3 minutes – 3 easy steps – Can Save Lives

1)      Click, print, sign and fax one or both of these letters to Honorable Jean Charest

12.15.2010 Template Letter to: The Honorable Jean Charest (English)

12.15.2010 Template Letter: The Honorable Jean Charest (French) 

Note of thanks: These letters are courtesy of the Building and Wood Workers’ International(BWI) and thanks to Rory O’Neil, Hazards Campaign,  was the first to circulate them.

2)      Email your signed and faxed letter to Kathleen and Sugio (emails below)

3)      Post and share via Facebook, Twitter, and to your personal contacts via email 

BACKGROUND INFORMATION 

Press Kit: The Solidarity Delegation from Asia to Quebec 

LETTERS:

12.14.2010 Québec Premier Jean Charest letter to Linda Reinstein

12.8.2010 Asbestos Victims’ Organizations Joint Letter

PRESS RELEASES:

12.8.2010 ADAO Press Release: ADAO Commends Asbestos Victims’ Organizations’ Joint Letter and “Voices on the Wall” Campaign, Demonstrating Global Unity in Call to “Say No to Jeffrey Mine” in Canada

6.28.2010 ADAO Press Release: Global Campaign against Quebec’s Asbestos Mining

FACEBOOK:

Global Ban Asbestos Network Facebook page 

Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization “Voices on the Wall” 

For additional information please visit the Global Ban Asbestos Network (GBAN) and International Ban Asbestos Secretariat (IBAS)

We had a wonderful TV News (21-22 horas) http://www.tvcultura.com.br/jornal-da-cultura/ where I was again one of the stage with an Economy, Philosophy and Ethics Professors Unicamp. 

I was in the whole Jornal da Cultura last night (December, 10th), but the asbestos is introduced just in the beginning as a call. The whole report is in the second part (segundo bloco) is on the right part has a small menu. 

The central debate is: the TV followed me in the inspection I did on 9/12/2010 in Leme (250 km far from Sao Paulo) which is a region where we have 2 asbestos-cement plants (one of them is the biggest national group).  Continue reading →

The Québec Premier Jean Charest sends a disappointing reply in response to the 40 Asbestos Victims’ Organizations who signed a joint letter from around the world representing seventeen different countries. 

Québec Premier to Reinstein

ADAO Press Release

Asbestos Victims’ Organizations Joint Letter

ADAO Commends Asbestos Victims’ Organizations’ Joint Letter and “Voices on the Wall” Campaign, Demonstrating Global Unity in Call to “Say No to Jeffrey Mine” in Canada  Continue reading →

To my GBAN Friends, 

I would like to congratulate ABREA, ADAO, and all of the GBAN Charter Members for this successful accomplishment.  The number of people worldwide now reaching out to each other through this mass media tool is indeed astonishing and gratifying.  For the first time in my nearly 40 years of researching asbestos and recommending actions to prevent asbestos-related disease GBAN has given me and like minded people around the world a mass media tool that allows us to communicate on an instantaneous basis.  Continue reading →

The Lancet: “Canada accused of hypocrisy over asbestos exports”

“Although Canada will not expose its own citizens to asbestos, its plans to continue exporting the deadly substance to developing countries has drawn widespread condemnation.”  Read Tony Kirby’s December 11, 2010  full report online at The Lancet.

The Solidarity Delegation from Asia to Québec will be holding a press conference in the Quebec National Assembly and a press conference in the House of Commons on Thursday, December 9^th.

Please show your support for these seven courageous delegates by posting your message on the GBAN Facebook page at

Solidarity Delegation from Asia to Québec Press Release: “Human Life Is More Important Than Asbestos Industry Profits”

Solidarity Delegation from Asia to Québec Press Kit