Category: News on Related Issues
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Who will be the first Chingari Award Winner?
INVITATION TO NOMINATE DESERVING CANDIDATES FOR CHINGARI AWARD FOR WOMEN AGAINST CORPORATE CRIMES, 2007 Chingari Trust, an organisation set up by two remarkable women activists from Bhopal from their Goldman Prize money, invites you to nominate deserving candidates for this year’s Chingari Award for Women Against Corporate Crimes.
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SIPCOT residents continue to breathe toxic cocktail; TNPCB action to curb air pollution ineffective
From: SIPCOT Area Community Environmental Monitoring, Cuddalore March 28, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SIPCOT air remains heavily polluted endangering the health and lives of thousands of residents in the area, according to results of the latest air samples taken by SIPCOT Area Community Environmental Monitoring (SACEM). The two samples taken in February 2007 near the…
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Gummidipoondi residents stop illegal construction of toxic waste landfill
GUMMIDIPOONDI, TAMILNADU, MARCH 21, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Gummidipoondi, 21 March 2007 – More than 500 residents, primarily women, from S.R. Kandigai panchayat in Gummidipoondi physically entered and stopped work at the project site of Tamil Nadu Waste Management Ltd (TNWML)’s hazardous waste landfill and incinerator. The construction was being carried out without permission from…
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Gummidipoondi residents stop illegal construction of toxic waste landfill
GUMMIDIPOONDI, TAMILNADU, MARCH 21, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Gummidipoondi, 21 March 2007 – More than 500 residents, primarily women, from S.R. Kandigai panchayat in Gummidipoondi physically entered and stopped work at the project site of Tamil Nadu Waste Management Ltd (TNWML)’s hazardous waste landfill and incinerator. The construction was being carried out without permission from…
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Texas Jail Project: Raising a ruckus
Seadrift, TX, Feb 28th 2007 Dear friends & supporters, Ten days ago, Feb 17th, was the one-year anniversary of my release from the Victoria County Jail. I served 2 and 1/2 months for a criminal trespass conviction I got for climbing a Dow Chemical tower to protest the company’s continued denial of justice to the…
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Tata’s environmental crimes in Jamshedpur: people forced to live in a sulphurous hell
SARVARDARSHI GUPTA, BHOPAL.NET, JAMSHEDPUR, FEBRUARY 6, 2007 Jamshedpur in jharkhand state is where Tata have their steel plant. It is the oldest of all the Tata companies. More than 400 families [upwards of 2000 children, women and men] live in this area in makeshift/semi permanent houses. I spoke to some people living in the slums…
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Tata’s environmental crimes in Mithapur, Gujarat
Tata Chemical factory with slurry pan in the foreground. The glare makes it difficult to go near. A hot slurry flows into this huge pan day and night. The village PADLI of OKHAMANDAL Block is just near to this slurry pan. The slurry was earlier dumped directly in the sea for which TATA chemical received…
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Singur: where the left turns right
M J Vijayan, Tehelka, December 23, 2006 The CPM machinery has gone into overdrive in Singur to secure the Tata deal; it has left the peasantry, its constituency, totally in the cold In the interests of informed debate on issues of prime importance, one should welcome the CPM campaign in the media with its ‘truths’…
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US and Israel targeting DNA in Gaza? The DIME Bomb: Yet another genotoxic weapon
James Brooks, Media Monitors Network, December 4, 2006 “This warfare of the future is reminiscent of what Israel has been doing for years, but with one-ton bombs, 155-mm artillery shells, and tank-fired antipersonnel flechette bombs. Are FLM weapons like DIME an improvement? Or will they actually increase civilian casualties and suffering, and mimic depleted uranium…
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Spray fight hits home: Plantation workers in Nicaragua to get day in U.S. court for pesticide they say ruined their health
LETTA TAYLER, NEWSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2006 For years, Francisco Antenor drove his tractor past the banana plantations of this tropical village as they were sprayed with pesticide. Droplets fell like dew on his copper-hued skin, which is now spotted like a Dalmatian’s.
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Cuddalore: a Bhopal in Chennai’s backyard
Papri Sri Raman, India News December 3, 2006 As one drives down the East Coast Road from Chennai, towards Kanyakumari, the air becomes rancid past the small town of Cuddalore, about 350 km south. Your nose tells you, something is wrong here.
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US activist Diane Wilson to receive "Blue Planet Award" in Berlin
November 21, 2006 For Immediate Release On 2 December 2006 “ethecon – The foundation for Ethics & Economics” will award the international “Blue Planet Award” to Diane Wilson, the American environmental activist. The awards ceremony starts at 2 pm and takes place at the “Ufa-Fabrik”, Viktoriastrasse 10 – 18, Berlin.
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Veterans’ mental health needs ignored
Kathleen Parker, National Columnists, November 16, 2006 WASHINGTON — The next time you pass a homeless man on the street, you might ask in which war he served. In the next several years, chances are good that he (and increasingly she) will say Iraq or Afghanistan.That grim prediction is based on several facts:One in three…
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Many say U.S. should help victims of wartime poison
K. Oanh Ha, San Jose Mercury News, November 24, 2006 HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – Dang Hong Nhut smiles broadly when she speaks about her first-born, a son she describes as tall and handsome, born before American combat in Vietnam intensified. Her face wrinkles up in revulsion when conversation turns to her other child,…
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Agent Orange poison tied to fertility, muscle woes
Cindy Tumiel, Express-News, San Antonio, November 21, 2006 Dioxin, the toxin contained in the Vietnam-era herbicide Agent Orange, appears to limit the growth of the prostate gland, potentially suppressing male hormones and causing infertility and decreased bone and muscle mass, a long-term study of Air Force Vietnam War veterans finds. The conclusions are the latest…