Bhopal
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November
2004
3 December 2004: The Global Day of Justice/20th Anniversary of Bhopal:
Remembering the dead, fighting for the living
Shortly after midnight on December 3rd,
1984, poison gas leaked from a factory in Bhopal, India, owned by
the Union Carbide Corporation. There was no warning, none of the
plant's safety systems was working. In the city people were sleeping.
They woke in darkness to the sound of screams with the gases burning
their eyes, noses and mouths. They began retching and coughing up
froth streaked with blood. Whole neighbourhoods fled in panic, some
were trampled, others convulsed and fell dead. People lost control
of their bowels and bladders as they ran. Within hours thousands
of dead bodies lay in the streets. 3 December, 2004 sees the twentieth
anniversary of this terrible event, an event which was not some
arbitrary accident but a result of the blind push for profit at
any and all costs, a consequence of corporate greed and arrogance,
of indifference to suffering. The Global Day of Justice/20th Anniversary
of Bhopal will see events throughout the world, and you can help
keep the pressure on the company and authorities to do the decent
thing by the survivors of the disaster and those who lost family
members and other loved ones. To see what you can do, go to http://www.bhopal.net/gda.html
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