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DESCRIPTION:Our Bay Area Air Quality Under Threat & The Fired Whistleblowers At Bay 
 Area Air Quaility Management District BAAQMD\nSunday March 19, 2017 1:30 
 PM\nSan Francisco Main Library Latino Room Lower Level\n100 Larkin St./8th 
 and Market Civic Center BART Station\nSan Francisco\n\nThe recent 
 revelations from two Bay Area Air Quality Management District, Michael 
 Bachmann who was the manager of records and Sarah Steele an employee who 
 were involved in protecting records and documents discovered the deliberate 
 destruction of critical pollution records, settlements and fines and were 
 retaliated against is very serious. In August 2015, Bachmann was alerted 
 that documents were being destroyed even though they were subject to a 
 subpoena in current litigation involving Berkeley’s Pacific Steel 
 Casting. \n\nThere have been continuing ongoing dangerous  gas and oil 
 leaks by Chevron, Tesoro, Shell, Philipps 66 and other polluters as well as 
 the deaths of the workers and serious health problems in many bay area 
 communities where these refineries and toxic plants exist. Destroying 
 pollution records and the history of these polluters is not only 
 inexcusable but criminal.\n\nThese two BAAQMD employees put their careers 
 and jobs  on the line to protect the public and the health and safety of 
 our  environment and  top executives of the BAAQD illegally conspired to 
 thwart these employees by firing them from this public agency. 
 Unfortunately workplace bullying and retaliation against whistleblowers is 
 a systemic problem not just at this agency but at other public agencies as 
 well.\n\nThe epidemic of  illegal retaliation of whistleblowers like 
 Quality Assurance Manager Michael Madry at Test America and other 
 whistleblowers at Tetra Tech which the Navy had hired  for tests at Hunters 
 Point and Treasure Island have all taken place without any accountability 
 by government agencies like OSHA WPP and District Attorneys and the State 
 Attorney General.\n\nThe  regional independent  agency BAAQMD  is 
 responsible to protect the air quality of the over 12 million people in 
 Northern California and this forum will discuss the continuing 
 contamination issues facing people in the bay area and the role of the 
 BAAQMD management  in the bullying and discharge of workers.\n\nIt will 
 also discuss how people can defend these whistleblowers and force the 
 California Attorney General and District Attorneys to protect public 
 workers who are criminally retaliated against for doing their job and 
 protecting the interests of the public.\n\n\nInitial Speakers:\nDr. Larry 
 Rose, Former Cal-OSHA Medical Director\nDr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai,  
 Radiological Subcommittee of the Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration 
 Advisory Board, Founder Radiological Subcommittee of Hunters Point Ship 
 Yard & Veterans Administration Environmental Registry former Medical 
 Officer\nSteve Nadel, Sunflower Alliance\nFrancisco Da costa, Hunters Point 
 Environmental Justice Advocacy, Director S.E. Sector Community Development 
 Corporation\nSteve Ingraham, West Berkley Alliance For Clean Air & 
 Jobs\nDaniel Berman, Author of "Death On The Job"\n\nSponsored by\nUnited 
 Public Workers For Action\nwww.upwa.info\nInjured Workers National 
 Network\nStop Workplace Bullying 
 Group\nhttp://stopworkplacebullyinggroup.org\ninfo(at)upwa.info\n(415)282-1908\n\nAdditional 
 info:\nhttps://youtu.be/QuMHn1FqDAE\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TkxcCZtHQQ\nhttp://www.dailycal.org/2017/02/22/whistleblowers-file-claim-bay-area-air-quality-management-district/\nhttp://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/02/22/whistleblowers-mystery-file-cabinet-dumped-boxes-of-pollution-records-part-of-air-regulators-document-destruction/\nhttp://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Ex-air-quality-workers-say-district-illegally-10949383.php\nhttp://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/02/22/former-bay-area-air-quality-agency-workers-file-whistleblower-claim/\nhttp://www.berkeleycitizen.org/Pacific%20Steel/pacific8.htm\nhttps://youtu.be/W9cbCtKBlkQ\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/03/07/18797134.php
SUMMARY:Our Bay Area Air Quality Under Threat & the Fired Whistleblowers at BAAQMD
LOCATION:San Francisco Main Library Latino Room Lower Level\n100 Larkin St./8th and 
 Market Civic Center BART Station\nSan Francisco\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/03/07/18797134.php
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