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Sacramento Press Conference and Hearing On The Collapse of Protection

For Injured Workers, Workers Comp Cover-up and Crisis In Healthcare

Schedule

Friday August 1, 2008

12:00 PM Educational Panel on Emergency Crisis For Injured Workers,

Ca-OSHA, EPA and the Healthcare Crisis w/ VIP Speakers

Testimony and Reports by Injured Workers, Advocates and Experts on

the Workers Compensation Crisis and the crisis in the regulatory

agencies

4:00 PM Press Conference

Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate and Candidate For President

With Matt , Former President San Francisco Board Of

Supervisors

& Other Candidates

Release Of Documents and/ or Information on:

The Destruction of Ca-OSHA and the resulting emergency health and

safety conditions for California workers including Superfund Sites,

Release Of Documents and/ or Information on:

Biotech industry and for farm workers.

Release Of Documents and/ or Information on:

The Cover-Up of the Downey Superfund Site in Southern California and

The meaning of this for our environment!

Release Of Documents and/or Information on:

The failure of the CA Department of Insurance Commissioner Steve

Poizner and the District Attorney's to pursue fraud charges against

the insurance industry and employers

The growing corruption crisis within the EPA along with other

government agencies, both state and federal, that are in charge of

protecting the environment and keeping toxins out of our communities

has been compromised. The affects of the collapse of health and

safety protection, the growing destruction of agencies such as the

Federal EPA, California Department of Pesticides and the deregulation

of workers compensation are creating an emergency situation for the

workers and people of California and the United States.

Ca-OSHA which is supposed to protect 11 million workers of California

has eliminated all 7 Physicians, that are charged with protecting the

workers health and safety in California. There is no proper oversight

by this agency for biotechnology and new industries like

nanotechnolgy. In the city of Downey, CA, a former superfund site

which became a " Brownfield " site at the stroke of a pen, has been

developed without being properly cleaned up. With proper oversight

and corrections being thrown by the wayside, this dangerous site,

which now houses the Downey Studios, the Downey Kaiser Regional

Hospital Complex and a Shopping Center, has been allowed to be

developed. Hundreds of workers are now facing health problems, with

the companies suing each other over their own liabilities and the

Federal government is being made a scapegoat for these injuries at

the Taxpayers expense. These toxic sites and the release of

genetically engineered products into our farms and communities

without proper oversight are a growing deadly danger to our health

and the health of other living things.

This information hearing and press conference will focus on these

cases and the systemic crisis gripping our health and safety and

environment.

Please Get Involved, Join us in an Action to recover OUR Civil

Rights!

Hawthorn Suites, Sutter Room

321 Bercut Drive

Sacramento, CA 95811

Free parking

Sponsored by

California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day CCWMD

www.workersmemorialday.org

For registration and advance interviews for the media call

(415)867-0628

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