Teacher turns cancer battle into a lesson and a cause
A Larkspur Elementary School teacher has turned her battle with cancer into a learning experience for kids.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Real Komen Lesson: Charities Can Be 'Too Big to Fail' Too
The Susan G. Komen breast cancer fund reversed its Planned Parenthood action, and the right wing anti-choice politician it hired has resigned. But the real...

Komen's Hard-Learned Lesson For Nonprofits: Choose Your Partners Carefully
Image via Wikipedia The huge backlash against the Susan G. Komen breast cancer charity for cutting ties with Planned Parenthood could have easily been averted. Komen could have simply avoided partnering with the controversial pro-abortion rights group in the first place. The money at stake is a few hundred thousand dollars, which

Malignant Politics
Antiabortion zealots want to shut off funding to any organization that performs abortions—even if those organizations also provide low-cost access to life-saving medical procedures like breast-cancer screenings. And yet they insist on calling themselves “pro life.” That’s the lesson reasonable people will take away from the recent controversy involving the nation’s best-known breast-cancer ...

Planned Parenthood and Susan G. Komen: A Lesson in Media Consumption
We are waging a battle for the soul of America. The stakes are high and our tensions may be even higher. Lesson No. 1 in this battle: Know your facts.

Mammograms Are Not Abortions
Early last week, the mainstream media exploded with news that the Susan G. Komen Foundation, also known as Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an organization dedicated to supporting cancer research and prevention, had announced that it was going to … Continue reading →

What Breast Cancer Advocates Owe to the Abortion Rights Fight
The Komen foundation got served a reminder that all the women's health causes are a legacy of the feminist fights of the 1970s.

A pebble dropped in a pond: the widening legacy of Hannah Hatlen
On Oct. 18, 2005, Kathie Hatlen, of Tsawwassen, took her four-year-old daughter, Hannah, to her morning skating lesson.

Plant, Sickles softball teams going to bat for breast cancer survivors
Sometimes, the school colors on the team uniform don't matter that much. And neither does the final score of the game.

LESSON on LEGACY
Mike Zoccali, a seventh-grade teacher in social studies at Austintown Middle School, created a scholarship in his father’s name in 2007. His father, Anthony Zoccali, was an educator in Austintown for 30 years and died in 1999.