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Bhopal gas survivor organisations congratulate AAP for defeating both BJP & Congress; who have betrayed the interests of gas victims

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प्रेस विज्ञप्ति          12 फरवरी

दिसंबर ’84 यूनियन कार्बाइड के  गैस कांड के पीड़ितों के पाँच संगठनों ने आज नीलम पार्क में आयोजित एक कार्यक्रम में दिल्ली में आम आदमी पार्टी की जीत पर बधाई दी। संगठनों ने बताया कि गैस पीड़ित दिल्ली के  चुनाव के नतीजों से विशेष तौर पर खुश हैं  क्योंकि इसमें उनके साथ धोखा करने वाली दोनों भाजपा और कांग्रेस को ज़बर्दस्त शिकस्त मिली  है।

संगठनों ने कहा कि पिछले 30 सालों  में दोनों पार्टियों ने अमरीकी कम्पनियों के हितों की रक्षा की है और गैस पीड़ितों के कानूनी अधिकारों की बलि दी है। उन्होंने कहा कि अतिरिक्त मुआवज़े के सवाल पर केंद्रीय रसायन मंत्री द्वारा उनकी माँगें मानने के बाद भी आज तक कोई ठोस नतीजा नहीं आया है।

संगठनों ने इस बात पर भी तीखी नाराजगी जाहिर की प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री दिसंबर 2011 में हर गैस पीड़ित को 5 लाख मुआवजा दिलवाने का वादा करने के बाद, आज तक खामोश बैठे है ।  उन्होंने कहा की प्रदेश सरकार 10,000 गैस पीड़ितों को रोजगार देने का वादा किया था पर 18 करोड़ रूपए खर्च होने के बावजूद भी 500 से भी कम गैस पीड़ितों को रोजगार मिला है और इसका ज्यादातर पैसा प्रदेश सरकार के भ्रष्ट मंत्रियों और अधिकारियों की जेबों में गया है ।

संगठनों ने कहा कि दिल्ली के चुनाव ने यह स्पष्ट कर दिया है कि खोखले वादे  और झूठे आश्वासन देने वालों को जनता मुँह तोड़ जवाब देती है। मंत्रियों द्वारा अतिरिक्त मुआवज़े पर किए गए वादों को पूरा करवाने के लिए गैस पीड़ित पूरी ताकत से लड़ने की तैयारी कर रहे हैं।

Nawab Khan,
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha
8718035409

Balkrishna Namdeo,
Bhopal Gas Peedit Nirashrit Pension Bhogi Sangharsh Morcha
9826345423

Satinath Sarangi, Rachna Dhingra,
Bhopal Group for Information and Action
9826167369

Safreen Khan
Children Against Dow Carbide
9303831487

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ICJB Press Releases, Statements, Letters

Bhopal gas survivor organisations congratulate AAP for defeating both BJP & Congress; who have betrayed the interests of gas victims

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12 February 2015

At an event organized at Neelam Park today, five organizations of survivors of the December 84 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal congratulated the Aam Aadami Party for their thumping victory in Delhi elections. The organizations said that gas victims of Bhopal are particularly happy with the outcome of the Delhi elections because both BJP and Congress who have betrayed the interests of gas victims have faced humiliating defeat.Inline image 2

The organisations said that in the last 30 years, both of these parties have only protected the interests of American corporations and have sacrificed the legal rights of the Bhopal gas victims. They also said that after agreeing to their demand regarding additional compensation, the Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers is yet to deliver anything concrete.

The organisations are also angered by the silence of the Chief Minister, who in 2011 had promised to get Rs 5 lakh for every gas victims. They said the state government had promised jobs to 10,000 gas victims but till now only 500 have got jobs and most of the Rs 18 crores spent on economic rehabilitation has gone into the pockets of corrupt ministers and officials of the state government.

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The organisations said that Delhi election results have made it clear that people of this country give a befitting reply to hollow promises and false assurances of politicians.  They said that their members are now preparing to confront the powers that be at the state and the centre on the promises made on the issue of additional compensation.

