Tag: Boston

  • Past Actions

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    Sunday, June 3rd, 2007: Protest at Dow-sponsored "Blue Planet Run" On June 3rd, the non-profit organization "Blue Planet Run" held an event in Boston Common as the participating long-distance runners were arriving in Boston. The blue planet run goes across 16 countries and covers 15200 miles in 95 days. At each stop, the organization holds…

  • Peace at home and abroad

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    News of gang activity in area 4. Long nerve-wracking waits at Logan due to another terror plot. The chaos and bloodshed in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine (and Iraq). It seems like so many of the things that make us afraid, we can do so little about. While neighbors and governments get together to find solutions…

  • Boston4Bhopal Event Calendar

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  • Boston Coalition for Bhopal ‘Dies-in’ Copley Sq.

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    Copley Sq., Boston – Boston Coalition for Bhopal members joined 3 other cities hosting events and re-enactments of the 1984 Union Carbide Chemical Disaster in Bhopal, India – Saturday, May 6th at noon. In Copley Square, professionals and students lay under shrouds downtown to raise awareness about Dow Chemical Company's role in the 22,000+ deaths…

  • Cambridge Council Dumps Dow Chemical, Cites Bhopal

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    Progressive Groups “weigh the evidence” at City Hall Cambridge City Hall – Activists representing peace, the environment, labor and human rights climbed a giant 'scale of justice' at 5:30pm on Tuesday, September 26 th to celebrate Cambridge's unanimous passage of the ‘Justice for Bhopal' resolution. The legislation asks the City to take shareholder and purchasing…

  • Press on Students for Bhopal in Boston/Cambridge, 2006-2009

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    Press Releases: Cambridge Council Dumps Dow Chemical, Cites Bhopal (09/26/06) Boston Coalition for Bhopal ‘Dies-in’ Copley Sq. (05/08/06) Articles: Group raises money for Bhopal survivors at MIT (Cambridge Chronicle, 09/23/09) Protesters target owner of Taj Boston (Boston Globe, 04/08/07) City to mull dumping Dow (Cambridge Chronicle, 10/05/06) Activists celebrate victory at City Hall (Cambridge Chronicle,…