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November 09, 2005

"Run for your life!" Chennai beach run for Bhopal

MESSAGE FROM DHARMESH, CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY DESK, CHENNAI

On the 21st anniversary of Bhopal we at Chennai are organizing an awareness run in Besant Nagar - a very popular coastal locality in city of Chennai. The theme of the run would revolve around the relevance of the Bhopal Gas Disaster to our lives today. The theme will also look at a general awareness on the need for safe environment and greater corporate accountability in our corporate ruled lives.

The route of the run will cover an area of about 5kms and will end with a candle-light-vigil at Elliot's Beach (a popular beach in Besant Nagar). This beach is a weekend crowd puller and the 3rd of December being a Saturday will have a considerable gathering. We are inviting schools, friends and local residents to participate. We invite your suggestions to help us make this action more effective and significant.

Thank you, Dharmesh

Please contact Dharmesh for more information

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November 02, 2005

Halloween: Dow is Death

On Halloween - Oct. 31st, 2005 - students at schools across the country organized events linking Dow with Death. "Halloween is the perfect time to highlight the unholy alliance that Dow and Death seem to have made," said Deepa Pendse, a member of AID-Ann Arbor.

Body outlines, sketched in chalk, punctuated the sidewalk around the Dow Laboratory at the University of Michigan, and on the Tufts University campus as well. Students wrote the names of the victims to remember the individual tragedy and loss that so many people in Bhopal felt on THAT NIGHT. At Tufts and Boston University, the Boston Coalition for Justice in Bhopal gathered signatures for the "Don't Work for Dirty Dow" pledge and handed out fliers with the message that "Dow profits from Death." Students were also haunted by the Dow Grim Reaper, making special appearances at two prominent universities.

Most famous for the death he spread in Bhopal, Vietnam, and Nicaragua, the Dow Grim Reaper emphasized that his legacy extends around the world, and gleefully posed for a front-page photograph in the Michigan Daily.

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