Tag: actions and protests

  • Activists mount global challenge to Dow

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    PRESS RELEASE, 16/01/04: More than 25 representatives from various organisations, including 11 international delegates from USA and South Africa, met in Bhopal from January 14-16, 2004 to devise collective strategies to fight for justice in Bhopal and hold Dow Chemical accountable for its toxic legacies around the world. Corporate accountability activists and global supporters of…

  • Students for Bhopal Targets Dow’s Decision-Makers

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    By Ryan Bodanyi Over the past three years, students have made it difficult for Dow’s decision-makers to ignore Bhopal, much as they might like to. In fact our efforts have shown how much power even a few students can have when they bring Bhopal ‘home’ to Dow. In Mr. Parker’s Neighborhood  On Bhopal’s 18th anniversary,…

  • Satire confirmed dead: a Bhopal.net feature

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    Regular readers of bhopal.net might be under the impression that the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal generally stands for things like environmental justice, solidarity with abused and downtrodden people, respect for the sanctity of human life and such like. Dow, though touchingly numbered among our most regular readers, appear to see things differently. A…

  • Dow under global siege on December 3rd

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    More than 65 events in 16 countries marked the first Global day of Action Against Corporate Crime in commemoration of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster. Members of unions, students, grassroots organisations, politicians, NGOs, individuals and Bhopal survivors were amongst the people taking part yesterday. Directors of Dow and regional headquarters have been confronted by…

  • Dec 3rd is ‘No Pesticides Day’: PAN calls for Paraquat ban

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    STOP Paraquat! On the occasion of global “No Pesticides Use Day” this December 3, the international Pesticide Action Network (PAN) calls for the global ban and phase out of the production and use of paraquat, one of the most dangerous and controversial herbicides in the world. The international Pesticide Action-Network launched December 3 as the…

  • 36 years on, outraged students again unite against Dow

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    Reviving memories of the fierce Vietnam War protests at universities in the 1960’s, students at 20 colleges across the United States are once again organizing against Dow, this time united in their demand that Dow accept its moral and legal responsibilities in Bhopal. They’ve banded together to form Students for Bhopal, a national network that…

  • Coca Cola scandal deepens, killings begin

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    Despite selling poisoned drinks, and spewing out carcinogenic sludge from their plants, sucking the ground dry, thus destroying the livelihoods of local farmers and forcing local people to trudge for miles in search of alternative water sources, it seems that American multinationals Coke and Pepsi, like Enron and Union Carbide before them, are being protected…

  • Mythological beings descend on Kings Lynn

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    KINGS LYNN 13 MAY 2003. Two mysterious beings appeared this morning at the Dow Chemicals factory in the tiny, remote English town of Kings Lynn, Norfolk. “We are from the UK branch of the ICJB and we come bringing a gift” they told plant managers who stared at them in wonder and said, “We have…

  • Global hunger strike begins

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    Bapuji, if you could see the terrible things that are being done to the poor, we know that you would be fasting beside us. WASHINGTON DC, 12 MAY. Watched by the statue of Mahatma Gandhi outside the Indian Embassy in Washington DC, the three hunger strikers today marked the end of their personal fast by…

  • BHOPAL.NET COMMENT: people V poison – which side is the government on?

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    Posted on the original bhopal.net in 2002 and reposted here – the photos are currently missing From https://www.bhopal.net/old_bhopal_net/peoplevpoison.html BHOPAL, 27 NOVEMBER 2002 Yesterday we had a phone call from Bhopal, from one of the activists involved in the action at the defunct Union Carbide plant – he can be seen being dragged and kicked in…

  • Diane Wilson chains herself to 70 foot tower at Dow plant to demand justice for Bhopal victims. (May face federal charge.)

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    At 0545 am this morning Central Time, Diane Wilson, a shrimp boat captain and environmentalist from Seadrift, Texas, scaled a 90 foot tower at Dow Chemical’s Seadrift plant, unfurled a 12 foot banner stating DOW – RESPONSIBLE FOR BHOPAL and chained herself to the tower. An eyewitness reported, “Dawn is breaking. she’s hanging the banner.…