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Rasheeda and Champa light a fire at the APHA Awards in Washington DC
At a moving ceremony at the American Public Health Association, Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla were honoured with the Association’s Occupational Health & Safety Award. Rashida and Champa were, predictably, articulate and passionate. Many among the audience were moved to tears. No surprise, commented our correspondent, given that those present were people who had…
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Nuff said
Congressman Pallone’s remarks to Congress about his bill are here. Here you can read the Midland Daily News editorial and the ICJB’s polite rejoinder correcting the chain of factual errors on which the editorial is based. Bhopal.Net, finding itself unable to be as diplomatic as its colleagues in the ICJB, declines to make further comment.…
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Sprick up your ears
UNION CARBIDE RE-EMERGES FROM THE BOWELS OF DOW Letters to Dow Chemical about Bhopal are now being answered by one Tomm F. Sprick as follows: Your inquiry concerning Union Carbide and its position on the Bhopal tragedy was forwarded to me at Union Carbide since I am UCC’s spokesman on the tragedy.” Sprick’s sudden reappearance…
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Survivors 5, Vultures 0
In a comprehensive victory for Bhopal survivors, the Indian Supreme Court today affirmed that unpaid compensation money amounting to £187 million (€270 million, US$343 million), belonged to the survivors and to them alone. The court dismissed applications by the government of Madhya Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Union Carbide’s Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust and…
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Supreme Court Says Money is for Survivors
Press Statement issued by Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmchari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal ki Aawaaz SUPREME COURT SAYS MONEY IS FOR SURVIVORS The Supreme Court of India today gave a decision that the distribution of the balance of compensation amount of over Rs.1567…
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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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Bhopali children painting for justice
Over 700 children including students from 11 schools participated today in the drawing and painting contest organized by the Sambhavna Trust Clinic. Children made drawings on the subject of the Union Carbide gas disaster or contamination of ground water due to Carbide’s toxic waste. Books and games were awarded to 17 children selected by three…
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Please sign the online petition for Justice in Bhopal
Sign the petition here. NOTE: THE PETITION IS NO LONGER ACTIVE Twenty years is a long time to wait for justice, proper compensation, the freedom to live without fear from poisons in your drinking water, proper medical studies into the illnesses that have ravaged your health and your family’s for two decades. To this day,…
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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 water protest – latest
We were about 350 people in all. About 10 men, the rest all women. We reached the Director’s office [Director, Department of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation, Madhya Pradesh Government] around noon. The office is right opposite the Governor’s residence and hence within a high security zone, but it took a while for the…
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Aye aye aye, what’s all this then?
Hysterically funny news has just reached us. Chief Minister Gaur visited a Bhopal police station the other day and was appalled by the size of the pandus. He has ordered them to go jogging and practice yoga. They are to clean up their filthy police chowkis and must watch movies on good behaviour. We would…
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While politicians posture, people die
For more than 20,000 people who suffered terrible injuries on the night of poison two decades ago, recent Supreme Court decisions about clean water and distribution of compensation monies come too late. Those twenty thousand are the dead. In their case neither was justice done, nor any humanity shown. The company, whose actions by any…
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Pallone slams Dow in Congress
Congressman Frank Pallone Jr or New Jersey has introduced a bill #503 to the US House of Representatives, calling for Congress to recognise the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster and express commitment to work with the Government of India and others to ensure that Union Carbide provides environmental and medical rehabilitation of the affected…
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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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BHOPAL.NET COMMENT: people V poison – which side is the government on?
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…