That’s not our maths, teacher Sir, its Dow’s. From 1990 until 2003, almost the entire duration of Dow’s pioneering membership of the self regulating, non evaluating programme of chemical industry PR that is Responsible Care, Dow was Responsible for 2,562 instances of Carelessness – or, one chemical accident in the US every 44 hours. Only [...]
Rashida Bee and Champa Devi have been announced as the winners of the prestigious Goldman Prize. The prize, given annually “for sustained and important efforts” by six ‘heroes of the environment’ worldwide, entails a “no strings attached” award of $125,000 – the largest and most highly regarded award in the world for grassroots environmentalists. Champa [...]
Rashida Bee, Margie Richards from Norco, Louisiana, Hilton Kelley from Port Arthur, Texas — all residents of toxic hotspots — today went on a toxic tour of one of the Bay Area Bhopals, guided by Denny Larson of Bucket Brigade fame and Henry Clark of the local NGO West Country Toxic Coalition. Richmond, California is [...]
Professor Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a man many consider to be the Einstein of linguistics but perhaps best known for his outspoken opposition to American imperialism and foreign policy, has joined hundreds of other professors, scholars, and faculty members from around the world in signing the Faculty Petition for Justice in [...]
The City of San Francisco has become the first US city to pass a resolution urging Dow to address its liabilities in Bhopal. “It is unforgivable that survivors of the disaster are being revictimized by the inaction of Union Carbide and its new owner Dow Chemical,” said City of San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin today. [...]
The City of San Francisco has become the first US city to pass a resolution urging Dow to address its liabilities in Bhopal. “It is unforgivable that survivors of the disaster are being revictimized by the inaction of Union Carbide and its new owner Dow Chemical,” said City of San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin today. [...]
Berkeley, April 14, 2004: Rashida Bee and Champa Devi, two survivors of the Bhopal disaster, and Sathyu Sarangi, a longtime activist for justice in Bhopal and managing Director of the Sambhavna Clinic, spoke at the University of California, Berkeley in an event organized by the Association of South Asian Political Activists and the South Asian [...]
Hard-pressed employees of Dow’s pr department have cancelled their vacation plans and had their teeth polished; the federal lobbying team are burning synthetic rubber in overdrive on Capitol Hill; and dear Willy Stavropoulos has been practising lying to himself in a gilt-edged mirror. That’s right, Bhopal has come back to the USA. Three representatives of [...]
On the eve of Bhopal survivors Champa Devi and Rashida Bee’s arrival in the US, the Environmental Health Fund’s Gary Cohen describes eight reasons why the present is no time to find yourself sitting on the board of the Dow Chemical Company, while being the very time to make yourself part of the struggle for [...]
“This is a nation born over 200 years ago,” explained former Chairman Frank Popoff at the 1998 Dow Chemical Company AGM. “It only works when business dialogues with government.” What once appeared to be an admirably frank disclosure is today shown to be a coy evasion of the actualité: Dow hasn’t just been conversing with [...]
