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CafePress willing to stop donating to Autism Speaks - please help w/input
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Meega Na La Queesta
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CafePress willing to stop donating to Autism Speaks - please help w/input
http://community.livejournal.com/asperger/2730704.html
Backstory: CafePress used to donate 10% of money from all autism-related purchases to Autism Speaks during April.
After much objection from our people, CafePress has agreed to phase this out. This year, they're starting by donating 50% of money collected to Autism Speaks and 50% to a different, autistic-friendly group. Starting next year, they'll cut off Autism Speaks entirely and give 100% of the money to said autistic-friendly group.
They're running a poll to determine which organization to switch to. Go forth and vote. (Looks like you can vote multiple times.)
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| 04-09-2011 07:58 AM |
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RE: CafePress willing to stop donating to Autism Speaks - please help w/input
Why don't they just go cold turkey? Why "phase it out" instead? Politics is what, I guess. *goes to vote*
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RE: CafePress willing to stop donating to Autism Speaks - please help w/input
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| 04-09-2011 08:25 AM |
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Ana54
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RE: CafePress willing to stop donating to Autism Speaks - please help w/input
Me too. Though I confess I don't know about the others. But ASAN is more vocal, so I knew about it.
Genocide is defined as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, social, political, economic, intellectual, familial, genetic, or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
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RE: CafePress willing to stop donating to Autism Speaks - please help w/input
This is great that people are starting to realize what Autism Speaks is really about.
Does Autism Speaks publish a list of their other donors?
I voted ASAN.
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| 04-09-2011 02:23 PM |
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RE: CafePress willing to stop donating to Autism Speaks - please help w/input
Why don't they just go cold turkey? Why "phase it out" instead? Politics is what, I guess. *goes to vote*
They already said they would donate to Autism Speaks, and presumably have some sort of contract.
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RE: CafePress willing to stop donating to Autism Speaks - please help w/input
http://community.livejournal.com/asperger/2730704.html
Backstory: CafePress used to donate 10% of money from all autism-related purchases to Autism Speaks during April.
After much objection from our people, CafePress has agreed to phase this out. This year, they're starting by donating 50% of money collected to Autism Speaks and 50% to a different, autistic-friendly group. Starting next year, they'll cut off Autism Speaks entirely and give 100% of the money to said autistic-friendly group.
They're running a poll to determine which organization to switch to. Go forth and vote. (Looks like you can vote multiple times.)
Doing so makes the results of the poll not legitimate and gives an excuse to ignore them.
Anyway, this is old news by now but i'm curious what happened - it'd be rather perverse to buy an "autism speaks doesn't speak for me" t-shirt and have 10% of the revenue from the purchase funding autism speaks.
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