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Story: RITA LASAR, WHO LOST HER BROTHER IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACK, SPEAKS WITH US FROM AFGHANISTAN, WHERE SHE IS MEETING WITH AFGHANS WHO LOST THEIR LOVED ONES IN THE U.S. BOMBING

Guest:

• Rita Lasar, who lost her brother Abe Zelmanowitz in the World Trade Center attack, speaking from Afghanistan, where she is meeting with Afghans who lost their loved ones in the U.S. bombing.

Today, we will meet a doctor who has treated a parade of Ground Zero patients . . . a lawyer working on behalf of police union activists investigating why so many cops are coughing . . . a parent whose son goes to Stuyvesant High School, blocks from Ground Zero, where kids are suffering nosebleeds and other respiratory problems . . . organizers who started a free mobile health unit to treat the hundreds of sick workers . . . and a woman who was sent to the emergency room twice because of toxins in her apartment. A roundtable discussion.

Guests:

• Marilena Christodoulou, Head of the Stuyvesant High School Parents Association.
• Omar Henriquez, Safety and Health Specialist, New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH)
• Joel Kupferman, Director, New York Environmental Law and Justice Project.
• Dr. Stephen Levin, medical director, Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
• Joel Shufro, Executive Director, New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH).
• Wendy Tabb, resident, lower Manhattan, who had to leave her apartment because her symptoms were so severe. She still has not moved back.

• Nora Rosenthal, organizer, Center for the Biology of Natural Systems.

• Stuyvesant Parents' Association
• New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health
• New York Environmental Law & Justice Project