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Press Advisory: Dow “B’eau Pal Water” launch in NYC!
Dow “B’eau Pal Water” launch in NYC! When: Wed 2-Dec, from 1-5 PM. Where: Union Sq., NYC – outside Whole Foods (look for the Dow red and white logos). Come to help or to add your support, all afternoon or even for a short while during lunch! Join fellow New Yorkers on Dec. 2nd for…
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The Hindu: U.S. business interests coming in the way of Anderson’s extradition?
U.S. business interests coming in the way of Anderson’s extradition? The Hindu, December 2, 2009 – Mahim Pratap Singh // // <![CDATA[ var min=8; var max=18; var min1=18; var max1=24; function increaseFontSize() { var temp=document.getElementById('inc').innerHTML if(temp=="T-") decreaseFontSize(); else { var p = document.getElementsByTagName('p'); for(i=0;i <p.length;i++) { if(p[i].style.fontSize) { var s = parseInt(p[i].style.fontSize.replace("px","")); } else {…
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NYTimes: Poisoned Water Haunts Bhopal 25 Years After Deadly Accident — Report
NY Times: Poisoned Water Haunts Bhopal 25 Years After Deadly Accident — Report By SARA GOODMAN of Greenwire – Published: December 1, 2009 Twenty-five years after a toxic gas cloud from a pesticide factory killed thousands of people in Bhopal, India, groundwater at the accident site — a drinking water supply for 15 communities —…
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AP: Indians still haunted by worst industrial accident
Indians still haunted by worst industrial accident (AP) – November 30, 2009 BHOPAL, India — Hazra Bi wishes she could forget. But her damaged family is a living reminder of that December night 25 years ago when lethal gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, in the worst industrial disaster the world has…
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UK Parliament – Statement by Desmond Turner
DOW CHEMICALS AND THE BHOPAL DISASTER 24.11.2009 Turner, Desmond That this House regrets that a quarter of a century after the world’s worst industrial massacre, the people of Bhopal remain in an endless cycle of suffering that has cast them in a perpetual state of victimhood and that, 25 years on, Dow Chemicals continues…
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AFP: India reverses decision to open Bhopal plant
India reverses decision to open Bhopal plant (AFP) – November 27, 2009 BHOPAL, India — Indian authorities in Bhopal, site of the world’s worst industrial accident, have decided against opening up the factory at the centre of the tragedy, a local minister said Friday.
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AFP: Bhopal gas survivors mark 25 years of agony
Bhopal gas survivors mark 25 years of agony By Yasmeen Mohiuddin (AFP) – November 28, 2009 BHOPAL, India — Livestock outnumber humans at the Arif Nagar slum, a toxic wasteyard next to the site of the world’s worst industrial accident, which occurred 25 years ago this week in the Indian city of Bhopal.
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CNN: Government will not open Bhopal plant as memorial
Government will not open Bhopal plant as memorial November 29 – By Moni Basu, CNN Victims blinded by methyl isocyanate gas are attended to outside the Union Carbide plant after the disaster of December 3, 1984. (CNN) — It was to be a somber memorial, a remembrance of those who perished in a lethal milky…
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The Independant: Bhopal: The victims are still being born
Bhopal: The victims are still being born Twenty-five years on, the world’s worst industrial accident continues to kill and blight many lives. And still there’s been no trial The Independant, November 29: By Nina Lakhani Hazira Bee, 53, lives in one of the worst affected areas. The leakage blighted her entire family: one son has…
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25th Anniversary Resource Kit >> Materials & Resources
25th Anniversary Kit >> Materials & Resources 5. Materials & Resources 5.1. General Materials 5.2. Action & Dump Your Dow Materials 5.3. Media Materials 5.1. General Materials Bhopal Fact Sheet [doc] [pdf] Bhopal Postcard [pdf] Sign In Contact Sheet (8 per page) [doc] [pdf] 5.2. Action & Dump Your Dow Materials Call In…
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City of Cambridge Resolution
City of Cambridge. Resolution passed by the City Council. Sept. 25th 2006. Resolved to vote it shares in favor of Bhopal resolution, refrain from purchase of Dow bonds, and audit of Dow products purchased and substitute where possible.
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Hindustan Times: 16 countries to commemorate Bhopal gas tragedy
16 countries to commemorate Bhopal gas tragedy – Hinduist Times Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, November 18, 2009 On December 3 it will be 25 years since the Bhopal gas disaster took place, killing 3,500 people instantly. While a number of public meetings, film screenings and marches are being planned in the week leading up…
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Bhopal protest comes to Grangemouth
Bhopal protest comes to Grangemouth from Sunday Herald, 15 November 2009 Dharmesh Shah has come all the way from India to Grangemouth this weekend for a purpose. He wants to stick it to one of the world’s biggest chemical companies. The 26-year old Indian campaigner is outraged that the Dow Chemical Company seems to have…
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Plans for tours of Bhopal site anger survivors
Plans for tours of Bhopal site anger survivors –AFP By Sonma Laxmi (AFP) – 5 days ago BHOPAL, India — Survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster in India’s Bhopal city are outraged by plans to throw open the site to visitors 25 years after the tragedy that killed thousands. Announced this week by state…
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India to allow visits to Bhopal disaster site -AFP
India to allow visits to Bhopal disaster site (AFP) – 1 day ago BHOPAL, India — India will mark next month’s 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, the world’s worst industrial accident, by throwing open the site to visitors, an official said Tuesday. Tragedy struck on December 3-4, 1984 when a storage tank at a…