[Mitai-announce] Reminder: TODAY Bhopal Disaster Lecture 6:30PM

[Rose A Lee]

Hi all,

Hope you can make it to our panel discussion (with an Indian dinner) tonight!

"BHOPAL: What Happened and What Does It Mean for Today?"

WHEN: Thursday (TODAY), May 3rd, 6:30-8:00 PM
WHERE: 37-212, http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=37&Buildings=go

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Come to our panel discussion on the Union Carbide/Dow Chemical Bhopal Disaster. 
Often cited as the worst industrial disaster to date, the gas leak at a
pesticide plant in Bhopal, India in 1984 killed 7,000 within days, and 22,000
to date.  The panelists include a chemical engineer who has worked in Bhopal
and has affiliations with Union Carbide and Dow Chemical, and Boston's
Environmental
Health Fund Associates who have traveled to Bhopal and worked in the health
clinic there.  What happened that night? What are the implications from an
engineering perspective, a social perspective, and a corporate perspective?
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SPEAKERS:
Gary Cohen: founder and Co-Executive Director of Health Care Without Harm,
Executive Director of the Environmental Health Fund, and member of the
International Advicory Board of the Sambhavna Clinic and Documentation Center
in Bhopal, which provides free medical care to Bhopal survivors.

Aquene Freechild: Program Associate of the Environmental Health Fund, and
director of the Boston Coalition for Justice in Bhopal.  Ms. Freechild was
instrumental in recent shareholder activism successes, including a resolution
passed by the Cambridge City Council boycotting Dow Chemical products, as well
as resolutions passed by major mutual funds to pressure Dow Chemical to clean
up Bhopal.

Professor Ron Willey: Professor of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern
University. Professor Willey has visited Bhopal and will present his technical
findings on the current status of the deserted Bhopal plant, and the
engineering issues that lie ahead.

For more information, please email MIT Amnesty International, mitai-exec at mit.edu
Co-sponsored by: MIT-AID, MIT-SAVE, and the Program for Human Rights and Justice

We'd love to see you there!