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April 29, 2005

400 Academics Sign Bhopal Petition

Over 400 faculty members and academics at colleges and universities all over the world have signed the Faculty Petition for Justice in Bhopal (online at www.petitiononline.com/dirtydow/). In signing the petition, David Gordon White, a Religious Studies Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, writes

“I was in Bhopal in 1999. The scars of the industrial disaster are still apparent, with people dying of complications, in the streets, to this day.”

Michele Katzler of the Geography Department at London Metropolitan writes,

“I hope that as a UK citizen my sig. can be counted; having been only 14 when the disaster happened I never understood until today what a terrible crime occurred. This must be put right.”

April 28, 2005

Senate warned of terrorist threat to chemical plants

WASHINGTON — A terrorist attack on chemical plants lacking enough federal oversight could cause mass casualties, a former homeland security adviser to the White House told senators on Wednesday.

"The chemicals that we are talking about today are in many cases identical to those used in the battlefield of World War I. They are enormously dangerous. They are produced in truly massive quantities, shipped and stored, in many cases, next to very dense urban populations, and (they) present, in my opinion, the single greatest danger of a potential terrorist attack in our country today," Richard Falkenrath (search), who left the White House in May, told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Jon Corzine (search) also testified before the panel, telling colleagues that in his state, 11 chemical plants are considered high-risk sites. One of them is just a mile and a half from the Holland Tunnel into New York City. He said hundreds of thousands of lives are vulnerable if something were to happen there.

Also attending the hearing was the head of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (search), the commission that investigates and determines the cause of deadly chemical accidents. Carolyn Merritt, who was appointed by President Bush, said that her board concluded that many communities may be vulnerable and inadequately prepared for a major chemical release caused by either an accident or an attack.

Merritt explained that protections today are not adequate enough to prevent a tragedy on the scale of one of the deadliest accidents in modern history — the Union Carbide Corporation (search) poison gas leak in Bhopal, India, in 1984 that left 3,000 dead and 200,000 permanently injured.

"The death toll of the Bhopal accident was extraordinary, but the accident itself was not," she said. "The amount of toxic material released — 43 tons — would fit comfortably into just one rail car."

The federal government estimates that more than 15,000 chemical facilities are located nationwide, including more than 100 in heavily populated areas. About 160 are considered particularly worrisome because they are so vulnerable to a terrorist attack. Such plants can store enough deadly chemicals to kill or injure hundreds of thousands of people.

John Stephenson, director of natural resources and environment at the Government Accountability Office (search), offered more alarming statistics.

"Chemical facilities could each potentially put at risk more than 1 million people to a cloud of toxic gas. About 600 (plants) could each potentially threaten from 100,000 to one million and about 2,300 such facilities could each potentially threaten from 10,000 to 100,000," Stephenson said.

Wednesday's hearing revealed that a growing number of government officials believe the current policy to protect chemical plants — one that relies on the owners and not the government to set the security standard — has to be reconsidered.

Department of Homeland Security officials told FOX News on Tuesday that DHS has no legal authority to force plants to ramp up security. But department spokeswoman Michelle Petrovich said DHS is not waiting for legislation. Inspectors have reviewed security at more than 160 of the 300 plants "of immediate concern" and DHS is helping the most vulnerable shore up security through federal grant programs.

But industry officials who oppose federal regulations like those now placed on commercial airports and nuclear facilities, said voluntary security measures are the best approach.

"Our members are committed to securing their facilities against acts of terrorism," Rob Carver of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association (search), which represents 300 chemical companies, told The Associated Press.

Stephen Flynn, a counterterrorism expert at the Council on Foreign Relations (search), countered that terrorists are looking for the path of least resistance.

"Al Qaeda or one of its many radical jihadist imitators will attempt to carry out a major terrorist attack on the United States within the next five years," Flynn said.

Merritt said that it was only a matter of luck — prevailing winds and rainstorms — that recent chemical accidents in the United States did not cause more mass casualties.

A car that derailed in Graniteville, S.C., in January killed 10 people after several tons of chlorine were released. If a similar incident had happened in a densely populated area, experts say thousands could have been poisoned and killed.

The nation's capital just won support from a federal court that upheld a new ordinance banning rail shipments of toxic chemicals through Washington, D.C., where a terrorist attack on such a train could kill 100,000 people.

