Over 400 faculty members and academics at colleges and universities all over the world have signed the Faculty Petition for Justice in Bhopal (online at www.petitiononline.com/dirtydow/). In signing the petition, David Gordon White, a Religious Studies Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, writes “I was in Bhopal in 1999. The scars of the [...]
More than 1500 students descended on Indian Consulates and Government offices nationwide yesterday, April 15, 2005, to demand action and justice for Bhopal. The protests, organized by Amnesty International Group 133 (Somerville, Massachusetts), the Association for India’s Development, and Students for Bhopal, made four key demands of the Indian Government: • Enforce the clean-up of [...]
WASHINGTON — A terrorist attack on chemical plants lacking enough federal oversight could cause mass casualties, a former homeland security adviser to the White House told senators on Wednesday. “The chemicals that we are talking about today are in many cases identical to those used in the battlefield of World War I. They are enormously [...]
PARIS 30 APRIL 2005: SYMBOLIC GATHERING AT 1500 AT THE ESPLANADE OF BEAUBOURG It’s exactly 30 years ago Vietnam recovered peace. – 30 years after, whole families still suffer from the effects of the american chemical war, which took place between 1961 and 1971. – More than one million people suffer from serious diseases, different [...]
Click here for more details Organisation: University Grants Commision (UGC) Major Grant at Nehru Memorial Musuem and Library Organisation Description: Project Associate to UGC Fellow at Nehru Memorial Musuem and library Country: India City/Town: New Delhi Closing Date: 20th May 2005 Restrictions: No restrictions. Description: Title of the project, “Dancing in the Streets: the Woman [...]
Supreme Court Affirms Right to Sue For Pesticide Harm The Supreme Court today ruled that citizens damaged by pesticides have the right to sue companies of these toxic products, saying that federal pesticide law does not offer adequate protection from “manufacturers of poisonous substances.” Dow Chemical Company argued that, because its products are registered by [...]
S a m b h a v n a T r u s t 44, Sant Kanwar Ram Nagar, Berasia Road, Bhopal 462 018 Tel: 91-755-2730914 / 2743157 ________________________________________________________________ April 25, 2005 The new building of the Sambhavna Trust Clinic for survivors of the Bhopal Gas disaster will be inaugurated by internationally renowned social and [...]
After eight years of delays, the UK’s corporate manslaughter bill has been neutered to please employers GEORGE MONBIOT, WRITING IN THE GUARDIAN It is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, or a tap on the head with a steam hammer. But only just. The new draft bill on corporate manslaughter [...]
Documentary on Dow’s Dioxin Scandal Ignored by Four Local PBS Stations by BRIAN MCKENNA Three “Justice for Bhopal” terrorists were shot dead at a Dow Chemical facility in Piscataway, New Jersey on December 14, 2003. Bhopal activists — seeking redress for Dow’s failure to compensate victims of the worst industrial accident of all time — [...]
From Maine to Pennsylvania, Students Convene in New York to Condemn Human Rights Abuses in India, Jamaica, China, and Mexico FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Birgit Werner, e-mail: gotb2005@yahoo.com, phone: 617-230-2712 ATTENTION TELEVISION PRODUCERS: B-Roll of Bhopal is available upon request. Friday, April 15th, 2005 (Friday, April 15, 2005) — For the tenth year in a [...]
