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SOLIDARITY, SCOTLAND, DECEMBER 2, 2006 http://www.solidarityscotland.org/ On the 22nd anniversary of the environmental disaster in Bhopal,India, Solidarity have called on the petrochemical company Dow to face criminal proceedings, fully compensate victims, and clean up the site and surrounding areas. On the 2nd and 3rd December 1984, the worlds worst ever industrial disaster killed thousands of…

Sanjay Sharma, Indo-Asian News Service, December 2, 2996 Bhopal, Dec 2 (IANS) Medical research is desperately needed, especially into the possible genetic and reproductive after effects, of the lethal gas leak in Bhopal exactly 22 years ago that killed more than 3,000 people instantly and thousands more in subsequent years. Despite the neurological, hormonal and…

PRADEEP CHOUREY, BHOPAL CENTRAL CHRONICLE, DECEMBER 2, 2OO6 Dr Pradeep Chourey recalls the Union Carbide MIC gas leak. At the time of tragedy he was a senior Resident in Hamidia hospital, residing in a college hostel. Yes! Exactly 22 years have passed, in the tick of a second, since that gory incident, one of the…

Anita’s Blog, Chicago, December 2, 2006 Tomorrow, Dec 3 is the 22nd anniversary of Bhopal. Satish and I visited the Dow Board of Directors (BoDs) who live in Chicago, to give them prison jumpsuits :-). Last year we visited them and presented them with a Bhopal Posterboard. This year Satish painstakingly spent time ‘decorating’ the…

Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal ki Aawaaz December 02, 2006 PRESS STATEMENT In a statement released by four survivors organisations: Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh, Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha, Bhopal Group for Information and…

Sarvadarshi Gupta, Midland Michigan, November 21, 2006 A report on a student protest that ruined the day of Dow recruiters at MIT, has so upset the reptiles in the Dow boardroom that they nominated their jaded PR man, the unfortunately named Tomm Sprick, to write a rebuttal. But Tomm, darlin’ man, this isn’t up to…

Somnath Mukherjee, The Statesman, December 1, 2006 On 26 July, 2006, 34-year-old Sunil Verma hung himself from the ceiling of his room. He was wearing a T-shirt which said: “No more Bhopals”. It was 22 years ago on the intervening night of 2-3 December that a cloud of lethal gas from Union Carbide’s (UC) pesticide…

Somnath Mukherjee, The Statesman, December 1, 2006 On 26 July, 2006, 34-year-old Sunil Verma hung himself from the ceiling of his room. He was wearing a T-shirt which said: “No more Bhopals”. It was 22 years ago on the intervening night of 2-3 December that a cloud of lethal gas from Union Carbide’s (UC) pesticide…

Sambhavna Trust Clinic, Bhopal, December 1, 2006 First published on www.bhopal.org Visitors to the exhibition are greeted by a painting done by students. Specimins of viscera brought by Dr Sathpathy, who performed the greatest number of autopsies on those who perished in the 1984 disaster. Dr Sathpathy explains to an attentive crowd what they are…

SAMBHAVNA TRUST CLINIC, BHOPAL, NOVEMBER 29, 2006 The Sambhavna Trust Clinic that provides free medical care to the people poisoned by Union Carbide in Bhopal will be holding a 4-day exhibition at the Swaraj Bhavan on the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of the worst industrial disaster in the world. The exhibition will be inaugurated…

December 1, 2006: Press Release from Amnesty International USA NEW YORK, December 1, 2006 – In the face of a new public relations campaign by Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) claiming the company is addressing global public health and water problems, Dow shareholders representing more than $278 million announced today that they have filed a resolution with…

Ramya Ramamurthy & Molshree Vaid, Moneycontrol.com, November 30, 2006 This may sound like the beginning of a bad joke – but what do you get when you put together 16 brand communication experts and advertisers together to brainstorm and write down their strategies for tackling a crisis over 48 hours? Well, advertisers begin to sound…

On the road between Cuddalore and Chennai, November 29, 2006 Update Day2: 29 November 2006, morning from Puduchatram From Nity: We set off for our next destination to Cuddalore New Town at 7:30 am half hour past the scheduled time. Some of us were up at 4 am to fulfil the morning duties while others…

INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL, CHENNAI, NOVEMBER 29, 2006 Renowned poet Ms. Kanimozhi launched the ‘1000 Bhopals’ photo exhibition at the Lalit Kala Akademy today. The exhibition that displayed images from various toxic hotspots across India is part of the week long activities organized by the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal as a…

Jill Hilbrenner, The Missourian, November 26, 2006 Fred vom Saal, an MU biological sciences professor, holds a plastic baby bottle that contains the chemical bisphenol A. The prominent chemical has been the focus of years of research for vom Saal, who believes it can cause reproductive problems, brain damage, cancer and many other issues. PHOTO:…