Falkenrath, now a visiting fellow for foreign policy studies at The Brookings Institution, said he is disappointed with the laxity of Bush administration policy on chemical plant security.

But, he added: "Regretfully, some portion of this responsibility clearly belongs to me."

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April 27, 2005

The business of killing

After eight years of delays, the UK's corporate manslaughter bill has been neutered to please employers

GEORGE MONBIOT, WRITING IN THE GUARDIAN

It is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, or a tap on the head with a steam hammer. But only just. The new draft bill on corporate manslaughter is a ghost of what was once proposed. But, for the first time in the United Kingdom, there might now be a chance of prosecuting large companies for killing their workers.

No one could accuse the government of rushing. It first promised to introduce an offence of corporate killing at the 1997 Labour conference. It promised again in a Home Office consultation paper in 2000, and again in that year's Queen's speech. Nothing happened, but the promise was repeated in Labour's 2001 manifesto. In May 2003, the Home Office promised a draft bill in the autumn. That autumn, it promised one in the spring. In February 2004, it promised it would be produced in April. In April, it promised the bill would be published during the current parliamentary session. In September, Tony Blair promised that the promise would be kept. Two weeks later, the home secretary said it would come out in the autumn. Autumn, and the parliamentary session came and went. In the Queen's speech at the end of November, the government promised to publish the bill before Christmas. Soon afterwards, it promised that the bill would appear on December 21. On December 17, it confessed this wasn't going to happen, but promised it would be published during the current parliamentary session.

Astonishingly, this promise has been kept. But as the draft bill has to go out to consultation, it cannot be passed during this government, which means that the manifesto promise has been broken. Altogether, that makes 12 broken promises. I think this might be a record.
Between the 1997 Labour conference and today, almost 5,000 people have been killed in "workplace incidents". By the time the law is implemented (assuming that Labour is re-elected and that the latest promise isn't broken), another few hundred are likely to die.

The excuse the home secretary makes for these delays is that the bill deals with a "very complex area of law". Strangely, the same consideration did not stop him from rushing through the Prevention of Terrorism Act, which deals with such straightforward areas of law as convicting people before they've been tried. When a government wants something to happen, it makes it happen, whatever the complexities.

The real problem was that from the day the then home secretary opened his mouth at the 1997 conference, big business started mobilising. The government's proposal was popular, as company directors had been able to walk away without penalties from a series of spectacular disasters: the Piper Alpha explosion, the Southall rail crash and the sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise. So bodies such as the Confederation of British Industry and the Institute of Directors had to proceed carefully. They followed what could be described as the Svejk strategy. At the beginning of Jaroslav Hasek's novel The Good Soldier Svejk, its hero, knowing that he is about to be conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army, persuades a friend to push him into the recruiting office in a wheelchair, where he noisily volunteers for service, while making it clear that, to his enormous regret, such service is in fact impossible.

The CBI and the IoD have both been clamouring to be sent to the front line, while waving their broken legs about. Last week the IoD issued what is surely the world's most back-handed press release. "With the publication today of the draft corporate manslaughter bill, the Institute of Directors' long-running campaign for action finally seems to have paid off. The IoD has been calling for action... since early 2000." The press release goes on to welcome the two provisions that gut the bill: the guarantee that directors themselves will not be prosecuted and the promise that "no new burdens" will "be placed on companies which already comply with health and safety legislation".

The CBI, in its response to the consultation paper in 2000, loudly agreed that "the general law of manslaughter is in need of reform" and that "the public deserve reassurance that business is accountable and takes its responsibilities to society seriously." It went on to argue that "the best results will be achieved by ensuring compliance with the current law". Pressing as the need for change is, in other words, it would be better if it doesn't happen.

Every time the bill was about to be published, someone in the cabinet flinched. The chief flincher has been Jack Straw, who also happens to be the man who first proposed it, in 1997. Last October, he sent a letter to the deputy prime ministerinsisting, just like the CBI, that though the case for action "appears unanswerable", "there is a strong case for maintaining the current position".

And he more or less got what he asked for. In his foreword to the bill, the current home secretary, Charles Clarke, uses a phrase coined and endlessly repeated by the CBI. "It is not my intention to propose legislation that would... create a risk-averse culture." I don't know where I got the impression that the purpose of this bill was to prevent directors from taking risks with other people's lives.

