Remember Bhopal India and the killer Union Carbide leak?

[GreenPartyVoter]

SAN RAFAEL, California - While fisherwoman Diane Wilson evades a minor misdemeanor to prove her point, US Multinational evades criminal trial for manslaughter in India over the 1984 Bhopal Chemical Disaster.

On Oct 3rd, District Attorney of Texas ordered Diane Wilson to start a jail sentence for criminal trespass resulting from chaining herself to a 70 foot tower to hang a banner at the Dow Chemical plant to demand justice for Bhopal Survivors.

WHO:
Diane Wilson is a fourth generation Texas fisherwoman, activist and author of the new book, An Unreasonable Woman. She is insisting that Dow Chemical, the new owner of Union Carbide, be accountable to Americans for polluting the bays along the Gulf Coast of Texas. She is now aligned with the survivors of the Bhopal disaster to gain accountability for the devastation that continues in their community from Dow Chemical’s negligence in addressing criminal liability and environmental cleanup related to the December, 1984 chemical disaster and continuing to the present.

WHAT:
Diane Wilson is a keynote speaker at Bioneers conference in Northern California. She will discuss her refusal to serve her jail sentence until Dow Chemical Subsidiary Union Carbide and former Carbide CEO Warren Anderson appear in India courts for manslaughter and other charges brought by the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court of Bhopal, India.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1013-01.htm

[McKenzie]

1. Bhopal website here

a scandal that seems to have been forgotten.

http://www.bhopal.net/

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I didn't really know much about it until my neighbor mentioned it. I was

pretty young at the time that it happened. At least young enough to not understand or care. :(

[acmejack]

3. Only by the media & the powers that be

There are those of us who remember & seek justice for the harmed. Chemical companies such as Dow have tremendous clout, agent orange & napalm are two more of their contributions to better living through chemistry.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Thanks. I signed the petition

[ArkDem]

4. Shouldn't that be fisherperson?

[whatever4]

5. I remember when this happened

We saw a documentary on it the other day on tv. It was a sad reminder. Not surprising nothing much as been done. What I remember most were all the people blinded by the accident. Aside from the many deaths, so many people were left blind. There will never be a jail sentence harsh enough, but the truth of the matter is, there will never be a jail sentence.

[Cactus44]

7. Kind of off topic, but

who's Andy?