KATHIE MARCHLEWSKI The Dow Chemical Co. could be up against as many as 2,000 property owners joined in a class action lawsuit over dioxin contamination. Saginaw County Circuit Court Judge Leopold Borrello granted class status to the long-running litigation Friday.’ “We feel something finally is going our way,” said Gloria Taylor, who along with her [...]
FROM THE HINDUSTAN TIMES Bhopal, October 21, 2005 JUNIOR DOCTORS across the State [of Madhya Pradesh] have threatened to tender en masse resignations on October 22 if the police did not arrest armed miscreants who manhandled and physically assaulted a junior doctor and other staff on duty at the Gwalior Medical College Hospital a couple [...]
FROM THE COALITION AGAINST BAYER-DANGERS, GERMANY To Eric Falt, Director, UNEP Division of Communications and Public Information Theodore Oben, Head, UNEP Children and Youth Unit Dear Mr. Falt and Mr. Oben, We read about the gathering of Young Environmental Leaders in Bangalore, organized by UNEP and sponsored by Bayer. The objective of the meeting is [...]
Fisherwoman Defies Jail Sentence As Chemical Company Evades Justice On October 3rd, the District Attorney of Texas ordered Diane Wilson to start a jail sentence for criminal trespass resulting from chaining herself to a 70 foot tower to hand a banner at the Dow Chemical Plant to demand justice for Bhopal Survivors. Now Diane has [...]
Long after 9-11, some people say the dust is still making them sick. Now they want the EPA to do something about it. by Kristen Lombardi writing in the Village Voice September 6th, 2005 2:49 PM A 9-11 victim: Alex Sanchez fell ill after cleaning office buildings downtown. Photo: Steven Sunshine Alex Sanchez likes to [...]
MEDIA ADVISORY October 13, 2005 Contact: Alice Blackmer Publicist, AN UNREASONABLE WOMAN Chelsea Green Publishing, 703 443-9418 blackmer@chelseagreen.com Diana Ruiz Dow Accountability Network 415 999.9074 Diana_ruiz@earthlink.net Jane Berk Bioneers Press Contact Elevated Communications 718-797-9088 Jane@ElevatedComm.com While fisherwoman Diane Wilson jumps bail over a minor misdemeanor to prove her point, US Multinational evades criminal trial for [...]
INTERVIEW BY DEMOCRACY NOW Three years ago Texan environmentalist Diane Wilson was arrested for committing civil disobedience at a Dow Chemical plant to protest the company’s connection to the Bhopal chemical disaster. She’s now refusing to go to prison until former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson is jailed for his role in Bhopal. The Corporate [...]
ORIGINAL STORY: CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER October 10, 2005 Diane Wilson is facing four months of jail in Texas. But Diane now says that she’s not going to jail until Warren Andersen, the former CEO of Union Carbide, is extradited to face manslaughter charges in Bhopal, India. “I’m going to go on the lam,” Wilson told [...]
Today one can read in the newspaper Taz that yesterday the EU Environment Board decided to withstand the pressure of the chemical industry to lighten up the proposed regulation for permission to produce chemicals, REACH, that will be passed next year. Chemical companies will have to undergo an environmental test of the substances they produce [...]
