Tag: archives
-
Post from the Past: 2002 – Bhopal & Babylon: When Anderson Was Discovered Living It Up in the Hamptons
The post below was originally published by the editors of Bhopal.net over 12 years ago, on September 8, 2002. Even though Anderson died in September 2014, the fight for justice lives on. This post’s original conclusion, “[Anderson] and his wife must have been hoping Bhopal had gone away. But Bhopal will never go away. Not…
-
Police beat women who asked politicians to obey Indian Supreme Court order
May 20, 2005 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…
-
Students call for University of California to sever links with Dow
March 11, 2005 In another manifestation of what has become the largest students campaign against Dow since the Vietnam War, students at the University of California called for the university to divest from Dow and refuse further donations. Among the reasons given were the unresolved Bhopal liabilities of Dow’s 100%-owned subsidiary Union Carbide, which is…
-
Bhopal protests catch Dow pants down in Texas, New Orleans, Berlin and Chicago
March 9, 2005 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. Bhopal campaigners turned up to picket Dow’s…
-
Murky deal may help Carbide sneak back into India
February 28, 2005 A new Union Carbide scandal broke in India today as furious Bhopal survivors protested against leaked plans of a shadowy deal between Carbide’s 100% owner Dow Chemical and the Indian Oil Corporation to supply ethylene glycol technology for IOC’s Panipat complex. The process, called METEOR, is thought to belong to Union Carbide,…
-
Dow wins 2005 Public Eye Award for worst corporation
BHOPAL LANDS DOW CHEMICAL HUMAN RIGHTS BOOBY PRIZE The Public Eye on Davos – the coalition of NGOs set up as a counterweight to the WEF, has voted Dow Chemical Worst Corporation in the human rights category of its excrescence awards. Dow easily beat a field of deeply unpleasant competitors that included Bayer, Bechtel, Nestlé,…
-
Tsunami information, relief, donations
As the death toll from the Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean climbs towards 300,000, we have received these updates from friends in Cuddalore, Tamilnadu and Ko Phi-Phi, Thailand. Tsunami Update from Cuddalore Tsunami news from Ko Phi-Phi, Thailand We will continue updating as we receive more information. The following information dates from the…
-
An open letter to Shri Babu Lal Gaur, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
ABOUT YOUR PLAN TO BUILD A NEW MEMORIAL TO BHOPAL’S GAS VICTIMS Dear Chief Minister Gaur, Yesterday in Bhopal you told a press conference that you have decided to build a memorial to the memory of those who died in the Union Carbide gas disaster of twenty years ago. “Even after 20 years have passed,”…
-
European Parliament calls for UN special rapporteurs on Bhopal
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling for UN special rapporteurs to visit Bhopal in order to examine and assess the effects of Union Carbide’s activities, including the 1984 disaster and subsequent poisoning of water by toxic chemicals abandoned by the company in its now-derelict factory. The resolution calls on the Governments of India…
-
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…
-
Amnesty slams Dow
Amnesty International today released its report, “Clouds of Injustice” and called on Dow Chemical Company to ensure that Union Carbide Corporation • effectively and promptly decontaminates the Bhopal factory site, cleans up the groundwater and removes the stockpiles of toxic and hazardous substances left by the company when they abandoned the site; • cooperates fully…
-
Why my family are fighting for justice – 20 years on
EDITOR’S NOTE: WE HAVE NICKED THIS STORY FROM TODAY’S OBSERVER, TO WHOM COURTEOUS SALAAMS By a twist of fate, Anushka Asthana’s grandparents survived the gas cloud that devastated the Indian city of Bhopal. But, she finds, the city’s tragedy is still unfolding Twenty years ago my grandparents, Trilok Nath and Kamla Bahel, boarded a night…
-
Bar Dow Chemical from Indian Oil Contract: Petroleum Minister’s Constituency Demands
MAYILADUTHURAI, 24 November, 2004 More than 250 people in Mayiladuthurai, Tamilnadu, the constituency of Minister of Petroleum Mani Shankar Aiyar, today held a demonstration in solidarity with the survivors of the Bhopal disaster demanding that Union Carbide’s new owner Dow Chemical be barred from bidding for a technology contract in Indian Oil Corporation’s proposed refinery…
-
Bhopal Express opens on Bhopal arts website
SEE MAHESH MATHAI’S CULT FILM ON DEMAND AT WWW.BHOPAL.FM Bhopal Express has won awards and become a cult movie among students and on the art film circuit, but has not yet reached mainstream audiences. It’s artistically uncompromising, eschewing the dozen songs with dance routines that might have made it a Bollywood success (Zeenat Aman’s singing…
-
Bhopal faces risk of ‘poisoning’: BBC
BY PAUL VICKERS, BBC Thousand of Indians around Bhopal remain at risk of poisoning 20 years after a major disaster in the city, an investigation by the BBC has revealed. Four thousand people died after a gas leak at a pesticide factory owned by US company Union Carbide in 1984. Union Carbide India Limited was…