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November 11, 2009
{UK Guardian} 9/11's Delayed Legacy: Cancer for Many of the Rescue Workers
November 6, 2009
{Downtown Express} 9/11 Health Bill
November 3, 2009
{Mount Sinai Press Office} New Mt. Sinai Research Finds 9/11 Responders Twice as Likely to Have Asthma
{U.S. News and World Report} World Trade Center Workers Twice as Likely to Have Asthma
October 30, 2009
{The Chief} Zadroga Bill Priorities: Unions, Activists, Differ
October 26, 2009
{Modern Medicine} GI Disorders in Military, 9/11 Responders Studied
October 23, 2009
{Daily News} Heroism and horror: Detective James Zadroga's sacrifice at WTC must not be in vain
{Daily News} The pain of 9/11 and the days after: Det. James Zadroga's statement to the 9/11 Commission
October 21, 2009
BGZ's Tosh Anderson interviewed on NBC New York!
{NY1} Group Urges Action in Wake of Latest WTC Health Report
{The Epoch Times} Eight Years On and 9/11 Clean-Up Workers Still Coughing
October 13, 2009
{Daily News} Deaths of 9/11 front-liners renew talk of aid bill
{New York Post} Officers who died after 9/11 added to memorial
{Newsday} 3 Long Islanders among those added to NYPD memorial
October 12, 2009
{Daily News}Three heroes of 9/11 die of cancer in five days
{Newsday} NYPD first responder remembered at Smithtown funeral
October 11, 2009
{Newsday} Cop who worked at Ground Zero dies of brain tumor
October 9, 2009
{The Chief} Report: Thousands of 9/11 trauma victims not being treated
May 15, 2009
{Downtown Express} Obama puts in $70 Million for 9/11 Health
February 25, 2009
{New York Law Journal} Plan Is Implemented to Resolve Complex Suits in WTC Cleanup
February 4, 2009
9/11 Health Bill Reintroduced in Congress
November 2008
Beyond Ground Zero and 9/11 Environmental Action launch WE COUNT! A 9/11 Community Health Survey
The Beyond Ground Zero Network (BGZ) is a group of community-based organizations that came together shortly after September 11, 2001 to address the severe health and economic impact of the World Trade Center’s collapse on Lower Manhattan’s low-income communities, especially among immigrants in Chinatown and the Lower East Side. BGZ saw that despite the enormous attention given to the post-9/11 recovery effort, the impact on the poorest residents and workers of Chinatown and the Lower East Side remains largely ignored.
By conducting wide-scale surveys of low-income residents and workers in these neighborhoods from 2002 to the present, BGZ discovered that thousands of people are still coping with severe 9/11-related illnesses without access to health care or assistance of any kind. Using a grassroots community-based outreach and educational model to connect underserved communities, BGZ has developed and coordinated strategies to ensure critical and immediate assistance for all low-income individuals affected by 9-11.
BGZ’s member organizations are:
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association
Commission on the Public’s Health System
National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center