As I’ve mentioned here in several other posts, April 1 is National Asbestos Awareness Day, and April 1-7 is National Asbestos Awareness Week. This event is sponsored by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO). Please support them in this event. The link to their site is in my blogroll. Visit them to find out more and ask them what you can do to help.

Think about it. How can we get more attention on the needs of people suffering from asbestos related disease, on a larger scale? What would you like to see? How can we get a grassroots campaign up and running? I think it’s really going to take one person interested and concerned talking to another. Literally spreading the word.Let’s get busy and tell America that asbestos is not a thing of the past, that it is a very real danger today and for their future!

The 4th Annual Asbestos Awareness Day is set for Tuesday, April 1, 2008. The first week of April, April 1-7, also is Asbestos Awareness Week.

On October 6th, 2004, Senator Harry Reid introduced Senate Asbestos Awareness Day Resolution (S. Res. 448). This resolution, proposed by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), designates April 1st as National Asbestos Awareness Day. Then, in 2007, Senate Resolution 108 designated the first week of April as National Asbestos Awareness Week.

In conjunction with Asbestos Awareness Day, the ADAO is having a conference March 28-29, with a remembrance service on Sunday, March 30. These events will be held in Detroit, MI, with the main conference events on Saturday at the Karmanos Cancer Institute. I am planning to attend the conference and hope to put up a lot of posts about the events and speakers.

In addition to the main conference activities, Jordan Zevon, son of acclaimed singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, who passed away from Mesothelioma in 2003, will be at the conference for a meet-and-greet Friday night and will speak on Saturday. He is the National Spokesperson for ADAO. Also, ADAO will present a number of awards Saturday to honor the people who have made a difference in Asbestos Disease Awareness.

For more information, or to register to attend the conference (deadline is TOMORROW, Feb. 28!) visit ADAO online.