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Maybe they behave better in other parts of the world, but the Red Cross in the USA is everyone's knee-jerk reaction to throw money at, and they have many many i
by ck2 13y ago
Maybe they behave better in other parts of the world, but the Red Cross in the USA is everyone's knee-jerk reaction to throw money at, and they have many many issues:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Cross#Controversies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Cross#Controversie...
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/feb/04/local/me-redcross4 http://articles.latimes.com/2006/feb/04/local/me-redcross4
https://www.google.com/search?q=Red+Cross+resigns https://www.google.com/search?q=Red+Cross+resigns
(note all the resignations are different people!)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/18/red-cross-sandy-recovery/2508065/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/18/red-cro...
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/11/12/the-problem-with-the-red-cross/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/11/12/the-problem...
and there was a huge scandal where they used emergency fund donations to buy furniture for their offices - having trouble finding it right now
- ceejayoz 13y agoThe controversies linked in the Wikipedia article seem pretty ho-hum for an organization the size of the Red Cross. Stuff like credit checks of volunteers, following the FDA's (stupid) rule on blood from homosexual males, a dispute with Johnson + Johnson, etc. hardly support the allegation of mass corruption in the group.