Posted on March 1, 2018
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Come hear excellent investigative journalist, Chris Graham of New Matilda, speak at our 14th Annual International Asbestos Awareness and Prevention Conference on April 14th, 2018! Later that same evening, Chris and Michael Gillard will be honored with The Andrew Schneider Memorial Award for their excellent investigative journalism.
On Michael Gillard & Chris Graham wrote: In Australia, workers who mined and processed asbestos were called “Snowmen” because they’d emerge at the end of every shift covered in the white fibres. The companies who employed those men – firms like James Hardie and CSR – knew that their product was deadly and caused cancer. They mined it, processed it and sold it anyway, until the Australian government, under pressure from the anti-asbestos movement of activists, unionists and lawyers, acted to protect public health. While asbestos is now banned in Australia, the industry still thrives overseas. In particular, growth is strong in our backyard of Asia, where poor nations are targeted by the new asbestos lobby of producers, manufacturers and their lawyers, some of whom are prepared to go to almost any lengths to protect their profits and peddle their poison. In this special New Matilda investigation, British journalist Michael Gillard and New Matilda editor Chris Graham reveal as yet unpublished details of a global spying operation on Australian and other international activists and officials, who remain locked in a battle to stop the trail of death and misinformation in poorly regulated Asian economies.”
Read their two-part series:
I look forward to seeing many of you in Washington soon!