Ryan Bodanyi, Students for Bhopal, Friday 22nd, 2008 I wanted to update you all on my trip to Washington DC. The first thing we did, on Friday the 22nd, was protest at the Indian Embassy. The reasons are obvious – they don’t like it. It’s embarrassing. It makes them look bad. It draws employees [...]
Shashi Sonawane National Convenor – Yuva Bharat for LOKSHASHAN ANDOLAN February 28, 2008 Friends, as you are aware, since last night there was tension in the village of Shinde (Chakan) Dist. Pune, Maharashtra. This is the latest update. Yesterday, the govt. tried to forcibly start construction work at the site of the proposed R&D facility [...]
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL PRESS RELEASE Guna, Madhya Pradesh & New Delhi. 28 Feb. 08 — Nine days and nearly 200 km into their march from Bhopal to New Delhi, Bhopal gas tragedy survivors today addressed a press conference at Guna, M.P. They condemned the Central and Maharashtra State Government for their support [...]
**LATEST** First of all: THANK YOU to all those who called. Vilas Sonawane of Lokshasan Andolan, Pune, reports that police and villagers have arrived at an understanding that until the report of the Committee is submitted: a) the status quo would be maintained. There will be no further construction or supply of material to [...]
Express news service, February 27, 2008 Pune, February 26 After facing road blockade for 40 days, the Dow Chemical Research and Development (R&D) centre took the help of State Reserve Police (SRP) to ferry three trucks to the construction site at Shinde village in Chakan on Tuesday. The villagers of Shinde and Vasuli had dug [...]
Economic Times, 25 Feb, 2008 PUNE: A proposed Research and Development facility of Dow India at a village near Pune has raised environmental concerns among social groups who have launched an agitation to press scrapping of the project. Notwithstanding persistent claims by the multinational chemical company that it has no plans to convert the R&D [...]
Express news service, February 24, 2008 Pune, February 23 Activists protesting against the Dow Research and Development (R&D) centre in Shinde village in Pune district have proposed a Lok Adalat for a face-to-face hearing with company officials. Around 200 activists from “Remove Dow, Save Pune” movement, which many local organisations have also joined, on Saturday, [...]
February 20th, 2008 – New Delhi Press coverage of the event in the Statesman(pdf) Report by Shalini Sharma Connaught Place is the heart of the capital of India. While government is busy making it the commercial hub of the city, hundreds of students and Bhopal supporters made their way to the Central Park situated right [...]
Al Jazeera, FEBRUARY 21, 2008 Click image to go to the video film About 100 victims of one of the world’s worst industrial disasters have begun a march of more than 700km to the Indian capital, New Delhi, to demand compensation. More than 3,500 people were killed in 1984 when a Union Carbide plant leaked [...]
Press Trust of India, Express news service, February 21, 2008 Pune, February 20: Denouncing the state-level committee formed by the government to hear all issues against the setting up of the R&D centre by Dow Chemical near Chakan, residents of Shinde and Vasuli villlages reiterated their resolve to continue the agitation against the company. In [...]
