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POPSDow Chemical - the human side
On the day that Sunil died, Dow Chemical’s CEO Andrew Liveris visited the UN to deliver a much-publicised speech. Fireboats hired by Dow’s public relations agency jetted huge sprays aloft over the Hudson River as Liveris told the assembled diplomats “Lack of clean water is the single largest cause of disease in the world and more than 4,500 children die each day because of it … We are determined to win a victory over the problem of access to clean water for every person on earth … we need to bring to the fight the kinds of things companies like Dow do best.” Stirring words. But when asked if he would clean up Bhopal, where the drinking wells of 20,000 people have been poisoned by chemicals abandoned by Dow’s subsidiary Union Carbide, causing an epidemic of cancers and hundreds of children to be born malformed and with brain damage, Liveris replied, “We don’t feel this is our responsibility”. Liveris couldn’t be more wrong. Under the “polluter pays” principle enshrined in both Ind
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POPSHunger striking for justice These aren't fit and healthy youngsters, some of the strikers are 70 - fighting for their grandchildren - for clean water after 24 years - for the right to heath care - the right to live on uncontaminated soil and drink clean water - the right to have their nightmare ended. What else can they do?
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POPS“NEVER AGAIN”-Bhopal:Photo Series(3)
"Mothers didn't know their children had died, children didn't know their mothers had died and men didn't know their whole families had died"--Ahmed Khan, Bhopal resident Source-http://readthisurl.com/bbc+bhopal+india "The poison cloud was so dense and searing that people were reduced to near blindness. As they gasped for breath its effects grew ever more suffocating. The gases burned the tissues of their eyes and lungs and attacked their nervous systems. People lost control of their bodies. Urine and feces ran down their legs. Women lost their unborn children as they ran, their wombs spontaneously opening in bloody abortion." According to Rashida Bi, a survivor who lost five gas-exposed family members to cancers, those who escaped with their lives “ are the unlucky ones; the lucky ones are those who died on that night.” http://www.bhopal.org/whathappened.html PHOTOS AT 1] http://readthisurl.com/bhopal+gastragedy 2] http://readthisurl.com/bhopal+photos SOURCE- 1] http:/
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POPSThe World's WORST Industrial Disaster - Bhopal Gas Leak Now the government wants to clear legal hurdles for the same guys responsible for this. {{Deepti}} and I clipped more about the matter http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/77D39F61-CC26-4EDE-8CDB-9A197431E5A9/ http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5E08F670-73D8-4A69-85FE-7CCEA5BE3D34/
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POPS Central government accused of 'selling out' Bhopal gas victims The deadly gas leak from the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal on December 3, 1984, has killed more than 20,000 people so far. An estimated 150,000 people continue to suffer from toxic effects of the gas, including diminished vision, cancer, respiratory, neurological and gynaecological disorders
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POPSIndian govt. wants to clear legal hurdles for murderers Just the thought of clearing the legal hurdles for a company that was responsible for one of the worst disasters in Indian history so that they would invest in India is sickening! (This is the Indian self-proclaimed "Centre-Left" Congress Party that claims to champion the interests of the poor, not the US Congress)
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POPSIs Indian lawyer first in line to French throne? He said Jean de Bourbon had first arrived in India in 1560 at the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar and started the Bourbon line in India. After Jean de Bourbon worked for Akbar, the Indian line of Bourbons worked in Bhopal state for many years as administrators, according to Balthazar. Balthazar says his father was the first Bourbon to serve the government in independent India and later worked as a lawyer in the Bhopal district court.
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