So what the bill gives us is a law that will allow companies, but not the people who run them, to be prosecuted for killing their workers. At the moment, a firm can't be convicted of manslaughter unless prosecutors can prove that one of the directors was personally responsible for the death. This makes it impossible to pursue any but the smallest companies. The new law will allow firms to be convicted as long as "senior managers" were responsible for a gross breach of their duty of care towards their workers. The company can be fined. But the human beings who make the decisions are immune. As directors can still be disqualified and imprisoned for a gross breach of their duty of care towards their shareholders' investments, money will remain more valuable than human life.

Just in case the law threatens to encourage a risk-averse culture, the prosecution will have to prove that senior managers "sought to cause the organisation to profit" from their breach of duty. This, in the age of the cross-cut shredder, will in most cases be impossible. It is not clear whether the parent company can be prosecuted, or only its subsidiaries. Neither is it clear how the law can prevent senior managers from blaming junior ones for an accident, thus absolving the company of legal responsibility.

But at least something is happening, or might possibly be happening. And that, after eight years of broken promises, looks like a minor miracle.

· www.monbiot.com

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April 24, 2005

Dow Chemical Buys Silence in Michigan

Documentary on Dow's Dioxin Scandal Ignored by Four Local PBS Stations

by BRIAN MCKENNA

Three "Justice for Bhopal" terrorists were shot dead at a Dow Chemical
facility in Piscataway, New Jersey on December 14, 2003. Bhopal
activists -- seeking redress for Dow's failure to compensate victims of
the worst industrial accident of all time -- stormed the Dow facility,
took eight Dow workers hostage killing one. Later a SWAT team took out
the three terrorists.

For the record, it was Piscataway police dressed as the Bhopal
"terrorists" in a mock drill. The slur had no basis in fact. But it
gives a portal into the chemical giant's consciousness where
democratic inquiry is linked to terrorism.

On December 3rd 1984, just after midnight, 40 tons of poisonous
substances leaked from Union Carbide's (now Dow's) pesticide plant in
Bhopal, central India. A huge yellow cloud exposed a half million
people to the gases, which hung over the city for hours. It remains
the worst industrial accident of all time, with an estimated 7,000
deaths and 190,000 injuries the first few days and over 15,000 claims
of deaths to date.

Guns and Guards

Dow has not learned its lesson. It is successfully fighting U.S.
Homeland Security initiatives that would require them to use safer
chemicals and processes where available, to better protect the 8
million residents surrounding their plants across the country. But
they are reluctant to consider risk reduction alternatives beyond guns
and guards. And guns and guards are having a field day.

Midland, Michigan is Dow's international headquarters. In Spring 2003,
filmmaker Steve Meador was taking digital video footage of the Dow
chemical facility there while sitting in the back of his pick-up truck
as his girlfriend drove on a public road. They were soon pulled over
and detained by Midland police, Dow security, and a deputy from the
Midland County sheriff's office. "It was pretty scary until they
figured out we weren't terrorists casing the place." Meador was making
a documentary on dioxin pollution in Midland and downstream. Police
took his picture and let him go.

"Dow security said that if we had been pulled over on their property
that they could have confiscated the video," said Meador.

Meador made his 90-minute documentary "The Long Shadow" -- a critical
investigation of Dow's dioxin dealings with Michigan state government.
The film was part of Maeder's Master's Project at Michigan State
University's Center for Environmental Journalism. It shows how Dow and
state agencies collaborated to weaken regulatory enforcement, delayed
public notification of possible health hazards associated with dioxin,
and dragged their feet with an investigation.

Secret Deals

In 2001 the Engler administration learned that dioxin levels in the
Tittabwassee River floodplain, downstream from Midland's Dow Chemical
were found at over 7,000 parts per trillion near parks and residential
areas (80 times Michigan's cleanup standards). But they didn't bother
to tell anyone. Finally the Lone Tree Council and the Michigan
Environmental Council filed a Freedom of Information Act request to
get the data, alerted by conscientious DEQ insiders. In January 2002
the FOIA revealed that MDEQ Director Russ Harding had blocked further
soil testing and was suppressing a state health assessment that called
for aggressive state action. Later the Engler administration secretly
tried to work out a "sweetheart deal" with Dow to raise the clean-up
level of dioxin to 831 parts per trillion, thus circumventing clean-up
of the dioxin in most areas. A judge later threw this out.

