April was an amazing month for ADAO. Leading with the Senate's unanimous passing of the 12th Annual Resolution establishing "National Asbestos Awareness Week", we began Global Asbestos Awareness Week (GAAW) with significant momentum. Thanks to The McOnie Agency, our GAAW materials were translated into 21 languages and distributed to 44 countries. The U.S. Surgeon General also issued the 5th awareness statement.

 

Our 2016 conference was simply spectacular!  Everyone agreed this was the best year ever.  If you missed it, you can still watch the presentations and events on Live Stream; or read a write-up of Earl Dotter's powerful exhibit, BADGES: A Memorial Tribute to Asbestos Workers; and watch the special video below of Doug Larkin, ADAO Co-founder, who continues to make a powerful and irreplaceable contribution to ADAO and the ban asbestos movement.

We ended the month with an amazing International Workers' Memorial Day (IWMD) with more global awareness, union mobilization, and action to ban asbestos than ever before!