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Chennai, 17th June, 10am to 4 pm Supporters from Chennai joined the Global Hunger Strike Relay today, in solidarity with the nine Bhopalis who are on an indefinite hunger fast in Delhi. Students from various colleges, unorganized workers unions, fishermen associations, traders association, women’s and gender rights movements joined the hunger strike. Shweta Narayan, who…

Puneites in dharna in Solidarity with the Bhopalis June 16 , 4-7 pm, Tilkak Putla, Mandai, Pune A Pune supporter writes… Please find attached photographs of the dharna (sit-in) for solidarity with Bhopal, organized today at Tilak Statue, Mandai in Pune. We did a “GhanTaa-Naad (Bell-ringing) aandolan” along with the sit-in. Activists from Lokayat, Pune…

Public statement May 23rd, 2008 The lessons of Bhopal do not lie in our past but in our future. By refusing to meet the people of Bhopal who have suffered for decades after the Union Carbide/Dow Chemicals gas leak Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is at the forefront of the Corporatization of India’s Economic Policies,…

New Delhi, 18 April 2008: More than 100 citizens and members of Delhi based civil society groups today marched in support of the struggle of the Bhopal Gas survivors who have been sitting in a dharna at Jantar Mantar for the last 20 days in the hope to meet the Prime Minister with their demands.…

Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationary Karamchari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Schoolchildren hold up their banner in Jantar Mantar today NEW DELHI, 16 APRIL, 2008 – After 38 days of walking from Bhopal to New Delhi, and 18 days on dharna at Jantar Mantar to get…

New York, April 12th, 2008 Amnesty International Group 133 threw a fantastic ‘Get on the Bus for Human Rights Action’ this year! Bhopal was a side action organized with help from the Boston Coalition for Justice in Bhopal and the Columbia University Amnesty Chapter.

Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information & Action Watch NDTV’s coverage of the fire NEW DELHI, 8 APRIL, 2008 — A massive fire consumed 120 tons of unknown toxic wastes on 3 April at BEIL’s toxic waste treatment, storage, disposal facility in Ankleshwar,…

30 people, including children and old women, were arrested today evening at India Gate during an awareness raising event on the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal (see photos of the time just as the police moved in below). Many of those arrested arrived yesterday after walking 800kms from Bhopal demanding justice for the Bhopal victims.

March 27th, 2008, Edinburgh Scotland-based Bhopal supporters gather outside the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh A delegation of Members of the Scottish Parliament, campaign groups and supporters met with the Indian Consul General in Scotland on Thursday in solidarity with the padyatris and in support of their demands.

28 MARCH, 2008. NEW DELHI – Marking two years since their last padayatra from Bhopal to Delhi, 50 people, including survivors of the 1984 gas tragedy, their children, people exposed to contaminated drinking water and their suupporters, today concluded their second 800 km march by walking from Nizamuddin park to Jantar Mantar. “We were forced…

March 23, 2008

19 March, 2008 Around 100 people gathered at the Gandhi Statue on Marina beach to hold a candle light vigil in support of the second padyatra of the Bhopal gas survivors.

20 February, 2008. NEW DELHI – More than 60 Bhopal survivors and victims of Union Carbide’s water contamination, set off on an 800 km march to New Delhi from Bhopal at 1 p.m. today. At least 40 more are expected to join the padayatra (march) within two days. Anticipated in the capital on 23 March,…

19 January, 2008. NEW DELHI — Construction work at Dow Chemical’s Rs. 400 crore R&D centre in Chakhan, near Pune, was brought to a halt by local residents and farmers who have told the company that it will not be allowed to set up until it addresses the issues facing the survivors of the 1984…

(click here for full document) BHOPAL. December 3rd, 2007 — on the day survivors have commemorated the 23rd anniversary of Union Carbide’s massacre in Bhopal, the starkest evidence yet of the Indian government’s slavish obeisance to the writ of Dow Chemical has emerged. Entitled ‘Legacy Issue Resolution Proposal‘, the letter, handed to ambassador Sen in…