TO: All worker health and safety advocates Popcorn Lung Roadhouse Blues

[Omaha Steve]

http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/popcorn-lung-roadhouse-blues/

December 11, 2008 in Confined Space @ TPH, Flavoring Workers' Lung (Popcorn/Diacetyl), Occupational Health & Safety, Regulation | by Celeste Monforton

TO: All worker health and safety advocates, seekers of justice and protections for working people, and friends of healthy work environments:

The American Public Health Association’s (APHA) OHS Section has not, and will not, forget about the deadly and disabling illnesses caused by workplace exposure to the butter flavoring agent diacetyl. Our solidarity with workers is demonstrated through our scientific research, teaching and policy practice, and advocacy—and most recently, in song.

The “Popcorn Lung Roadhouse Blues,” with lyrics written and sung by Luis Vazquez, was performed at the APHA’s annual meeting (San Diego, Nov 2008) by the OHS Thespian Collective. Sung to the tune of Roadhouse Blues by Jim Morrison and the Doors, the lyrics include:

At the factory I work at I breathe diacetyl.

Inhaling a chemical I did not know could kill.

The doctors they don’t me that what made me ill.

Watch the video here on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzF9PmKIXI0&feature=channel_page

The whole segment runs 0:05:25 with the Popcorn Lung Roadhouse Blues song beginning at 0:01:30.

APHA’s OHS Section is a 725-person diverse and dynamic group of public health advocates who are committed to ensuring—-through research, practice and policy—-workers’ fundamental right to healthy and safe workplaces. OHS Section members are part of the larger 50,000 member American Public Health Association. One of the highlights of each year’s Annual Meeting is OHS Section’s Award Lunch, with feature entertainment provided by the OHS Thespian Collective.

FULL story at link.

[KT2000]

1. Sometimes I think

that APHA is our last hope.
OCC/Env Med specialty (Americal College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine) has been turned over to the corporate doctors.