Rashida Bi,
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmchari Sangh
94256 88215

Nawab Khan,
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha
8718035409

Balkrishna Namdeo,
Bhopal Gas Peedit Nirashrit Pension Bhogi Sangharsh Morcha
9826345423

Satinath Sarangi, Rachna Dhingra,
Bhopal Group for Information and Action
9826167369

Safreen Khan
Children Against Dow Carbide
9303831487

 

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Community Blog, ICJB Calls to Action

Call for 2015/2016 Coordinating Committee Members

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In this vital 30th anniversary year, ICJB North America is looking for Coordinating Committee (CC) members. As part of the CC, you will be responsible for helping develop the campaign in North America. Below are a list of the positions we are seeking:

Website Coordinator
Key tasks: updating website content, improve interface, sending out Low DOWns,
Experience: WordPress and CIVICRM knowledge is helpful but not necessary
Time commitment: 2-4 hours a week

Fundraising Coordinator
Key tasks: maintain donor relations, expand ICJB fundraising efforts, send annual donor mailing, hold at least 1 fundraising campaign (online or offline)
Experience: Fundraising background or similar
Time commitment: 2-4 hours a week

Education Coordinator
Key tasks: Continue development and execution of the Curriculum Package, Continue to build educational resources
Experience: Curriculum background an asset, passion for education
Time commitment: 2-4 hours a week

Community Relations Coordinator
Key tasks: Develop and maintain relationships with environmental justice, environmental and social justice groups in North America.
Experience: Awareness of like-minded groups in North America; Community relations experience
Time commitment: 2-4 hours a week

Communications Coordinator
Key tasks: Drafting Press Releases, Building relationships with journalists, supporting our online mailings and online communications
Experience: Previous media (including social media) experience
Time commitment: 2-4 hours a week

Dow Coordinator
Key tasks: Plan shareholder protest, Track Dow in the news
Experience: Previous experience in corporate accountability
Time commitment: 2-4 hours a week

To apply please email justice@bhopal.net with responses to the following:
1) Why are you interested in the position(s)?
2) What skills do you bring to the position(s)?
3) Do you have previous experience on Bhopal gas disaster and/or ICJB?

To nominate someone please email justice@bhopal.net with responses to the following:
1) The name and email address of who you are nominating
2) Why you are nominating them

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ICJB Press Releases, Statements, Letters

Letter to President Obama on the Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Disaster

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Mr. Barak Obama,
President, United States of America,
The White House,
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20500

December 3, 2014

Subject: Letter from the Survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India.

Sir,

On the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the world’s worst industrial disaster, we five organizations of survivors’ of Bhopal, India, wish to present the following for your consideration and action.

Today in Bhopal the death toll due to the leak of toxic gases from a pesticide factory has risen close to 25 thousand dead and counting. 150 thousand people are battling chronic illnesses. Tuberculosis and cancers are rampant. Tens of thousands of children born after the disaster carry the mark of the poisons their parents inhaled on the midnight of 2-3 December 1984.

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News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical

“They Did What They Liked”: Chevron and Dow on Trial

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Dissent Magazine
Madhusree Mukerjee ▪ Fall 2014
Click here for the original article.

“They want me to be bankrupt, they want my wife to leave me, they want me to jump off a building,” says Steven Donziger, a lawyer based in New York City whose team won an unprecedented judgment against Chevron in 2011. That year, an Ecuadorean court found Texaco guilty of having polluted close to 2,000 square miles of the Amazon basin with crude oil, toxic wastewater, and other contaminants. The country’s Supreme Court eventually ordered the company’s successor, Chevron, to pay $9.5 billion for environmental remediation, medical treatment, and other relief for those affected. But Donziger’s victory painted a bull’s-eye on his back. The lawyer says he’s been watched; that he’s had laptops, thousands of documents, bank statements, and tax returns seized by court order and handed to Chevron’s lawyers; and that friends and supporters have been turned against him by threats of ruinous lawsuits.

Worst of all, this March a New York federal judge convicted Donziger under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act of heading a criminal undertaking that had corrupted and intimidated Ecuadorean judges in order to shake down Chevron. (If the $9.5 billion awarded to his clients were ever collected, Donziger, who has worked on the case for most of the two decades it took to reach completion, would stand to earn millions in lawyer’s fees.) Donziger has appealed. Even if he is vindicated, however, this novel deployment of the RICO Act—normally applied to mobsters and drug syndicates—adds a particularly nasty weapon to the already formidable arsenal that U.S. multinationals have developed, with considerable help from American judges, to defeat demands for accountability by litigants in poor foreign countries.

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