Tag: actions and protests
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Dharna day 5: Ram Vilas Paswan visits and meets Sana
Most of us spent the last night waiting for the wind to blow from somewhere. When that didn’t happen most of us spent the night counting stars and braving mosquitoes. Due to some miscommunication the caretaker at the St’ Columbus school had switched off electricity and so we had to sleep outside in open. Nonetheless,…
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Dharna day 4: Common folk make way for the Commonwealth
Day 4: 29-07-2010 Today was relatively a light day though Delhi heat and humidity were present in equal measure. We started the day as usual with a fresh round of slogans. Some 100 Bhopalis joined us today. Amongst these were Mamu and Naeem who had also participated very actively in the last padyatra (footmarch) in…
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Dharna day 3: Visits to schools and the Delhi High Court
The day began early in the morning, both today and yesterday, for the young women of Children Against Dow Carbide. Safreen, Yasmeen and Komal kickstarted their Delhi school outreach with their message about Bhopal, about their lives made unusual by virtue of growing up next to a toxic factory site which had seen the world’s…
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Dharna day 2: Rain and the art of the languriya
The rains came and went with irritating irregularity. We had moved from our first day’s stakeout to the other side of the road. Not only was the original site more slush prone, located as it was right next to a public toilet, but also because the site across the street had an additional tree. We…
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Dharna day 1: Camped in a hostile city, Bhopalis sing
BY A NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS Coming to Delhi to knock at the doors to the conscience of the Central Government — the Prime Minister, in particular — is something that Bhopalis have done four times in the last five years. Each time supporters from India and abroad have responded with remarkable warmth. Each time, people…
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Bhopalis launch indefinite dharna in Delhi
More than 150 Bhopal survivors and people from water-affected areas began an indefinite dharna in Jantar Mantar that will last through the parliamentary session. The agitation intends to pressure the Central Government to revisit its recent decisions on issues of compensation, health care and rehabilitation, legal action against Union Carbide and Dow Chemical, and hazardous…
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Bhopal survivors will begin indefinite dharna in Delhi
The June 7 verdict by the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal triggered a renewed interest in the plight of the Bhopal survivors. Buckling under the public outrage generated by the media coverage of the disaster, the Prime Minister set up a Group of Ministers. The recommendations of the GoM fall way short of addressing the…
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JOIN THE SURVIVORS DHARNA IN DELHI, 26 JULY 2010
WHAT: Press Conference Launching Indefinite Dharna by Bhopal survivors to Remind the Parliament of Pending Issues in Bhopal WHEN: 4.30 p.m. 26 July, 2010 WHERE: Jantar Mantar WHO: More than 1000 Bhopal survivors, Members of Parliament and Eminent Persons Background: The June 7 verdict by the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal triggered a renewed interest…
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Survivors demonstrate at M.P. Pollution Control Board
Over 100 survivors of the Union Carbide disaster and people exposed to ground water contaminated by Union Carbide’s hazardous waste, today demonstrated at the office of the Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board demanding explanation of its role in the toxic exposure and injury of six workers at the MP Waste Management Facility at Pithampur near…
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Join the Rally for Justice in Bhopal, June 24, Delhi
Don’t let the Government betray Bhopal once again. If you were desperate to do something for Bhopal, and didn’t know what to do, here’s something you can do. Join the Rally. Bring your friends and family. Bring your own placard. WHERE: Mandi House to Jantar Mantar, New Delhi. WHEN: 24 JUNE, 2010. 11 a.m. WHY:…
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What fate for survivors of an Indian nuclear disaster?
ICJB press release of 4 May, 2010 here Bhopal gas survivors gathered outside the Prime Minister of India’s office in New Delhi to file Right-to-Information (RTI) requests regarding the civil nuclear liability bill and its relationship with the lessons of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal. “We want to know whether the lingering concerns of…
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Urgent: call your Representative in Congress and ask them to sign a letter to Dow
If you are living in the U.S., or are a U.S. citizen, please take a few minutes to take this action: While in Washington D.C. for the Survivors’ Tour, we met with Congressman Pallone of New Jersey, who has been a strong supporter of the Bhopal Campaign for many years. This year, he has circulated…
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100 children rally against Gas Relief Minister Gaur
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action November 17, 2008 *Press Statement* Over a hundred children from the communities near the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal today set fire to an effigy of the Minister for Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and…
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Tuesday 28th, late evening: 55 year old woman marcher knocked unconscious by a blow is threatened with surgical exploration of her abdomen "Then you’ll really have pain"
FROM SARVADARSHI IN DELHI SENT 9.30pm IST, RECEIVED 17:05 BRITISH SUMMER TIME 4pm IST, Bano Bee, 55, is struck in the chest and knocked unconscious Her limp body is carried away by police…And placed in a jeep At 4.01pm IST a kick in the chest knocks Ashraaf Bee, 60, senseless. Both women had walked 800km…
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Police beat women who asked politicians to obey Indian Supreme Court order
Toxic chemicals abandoned at its factory by Union Carbide have poisoned the drinking water of 20,000 people. In May 2004 the Indian Supreme Court ordered local politicians to provide the communities with clean, safe drinking water. The politicians ignored the order. On Tuesday 17 May, 300 people, overwhelmingly women, many with children and babies in…