"I never even knew what dioxin was," said Kathy Henry, one of the
floodplain residents interviewed in the film. "My first reaction to
hearing the news was fear, then denial. I didn't want to know." The
MDEQ recommends that Henry remove her clothing the moment she enters
the house after mowing her lawn. She looks out at her property as a
wasteland.

All the above and more is detailed in the film, along with an
interview with Harding. (Click extended entry to read more.)

The story continues to devolve. A few months ago, in November 2004 the
state of Michigan issued a game consumption advisory for the
Tittabawassee -river floodplain because of Dow's dioxin. Turkeys and
deer are now considered potentially toxic. This was only the second
time in Michigan history that such a warning was made. Still, the
crisis is vastly underreported in Michigan media.

"Unfortunately, The Long Shadow was never shown on Michigan PBS," said
Meador. Meador sent a rough cut to four stations -- WCMU (Mt.
Pleasant), WFUM at the University of Michigan (Flint), WTVS (Detroit),
and WKAR at Michigan State University (East Lansing) in December 2003.
"All of these stations had broadcast a previous documentary of mine
entitled 'A May to Remember' about the Bath School bombing of 1927,
Strangely, all of the stations were completely unresponsive to 'The
Long Shadow' (i.e., phone calls and e-mails not returned)."

Meador says the film's merits have been recognized by environmental
reporters from the Bay City Times (Jeff Kart) and Detroit Free Press
(Hugh McDiarmid). "The affected residents in the floodplain also had
very nice things to say about it," he added. "I'm not sure why the PBS
stations didn't bite. A number of people have suggested that the
stations shied away because they are underwritten by Dow, and I think
that is a possibility."

Private TV

Dow is big funder to universities which house three of these public
television stations. WCMU is at Central Michigan University, 30 miles
from Midland. In 1978 DOW's President withdrew money from CMU after
Jane Fonda spoke there on economic democracy. "[It] will not be
resumed until we are convinced our dollars are not expended in
supporting those who would destroy us."" CMU got the message. It's new
"Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions" touts Dow
even though DOW only gave $5 million, MI taxpayers gave $37.5 million.

The University of Michigan (home of WFUM) has a similar tale. During
WW2 top secret work on a shell fuse that later developed into a "smart
bomb" was aided by University of Michigan physicists, working in an
old gravel pit outside of Ann Arbor. Later, DOW CEO Leland Doan served
on the UM Board of Regents from 1952 to 1959, running as a Republican.
In recent years Dow and its offshoots have contributed more than $10
million in direct contributions to the University of Michigan.

Dow has sunk millions into Michigan State University (home of WKAR).
For example it gave $5 million to build the Dow Institute for
Materials Research, a 46,000-square-foot addition to the east wing of
MSU's Engineering Building, in 1996. In the spring of 2002 Dow co-
sponsored a seminar series at MSU's Detroit College of Law, called,
"Creating Sustainable Cities in the 21st Century." On March 19th the
talk was titled, "Abandonment of the Cities." Unlike the University of
Michigan, which has an active "Justice for Bhopal" student group, at
MSU there was no such chapter, and so no one was on hand to ask
whether Dow had abandoned the city of Bhopal.

So it's not just guns and guards but the cash greenery that helps Dow
to mold public perception.

Two Films, Two Terrorisms

In point of contrast, Michigan PBS stations were enthusiastic with
Maeder's other film, "A May to Remember," which detailed the worst act
of mass murder in American history prior to the 1995 Oklahoma City
bombing. Andrew Kehoe sought revenge after his farm was foreclosed
upon, due in part to the taxes required to build the new Bath school.
So he blew it up, killing 45 people, mostly schoolchildren.

When the focus is on a single demented terrorist the public airwaves
are available, but when the gaze turns to a transnational guilty of
poisoning vast swaths of mid-Michigan with dioxin -- what the EPA
calls, "the worst known to man," -- that's a different story,
especially when the public airwaves are partly underwritten by the
transnational.

