"2008 Darrell Powell -Day of Mourning - Affirmative Action Special"

 Reviewing the service and effect of Worker Compensation Schemes in Canada and Population Health

Dedicated to all those who have suffered and fallen due to workplace injury, disability and Worker Compensation schemes in Canada

"Wake Up With Co-Op!" with Charles Boylan

- Host /Producer

   A one and one half hour special show

 April 28^th, 2008

  7:30-9:00 a.m. PST // 10:30 - 12:00 EST

Listen to 102.7 F.M. - CFRO -FM Vancouver BC, Can.  

Live: http://www.coopradio.org/  [also BC Shaw Cable listings]

Archived: http://www.wakeupwithcoop.org/

Narrated and Co-produced by

 Darrell Powell

[Official Witness to the Senate Committee on Mental Health, testifying as an 'Individual- Person Disabled Due to Occupation and the WCB Process,' Darrell Powell has traveled and met extensively with leaders of NGOs in health, Mental & Physical Health providers , medical associations/ governing bodies of health, researchers and academics, representatives in both Federal and Provincial Governments, peer and advocacy groups, labour, legal community as well as individuals affected by disability and associative issues of health, acceptance and recovery.  He has worked extensively during and after the Standing Senate Committee Social, Science and Technology - Mental Health hearings to raise awareness about the injustices disabled workers and their families experience and to make sure initiatives and developments in health and rights law include the disabled worker community.  He is set to testify at the Senate Subcommittee on Population Health, presently underway.]

..."2008 is a special year, as world leaders in health and social policy look to the cause of the causes of ill health in populations, WCBs in Canada and elsewhere are coming under scrutiny for methods that are representative of negative social structural determinants of health, creating barriers to health for the individual, increasing vulnerabilities to those disabled due to occupation. This is negatively impacting the population and it is time that a paradigm shift in view to health, disability and social policy occurs, and the social agreement with Canadians is reviewed for the sake of Canadians, It is time for affirmative action." -Darrell Powell

Moderator, Charles Boylan, Producer/Co-Host, Wake Up With Co-Op!