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DESCRIPTION:The night of December 2-3, 2007 is the 23rd anniversary of the gas \nleak 
 at a Union Carbide chemicals plant in Bhopal, India that has \nkilled and 
 disabled tens of thousands of people, including to this \nday.\n\nPlease 
 join a vigil and observance to honor those who have died and \nare injured, 
 and the Bhopali survivors who continue to fight for 
 \njustice.\n\n_____\n\nThere has never been any clean-up of the factory 
 site, nor has there \nbeen adequate health care or compensation provided 
 for the victims. \nThe U.S. chemical giant Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001 
 and has \nrefused to take any action other than to claim it is not their 
 \nproblem.\n\nDuring the vigil, we will call for Dow to take responsibility 
 for its \nobligations as the owner of Union Carbide and its legacy.  A 
 criminal \ncase against Dow in India has been pending for years.  Dow has a 
 \nshocking history of polluting communities where it operates and its 
 \nproducts are used, from Bhopal to Vietnam to Central America to the 
 \nstate of Michigan.\n\nDow has recently given the University of California 
 at Berkeley a $2 \nmillion grant (and the promise of millions more) to 
 launch a \n"Sustainable Products and Solutions" program at the UC Haas 
 Business \nSchool in partnership with College of Chemistry.  As part of the 
 \ndeal, Dow executive Tony Kingsbury has relocated to the Haas School 
 \nfrom Dow's corporate Michigan headquarters to oversee the project. 
 \nTellingly, the UC School of Public Health has been excluded from the 
 \ninitiative.\n\nThis is a stunning intrusion into the public university of 
 California \nby a company with a extremely poor record.  Dow is attempting 
 to \ninfluence how the university will frame the development of the 
 \nrapidly emerging field of green chemistry, which will have tremendous 
 \nconsequences for Dow.  It is fundamentally inappropriate for a \ncompany 
 like Dow to buy its way into the conversation in this manner.\n\nSimilarly, 
 in India, Dow is trying to subvert the process of justice \nby telling the 
 Indian Government that Dow will refuse to invest in \nIndia unless the 
 criminal case against Dow is dropped.\n\nDuring the vigil, we will deliver 
 a letter to Dow executive Tony \nKingsbury to state our views about Dow's 
 presence on the UC campus, \nand a demand that Dow can better demonstrate 
 its commitment to green \nchemistry by providing the millions of dollars 
 promised to UC \nBerkeley to the affected Bhopal communities instead.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/29/18464318.php
SUMMARY:Vigil in Honor of the Victims of the Dow/Union Carbide Chemical Disaster in Bhopal
LOCATION:Courtyard of the Haas Business School, UC Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/29/18464318.php
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