[IMC Bombay] Remember Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster
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Remember Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster ??
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Join the Protest & Hunger Strike in Solidarity on May 8th, 2003 =
at Azad Maidan at 2:00 p.m.
Survivors Launch Indefinite Fast for Justice in New York
FACTS...=20
December 1984: Union Carbide's Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, India
=B7 8,000 killed within days
=B7 500,000 poisoned
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=B7 Carbide flees India
=B7 Leaves behind health crisis, and tons of toxic wastes
February 2001: Dow Chemical Acquires Union Carbide
But refuses to address Carbide's liabilities in Bhopal.
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May 2003: 18 Years Later in Bhopal
=B7 27,000 dead till date
=B7 150,000 too ill to work
=B7 Health effects on survivors' children
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=B7 Carbide's toxic wastes poisons groundwater and mothers' milk
(register online at www.bhopal.net)
Visit www.bhopal.net
TOXICS LINK
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email: tlmumbai@vsnl.com
shweta@toxicslink.org
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