Note: For the ease of global sharing, we have posted the La Stampa article in Italian and English "Sunday July the 17th, 2011 Alessandria edition of La Stampa by Silvana Mossano, Torino, Italy Arrivano i francesi. Saranno i 5 legali d’Oltralpe a chiudere, domani, lo spazio della discussione riservato alle parti civili. Sono stati rappresentati, finora, [...]
Guest Blog by Leah Nielsen and Stacy Cattran March 7th, 2008--a day that changed our lives forever as we learned a new word: mesothelioma. We are Leah Nielsen and Stacy Cattran, sisters raised in rural Ontario, Canada, where our dad, Bill, worked as an electrician building a power plant. At age 63, he and our [...]
Guest blog by Ross Barber Scandal Theatre is proud to be working alongside the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) to bring our asbestos-themed production, The Translator's Dilemma to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. "Ottavia, a lecturer in translation studies, is covering a class for a friend. When she opens the notes, however, she realises the [...]
Turin, Italy, July 4th, 2011 Statement by the asbestos victims' association of Casale Monferrato, Associazione Famigliari e Vittime dell'Amianto (AFEVA) "In a criminal trial in Turin, prosecutor Raffaele Guariniello delivered a closing statement in the trial of asbestos magnates Stephan Schmidheiny and Belgian Baron Jean Louis Marie Ghislain De Cartier de Marchienne. ‘An appalling disaster’ [...]
UPDATE: July 6, 2011 – Transcript from President Obama’s Twitter Town Hall "Fireside chats were to Roosevelt what social media is to Obama," said Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, a website on politics and technology. The Twitter session was effective, he said, because it is "an instantaneous medium and a broadcast media [...]
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