All posts tagged cancer

From Big Tobacco to Big Corn: the time to stand up for the right to health is NOW

Two years ago, I was taking multiple steroid inhalers every day for asthma, which began in the aftermath of a couple of bouts of pneumonia, and was always accompanied by typical seasonable allergy issues—coughing, sneezing, runny nose. In the summer of 2010, in addition to the usual asthma and allergy symptoms, I also came down [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 27, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 27, 2012

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/from-big-tobacco-to-big-corn-the-time-to-stand-up-for-the-right-to-health-is-now/

Cancer blues

This is a post about cancer. This is a post in honor of all the men, women and children who have died from cancer in the post-industrial age. This is a post that acknowledges, fully, the extent to which American society has led the way in the extermination of these people–these cancer victims. How many [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 18, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 18, 2012

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/cancer-blues/

Turn those pink ribbons green

I’m going to make a confession.  I never could stand those pink ribbons.  I’ve never done a “Walk for the Cure” or bought daffodils for cancer victims or even picked a cancer-cure-themed postage stamp. I’m glad to hear that the Komen Foundation has bowed to pressure and is restoring funding to Planned Parenthood, a worthwhile [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 3, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 3, 2012

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/turn-those-pink-ribbons-green/

Hope, Struggle, Dream, Persist: A Mantra for Dark Times

It is the day after Halloween, the Day of the Dead, and the day before my birthday.  It is one of the darkest days of the year, and a week from now, when American standard time “falls back,” it will seem darker still. I was born in 1962, just after the Cuban Missile Crisis, as [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 1, 2011  •  Permalink
Posted in Activism, Alternative Futures, Environment, Health, New stories, Resilience, Social change, Spiritual growth
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 1, 2011

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/hope-struggle-dream-persist-a-mantra-for-dark-times/

Resisting the Vampires

This morning in class we were talking about the third essay in Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals, in which one of the dominant metaphors is that of sickness and health. Nietzsche argues that an “ascetic priest”, who tends the masses through religion, science, politics or any kind of dogmatism, acts as physician to the sufferer, [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on October 24, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on October 24, 2011

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/resisting-the-vampires/