Tag: missing media
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Bhopal survivors call for accountability for American corporation on first day of Obama’s visit to India
6 November, 2010. BHOPAL — About 100 survivors of Bhopal gas disaster and those affected by ground water contamination caused by Union Carbide’s hazardous waste staged a demonstration outside the Union Carbide Factory in Bhopal demanding that President OBama meet with them in Delhi to ensure that Union Carbide & Dow Chemical obey Indian laws…
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Anatomy of a terrible betrayal: the Bhopal tragedy
In a recent verdict, senior managers of Union Carbide were let off with a surprisingly light sentence for their role in the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal. Amid public outrage, the Indian government hastily set up a ministerial panel, but their recommendations are a betrayal of the victims and survivors of the gas leak for…
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Ministers wriggle to avoid becoming Union Carbide’s latest victims
Minister Jairam Ramesh, at a meeting yesterday with Bhopal survivors’ groups, said he was sorry that in July/August 2008 the government had secretly smuggled 40 tonnes of of highly dangerous waste out of the Union Carbide factory in the dead of night and taken it to an incinerator site in Pithampur, to be burned.
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Protest against injustice in Bhopal continues in America
PRESS RELEASE- For Immediate Release Protest against injustice in Bhopal continues in America; Overseas Indians protest in New York City, Boston and San Francisco. Protest held to coincide with ongoing Indo-US CEO forum meet. Protestors demand the Indian Government shun Backroom deals with corporations and the CEOs respect Law of land and clean up their…
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Prime Minister’s Office Right to Information files
Dow’s Congress Here is the proof of the PMO’s collusion with Dow between June 2006 and April 2007. To read the files in Hindi click here. Political backlash On August 9th, 2007, Mr. D.Raja, National Secretary, Communist Party of India, wrote a strong letter on the matter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, accusing the PM’s…
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Bhopalis create “roadmap” to justice for Group of Ministers
The Chairman and Members of the Group of Ministers on Bhopal, C/o Room No. 104, North Block, New Delhi – 110001 Fax-011-23094221 June 17, 2010 Sub: Ensuring justice and a life of dignity for the people poisoned by Union Carbide Corporation in Bhopal. On behalf of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal and…
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Dow’s attempt to deceive NDTV: notes for editors
NDTV (New Delhi Television) one of India’s prime news channels, yesterday received a letter from Dow spokesman Scott Wheeler claiming that the case to hold Dow responsible for cleaning up Bhopal had been concocted by “activists”. “There are some,” Wheeler wrote, “who continue to try to affix responsibility for the Bhopal tragedy to Dow, but…
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Prime Minister, did it hurt when they took out your eyes?
They must be gone because things that appal the rest of us, you seem not to see. You are blind to the agonies of 100,000 people who are still sick in Bhopal 25 years after Union Carbide’s gases leaked there. Blind to report after report recording the presence of pesticides and heavy metals in soil…
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Union Carbide documents showing that "unproven technology" was used in Bhopal
On 2 December 1973 three documents were presented to the Management Committe of Union Carbide Eastern Inc, a subsidiary of Union Carbide Corporation: a two-page internal memorandum relating to the company’s plan to begin manufacturing methyl-isocyanate at its Bhopal factory; supported by a four-page capital budget plan and a forty-four page project proposal. The plan…
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The Hindustan Sea Turtle Alliance
BHOPAL GROUPS SUBVERT DOW-FUNDED LIVE EARTH RUN FOR WATER IN DELHI 18 April, 2010. NEW DELHI Hindustan Sea Turtle Alliance (HASTA), organizers of the Live Earth Run for Water in New Delhi, revealed today that they were a fictitious group set up to expose the global event as Dow Chemical’s attempt to sidestep its legal…
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Dow and Live Earth
To Bhopalis the idea of asking Dow to sponsor Live Earth was like building a cathedral and then asking the devil to consecrate it. Bhopal supporters in many cities around the world spoke out against Dow’s attempt to greenwash itself by association with a good cause. Amnesty International members in several countries asked Live Earth…
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Kurukshetra Techfest Sponsorship by DOW Chemicals – from Uncooked Gray Matter
Kurukshetra Techfest Sponsorship by DOW Chemicals from Uncooked Gray Matter Dear Alumnus of Anna University/CEG, 25th anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy was observed recently. It is with horror we remind ourselves that the victims have not been properly rehabilitated, justice is yet to be done and the perpetrators of that worst disaster are still scot-free.…
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Kids for a Better Future returns to Dow office
Kids for a Better Future returns to Dow office A few weeks after first visiting the NYC Dow offices, Kids for a Better Future members Akash, Gautama and Eamonn went back to the Dow office and delivered thousands of hearts made and collected by kids. KBF members had originally attempted to deliver the hearts on…