Author: Rox Carter
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We need you! Send political prisoner, Jeremy Hammond a postcard today.
We stand in solidarity with political prisoner, Jeremy Hammond. As part of a postcard blitz to Jeremy, survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster and supporters are sending Jeremy postcards in prison. Please contact us at justice@bhopal.net if you are interested in participating in this important campaign. The card reads: “Mataa-e-lauh-o-kalam chin gayee to kya gham…
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“They Did What They Liked”: Chevron and Dow on Trial
Dissent Magazine Madhusree Mukerjee ▪ Fall 2014 Click here for the original article. “They want me to be bankrupt, they want my wife to leave me, they want me to jump off a building,” says Steven Donziger, a lawyer based in New York City whose team won an unprecedented judgment against Chevron in 2011. That year, an…
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Boston commemorates 30th anniversary of Bhopal Gas Disaster with vigil and chants
Boston commemorates 30th anniversary of Bhopal Gas Disaster with vigil, chants Calls for continuing struggle for justice and ensuring “No More Bhopals” A large number of people turned up in front of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on 77 Mass. Ave in Cambridge on Dec 3 2014 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster.…
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STATEMENT ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY – Justice in the USA and India
Dec 10 2014 Association for India’s Development (AID) has always stood by the struggles of the oppressed and marginalized. We have a large volunteer base in the United States and today, on Human Rights Day, we are shocked by the choke that led to the death of Eric Garner in New York and the numerous…
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Business Insider: Bhopal Still Hasn’t Recovered From The Worst Industrial Disaster In History
Giles N. Clarke/Reportage by Getty Thirty years ago on Wednesday, in the city of Bhopal in central India, a gas leak from a local Union Carbide plant moved swiftly into residential areas, poisoning victims in their sleep. Due to a lack of sufficient safety systems, killing tens of thousands (no numbers were ever confirmed) and…
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Bhopal’s Deadly Legacy – New York Times
Bhopal’s Deadly Legacy DEC. 4, 2014 It’s been called the worst industrial accident in history, and it’s not over. Thirty years ago, during the wee hours of Dec. 3, 1984, a catastrophic gas leak from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed at least 5,000 people, and sickened thousands more who later died or became…
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National Trade Unions stand in solidarity
After 30 years of Bhopal Industrial Catastrophe: Justice to the Victims of the Bhopal Gas Disaster. Join hands with all Struggles to Ensure Responsibility of Corporations. The night of 2 and 3 December 2014 will mark thirty years of the Bhopal gas tragedy, that killed, over 22,000 and exposed about 5,70,000 persons to damaging levels of…
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Scottish Trades Unions’ Solidarity with Bhopal
2 December 2014 A delegation of Scottish Trade Unioni activists addressed a rally today in Bhopal support of the survivors’ 30 years of campaigns for justice. The delegation is in response to a visit by survivors to Scotland and a motion of solidarity from the Scottish Trade Union Congress disabled workers’ conference.
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Letter to the Prime Minister of India
Honourable Prime Minister, Government of India, North Block, Raisina Hill, New Delhi 110 011 December 2, 2014 Sub : 30th Anniversary Demands of the Victims of American Multinationals, Union Carbide and Dow Chemical, in Bhopal. Sir, On behalf of the survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster, on the occasion of its 30th Anniversary, we…
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भोपाल में यूनियन कार्बाइड गैस काण्ड की 30 वीं बरसी पर पीड़ितों की माँगें
अमरीकी बहुराष्ट्रhय कम्पनियों से अदालत से फरार यूनियन कार्बाइड कंपनी अपने अधिकृत अधिकारी के मार्फत गैर इरादतन ह्त्या और गंभीर चोट पहुँचाने के आरोपों का जवाब देने भोपाल जिला अदालत में लंबित अपराधिक प्रकरण में हाजिर हो । गैस हादसे की वजह से हुई मौतों की वास्तविक संख्या एवं पहुंचाई गई शारीरिक क्षति के अनुसार…
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Short Documentary about the Waterless Fast in Delhi
Please watch this short documentary about the protest and waterless fast in Delhi created by Al Jazeera’s new digital platform, AJ+.
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Scottish Trade Union Solidarity With Bhopal
We are a Scottish Trade Union delegation who have come to Bhopal to join the people of Bhopal in marking the 30th year of your campaigns for justice, clean water and good health care. Our being here has grown from a history of Scottish people working in Bhopal and raising funds to support clinics and campaigns, and Bhopal survivors visiting…
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Bhopal Gas Victims present their demands from Dow Chemical, Union Carbide, Govt of India and MP & US government on 30th anniversary of the disaster
November 30, 2014 At a press conference on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Union Carbide disaster, representatives of five organizations of the survivors, presented their list of demands and recent achievements of their struggle. To see the demands in English, click here. To see the demands in Hindi, click here. Holding the two US…
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पत्रकार वार्ता
30 नवम्बर 2014 यूनियन कार्बाइड की 30 वी बरसी के उपलक्ष में आयोजित पत्रकार वार्ता में गैस पीड़ितों के पांच संगठनों के प्रतिनिधियों ने अपना मांगपत्र और संघर्ष की हाल की उपलब्धियों को पेश किया । भोपाल में जारी हादसों के लिए 2 अमरीकी कंपनियों, यूनियन कार्बाइड और डाव केमिकल को प्राथमिक रूप से जम्मेदार…