‘Keep Me in Your
Heart’
Warren Zevon’s Music Highlights New
Slideshow Marking
Asbestos Disease Awareness Day on
April 1st
Manhattan Beach, CA … March 22, 2005 - On April 1st 2005, the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), a volunteer organization of asbestos victims, family, friends, physicians and concerned citizens will participate in a day of global awareness, remembrance and unity – began by launching a powerful slideshow today.
Singer Warren Zevon died in 2003 of mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer uniquely linked to asbestos exposure. “Keep Me in Your Heart,” a song from Zevon’s Grammy-winning album The Wind (awarded posthumously), narrates the slideshow alerting viewers to the dangers of asbestos. “Ignorance about asbestos isn’t bliss,” said Jordan Zevon, son of Warren Zevon and ADAO National Spokesperson, “it’s deadly.”
To see the slideshow, please visit:
Many of the photographs in the slideshow are from photographer/producer Bill Ravenesi’s award-winning exhibit, “Breath Taken: The Landscape and Biography of Asbestos.”
According to Ravenesi, “The efforts put forth by ADAO act as an important reminder that the asbestos tragedy is not behind us, that there are 30 million tons of asbestos in place in the America today, and that we can anticipate yet another 300,000 deaths from on-going asbestos exposure in the next 30 years.”
ADAO remembers the numerous victims affected by asbestos, and celebrates the strength of awareness and unity via Tribute eCards and Reflections, an online global publication, reviewing the tragic history of asbestos use, preventing exposure and detecting asbestos related diseases. A press conference has been schedule in Washington D.C. for April 1st.
"Listening to Warren Zevon's
words and seeing the pictures in the presentation, really brings home the
devastation caused from asbestos", said Pete McPhedran, President of coreFusion
and slideshow designer.
The slideshow was
written and directed by Linda Reinstein, ADAO’s Executive Director and
Co-Founder. “The ADAO slideshow is dedicated to the tens of thousands of
asbestos victims,” said Reinstein, “and their families around the world. May they never be
forgotten.”
For more information, go to www.asbestosdiseaseawareness.org or info@asbestosdiseaseawareness.org
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About Asbestos Disease
Awareness Organization
Asbestos
Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) was founded by asbestos victims and their families. ADAO
seeks to give asbestos victims and concerned citizens a united voice to help
ensure that their rights are fairly represented and protected, while raising
public awareness about the dangers of asbestos exposure and often deadly
asbestos related diseases. ADAO is an independent organization funded through
voluntary contributions and staffed by volunteers. For more information visit
www.asbestosdiseaseawareness.org
Media Contact:
Douglas Larkin
Communications
Director
Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization
(ADAO)
Phone: (703) 250-3590 x1245; Cell: (202)
391-1546
doug@asbestosdiseaseawareness.org