Tag: missing media
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Indefinite Fast (Day Eleven)/ Right to Life dharna (Day Twenty-four): Gas survivors express solidarity with the victims of police brutality in Nandigram and press for an end to government complicity in the suffering of innocent people everywhere
Pragya Bhagat, Bhopal, March 15, 2007 One word is springing out of each newspaper, television screen, and radio speaker in India- Nandigram. Industrialization of a town that does not want factories to destroy their farms, it is not something we have not heard before. Then why has it become such a hot topic? Precisely because…
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Chennai groups oppose Tata’s offer to clean up Bhopal
Youth for Social Change & Others, Chennai, March 3, 2007 At least 100 supporters and campaigners of the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy today participated in a rally to oppose the recent offer by the Tata chairman Ratan Tata to facilitate the re-entry of Union Carbide and its new owner Dow Chemical into…
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URGENT ACTION: BHOPALIS ARRESTED, PLEASE CALL FOR THEIR RELEASE
Bhopal, 0820 GMT, 13:50 Indian Time, March 4, 2007 Sathyu writes: About 40 minutes back the police arrested Rashida, Rachna, Irfan, Vikas, Guddi Bee, Shehazadi and her husband Mehfooz from in front of the Chief Minister’s residence where we staged a die-in. Please call the Chief Secretary and the CM’s office for their release. It…
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Right to Life dharna (Day Four): A torchlight procession and old voices singing "Cuckuroo"
Pragya Bhagat, Bhopal, February 23, 2007 They work for the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karamchari Sangh (Bhopal Gas Affected Women’s Stationery Workers’ Union). Clad in dark burkhas with bright pinks and magentas peaking from underneath their cloaks, they gossip and laugh amongst themselves. It is hard to see the anger in their kohl-lined eyes.…
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$30 million for PR, zip for Bhopal
BANJO JONES, THE BRAZOSPORT NEWS, DECEMBER 3, 2006 Despite the $30 million “Human Element” public relations campaign that champions the allegedly noble intentions of Dow Chemical, the global conglomerate continues to treat Bhopal like the tar baby in the ol’ Uncle Remus tales.
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Dioxin days: Rhonda’s story
Rhonda Bartle, New Zealand Herald, November 12, 2006 I might have been a fiction writer in a former life, but these days as a journalist, I mostly deal in facts. The fact is, I grew up in the shadow of a Dow chemical factory, in the suburb of Paritutu, New Plymouth, during all the dioxin…
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Bhopal re-enacted on US city streets
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, MONDAY, MAY 8, 2006 PHOTOS at: http://bhopal.shutterfly.com CONTACT: Aquene Freechild, 617-378-2579, aquene@gmail.com Nirveek Bhattacharjee, 410-627-7679, Nirveek@bme.jhu.edu Saturday, May 6th – International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal members in 4 cities hosted events and re-enactments of the 1984 Union Carbide Chemical Disaster in Bhopal, India at noon this past Saturday. In Seattle, Boston…
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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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An Unreasonable Woman: An interview with Diane Wilson
An Unreasonable Woman An interview with Diane Wilson By Kelpie Wilson t r u t h o u t | Interview Tuesday 28 March 2006 Diane Wilson – shrimper, anti-toxics activist and author DIANE WILSON IS THE AUTHOR of An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas…
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Survivors on 800 km Padyatra from Bhopal to Delhi Arrive in Bhopal
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information & Action Bhopal ki Aawaaz New Delhi. 25 March, 2006 – 46 padyatris from Bhopal, including 39 victims of Union Carbide’s Poisons who traveled a distance of 800 km from Bhopal to Delhi arrived to a massive…
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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.