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STOP PRESS: Medha Patkar and other Narmada hunger strikers forcibly removed, Bhopal padyatri Satish kicked, beaten, arrested as he goes to help
PRESS RELEASE FROM INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL UPDATE FROM SARVADARSHI IN DELHI 4:59AM BST Satish, one of the padyatris, was arrested last night after locking arms with Narmada activists in resistance against an approaching group of about 200 riot police. They were trying to prevent Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar and other…
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"The tourist’s heaven: the call of the wild", gushes Bhopal’s Central Chronicle
Wild places in Bhopal: the fatal MIC (methyl isocyanate) unit is a rusting wreck, overgrown with creepers. Photo: Dan Sinha THE CHRONICLE’S STSORY: Bhopal is a beautiful city. The city of lakes really makes it swell to stay around here. People get to live in the city and love it. But it seems kind of…
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"Hang them!" Anger erupts as relatives come face to face with Union Carbide’s Indian executives outside court
INDIAN STOOGES APPEAR IN COURT, AMERICAN BOSSES REFUSE TO OBEY SUMMONS Today they returned to Bhopal, the six Indian businessmen who were in charge of Union Carbide’s ill-fated and badly run factory. They came to a court where they are charged with criminal negligence.
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Cops try to keep Diane $2000 bail bond, flash gun
8th Dec. 1.10 CDT Downtown Houston Dear All, After making bail last night and organising a pick up for her at 3-4am in the morning, David Graeve who signed on the bond got a call from the Sheriff’s office to take back $2,000 because the Calhoun County cops were going to come and take her…
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Bhopal’s mentally ill police kick and beat women – again
17 May 2005 This morning 300 women, men and children went to the Director, Bhopal Gas Rahat Cell (Manish Rashtogi) office demanding clean drinking water. They were severely beaten up and dragged out of the building by the police. The riot police were present in full force. Women and men were kicked and hit with…
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"Hang them!" Anger erupts as relatives come face to face with Union Carbide’s Indian executives outside court
INDIAN STOOGES APPEAR IN COURT, AMERICAN BOSSES REFUSE TO OBEY SUMMONS Today they returned to Bhopal, the six Indian businessmen who were in charge of Union Carbide’s ill-fated and badly run factory. They came to a court where they are charged with criminal negligence.
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Mr. Ringler’s Neighborhood
On December 3rd, several Bhopal supporters and members of the Association for India’s Development (Milwaukee) visited the home of Dow Board member James Ringler: Ashish (from AID Milwaukee), Satish and I (from Waukegan) left for Ringler’s house around 9am. We reached Ringler’s house around 9:15am and rang the bell. Waited for a few seconds before…
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A History of the Medical Disaster, Viewed Through Newspaper Clippings
News Clippings – 1984-1990: The Unfolding Medical Disaster New Clippings – 1991-1996: The Medical Crisis Continues News Clippings – 1997-2004: The Medical Crisis Continues List of Medical Headlines 1984-2004 Introduction This chronicle of the ongoing medical disaster in Bhopal is taken from newspaper clippings from local, national and some international newspapers, kept at the Sambhavna Trust…
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Survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster remain at the mercy of a corrupt government and an impotent judicial system
By DINESH C SHARMA in the Bangkok Post Bhopal : The infamous Union Carbide gas tragedy keeps haunting the central Indian city of Bhopal. The issue this time is the cleaning up of toxic chemical stockpiles decaying in the closed pesticide-making plant for the past 21 years. Normally this should have brought some cheer to…
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Amnesty International expresses concern over police brutality in Bhopal
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Public Statement AI Index: ASA 20/022/2005 (Public) News Service No: 131 19 May 2005 India: Protestors who want clean drinking water face excessive and unnecessary police force Amnesty International is concerned about reports of excessive and unnecessary use of force against protesters by police in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh on 17 May 2005. Amnesty…
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Bhopal’s mentally ill police kick and beat women – again
This morning 300 women, men and children went to the Director, Bhopal Gas Rahat Cell (Manish Rashtogi) office demanding clean drinking water. They were severely beaten up and dragged out of the building by the police. The riot police were present in full force. Women and men were kicked and hit with dandas (thick wooden…
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15% of Bhopal police are mentally ill: study finds
Indo-Asian News Service Bhopal, May 12, 2005 A survey among policemen in the Madhya Pradesh capital reveals a sad story of overwork, poor pay and unfulfilled aspirations that has driven 15 per cent of them to mental illness. Mentally ill? Reserve Inspector Chauhan beats up a demonstrator during the survivors’ attempt to begin a clean-up…
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Dow tries to stifle historians who uncovered its secrets
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT, BUY THEIR BOOK HERE Dow Chemical is leading a group ot twenty chemical giants in an all-out attack on two historians who have uncovered the sordid history of vinyl chloride production and its effects on health in the United States and Europe. Dow is the world’s largest producer of vinyl chloride, a…
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Bhopal lands Dow Chemical human rights booby prize
Dow wins 2005 Public Eye Award for worst corporation 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,…
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Callous Dowboys named Top 10 Worst Corporation
ALTERNET NAMES DOW AMONG THE 10 WORST CORPORATIONS OF 2004 Dow Chemical is among “the year’s most egregious price gougers, polluters, union-busters, dictator-coddlers, fraudsters, poisoners, deceivers and general miscreants,” say the editors of Alternet, citing a Dow statement on Bhopal that sounds as if it was written by the Yes Men. While Dow has no…