In fact, Maeder could have gone much further with his critique of Dow.
There are stories recounting conflict over asbestos, breast implants,
vinyl chloride contamination in Louisiana, labor decertification
campaigns in Texas, union fights in Midland, and Bhopal.

Especially Bhopal. Given the death counts, the prolonged agony, and
the persistent callous treatment of its victims, the Union Carbide/Dow
Chemical disaster is worse than the September 11th tragedy. When cast
this way I recall Nietzsche's observation that, "Insanity in
individuals is rare, in nations, epochs and eras it is the rule."

Opium Wars

"Growth [is] the opiate we're all hooked on..." said Frank Popoff,
former CEO of DOW Chemical in Growth Company, DOW Chemical's First
Century. The 1997 book was written by E. N. Brandt, a 40 year public
relations man at Dow who now has a $1.3 million chair named after him
at Michigan State University. Universities are also interested in
growth, it seems. Is DOW a drug abuser? Obsession with "growth" does
help explain its behavior. Yet as Alcoholics Anonymous followers know,
breaking the denial is the first step in overcoming an addiction.

Indeed, Dow seems to view anyone who challenges its growth manifesto
as a terrorist. Keith McKennon, DOW research director from 1985-1990
told a writer that "During that period Dow transmogrified from the
company that sets up antiaircraft guns to shoot down EPA flyover
planes to the company that exists today." McKennon doesn't say if he's
kidding or not about the guns.

But Dow is surely not kidding with its ability to buy silence [i.e.
the company that exists today]. Dow even dabbles in public health and
journalism. In 1999 Hillsdale College received $500,000 for the
Herbert H. Dow II Program in American Journalism. It is "devoted to
the restoration of ethical, high-minded journalism standards and to
the reformation of our cultural, political, and social practices."
That year the Dow Program sponsored Richard Lowry, Editor-in- Chief of
the National Review, as a guest speaker. In his speech, titled "The
High Priests of Journalism Truth, Morality, and the Media," Lowry
criticized American journalism for "reinforc[ing] the radical side in
America's culture wars."

Not likely to be recruited to speak is Linda Hunt who informs us that
in her excellent 1991 book, "Secret Agenda," that in 1951 Dow hired
Otto Ambros, the Nazi war criminal convicted at Nuremberg for slavery
and mass murder in the killing of thousands of Jews with nerve gas.

Dow's close relationships with defacto state terrorists is also less
likely to see curricula time at Hillsdale. In 1973 Dow was first
company to receive a phone call from Pinochet's military in 1973,
according to Brandt, soon after his forces assassinated democratically
elected Chilean President Salvador Allende, toppling his government,
asking Dow to come back, which Dow "readily accepted" (a Dow official
saluting the economic "miracle" of Pinochet).

One wonders how Hillsdale or PBS for that matter would explore the
1941 charge by the U.S. Justice Department that Dow conspired with the
Nazi's I.F. Farben to hold down magnesium production in the United
States in the prewar era (Dow later pleaded nolo contendere).

Which gets us back to dioxin. According to Tittabawassee River Watch
when Governoral candidate Jennifer Granholm visited the area during
her campaign she promised an open, transparent process and a timely
response to public health issues. But once in office Granholm went
back on her word and engaged in closed door negotiations with Dow,
greatly disappointing the Michigan environmental community and many
residents living along the 53 mile stretch of the contaminated
Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers.

Granholm is currently under attack by environmentalists for permitting
Nestle take water from Lake Michigan without a fight.

Privatization is the name of the neoliberal game. Maeder cannot get
his film shown on WKAR even though the WKAR offices are just
downstairs from the environmental journalism offices in the MSU
Communication Arts Building.

Citizen groups from Mid-Michigan to Bhopal India are linked in their
battles to defend their homelands against the terror of Dow. But
Michigan media and universities are quiescent, fearful of offending
the behemoth.

Brian McKenna can be reached at MCKENNA193@aol.com.

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April 22, 2005

French Attaque rocks Bhopal

Jeudi 15 Avril, Bhopal

For the citizens of Bhopal, it was an amazing night when the famous French rock band Louise Attaque rocked the city.

Though most of the songs put forth by the band were French, the band for whom this was their fourth concert in India after Bangalore, Kolkata and Mumbai, language it seemed, was not a problem, as the audience lapped up every bit of what the band put up at the show.

