BHOPAL, 25 Years Ago

People walk past a statue of a mother holding a dead child in her arms in Bhopal, India, on November 18, 2009. Residents are bitter whenever they glance behind their homes toward the old Union Carbide factory, where a lethal plume of gas escaped from a storage tank in the early hours of December 3, 1984, killing thousands instantly. Survivors say the anniversary marks another year of physical and psychological trauma compounded by government and corporate negligence.

To this day, Dow Chemical (who bought Union Carbide) has refused to clean up, and whole new generations have been poisoned. For more information, please visit http://www.bhopal.org.

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Dow Runs Scared from Water

"B'EAU-PAL" WATER SCARES DOW EXECS INTO HIDING

Plans to contribute to climate action in lead-up to Copenhagen begin to take shape

London - A new, beautifully-designed line of bottled water - this time not from the melting Alps, nor from faraway, clean-water-deprived Fiji, but rather from the contaminated ground near the site of the 1984 Bhopal catastrophe - scared Dow Chemical's London management team into hiding today.

Twenty Bhopal activists, including Sathyu Sarangi of the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, showed up at Dow headquarters near London to find that the entire building had been vacated.

B'eau-Pal: Our Story

The unique qualities of our water come from 25 years of slow-leaching toxins at the site of the world's largest industrial accident. To this day, Dow Chemical (who bought Union Carbide) has refused to clean up, and whole new generations have been poisoned. For more information, please visit http://www.bhopal.org.

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* Outstanding piece on the twentieth anniversary of the Bhopal disaster by Matt Taibbi. more » It's still painful to read about Bhopal. And Chernobyl, and Rwanda, and Darfur, and on and fucking on, but just feeling uncomfortable when reading about it still makes me feel mighty small.



* KarmabanQue - "...hit offending companies not with sticks and stones, but where it really hurts --their stock prices." "This is brilliant" - Lawrence Lessig. (KarmabanQue gives boycott advice, not investment advice. Still perusing this one.)



* Steven Speilberg's remake of H G Wells' War of the Worlds, starring Tom Cruise, was filming recently in Brooklyn. They're currently filming in upper New York state. The release is scheduled for Summer 2005 with this tagline "They're already here". So are the Martians already on Earth? Very intriguing and different. imdb link

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