Hi sapac members
This may be late notice for an action (it's tomorrow night). I cannot make it but hoping that someone may have an interest and be willing to go. Sorry if you already got something about this.
Roshani Saraiya
From: kamayani keki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fwd: Bhopal Gas tragedy - International Day of solidarity against corporate crime
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:40:23 -0800 (PST)
Hi roshani here is th info for tomorow's event thank you best kamayani
Dear Friends
On Dec 2nd and 3rd 1984 Methyl isocyanide (MIC), a deadly gas, leaked from the Union Carbide Factory in Bhopal and led to one of the worst industrial disasters ever. 20,000 people have died as a result of this tragedy and many more have been cursed to live lives of misery - exposed to MIC but not dead.
The culprit Union Crabide (UC) has got away by paying a sum of 470 million dollars in compensation, translating into some five years of medical expenses, for a life time of illness and inability to work!
As the 19th anniversary of the tragedy approaches us 3rd Dec. has been declared as the International Day of solidarity against corporate crime.
What we can do-
In 2001 UC sold it's factory to Dow Chemicals, a US company based in Michigan. Though Dow has the responsibility of clearing the enironmental mess UC has left behind, it refuses to take charge of UC's liabilities. We are lucky to have one of Dow members to be staying in our vicinity (Lake Forest. IL)
As part of the 3rd December events groups in this area are planning to take the polluted water of Bhopal to Mr. Ringler, Dow board member. And we can chip in by being part of this group.
Time : 7:00 pm Place : 1490 Lake Road Lake Forest IL
Please feel free to contact me at 262-798-5439 or mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you know of any students at lake forest college who may be interested in being part of this group, could you please contact them, it will only require an hour of their time.
The significance of the event becomes clearer from a description of the same by Ryan . Ryan is a student organiser for the ICJB (International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal),
"The folks in Chicago were planning to visit the home of one of Dow's Board members, James Ringer, in Lake Forest on December 3rd, in order to return some actual water from Bhopal, which looks and smells as bad as the many toxins it contains: including trichloroethane, 1,4-dichlorobenzene, mercury and lead. The fact that 20,000 people in Bhopal are drinking this water (which would be labeled as 'hazardous waste' in the United States'), growing sick and slowly dying hasn't convinced Dow of the need to clean up the water contamination or supply safe drinking water to the community. Although the contamination is a product of Union Carbide's faulty waste disposal practices, Dow assumed Union Carbide's laibilities when it purchased the company in 2001 (see www.studentsforbhopal.org/DowIsLiable.htm). We feel that Dow's decision makers should given the opportunity to see for themselves the kind of contamination that the people of Bhopal are facing due to Dow's continued inaction"
LETS BE THERE FRIENDS AS MANY OF AS POSSIBLE!
Do think about it
best kamayani (for Association for india's development - milwaukee)
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