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  • Two hundred days to drop Dow

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    PRESS STATEMENT January 9 2012 As part of the international campaign “200 days to drop Dow Chemical as sponsors” five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today organized a protest action. Victims of the Bhopal disaster and those poisoned due to toxic waste from the abandoned factory in Bhopal, joined…

  • Dow Chemical Tarnishes the Image of Olympics

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    12-Aug-11 The news that DOW Chemical will be branding and wrapping the London Olympic Stadium is disappointing yet sadly, unsurprising. The LOCOG (London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games who claim to be committed to sustainability, are willing to partner with Dow brings shame on the UK and yet again, on the Olympic…

  • Gas Affected Women Tie "Rakhi" to Chief Minister and ask him to protect their legal right for adequate compensation

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    Press Statement 13-Aug-2011 On the occasion of the Rakhi festival 100 women survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide Disaster in Bhopal sought protecting of their legal rights to adequate compensation from the Chief Minister of the State. Tying a redesigned traditional “Rakhi” on the Chief Minister’s wrist the women asked their “Brother” to ensure that…

  • Dow Tarnishes The Image Of The Olympics

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      29-October-2011 Make your voice count: Endorse the petition addressed to Chair of London 2012 Organizing Committee.   24 October 2011 Amnesty International writes to Chairman of LOCOG (Lord Sebestain Coe) and express serious concern on Dow Chemical as a sponsor to the Olympic Games.   Click here to read the Amnesty International letter to…

  • London 2010 Olympics Sponsor Dow: Don't Judge us on Bhopal Deaths

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    http://www.metro.co.uk/news/871416-london-olympics-sponsor-dow-dont-judge-us-on-bhopal-deaths#ixzz1UFQUAtt0 Joel Taylor – 4th August, 2011 London 2012 Olympics sponsor Dow: don’t judge us on Bhopal deaths The Dow Chemical Company, which has links to the infamous Bhopal chemical disaster, has defended its plans to sponsor the £7 million Olympic stadium ‘wrap’. The wrap, which will be seen by 4billion TV viewers, was scrapped…

  • Bhopal Gas Survivors stage a massive protest rally for adequate compensation

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    25-July-2011 Thousands of Bhopal survivors came out on the streets and demanded urgent intervention of the Prime Minister of India and Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in claiming correct compensation in the curative petition pending in Supreme Court. Survivors pointed out that figures of exposure related deaths and injuries in the curative petition filed by…

  • Bhopal Kids support Anti POSCO struggle

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    20 July 2011 Members of Children Against Dow-Carbide took out a rally in Bhopal to express solidarity with children of Jagatsinghpur, Odisha that are fighting against South Korean steal company POSCO. The children also handed a posco-memorandum to governorto the governor in which they pointed out that struggle against POSCO was for 22,000 families in…

  • City Council/Student Body Resolution

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    City/Student ResolutionsOfficial statements such as City Council or Student Body Resolutions are a key means of bringing pressure to bear in support of justice for Bhopal. They do so in two key ways: They lend credibility to our campaign, and undermine the credibility of Dow. They help quantify our campaign's mainstream strength and support, which…

  • Peace at home and abroad

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    News of gang activity in area 4. Long nerve-wracking waits at Logan due to another terror plot. The chaos and bloodshed in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine (and Iraq). It seems like so many of the things that make us afraid, we can do so little about. While neighbors and governments get together to find solutions…

  • Cambridge Council Dumps Dow Chemical, Cites Bhopal

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    Progressive Groups “weigh the evidence” at City Hall Cambridge City Hall – Activists representing peace, the environment, labor and human rights climbed a giant 'scale of justice' at 5:30pm on Tuesday, September 26 th to celebrate Cambridge's unanimous passage of the ‘Justice for Bhopal' resolution. The legislation asks the City to take shareholder and purchasing…

  • Indian Supreme Court hears Bhopal curative petition

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    An important hearing, which could reopen the case against Union Carbide Corporation and possibly even reopen the controversial and inadequate 1989 settlement, is taking place in India’s apex court. In a series of daily dispatches, Shalini Sharma, a PhD student at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, guides us through the proceedings, summarising…

  • Sanjay Verma, Bhopal survivor, tours the U.S.

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    Sanjay Verma, Bhopal survivor, activist, and documentary star, tours the U.S. this spring From March 17 – April 9, Sanjay Verma will be traveling throughout the U.S. with the support of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) and People Concerned about MIC (PCMIC).  ICJB and PCMIC need your support to make this initiative…

  • Bhopalis welcome curative petition in SC for compensation enhancement

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    February 28, 2011 Press Statement   Representatives of five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today welcomed the admission of the curative petition for enhancement of compensation by the Supreme Court of India. Holding the Government of India primarily responsible for the collusive settlement of 1989, they stated that the…

  • 1984 to Now: The Ongoing Disaster in Bhopal

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    1984 to Now: The Ongoing Disaster in Bhopal Often referred to as the world's worst industrial disaster, Bhopal still remains a global symbol of corporate negligence.  Bhopal didn't start on the night of the tragedy; Bhopal still has not ended.  This tragedy of multinational proportions continues in the abandoned factory's corpse, as it leaks its poisons into the…

  • ICJB responds to Supreme Court’s admission of curative petition for enhanced compensation

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    Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmchari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Gas Peedit Nirashrit Pension Bhogi Sangharsh Morcha Children Against Dow Carbide Bhopal Group for Information and Action   Press Statement – February 28, 2011   Representatives of five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today…