[Mitai-announce] Bhopal Global Day of Action

[Emily C Havens]

Hello everyone,

This Friday marks the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal chemical spill.  Amnesty
and other organizations have organized a number of events to raise awareness
and take action for Bhopal.  You can learn more about the chemical spill at
Amnesty's Business and Human Rights website:

http://www.amnestyusa.org/business/index.do

Specific events in Boston include:

**16th Annual Write-A-Thon.  Old South Church, Copley Square.
  03 December (this Friday!!) 4-7 pm.  Among other letters, there will be
  a petition (and perhaps postcards if we can get them from New York in time)
  to Dow Chemical urging them to clean up the chemical spill (20 years after it
  happened!!) and provide compensation to people still suffering from the
  spill.  Please make every effort to attend.

**Film screening here at MIT.  See information below.

Take care,
Emily, MIT Amnesty Secretary and CAN Coordinator

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>    _Remembering The Bhopal Tragedy
>    _On December 2, 1984, the release of poisonous methyl isocynate gas
>    from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India killed thousands of
>    helpless men, women and children and permanently maimed hundreds of
>    thousands more.
>    It was, and remains, the worlds worst industrial disaster.
>    Nineteen years later, amid charges of corruption, graft and greed, the
>    victims and their families have been re-victimized by the deliberate
>    thwarting of scientific and medical study of the life systems impact
>    of the Union Carbide plant. Bhopal is a sad disgraceful testament to
>    the absence of environmental and human justice - very much a place
>    where the world stopped watching.
>    Join us in marking the 20th Anniversay of the Bhopal Disaster
>    _Saturday, December 4, 2004 at 2:00PM in Bldg 1-190 MIT
>    Monday, December 6th, 2004 at 7:00PM in Barnum 108, Tufts University
>    _For the screenings of
>    _BHOPAL:THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE
>    A National Film Board of Canada Documentary
>    Produced by Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey and Harold Crooks
>    _This documentary explores the continuing cover-up of the truth and
>    analyze the prospect for environmental and human justice in Bhopal,
>    and beyond. At stake is more than fair compensation and long-term
>    rehabilitation for the many affected and afflicted Bhopal has become a
>    rallying cry for current issues of chemical industry security,
>    industrial pollution, "chemical trespass" of the human body and the
>    regulation and responsibility of multinational corporations.
>    
>    _PLEASE NOTE THAT PRODUCER HAROLD CROOKS  WILL BE PRESENT AT THE TUFTS
>    UNIVERSITY SCREENING ONLY
>    _
>    MIT COSPONSORS:
>    The South Asia Forum
>    MIT-INDIA PROGRAM
>    PROGRAM ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND JUSTICE
>    TUFTS UNIVERSITY COSPONSORS:
>    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
>    WOMEN'S STUDIES
>    PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES
>    
>    For further information please e-mail [1]secular at mit.edu.
>    E-mails to the sender of this notice are not received.