Take Action Now to Help Defend Communities in Bhopal and Hold DOW/UCC Accountable!
A nocturnal gas leak in 1984 took the lives of more than 7,000 people in Bhopal, India over a three-day span, and a further 15,000 in the years that followed. The leak came from a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), now owned by Dow Chemical (DOW). The company is still denying its responsibility and refuses to reveal the toxicological information of the gas, thwarting medical efforts to deliver appropriate treatment to the more than 100,000 surviving victims.
- RAISE AWARENESS AND TAKE ACTION FOR BHOPAL
- Check out our list of ideas and resources and find out what you can do to build public awareness
- Circulate You Tube videos to raise awareness about Bhopal:
- Dow Chemical – The Human Element (a different interpretation of Dow's new ad campaign)
- Twenty Years Without Justice
- Flames Not Flowers music video
- Participate in our Spring Clean Up, Not Cover Up! Action
- Plan a demonstration on your campus, at the Indian Consulate, near a Dow facility, or any other public space. Download our "Dow. Clean Up Bhopal Now." Action Posters in PDF format.
- Send a personalized note to Dow Board Members. A handwritten card or letter sent to their home is more likely to be opened and read. Express your concerns in your own way, or base it on our sample letter.
- Host a film screening to show One night in Bhopal or Twenty years without justice. Contact to request a copy.
- Download the full report: Clouds of injustice, Bhopal disaster 20 years on and the one-page fact sheet. Use a petition or action postcard to gather signatures at your event.
- Host the photo exhibit, We are not flowers, we are flames! Contact
- Link up with other likeminded organizations and groups:
- Students for Bhopal
- Association for India's Development
- Environmental and development NGO's, community groups, religious groups, etc.
- Join a Students for Bhopal Group near you planning a street theater funeral procession, to remember those that have died and draw attention to Dow's failure to respond to the ongoing crisis. Learn more on the Students for Bhopal website.
- Are you a college student? Are corporate human rights offenders recruiting on your campus? Learn how you can use recruitment fairs to raise awareness and take action.
- Learn about the Bhopal Survivors March to New Delhi and read AI's open letter to the Prime Minister of India.
- Learn how activists from around the country took action for the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster and read press coverage.
- TAKE ACTION NOW ONLINE
- Send an email to Dow Chemical's President and CEO, Andrew Liveris, demanding that Dow/UCC FACE JUSTICE.
- Demand Dow Chemical (DOW) clean up the Bhopal site
- JOIN THE NEW SHARE POWER CAMPAIGN
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