Nancy Brinker, at the Pittsburg Steelers NFL game on Sunday where she was planning to accept a $100,000 check from Baker Hughes. <\/p>\n<p>The last time the Komen Foundation came under fire was for cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood in 2012. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Karuna Jaggar, Executive Director, Breast Cancer Action <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcaction.org\">www.bcaction.org<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Susan G. Komen Foundation is in the news again and it&#8217;s not for a good reason \u2013 again. This time the nation&#8217;s leading foundation raising money for breast cancer research and awareness, has been shamed by activists for partnering with a company engaged in the controversial practice of fracking or hydraulic fracturing &#8211; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41772,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41763\/revisions\/41772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}