National Asbestos Awareness Day
April 1, 2005 has been proclaimed National Asbestos Awareness Day by the U.S. Senate. To highlight the plight of American asbestos victims and call for a national asbestos ban, a press conference is being held in Washington, D.C. on April 1 by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), a new asbestos victims group. The slideshow presentation which the ADAO will show on that occasion, entitled Keep Me in Your Heart, is a dramatic and effective depiction of the damage done by the widespread and uncontrolled use of asbestos in the U.S. By juxtaposing powerful visual images with the music of Warren Zevon, himself an asbestos victim, this piece evokes the collective loss and personal tragedies which have been caused by hazardous asbestos exposures. The ADAO's call for collective action to secure an asbestos ban and protection of asbestos victims' rights gives hope to thousands of people whose human rights are being threatened by Congressional plans for “tort reform.”
The slideshow can be seen at: http://adao.corefusion.net
For information about other ADAO activities scheduled for April 1, see the website: http://www.asbestosdiseaseawareness.org/
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March 23, 2005
