---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: madhu dutta <madhu.du...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:58 PM Subject: URGENT: Chingari Samman 2009 for women fighting against corporate crime in India T PLEASE CIRCULATE!
Seeking Names of Women across India fighting against Corporate Crime – Chingari 2009 DEADLINE OCTOBER 1st 2009. Dear friends, Greetings! As you know, 2009 is the 25th Anniversary year of the Bhopal Disaster. In December 1984, tonnes of toxic gas leaked from Union Carbide's pesticide plant, killing and maiming thousands. Even as the survivors of both the gas leak and the subsequent toxic ground-water contamination still await justice, many other "Bhopals" unfold all over the country. While the Bhopal Union Carbide disaster and Carbide-Dow's wicked actions have become iconic for the criminal behaviour of corporations in this neo-liberal economic age, various other profit-hungry corporate interests are indulging in similar crimes, out to plunder local communities' resources with no care for human rights. Bleak as the picture is, it is heartening to see that many local communities are resisting to conserve their resources and environments in the face of severely adverse conditions. Moreover, such resistance struggles are often found to be led or propelled by courageous local women who actively mobilise their communities against exploitation. Two such courageous women, Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla, founded the Chingari Trust in Bhopal with funds from the Goldman Environment Award in 2005. Along with other survivors’ organisations in Bhopal, their union of women workers had taken on Union Carbide and Dow, and today they continue to struggle for justice in Bhopal. *On the occasion of this 25th Anniversary year, we plan to identify and honour 25 women fighters for justice against corporate crime. We request you to recommend names of such women “CHINGARIS” anywhere in India, especially in remote rural areas. Through this effort, we will salute the spirit of such women all over India and bring their struggles to public light and aid the fight for justice.* Hence, we request you to nominate a *CHINGARI* whom you know. Please send us her name with contact details, the nature of the struggle, the corporation that is being fought, achievements of the movement, obstacles (still) faced, etc. *Please send in your nomination by email (Subject: "Chingari 2009") latest * *by **October 1st 2009** to Tarun Thomas <chingaritr...@gmail.com> and cc to: Kavitha <kavitha.kuruga...@gmail.com> and madhu <madhu.du...@gmail.com>. For inquiries, you can reach Tarun at Chingari's office number 0755-2747500. * * * Thank you. Sincerely, Gurpreet Kaur Kavitha Kuruganti Madhumita Dutta Nirmala Karunan Suroopa Mukherjee Vinuta Gopal (Trustees of Chingari Trust, Bhopal) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---