Tag: actions and protests
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Bhopal protests catch Dow pants down in Texas, New Orleans, Berlin and Chicago
Bhopal protests have been cropping up all over the planet, where Dow least expects them. On February 17, Diane Wilson and others attended a Dow banquet at Lake Jackson, Texas where they were received with all the joy and hospitality Macbeth showed to Banquo’s ghost. Read about it here. Bhopal campaigners turned up to picket…
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Ghost of Bhopal spoils Dow’s feast
JHADOOS AND BANNERS RETURN TO HAUNT DOW A Dow Chemical banquet at Lake Jackson, Texas, was attended last night by broom and banner wielding volunteers of the ICJB, who handed out copies of the Bhopal Chief Magistrate’s order summoning Dow Chemical US to appear in the criminal trial in Bhopal. Lake Jackson police turned out…
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Indian politicians’ shameful treatment of survivors reaches new depths
INDIA’S POLITICIANS MOVE TO DENY BHOPAL SURVIVORS MEDICAL CARE The following press statement was issued today by Bhopal survivors’ organisations and their supporters. Bhopal, February 12, 2005 Over two hundred survivors of the December ’84 Union Carbide gas disaster today held a demonstration at the office of the Chief Medical Officer [Gas Relief] at 11.30…
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Thousands in human chain protests at Coke, Pepsi plants in India
MANDIDEEP, BHOPAL (AFP) Jan 20, 2005 Thousands of students and farmers on Thursday surrounded Pepsi and Coca-Cola factories in a “Quit India” campaign, accusing the US giants of selling soft drinks laced with pesticides. They lined up shoulder-to-shoulder in a five-kilometre (three-mile) chain around a Pepsi bottling plant at this central Indian township, an AFP…
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Students at 60 colleges on five continents demand justice for Bhopal
NEW MASS STUDENT MOVEMENT BUILDING AGAINST DOW CHEMICAL: LARGEST SINCE THE VIETNAM WAR Students from more than 60 colleges, universities, and high schools worldwide have organized events this week to mark the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, and to demand that Dow Chemical resolve its legal and moral responsibilities for the “Hiroshima of the…
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Vultures not quite extinct in India
More than 2000 Bhopal survivors and their supporters will demonstrate in Delhi on October 26 to protest against those who are trying to grab a share of the undistributed compensation fund that the Supreme Court has ruled belongs solely to the survivors of Union Carbide’s 1984 gas disaster. At the head of the line with…
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Bhopalis in massive water protest as State government ignores Supreme Court order
In May 2004 the Indian Supreme Court ordered that clean and safe drinking water must be supplied to 14 Bhopali communities which are currently forced to use water dangerously contamined by chemicals leaking from Union Carbide’s abandoned factory. The response of the State government has been to ignore the Supreme Court order. Today in Bhopal…
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Bhopal roads blocked for clean water
Tired of waiting for the government of Madhya Pradesh to obey a five-month-old Supreme Court order to supply clean water to contaminated areas, communities bearing the brunt of Carbide’s water poisoning today forced the issue with a blockade of two of Bhopal’s main roads. The action follows recent meetings with Babulal Gaur, then Minister for…
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Don’t dump your wastes in our lungs
Survivors join Global Action against Waste Incineration, tell Dow, “get your poisonous waste out of Bhopal” Bhopal-based members of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal today joined more than 100 groups around the world participating in a Global Day of Action against the disposal of wastes by burning. The Bhopal ICJB members called on…
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Bhopal survivors support Toulouse victims
Bhopal survivors and campaigners are in the southern French city of Toulouse to join with victims of the September 2001 explosion at a chemical factory owned by the AZF company, which killed 30 people and left countless more damaged. The Toulouse victims in their quest for justice have encountered the same obstacles as the chemical…
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Bhopal orphans demand proper employment
Orphans of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster have formed their own organisation, Bhopal Ki Aawaaz, “the Voice of Bhopal”, to fight for the fulfilment of promises made to them, but never kept, by a long series of state dignitaries. At a press conference in Bhopal today, the orphans voiced their demand for proper employment and…
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Tell the Indian government to say YES to a clean up in Bhopal
***Urgent Action Alert*** Fax the Government! Join the nationwide hungerstrike! In a historic ruling reached in response to a suit filed by Bhopal survivors, a court in New York has agreed to consider survivors’ claims for getting Union Carbide to clean up the toxic wastes in Bhopal. For this to happen, the Indian Government needs…
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UN Urged To Help Rehabilitate Bhopal
The Bhopal delegation visited the United Nations today to urge the organisation to end its “20-year long discriminatory stand” by intervening in Bhopal’s continuing humanitarian disaster. “UN agencies such as WHO, ILO and UNICEF remain silent as people continue to die at the rate of one a day, and babies are born with birth defects.…
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Stavropoulos admits own incompetence as 40 Million shares go against Dow
At Dow’s AGM today, with the shareholder’s vote on a Bhopal resolution safely out of the way, William Stavropoulos finally admitted he had ‘misspoken’ at last year’s meeting when denying the existence of outstanding criminal charges against Union Carbide. After the confession, Stavropoulos slithered away from every other question on the dreaded criminal charges more…
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Diane Wilson faces jail for Dow protest
Diane Wilson, “famed shrimp-boat-captain-turned-activist and merciless scourge of Dow”, attends a Texan court on Monday, 26 Jan for a jury trial. She’s facing charges of criminal trespass and resisting arrest, stemming from her August, 2002 protest action at the former Carbide plant in Seadrift, Texas. If convicted, Diane will have to serve around three to…