Rupesh Kumar reports from Madurai… Day 1, 28th June 2008. A group of 6 went visiting the Finance minister at his M. P. office in Karaikudi. Earlier, we were supposed to have a demonstration outside his office in the headquarters of his Lok Sabha constituency in Sivagangai. But we learnt that he works out of [...]
Pragya Bhagat writes from Austin, Texas… June 28, 2008 The first few hours aren’t hard. I just imagine that I skipped breakfast…and lunch. It’s after half the day has passed that the first gnawing pangs of hunger scrimmage through my stomach, searching for a morsel of food. I wash the desire away with a glassful [...]
The Observer, June 29, 2008 Who is responsible for the dispersal of contaminated manure? Example of unhealthy tomato leaves curling inwards, affected by contaminated manure. Photograph: Katherine Rose Gardeners who have unwittingly poisoned their own vegetables by applying manure contaminated with a powerful new herbicide are incensed – and rightly so. Seeing months of hard [...]
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action PRESS RELEASE NEW DELHI, 28 JUNE, 2008 — Appealing to the Prime Minister to “Have a Heart and Do Justice in Bhopal,” a delegation of Bhopali children visited the Prime Minister’s residence today to deliver [...]
Madhur Singh, Time Magazine, June 28, 2008 Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas disaster and activists take part in a protest march in New Delhi on May 13, 2008. Manan Vatsyayana / AFP / Getty The sad truth facing the victims of the natural disasters in China and Burma is that they will soon disappear [...]
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action NEW DELHI, 24 JUNE, 2008 — “The Prime Minister’s Office is stonewalling the Right to Information requests filed by representatives of Bhopal victims for a malafide purpose,” three Bhopal-based survivor and support organisations said today. [...]
Press Release June 23, 2008 Diane Wilson and other supporters protest at the Indian Consulate, Houston last week HOUSTON — Police arrested activist Diane Wilson Monday at the Indian Consulate in Houston. Wilson is on an indefinite fast in solidarity with nine survivors of the Union Carbide Gas Disaster in New Delhi, India. Through her [...]
Mwatima Issa, Express India, June 23, 2008 A dialogue between Raghu Rai’s photos and a play by Parnab Mukherjee juxtaposed to bring home the unforgettable horrors of the Bhopal gas leak and its implications Continuing their cultural activities with social messages that dessiminate awareness among common people, city-based NGO Lokayat recently organised a play titled [...]
Uma Asher, Times of India, June 22, 2008 As Gandhi once showed the world, the hunger strike is a powerful moral weapon of the weak. It took decades but it worked, where lawsuits in colonial courts or armed resistance to imperial strength might have failed. But do hunger strikes have any power today? Indra Sinha, [...]
Akshaya Mukul & Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, June 22, 2008 NEW DELHI: Even though senior UPA ministers as well as deputy chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia have supported absolving Dow Chemicals of any legal liability in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy case, the group of ministers on Bhopal headed by HRD [...]
