The area has long been the site of government neglect. We're all part of a chemical experiment. Brenner explained BCA's position that the Month is a corporate campaign. AstraZeneca produces Tamoxifen, the most commonly prescribed drug for breast cancer. AstraZeneca controls cancer treatment centers, has financial control of their drug, and, until last year, ironically also made pesticides.
Corporations benefit greatly from establishing brand loyalty among children.
This is accomplished not only through conventional methods like commercials, billboards, and print media, but also by for-profit companies taking over public schools. We learned about the Edison Schools, and how they and other charter schools operate. Teachers have actual scripts, curriculum is scripted, schools must all be the same, like the company's stores. While this may appear benign, the effects of children being indoctrinated in such a way, every day, year after year, are incalculable, robbing them of decision-making power. Yet if school boards had adequate resources, Wilson asserted, they wouldn't be faced with decisions about corporate involvement in schools.