Dow Chemical's Union Carbide factory in Bhopal is still hurting ppl

Snowball

This was emailed to me by Greenpeace. Read it if u like and follow the links to get more info. Its realy terrible.

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CALL DOW DAY - WEDNESDAY 22 JANUARY

Dow Chemical seems to think it can safely ignore the suffering of thousands of people in Bhopal who live with the contamination caused by the factory its Union Carbide subsidiary abandoned following the worst industrial accident in history. Despite receiving over 15,000 emails and many thousands of postcards and letters urging it to clean up Bhopal the company still insists the abandoned factory is not its problem. That is why we need your help to call Dow on Wednesday and tell them to clean up Bhopal now!

Dow has an free phone ethics line open 24 hours a day to deal with any ethical concerns you may have about the company.

The free phone number and further details will appear on the Greenpeace front page here:

http://www.greenpeace.org/

on Wednesday morning Central European time.

We would love to hear back from as many people as possible about your call to Dow and if you have sound recording equipment an mp3 sound file of your call. You can send your details by replying to the cybercentre article which will appear here on Wednesday morning:

http://act.greenpeace.org/

Here are two fun example calls you can listen to:

http://www.mad-dow-disease.com/media/dowcall2.mp3
http://www.mad-dow-disease.com/media/dowcall3.mp3

If you want to find out more before the call visit our section on Bhopal:

http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/campaigns/intro?campaign_id=3991

Or if you need some motivation see how Dow is suing the Bhopal survivors rather than helping them:

http://www.greenpeace.org/news/details?item%5fid=95486

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The freephone number for Ireland is 1-800-550-000 and then u dail 1-800-803-6862. The first number you will get through to in an AT&T service, then just dail the second number and u will get through. It's free and will not cost u anything.
If you actually ring just tell the operator who you are and that you wish to lodge a formal complaint with the company about the Union Carbide factory.

Typedef

The absolutely incredible part is that Dow is taking the residents to court.

Yet another prime example of how corporations, 'as opposed to ordinary people' take pride if place in the esteem of many States around the world.

Our friends Shell, for example exponenciated their own 'private' foreign policy in supporting a military Junta in Nigeria.

elivsvonchiaing

Only realised today 2nd Dec was 20th anniversary. Did some googling and found this: http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Bhopal-compensation-a-hoax/2004/12/04/1101923388299.html?oneclick=true

Looks like someone is getting fired by the Beeb for this!

What I found most disturbing is this (from above link): "Union Carbide, bought by Dow Chemicals in 2001, paid $US470 million to the Indian Government in 1989 as a legal settlement. Much of it remains tied up by bureaucracy." :eek:
Sickening or what?