Listen to a sample, a song called Du Nord au Sud (From North to South).

The fast rhythm and music mesmerised them.

"We feel very nice. We are enjoying a lot. The rock band that has come in Bhopal has made us feel very nice. This is a good way of spreading French culture here. Such concerts should be organised more in Bhopal. We are enjoying a lot. This is a new beginning here," said Shweta, a spectator.

"This programme is very good. The music brought alive the whole concert. Such concerts should be held more. We felt very nice today. We enjoyed it a lot," said Sahil, another spectator.

For the band members who performed at the concert following arrangements made by the Alliance Alliance Francaise de Bhopal, it was a unique experience.

Though it has won the musical group of the year award way back in 1999 and put up performances in many countries and sold around

2. 5 crore albums till date, for the four band members, Gaton Roosan (vocalist), Robin Fax (guitarist), Alexander Manrek (Drummer) and Arno Samuel (violinist), performing in India was unique in itself.

"It is a French band called Louise Attaque. It is a rock band. It is very special because it speaks of different styles of music but it is our style now. We like to travel very much and every place here is very different. We went to Mumbai, Kolkata and today we are in Bhopal and each time we meet different people in a different place, sometimes very noisy and sometimes very crowded and sometimes not so noisy and not so crowded as here," said Arno Samuel, the violinist of the band.

"As regards the Indian audience, I would agree with what Robin said. People here are very generous and they keep smiling. They are interesting and they are curious and we try to give them what we are and its cool," said Gaton Roosan, the band's vocalist.

Visit the band's website.

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Rashida Bee appeals to the Irish people

Survivors' leader and Goldman Award winner Rashida was in Britain for meetings with Amnesty International, and took the opportunity to visit supporters in Switzerland and Ireland.

In Dublin she called on the Irish people to support the struggle for justice of the Bhopal survivors.

Around 7,000 Bhopalis died in the first days after Union Carbide's pesticide plant exploded in 1984. 15,000 people have died since and another 100,000 people still suffer chronic and debilitating illnesses.

Rashida told the meeting she was visiting Ireland to gather support for the campaign to secure adequate compensation for the victims.

“The Irish people have to be part of the campaign and they have to write to the Indian government and to the American government to get them to take responsibility for the clean up,” she said.

A $470m (€359.6m) settlement was agreed between the Indian government and Union Carbide in 1989 but this was based on the incorrect estimate – that only 3,000 people died.

The company was taken over by Dow Chemical Company in 1999.

Ms Bee, leafing through a photo album which showed babies with deformities, said there had been long-lasting consequences from the gas explosion.

“Women are suffering from kidney failure and breast cancer and men are suffering from tuberculosis. Mothers, who were young girls at the time, now can’t breast feed their babies and the water is not clean – it’s poisonous,” she said.

Rashida, with her friend and fellow Goldman Award winner Champa Devi Shukla, has led protests outside Dow Chemical offices around the world but the company has argued that it acquired no liabilities for the Bhopal disaster when it bought Union Carbide.

“The clean up of the mess hasn’t been done yet and people are not able to pay their medical bills.

“It’s Dow’s responsibility to clean up the mess and help the victims,” said Mrs Bee.

The company has a fully-owned subsidiary, Dow Corning Corporation in Midleton, Co Cork, which employs 60 people in research and development.

(This entry has been extensively cobbled from a report in the Irish News, to whom vast thanks and a Bhopali hug.)

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April 29, 2005

400 Academics Sign Bhopal Petition

April 28, 2005

Senate warned of terrorist threat to chemical plants

April 27, 2005

The business of killing

April 24, 2005

Dow Chemical Buys Silence in Michigan

April 22, 2005

French Attaque rocks Bhopal

Rashida Bee appeals to the Irish people

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I N T E R N A T I O N A L C A M P A I G N F O R J U S T I C E I N B H O P A L

April 29, 2005

400 Academics Sign Bhopal Petition

April 28, 2005

Senate warned of terrorist threat to chemical plants

April 27, 2005

The business of killing

April 24, 2005

Dow Chemical Buys Silence in Michigan

April 22, 2005

French Attaque rocks Bhopal

Rashida Bee appeals to the Irish people

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