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jillan

(39,451 posts)
Sat Feb 4, 2012, 01:43 AM Feb 2012

Sunlight is the best disinfectant - SGK will sue you if you use "the cure" to fundraise ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/komen-foundation-charities-cure_n_793176.html

A family was being sued by Komen for "Kites for the Cure" to raise money for lung cancer.

Another women was threatened to be sued by them for using "Mush for the Cure" which was a dog-sledding fundraiser for ... breast cancer.

More at the link.

Not one more dime to these slimeballs.
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant - SGK will sue you if you use "the cure" to fundraise ... (Original Post) jillan Feb 2012 OP
Damn right! CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2012 #1
Time to Start Using, "Remedy" TlalocW Feb 2012 #2
Robert Smith needs to tour behind The Cure's new album and cut them a new one saras Feb 2012 #3
Hell yes!! jillan Feb 2012 #5
that is so sickening. Whisp Feb 2012 #4
I thought this was an ongoing theme Motown_Johnny Feb 2012 #6

TlalocW

(15,378 posts)
2. Time to Start Using, "Remedy"
Sat Feb 4, 2012, 02:27 AM
Feb 2012

Or something like, "Mush for the Cu.. uh, Remedy," just to poke the bear a little bit.

TlalocW

 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
6. I thought this was an ongoing theme
Sat Feb 4, 2012, 04:23 AM
Feb 2012

They go after anyone who uses "for a/the cure" no matter what.

It has been going on for years.

http://www.startribune.com/local/122911838.html

^snip^

Sue Prom helped organize the "Mush for a Cure" sled-dog race to raise money to fight breast cancer five years ago, a fundraiser that was humming along nicely until it received a letter from an attorney for the organization Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Komen, best known for its pink ribbons, Mother's Day runs and other mega-fundraisers for breast cancer research, asked Prom to stop using the phrase "for a cure" and to halt its request for a Mush for a Cure trademark.

"It was like, 'You've got to be kidding,'" said Prom, whose all-volunteer fundraiser outside Grand Marais, Minn., raised about $30,000 last year.

"People are donating money to this organization [Komen] to fight cancer -- not to fight another organization fighting breast cancer."

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