FROM VINUTA GOPAL We had a great rally in Delhi on the 22nd of March which was lead by the activists from Bhopal. What began with 200 odd people (including school students and children from bastis in delhi), soon grew to a really massive rally with Vandana Shiva and the Delhi groups against privatisation of [...]
Amnesty International, Asha for Education, and Tasveer bring to Seattle: “WE ARE NOT FLOWERS, WE ARE FLAMES!” A Photo Exhibition and Special Events Reflecting Upon the Bhopal Chemical Disaster April 9 – May 5, 2005 Art/Not Gallery (Subterranean Room), 2045 Westlake Ave., Seattle Viewing Hours: Monday – Saturday, 11-6pm, Sunday 12 – 5pm Detailed Information [...]
William Stavropoulos, outgoing CEO of Dow Chemical, last year took $2.2 million in bonuses, which works out at $6027.40 a day. His total pay was more than $7 million, or $19,178 a day. His company’s victims must survive on compensation that, over 20 years, works out at 7 cents a day. Is Stavropoulos’s life worth [...]
Homeowners in Freeland, Michigan, are chafing at the delay in their case against Dow Chemical which has now been held up two years and is shelved until Michigan’s Supreme Court decides an issue that some say could have disastrous effects on the state and national economy. Writes the Midland Daily News’s Kathie Marchlewski, “Gary and [...]
Several important health and monitoring studies on the long-term effects of Union Carbide’s gases on Bhopal survivors are to be revived, ten years after they were abandoned by the Indian government. Survivors and their supporters have protested since 1994 that the studies were crucial, and the reasons for dropping them have never been adequately explained. [...]
Greenpeace and pollution impacted communities from Bhopal (MP), Kodaikanal(TN), Eloor(Kerala), Paradip (Orissa), Patancheru (AP) and Delhi are coming together on this World Water Day (March 22, 2005) in New Delhi for a massive public rally to renew their demand for clean water, clean air, clean-food and a toxic-free future. Our water resources (rivers, lakes, groundwater) [...]
A Midland doctor, James Brasseur, who said he received a report on a blood sample he had never given in the controversial Dow/University of Michigan dioxin study (see previous item), now says that he misremembered and misspoke, that he had in fact had a sample taken and remembers it clearly and wishes Dr Garabrant and [...]
The Dow-funded University of Michigan study into dioxin exposure of Midland residents has presented first results of blood tests to a confused, derisive and angry audience of locals whose hearts are pumping Dow’s dioxins round their bodies. The tone was set by a U-M scientist Alfred Franzblau, who told the audience that carrying a measurable [...]
In another manifestation of what has become the largest students campaign against Dow since the Vietnam War, students at the University of California called for the university to divest from Dow and refuse further donations. Among the reasons given were the unresolved Bhopal liabilities of Dow’s 100%-owned subsidiary Union Carbide, which is officially “an absconder [...]
We’ve talked before about the Dow plant in New Plymouth, New Zealand where an entire town was exposed for decades to dioxin waste, and where reports of illness were routinely dismissed by the corporation. Now the New Zealand Ministry of Health has confirmed that people living nearby have higher dioxin levels in their blood, and [...]
