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Open Letter to Dow Chemical
The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal North America condemns in the strongest terms Dow Chemical’s sponsorship of the London 2012 Summer Olympics. The London Olympics Committee forgot, or rather deliberately ignored, Dow’s responsibility for the 1984 Bhopal, India gas disaster, the worst industrial accident in history. For a games that purport to be the…
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Bhopal gas victims see a ray of hope
By MAHIM PRATAP SINGH from The Hindu BHOPAL, May 6, 2012 “When we protest against the government and demand clean water, the government slaps cases against us” With the Supreme Court directing the Bhopal Municipal Corporation to provide clean water to the areas worst affected by the Union Carbide gas leak within three months, the…
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Position Opening with ICJB-NA
APPLICATION Applicants are invited to submit a resume and cover letter by emailing icjb.us.ab@gmail.com by Tuesday May 15th, 2012. We appreciate all applications received. Candidates will receive a response by May 22nd 2012 through email. The interviews will be conducted on the phone (or in person if it can be arranged).
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Jerome Mouffe Holds Concert for Bhopal
On February 24th guitar virtuoso Jerome Mouffe played a classical concert in support of the Bhopal survivors and campaigners for justice to a packed house at the Little Krege Auditorium at MIT. The concert was entitled, “Spirit in Motion”.
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Survivors ask Chief Minister to withdraw false cases
DOWNLOAD THE LETTER IN THE ORIGINAL HINDI To, The Chief Minister Government of Madhya Pradesh Mantralaya, Vallabh Bhawan Bhopal, M.P. 25 January 2012 Sub: Application for withdrawal of criminal cases against over 2000 gas victims in connection with the incident of violence on the 27th anniversary of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal.…
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Bhopal Action Alert: Please call the Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh
Last month on the 27th Anniversary, Bhopal survivors during their peaceful ‘rail roko’ agitation were brutally beaten up, dragged and then detained illegally by the State Administration. Their fault was to call on the State Government to correct the historic wrong and present accurate figures on disaster related deaths and injuries before the Supreme Court…
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Sign the petition to demand that Government of India rectify its figures on Bhopal Gas disaster related deaths and injuries!
Support the Bhopalis on their dharna to rectify the incorrect figures on injury for the gas disaster by signing on to this petition to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh! http://www.change.org/petitions/petition-to-demand-that-government-of-india-rectify-its-figures-on-bhopal-gas-disaster-related-deaths-and-injuries
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Bhopal survivors burn Dow's dog
PRESS STATEMENT January 14, 2012 Survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today burnt an effigy of Home Minister P Chidambaram to protest against the recent decision of the Group of Ministers on Bhopal of not revising the figures of deaths and injuries caused by the disaster in the curative petition pending before the…
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Survivors call for immediate withdrawal of false charges
Press Statement – FOR DETAILS OF CHARGES SEE LINKS AT THE END OF PRESS RELEASE January 16, 2012 Five organizations of survivors of the Union Carbide today held a demonstration today calling for immediate withdrawal of criminal cases against 35 named and 2000 unnamed gas victims in connection with their protests action on December 3,…
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Two hundred days to drop Dow
PRESS STATEMENT January 9 2012 As part of the international campaign “200 days to drop Dow Chemical as sponsors” five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today organized a protest action. Victims of the Bhopal disaster and those poisoned due to toxic waste from the abandoned factory in Bhopal, joined…
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Hindustan Times interview with Satinath Sarangi
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"Beat the bitches with lathis"Police brutally beat old ladies with cudgels
Mullo Bai, 65, gas affected and her mother Jamvati, 82 I left my house with my mother and 18 other women from my neighbourhood to be part of the rail roko. At 11:00 am we all reached Barkhedi crossing. We sat on the tracks for almost an hour and there were thousands of people all…
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Bhopal Survivors Call for protection against violation of their human rights
December 10, 2011 Press Statement On the occasion of International Human Rights Day hundreds of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal marched to the Raj Bhavan, the residence of the Governor of the state, calling for protection against violation of their Human Rights. The five organisations leading the rally said that they were…