PRESS STATEMENT 29th November 2007, Bhopal/New Delhi — The world’s first award for women fighting corporate crimes will be announced in Bhopal on 5 December, 2007, as part of the week-long activities surrounding the 23rd anniversary of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster. Inspired by their own slogan – “We are Flames, not Flowers” – two [...]
Bhopal, November 28, 2007, Press Statement Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationary Karmchari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information & Action Hundreds of victims of American multinational corporations – Union Carbide and Dow Chemical, demonstrated today at the residence of the Minister of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation in [...]
Press Statement Bhopal, November 27, 2007 Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationary Karmchari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information & Action Announcing the 23rd Anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster as a “Black Day,” three organizations active on the issues of the Bhopal gas disaster said they will repeat their [...]
IANS, November 27, 2007 Bhopal — Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have decided to observe the 23rd anniversary of the disaster as ‘Black Day’. Leaders of the three organisations — Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh (BGPMSKS), Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha (BGPMPSM) and Bhopal Group for Information and Action (BGIA) [...]
Arijit Sen, CNN-IBN, November 25, 2007 New Delhi: Twenty-three years after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy left 3,000 people dead and thousands others affected, Union Carbide’s parent company, Dow Chemicals, is quietly trying to enter India but the IITs are putting their foot down. Petitions are doing the rounds of the seven IITs asking their directors [...]
Sreelatha Menon, Business Standard, November 25, 2007 23 years on, the decision on who’s going to clean it up is the subject of a court case Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, the country’s worst industrial mishap when 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leaked from Union Carbide’s pesticide plant, continue to cope [...]
PAROMITA PAIN, The Hindu, Young World, November 23, 2007 December 3 is the 15th anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak. What can you do for those people who are still suffering the aftermath of the disaster? Photo: PTI. Long after the disaster: The agony continues. Another Children’s Day — another day of fun for some [...]
S. Anand, Tehelka, November 23, 2007 Union Carbide is now Dow Chemicals. Rid of the tainted name, it’s being wooed by both the Tatas and the PMO, reports S. ANAND We may overlook the element not listed on the chart… The missing element is the human element. —from Dow’s ad campaign ON DECEMBER 3, 1984, [...]
Baron & Budd, P.C., 21 November 2007 Press Release GALVESTON, Texas, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ — The law firm of Baron & Budd, P.C., is announcing an $8.2 million verdict handed down today in an asbestos lawsuit on behalf of an 73-year-old pipefitter from Texas City and his wife of more than 50 years. The verdict [...]
PAMELA TIMMS AND PRABAL KR DAS, The Scotsman, November 22 2007 CAMPAIGNERS last night accused the Indian government of betrayal as it prepared to welcome the company behind the Bhopal chemical disaster back to the country. In the early hours of 3 December, 1984, 5,000 people died when a leak at Union Carbide’s pesticide plant [...]
