STRATEGIES FOR ASBESTOS VICTIMS

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ASBESTOS THE INDUSTRIAL KILLER OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Legal Aspects:

• Since 1988 - Brazilian Constitution accepts suing for "employer's omission not only for serious fault"

• Moral damages + Physical damages

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SOCIAL ACTIVISM:

ACTIONS:

• Seminars with other unionists

• Demonstrations

• Getting visibility for the victims

COUNTER-POWERS: ANTI-GLOBALIZATION MOVEMENT COMING FROM BELOW

Tools To Fight Against Exclusion:

• Eternit in 1996 started offering extrajudicial agreements (from US$2,000 to 6,000) resigning to sue the company+health care treatment/care+medicines managed by Eternit

• 300 Ex-workers accepted

• Other small/medium companies followed Eternit

 
 
Answering and Challenging the Global Power Elites,

 
 
Reinforcing the Local Powers

 
 
THINK LOCALLY, ACT GLOBALLY

CYBERCOMMUNITIES:

• Reinforcing collective group actions

• Reinforcing the solidariety between north-south, among social movements, NGOS and asbestos victims groups

• Respecting the local culture and social differences

• Creating "watchdogs" to follow the action of the European asbestos corporations acting in the developing world and territories overseas reporting to the European Parliament