Category: ICJB Victories

We had a great action on Nov 9 at UC Berkeley and ruffled a lot of Dow feathers. A Senior VP of Dow was invited by the Business School to speak about Dow’s “green innovations.” The talk was called “From Suds to Speedways: How “Green” Ideas can Flow from Unexpected Taps” with Carol Dudley –…

Reacting to the overwhelming outrage against accepting sponsorship from Dow Chemical for their November Music Festival in Chennai, India, The Hindu newspaper cancelled the sponsorship within days of its announcement. Read more here: “Dow Chemicals associate sponsorship called off” Take Action! Write a letter to The Hindu thanking them for Dumping their Dow sponsorhip. Sample…

PRESS STATEMENT 2nd Dec, 2008, New Delhi: Hundreds of Delhi citizens, civil society groups and supporters gathered at Jantar Mantar to mark the 24th Anniversary of Bhopal Gas Disaster today. The evening was marked by expressions in memory and solidarity with the victims of Dow- Carbide poisons. Along with music, poetry, street play, spontaneous public…

Rick Herz, Earthrights International, November 4, 2008 Read the full decision here (pdf). On November 3, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reinstated plaintiffs’ claims against Union Carbide Corporation for ongoing, massive water pollution at its infamous plant in Bhopal, India, reversing a lower court’s dismissal of the case. A poisonous…

The celebrations keep coming. With all strength of purpose now focussed back on Dow, incredible news from Maharashtra: Dow’s proposed R&D centre outside Pune, a vital component of its global strategy and one of the first parts of its core technology work to be moved overseas, has been stopped in production due to massive state-wide…

AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA AND V. VENKATESAN, Frontline, Volume 25 – Issue 16 : Aug. 02-15, 2008 The survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy secure from the government promises to implement part of their demands. Akash Kushwaha, a seven-year-old boy who suffers from malformed eyes owing to contaminated groundwater, at a press conference held to highlight…

Shashi Sonawane National Convenor – Yuva Bharat for LOKSHASHAN ANDOLAN February 28, 2008 Friends, as you are aware, since last night there was tension in the village of Shinde (Chakan) Dist. Pune, Maharashtra. This is the latest update.

On Tuesday, February 27, the UC Berkeley Energy Symposium announced that it was voiding its $50,000 sponsorship arrangement with Dow Chemical due to a student government resolution concerns Dow’s unresolved responsibilities in Bhopal, India, scene of the world’s worst-ever industrial disaster. The organizers cited a 2004 student government resolution for their decision, which called on…