Author: Admin
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Sunday, June 3rd, 2007: Protest at Dow-sponsored “Blue Planet Run”
On June 3rd, the non-profit organization “Blue Planet Run” held an event in Boston Common as the participating long-distance runners were arriving in Boston. The blue planet run goes across 16 countries and covers 15200 miles in 95 days. At each stop, the organization holds a media event to promote their message. However, some might…
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Cambridge News
Here we recap our press releases, articles/broadcasts about us in the press and letters we’ve written to newspaper editors. Press Releases: Cambridge Council Dumps Dow Chemical, Cites Bhopal (09/26/06) Boston Coalition for Bhopal ‘Dies-in’ Copley Sq. (05/08/06) Articles: Group raises money for Bhopal survivors at MIT (Cambridge Chronicle, 09/23/09) Protesters target owner of Taj…
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Bhopal – forgotten?
A number of days ago, on August 20th, the US court for appeals rejected a petition by 15 survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal, India. The plea asked for the removal of hazardous materials the company had left behind and compensation for the those affected by the accident. While I found…
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Press Statement – 23 July 2011
At a press conference today five organizations working for the victims of the December ‘84 Union Carbide disaster accused the central and state governments of downplaying the damage caused by the American company in the curative petitions filed in the Supreme Court. The organizations demanded that in place of Rs 3,000-6,000 crores the government should…
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Bhopali children protest at Prime Minister’s Office
27 June 2011 Press Statement One hundred Bhopali children affected by Union Carbide’s poisons demonstrated in front of the Prime Minister’s office today, demanding medical care, rehabilitation and poison-free environment. Wearing signs with words like Justice and Izzat (dignity), members of the Bhopal-based Children Against Dow-Carbide held a banner with their demands in front of…
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CIC asks Central Bureau of Investigation on why Anderson was not grilled
New Delhi, June 20, Deccan Herald News Service – DHNS: The Central Information Commission (CIC) on Monday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to provide reasons for not interrogating Warren M Anderson, the then chairman of the Union Carbide Corporation and accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, during his visit to the country…
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Bhopali Children Protest at the Prime Minister’s Office
27 June 2011 Press Statement One hundred Bhopali children affected by Union Carbide’s poisons demonstrated in front of the Prime Minister’s office today, demanding medical care, rehabilitation and poison-free environment. Wearing signs with words like Justice and Izzat (dignity), members of the Bhopal- based Children Against Dow-Carbide held a banner with their demands in front…
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Corporate accountability groups nationwide expose the “Future We Create” conference as fraudulent greenwashing
June 7, 2011 GREENWASHING: false expressions of environmental concern especially as a cover for environmentally-unsound products, policies, or activities (adapted from Merriam Webster). “Join 60 leading thinkers as they explore the future of water for our world today. Covering global systems and specific “megatrends,” featuring personal stories from the frontlines as well as reflections on…
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Peer Review Committee is helping Dow Chemical!
Press Statement 25-May-2011 Leaders of five organizations of the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today condemned the recommendations of the government appointed Peer Review Committee on remediation of toxic contamination in and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory. In a letter submitted to the Chairman of the Oversight Committee on Bhopal…
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Bhopal Activists find Solidarity in Ireland
from http://www.indymedia.ie/article/99866 A MEETING IN MAYO Last week, while a near-bankrupt Irish state provided the spectacle of two visits from members of the transnational ruling class, Elizabeth Windsor and Barack Obama, visitors from the other end of the global class system also came to Ireland. On Sunday night some 50 people assembled in Glenmoy Community Hall…
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More injustice heaped on Bhopal gas victims, survivor organizations say
May 11, 2011 Press Statement “Today will go down as another black day for justice,” Bhopal survivors’ organisations said in reaction to the Supreme Court’s order rejecting the curative petition filed by the CBI. “Further to the dismissal of the revision petition filed by three Bhopal organisations against Justice Ahmadi’s controversial 1996 order, the Supreme…
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Govt’s 14-yr slumber, survivors’ hopes dim
From The Pioneer, at thedailypioneer.com May 12, 2011 7:59:27 AM Abraham Thomas | New Delhi The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the curative petition filed by the Centre in Bhopal gas tragedy seeking enhancement of charge against the accused persons from death caused by negligence (IPC Section 304A) to a much harsher culpable homicide…
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Supreme Court Dismisses Curative Petition – A Black Day for Bhopal
Injustice today at the Supreme Court The Supreme Court verdict on Criminal Curative Petition took everyone in Bhopal by surprise both in its timing as well as in its import. Most people were expecting the order to come in July after the Supreme Court’s vacations. That is when the civil curative petition hearing is also…
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Dispatches from the Supreme Court – Day 5
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 27-04-2011, DAY 5 Today was a busy day inside the court. The discussion in last few days revolved around the scope of a curative, its ground and whether by admitting a…