Regular readers of bhopal.net might be under the impression that the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal generally stands for things like environmental justice, solidarity with abused and downtrodden people, respect for the sanctity of human life and such like. Dow, though touchingly numbered among our most regular readers, appear to see things differently. A [...]
Let’s face it, if you happen to be an international fugitive looking for shelter, you’re going to need help. When the chips were really down for Saddam Hussein, he turned to Dow, renowned experts in the art of concealing fugitives such as Union Carbide. So revealed the UK’s Daily Mirror yesterday, who, in a description [...]
More than 65 events in 16 countries marked the first Global day of Action Against Corporate Crime in commemoration of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster. Members of unions, students, grassroots organisations, politicians, NGOs, individuals and Bhopal survivors were amongst the people taking part yesterday. Directors of Dow and regional headquarters have been confronted by [...]
DECEMBER 3, 2003 Pants on Fire’ Stavropoulos, who wouldn’t come to the door even though the Midland chief of police was there to protect him “The callousness, anger, irritation and most evident the fear – fear of four very ordinary people with a just cause – was evident in member Ringler’s action.” A Bhopal supporter [...]
STOP Paraquat! On the occasion of global “No Pesticides Use Day” this December 3, the international Pesticide Action Network (PAN) calls for the global ban and phase out of the production and use of paraquat, one of the most dangerous and controversial herbicides in the world. The international Pesticide Action-Network launched December 3 as the [...]
“The (chemical) industry has avoided any serious restrictions on its chemicals for nearly twenty years. During this time lapse, we have continued to learn more about the dark side of the chemical revolution. We have learned that today we all carry the chemical industry’s toxic products in our bodies. Every man, women and child in [...]
“The callousness, anger, irritation and most evident the fear – fear of four very ordinary people with a just cause – was evident in member Ringler’s action.” A Bhopal supporter from Milwaukee describes her brief encounter – on the night of Dec 3, 2003 – with Dow board member James M Ringler, who did at [...]
BHOPAL, DECEMBER 3, 2003. — At a night-long vigil outside the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal on the 19th anniversary of the disaster, survivors resolved to channel the global groundswell of public opinion in their favour to force the Government of India and the perpetrator of the disaster, Dow-Carbide, to address the pending liabilities in [...]
Union members and academics from all over the world can now lend their names to the fight to make The Dow Chemical Company accept its liabilities in Bhopal by signing our online petitions. By submitting your name you’ll not only help to make it impossible for Dow to continue with its intransigence towards Bhopal, you’ll [...]
