Tag: public relations
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Injured Bhopali boy may lose his hand
Anger flares as crowds hold Dow and Coe responsible “What I’m seeing is a very violent lathi charge against people lying on the tracks, and stone throwing against police, a full-on battle. I’m seeing more fires on the road, women with blood running down their faces from head wounds, cage-like structures full of people presumably…
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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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Sea turtles subvert Dow-funded Live Earth Run
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 responsibilities by engaging in greenwash. The Dow Live Earth Run for…
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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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An open letter to Shri Babu Lal Gaur, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
ABOUT YOUR PLAN TO BUILD A NEW MEMORIAL TO BHOPAL’S GAS VICTIMS Dear Chief Minister Gaur, Yesterday in Bhopal you told a press conference that you have decided to build a memorial to the memory of those who died in the Union Carbide gas disaster of twenty years ago. “Even after 20 years have passed,”…
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American Chemical Industry’s bright idea
Faced with the failure of “Responsible Care” those PR boys have come good. Their big idea? “Really Responsible Care” $120,000,000 could do a lot of good to a lot of people. But instead of, for example, providing clean drinking water to the people of Bhopal, or creating a safe environment for the trailer folk of…
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Helicopter buzzes Diane Wilson’s house in attempt to intimidate her into silence
We have to take this very seriously because after a 1992 action against Formosa Plastics, shots were fired from a helicopter at her house, narrowly missing a relative and killing her dog. PLEASE READ THE FULL STORY BELOW AND CALL KATHY HUNT, DOW PR LEADER AT SEADRIFT