Category: ICJB Calls to Action
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Bhopal gas victims fast for compensation over toxic fumes
GARAVI GUJARAT INDIAN activists launched a hunger strike to seek compensation for thousands of slum dwellers poisoned by the 1984 Bhopal gas leak in which clouds of toxic fumes spewed from a plant. The six campaigners ate stuffed Indian bread with pickle as their last meal on Tuesday on a pavement in downtown New Delhi…
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Update from the Yes Men: Giant corporation, giant corporation's victims, both need cash now
April 11, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: help@theyesmen.org Help: http://www.theyesmen.org/contactus/#donate https://www.bhopal.net/delhi-march.html#actions Here’s an update on some recent Yes Men activities. But first, two appeals: * In a few weeks, the Yes Men will speak at a major conference as one of the world’s biggest, nastiest companies. We’re planning something every bit as bizarre as the…
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If you've heard the news, perhaps you want to vomit. Perhaps you want to cry. And while you can do both you should make sure to do this: TAKE ACTION.
About 300 Bhopal survivors were forcefully arrested in a premeditated attack by the Delhi police this morning. This included 35 infants and children. Old women were kicked in the chest; several were hospitalized. You can read up-to-the-minute news and see the grim photos of the arrest at https://www.bhopal.net/march/. An update you won’t read on the…
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Diane Wilson asks you to send a message to Texas Governor Perry
In response to Diane Wilson’s efforts to raise corporate accountability issues and highlight Bhopal the coalition in support of Diane is asking you to send a quick message to Governor Perry of Texas to enforce toxics laws against Dow Chemical Corporation. Please support Diane and send a message to Governor Perry today about the need…
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"Run for your life!" Chennai beach run for Bhopal
MESSAGE FROM DHARMESH, CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY DESK, CHENNAI On the 21st anniversary of Bhopal we at Chennai are organizing an awareness run in Besant Nagar – a very popular coastal locality in city of Chennai. The theme of the run would revolve around the relevance of the Bhopal Gas Disaster to our lives today. The theme…
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400 Academics Sign Bhopal Petition
Over 400 faculty members and academics at colleges and universities all over the world have signed the Faculty Petition for Justice in Bhopal (online at www.petitiononline.com/dirtydow/). In signing the petition, David Gordon White, a Religious Studies Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, writes “I was in Bhopal in 1999. The scars of the…
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Bhopal disaster survivor to speak in London
RASHIDA BEE, PRESIDENT, BHOPAL GAS-AFFECTED WOMEN’S STATIONERY EMPLOYEES UNION 12.30pm FRIDAY 15 April CROSSROADS WOMEN’S CENTRE, 230A KENTISH TOWN ROAD, LONDON NW5 In this 20th anniversary year of the December 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, India – the world’s worst industrial disaster – Ms Bee will speak about the struggle led by women gas survivors…
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Dow tries to stifle historians who uncovered its secrets
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT, BUY THEIR BOOK HERE Dow Chemical is leading a group ot twenty chemical giants in an all-out attack on two historians who have uncovered the sordid history of vinyl chloride production and its effects on health in the United States and Europe. Dow is the world’s largest producer of vinyl chloride, a…
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Tsunami information, relief, donations
As the death toll from the Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean climbs towards 300,000, we have received these updates from friends in Cuddalore, Tamilnadu and Ko Phi-Phi, Thailand. Tsunami Update from Cuddalore Tsunami news from Ko Phi-Phi, Thailand We will continue updating as we receive more information. The following information dates from the…
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Please sign the online petition for Justice in Bhopal
Sign the petition here. NOTE: THE PETITION IS NO LONGER ACTIVE Twenty years is a long time to wait for justice, proper compensation, the freedom to live without fear from poisons in your drinking water, proper medical studies into the illnesses that have ravaged your health and your family’s for two decades. To this day,…
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Bhopalis in massive water protest as State government ignores Supreme Court order
In May 2004 the Indian Supreme Court ordered that clean and safe drinking water must be supplied to 14 Bhopali communities which are currently forced to use water dangerously contamined by chemicals leaking from Union Carbide’s abandoned factory. The response of the State government has been to ignore the Supreme Court order. Today in Bhopal…
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Bhopal water protest – latest
We were about 350 people in all. About 10 men, the rest all women. We reached the Director’s office [Director, Department of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation, Madhya Pradesh Government] around noon. The office is right opposite the Governor’s residence and hence within a high security zone, but it took a while for the…
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Congressman Frank Pallone’s bill on Bhopal passes to House International Relations Committee
Congressman Frank Pallone’s bill calls for Congress to recognise the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster and express commitment to work with the Government of India and others to ensure that Union Carbide provides environmental and medical rehabilitation of the affected area and is held responsible for its actions. The full text can be found…
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Major trade unions extend their support to the Bhopal activists on hunger strike and pledge to take up the matter with the Prime Minister tomorrow.
New Delhi, June 22, 2004:With just seven days left for the Union Government to send a positive communication to the US District Court in the Bhopal contamination clean up case , several major trade unions of India have decided to swing into action. They have pledged to raise this matter with the Prime Minister of…
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***Urgent Action*** Day 2 of Waterless Fast, Join the Hunger Strike, Sign the Petition
Fast-Without Water for Justice in BhopalDay 2 19 June, 2004 Saturday was the second day of the fast-without-water for Shahid Noor, Satinath Sarangi and Rashida Bee. Champa Devi and Wahid are sitting along with them but not fasting. Vardrajan, Secretary of CITU, met with the satyagrahis and has promised that he will talk to the…