March 11,  2005

In another manifestation of what has become the largest students campaign against Dow since the Vietnam War, students at the University of California called for the university to divest from Dow and refuse further donations. Among the reasons given were the unresolved Bhopal liabilities of Dow’s 100%-owned subsidiary Union Carbide, which is officially “an absconder from justice” in India, having failed since 1992 to attend court hearings in the city where it is accused of the criminal homicide of more than 20,000 people.

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March 9,  2005

Bhopal protests have been cropping up all over the planet, where Dow least expects them. On February 17, Diane Wilson and others attended a Dow banquet at Lake Jackson, Texas where they were received with all the joy and hospitality Macbeth showed to Banquo’s ghost.

Bhopal campaigners turned up to picket Dow’s New Orleans office with some good looking posters and handed out information to passers by.

International Women’s Day saw an open-air protest in Berlin, and Bhopal supporters staged an action at a trade fair in Chicago where Dow was peddling its poisonous wares.

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February 28, 2005

A new Union Carbide scandal broke in India today as furious Bhopal survivors protested against leaked plans of a shadowy deal between Carbide’s 100% owner Dow Chemical and the Indian Oil Corporation to supply ethylene glycol technology for IOC’s Panipat complex. The process, called METEOR, is thought to belong to Union Carbide, a corporation which dare not show its face in the country where it is officially listed as a criminal fugitive from justice, having failed for 13 years to turn up to the Indian court where it stands accused of the criminal homicide of more than 20,000 people.

The circumstances of the proposed deal are surrounded by controversy, and Bhopal survivors’ groups are lobbying politicians to investigate.

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BHOPAL LANDS DOW CHEMICAL
HUMAN RIGHTS BOOBY PRIZE

The Public Eye on Davos – the coalition of NGOs set up as a counterweight to the WEF, has voted Dow Chemical Worst Corporation in the human rights category of its excrescence awards. Dow easily beat a field of deeply unpleasant competitors that included Bayer, Bechtel, Nestlé, Syngenta, Total and Unocal.

Dow was nominated by Greenpeace Switzerland and the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB), the nomination claiming that:

Dow, the world’s largest chemicals corporation, has one of the worst environmental and social legacies of any major corporation, encompassing Agent Orange, Asbestos, Dioxin, Dursban, DDT, Napalm and Bhopal.

The vote was by public online ballot, open to all comers.

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