Gamblor’s World

Will Also Highlight Gambling Industry’s Drive to Transform States Into
‘Casino Republics’

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following was
released today by the National Coalition Against Gambling Expansion:

WHAT: At a time when casino gambling is one of the hottest issues in
many state capitols across the nation, the National Coalition
Against Gambling Expansion will call on federal leaders to apply
existing trade and consumer laws to slot machines, something they
say is not happening at the state level because state officials
have become too dependent upon gambling profits to pay for public
services. NCAGE will also highlight how the casino industry is
subverting the democratic process in these states to push slots
into communities with little transparency and public input.

NCAGE is a national coalition representing over 26 million in all
50 states concerned about the public health, economic and social
impacts of promoting casino gambling in nearby locales.

WHO: MIT Professor Dr. Natasha Schull, author of Machine Life:
Control and Compulsion in Las Vegas, to be published by Princeton
University Press in 2008

Roger Horbay, President of Game Planit Interactive Corp, a
recognized expert in the field of Electronic Gaming and
Electronic Gaming Machines and how the technology contributes to
the development and maintenance of pathological gambling
http://www.gameplanit.com/

Tim Potts, cofounder of Democracy Rising Pennsylvania, a group
formed in August 2004 as a direct response to the
unconstitutional enactment of the law that made Pennsylvania the
slot machine capital of the East Coast
http://www.democracyrisingpa.com/

Daniel Hunter, Executive Director of Casino-Free Philadelphia,
an organization opposing casino development in Philadelphia
neighborhoods
http://www.casinofreephila.org/

WHEN: Friday, October 12th at 10 a.m.

WHERE: The National Press Club, Zenger Room, 529 14th Street NW,
Washington, DC

SOURCE National Coalition Against Gambling Expansion

——————————————————————————–

Link to this page:

back to top

Related links:

http://www.casinofreephila.org/

http://www.democracyrisingpa.com/