Category: News on Related Issues
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Supreme Court notice to NBA over illegal funds "public interest legislation"
Gujarat politicians and their allies try to smear the Narmada Bachao campaign PRESS TRUST OF INDIA, JULY 7,2006 NEW DELHI, July 7: The activities of Medha Patkar-led Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) ~ spearheading the campaign against Sardar Sarovar Project ~ today came under judicial scanner with the Supreme Court issuing notice to it in response…
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Supreme Court notice on routing of Narmada funds
The civil liberties of a genuine people’s movement under attack from a supposed human rights organisation – and the strong stench of Indian politics. The so-called “National Council for Civil Liberties” is based in Ahmedabad, capital of Gujarat, which has been whipped into a state of hysteria over the dam issue by sectarian politicians INDO-ASIAN…
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"Troops Home Fast!" – support the Code Pink hunger strike!
THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON DC, JULY 4, 2006 Diane Wilson and other activists of Code Pink began an indefinite hunger strike today to end the war in Iraq. Calling the action “Troops Home Fast”, a group of about 200 people staged a rally for peace in the morning, then settled into their protest camp in…
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A story of triumph for congenitally joined twin
NGUOI LAO DONG, THANNIENNEWS.COM, TRANSLATED BY MINH PHAT Nguyen Duc and his betrothed Thanh Tuyen Once congenitally joined with his brother allegedly due to Agent Orange, one of the twins is set to marry this December at 25 years of age, famed after being successfully separated in 1988. The success of the operation finally gave…
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Pollution takes toll, fish do the disappearing act
PALAK NANDI, AHMEDABAD NEWSLINE, JULY 4, 2006 NARMADA : Number of fish in Bharuch stretch drops by 75 pc; industrial units to blame: environmental activists. Ahmedabad, July 4: ROHU, bekti, mahasheer, hilsa? Plenty of fish in the sea? That there may be, but the Narmada in Bharuch district seems to be running out. Fisheries Department…
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Ageing right wing loony comments: Energy crisis is America's opportunity
Paul Johnson talks of scare-tactics against the nuclear industry, dismisses Three Mile Island as “a minor accident”, and chalks Chernobyl up to “the old, inefficient, corrupt and careless U.S.S.R.” He suggests that the USA should solve the present oil-shortage crisis and its eternal trade deficit by “becoming the world’s supplier of electricity generated by nuclear…
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Villagers begin hunger strike to demand government action against Coca-Cola
JUNE 27, 2006 Villagers in Mehdiganj in north India are on a hunger strike to demand the closure of the Coca-Cola bottling plant. Community leaders have accused the Coca-Cola bottling plant in of creating severe water shortages affecting over twenty villages, polluting agricultural land and groundwater, illegally occupying land, evading taxes and treating workers unfairly.…
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Villagers begin hunger strike to demand government action against Coca-Cola
JUNE 27, 2006 Villagers in Mehdiganj in north India are on a hunger strike to demand the closure of the Coca-Cola bottling plant. Community leaders have accused the Coca-Cola bottling plant in of creating severe water shortages affecting over twenty villages, polluting agricultural land and groundwater, illegally occupying land, evading taxes and treating workers unfairly.…
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Vet extends help, hope to former enemy
JOSEPH R SCHWARTZ, GREENSBORO NEWS RECORD What a difference 30 years makes. In his younger days, Butch Elkins flew planes in the Vietnam War spraying Agent Orange and losing part of his intestine during the conflict. This week he hosted a handful of Vietnamese men in his home. The board chairman of Hannah’s Promise ,…
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Eating fish or going hungry
SAGINAW BAY TIMES, JUNE 28, 2006 Old Saginaw fish decoy The state Department of Community Health last week released a discouraging report that anglers continue to ignore fish advisories in the Saginaw Bay watershed. Why would Saginaw Valley residents risk eating fish from contaminated rivers? We can think of three reasons: 1. They don’t care…
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Agent Orange exhibition to back American hearings
TUOI TRE, JUNE 27, 2006 A child victim of Agent Orange VietNamNet – Compensation hearings for Vietnamese Agent Orange victims will begin in October this year. In support, many international photographers will enter works in a photo exhibition in America. The photos have been taken as a demonstration of the effect of the toxins on…
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Mines closed, but mercury flows up food chain
DIANE DIETZ, THE REGISTER GUARD, JUNE 27, 2006 The last of Oregon’s commercial mercury mines shut down years ago, yet mining is still the major source of mercury pollution in the state’s waterways. Mercury-laced waters pouring from abandoned mine tunnels and washing out of old mine tailings piles have made it unhealthy to eat a…
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Dow stooge says dioxin risk to residents should be based on science
The evidence of a million malformed Vietnamese children to the contrary, dioxin isn’t that bad for you. This is what Dow Chemical would like Tittabawassee residents to believe. The company view has once more been given an uncritical airing in Dow’s home town newspaper. The author is Russ Harding, former director of the Michigan Department…
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Dedicated group hopes to prove chemicals killed Kurds
ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, NEW YOUR TIMES, JUNE 24, 2006 GHENT, Belgium — For 18 years, Dr. Aubin Heyndrickx has tended the sealed jars containing strands of hair and scraps of clothing he gathered from a dead woman’s body. Collected in Halabja, one of many Kurdish towns in northern Iraq that were attacked with chemical weapons by…
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Survey shows people eating fish they shouldn't
THE BAY CITY TIMES, JUNE 24, 2006 People are eating fish they shouldn’t in the Saginaw Bay watershed, the Michigan Department of Community Health says. The agency on Monday released preliminary findings from a fish consumption survey of people fishing and eating fish from the Saginaw Bay and Saginaw, Tittabawassee and Shiawassee rivers. From March…