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I just came across this information and though that if anyone was in Arizona and wanted to participate on this project, they could contact the organizer… They seem to be looking for interpretors / translators to join their team. Read more.

BISBEE — A volunteer team of medical professionals is being formed to conduct limited screenings and health interviews of striking copper miners in Cananea, Sonora, and organizers hope to add some local health professionals and translators to the team.

Garrett Brown, Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network coordinator, is one of the organizers of the four-day excursion, Oct. 5-8, to Cananea. He is looking for Spanish-speaking volunteers to help with translation and health services for the team members that will interview those striking miners still remaining in Sierra Vista’s sister city.

“We are trying to put together a volunteer team, all expenses paid but no fees, to conduct limited medical screenings and industrial hygiene-related interviews of some of the miners who have been on strike for seven weeks against the giant Grupo Mexico conglomerate at the Cananea mine where the 1910 Mexican Revolution began,” he said.

…The October team includes Dr. Robert Cohen and senior pulmonary technician Moises Ortega from Cook County Hospital in Chicago; Dr. Marian Fierro, a Mexican occupational health physician currently conducting research at the University of Arizona in Tucson; Heather Barr, an occupational health nurse practitioner at University of California-San Francisco; Enrique Medina, a certified industrial hygienists from San Diego; Ingrid Zubieta, an industrial hygienist from UCLA’s Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program in Los Angeles; and Brown.

How to help

The project will go to Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, on Oct. 5-8. If you or anyone you know are potentially available for this emergency short-term project, contact Garrett Brown at gdbrown@igc.org or (510) 558-1014 or (510) 622-2913.