Tag: Dharna 2010

  • Day 8

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    Dharna Blog Day 8: 2.08.10 Today our dharna took a dramatic turn as a fresh batch of around 150 people came in from Bhopal, fresh with determination and strength. Some like Bano Aapa, were returning, having been in the first group that inaugurated this dharna on July 26. This group joined some people who had…

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    Dharna Blog Day 13: Aug 7, 2010 Rachna and Shalini visited parliamentarian Abni Roy who has been to the dharna sthal and been very supportive up to now. He wrote a detailed letter to the Prime Minister asking for a set of steps to be taken around Bhopal, based on our demands. The girls wanted…

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    Dharna Blog Day 11: Aug 5, 2010 The morning began once again with a visit to St Mary’s School by Rachna, Yasmeen and Safreen. The school didn’t have electricity, so no film screening was possible, and the children described the gas disaster instead and talked about the issues they faced. The big event of the…

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    Dharna Blog Day 10: 4.08.2010 Today we went about the laborious process of reassembling Sana’s documents, lost as they were when the police raided the dharna sthal on August 2. This took all day, with the help of Arun Paswan, an aide of Ram Vilas Paswan, and involved much standing in interminable queues of people…

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    Dharna Blog Day 9: 3.08.10 The oppressive humidity of the last few days was offset today by a cool breeze, making the Bhopal dharna sthal positively enjoyable today. Much exchanging of notes about losses, bruises and confusion from our eviction by the police last night took place. BJP party workers came over again to sit…

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    Dharna Blog Day 6: 31.07.2010 Delhi’s incessant heat that persists even during the night resulted in an asthma attack for Irfan Bhai. So in the morning a round of calls began for volunteers to take him to AIIMS, India‘s one of the best hospital. However, failing to find a volunteer at such a short notice…

  • Dharna Demands

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    Demands of July 2010 Dharna in Delhi 1.  Compensation1a. Provide equal compensation to all officially acknowledged claimants. 1b. Review death claims for which compensation was wrongfully denied and include exposure related deaths after 1997.1c. Demand adequate compensation from Union Carbide Corporation, USA by filing Curative Petition against the settlement orders of 1989 and 1991. 2.…

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    Dharna Blog Day 7: 1.08.2010 Today’s dharna sthal can best be described as soaked. It poured in the morning, and then it was hot and sticky all afternoon. It’s been a week of humid shuttling between Jantar Mantar and Columbus School. Despite heavy rains and terrible condition at Jantar Mantar, which seems to have soaked…

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    Dharna Blog Day 5: 30-07-2010 Most of us spent the last night waiting for the wind to blow from somewhere. When that didn’t happen most of us spent the night counting stars and braving mosquitoes. Due to some miscommunication the caretaker at the St’ Columbus school had switched off electricity and so we had to…

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    Dharna Blog Day 3: 28-07-2010 Chotu, whom you would remember from our six month long stay at Jantar Mantar two years ago, greeted us with hot tea at the dharna sthal where we start our protest early morning every day and pack up in the late evening. So instead of marching 800km for a month…

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    Dharna Blog Day 4: 29-07-2010 Today was relatively a light day though Delhi heat and humidity were present in equal measure. We started the day as usual with a fresh round of slogans. Some 100 Bhopalis joined us today. Amongst these were Mamu and Naeem who had also participated very actively in the last padyatra…

  • Press Release: GoM recommendations are not enough

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    Press Statement July 30, 2010 Bhopal survivors’ organisations today presented the case of Sana, an 8-year old girl from the contaminated water affected Annu Nagar, to Rajya Sabha Member, Mr. Ram Vilas Paswan to highlight how the Group of Ministers’ recommendations last month do not address the unfolding health and economic disasters among victims of…

  • PR: Bhopalis launch indefinite agitation in Delhi

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    Bhopalis launch indefinite agitation in Delhi  Press Statement – July 26 Contacts: U.S. – Shana Ortman – 415-746-0306India – Rachna Dhingra – 9826167369 More than 150 Bhopal survivors and people from water-affected areas began an indefinite dharna in Jantar Mantar that will last through the parliamentary session. The agitation intends to pressure the Central Government…