Archive for June, 2006

Villagers begin hunger strike to demand government action against Coca-Cola

Jun 30, 2006 No Comments by

JUNE 27, 2006 Villagers in Mehdiganj in north India are on a hunger strike to demand the closure of the Coca-Cola bottling plant. Community leaders have accused the Coca-Cola bottling plant in of creating severe water shortages affecting over twenty villages, polluting agricultural land and groundwater, illegally occupying land, evading taxes and treating workers unfairly. [...]

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Villagers begin hunger strike to demand government action against Coca-Cola

Jun 30, 2006 No Comments by

JUNE 27, 2006 Villagers in Mehdiganj in north India are on a hunger strike to demand the closure of the Coca-Cola bottling plant. Community leaders have accused the Coca-Cola bottling plant in of creating severe water shortages affecting over twenty villages, polluting agricultural land and groundwater, illegally occupying land, evading taxes and treating workers unfairly. [...]

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Dow Chemical buys Chinese engineering firm to develop a "water solutions" business. (Wonder if they'll use it to clean up Bhopal?)

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DOW JONES NEWSWIRES, JUNE 29, 2006 Dow Chemical Co. (DOW) said Wednesday evening that it plans to buy China’s Zhejiang Omex Environmental Engineering Co. Ltd. to increase its water components portfolio. The Midland, Mich. producer of plastics, chemicals, hydrocarbons and herbicides didn’t disclose terms of the agreement. Dow Chemical said the acquisition will allow it [...]

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Vet extends help, hope to former enemy

Jun 30, 2006 No Comments

JOSEPH R SCHWARTZ, GREENSBORO NEWS RECORD What a difference 30 years makes. In his younger days, Butch Elkins flew planes in the Vietnam War spraying Agent Orange and losing part of his intestine during the conflict. This week he hosted a handful of Vietnamese men in his home. The board chairman of Hannah’s Promise , [...]

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Madhya Pradesh sees alarming increase in child labour

Jun 29, 2006 No Comments

INDIANEWS.COM, JUNE 28, 2006 Bhopal – There has been an alarming rise in the incidence of child labour in Madhya Pradesh, says a report by a child rights organisation. The report released by the Haq Centre for Child Rights puts the number of child labourers in the state at 1,065,259. Of the 1,700 cases registered [...]

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Eating fish or going hungry

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SAGINAW BAY TIMES, JUNE 28, 2006 Old Saginaw fish decoy The state Department of Community Health last week released a discouraging report that anglers continue to ignore fish advisories in the Saginaw Bay watershed. Why would Saginaw Valley residents risk eating fish from contaminated rivers? We can think of three reasons: 1. They don’t care [...]

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Cindy Sheehan, Dick Gregory, Diane Wilson, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn and Hundreds more launch hunger strike to end the Iraq war

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 27, 2006 CONTACT: Meredith Dearborn 650 208 2788 Gael Murphy 202 412 6700 PRESS CONFERENCE: 5pm, July 3, 2006 – Penn. Avenue between 15th and 17th The “Troops Home Fast” begins after a final meal in front of White House On July 3, 2006, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Global Exchange and [...]

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Cindy Sheehan, Dick Gregory, Diane Wilson, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn and Hundreds more launch hunger strike to end the Iraq war

Jun 29, 2006 No Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 27, 2006 CONTACT: Meredith Dearborn 650 208 2788 Gael Murphy 202 412 6700 PRESS CONFERENCE: 5pm, July 3, 2006 – Penn. Avenue between 15th and 17th The “Troops Home Fast” begins after a final meal in front of White House On July 3, 2006, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Global Exchange and [...]

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Corporate America's hidden risks – major headaches threaten companies that ignore their 'moral liability'

Jun 29, 2006 No Comments

MARC GUNTHER, FORTUNE MAGAZINE, JUNE 28, 2006 NEW YORK (FORTUNE) — Most FORTUNE 500 companies employ brigades of lawyers to limit their legal liability. But how many worry about their “moral liability”? Probably not enough, if only because the lines are blurring between the two. Moral liability is the idea that companies will pay a [...]

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Policeman held over alleged assault on US aid worker

Jun 29, 2006 No Comments

REUTERS, JUNE 27, 2006 RAIPUR. A police officer in Chhattisgarh has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting an American aid worker on board a train, a senior railway official said on Wednesday. Umendra Mishra, a crime branch assistant sub-inspector, was taken into custody after the 26-year-old woman complained to railway police that she had been [...]

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