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Times of India: 41 years On: Bhopal gas tragedy documented online by Sambhavna Trust. “The Sambhavna Trust Clinic that has been providing free medical care to the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal for the last 29 years observed the 41st Anniversary of the disaster with the launching of a Digital Archive on the disaster.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/06/41-years-on-bhopal-gas-tragedy-documented-online-by-sambhavna-trust-times-of-india/

December 3, 1984 - In the early morning hours, one of the worst industrial disasters in history began when American-owned Union Carbide’s pesticide plant located near the densely populated city of Bhopal in central India leaked a highly toxic cloud of methyl isocyanate into the air.

Estimates of the fatalities vary widely, but of the approximately one million people living in Bhopal at the time, 2,000 were killed immediately, at least another 8,000 within a short time, and hundreds of thousands were injured, many still suffering today.

The U.S. blocked extradition of Union Carbide officials facing criminal prosecution in India. Union Carbide has since been purchased by Dow Chemical which continues to refuse responsibility for the incident or its victims, and has yet to clean up the site.

#BhopalDisaster #UnionCarbide

"...between 100K and 200K still suffer from a laundry list of serious chronic conditions: reduced breathing capacity and vision, damaged immunity systems, joint pains, neurological disorders, kidney diseases, cancers (...) The incidence of children with intellectual and physical disabilities born to mothers who’d been exposed to MIC is 7 times higher than that of non-exposed mothers." #Asia #SouthAsia #Bhopal #UnionCarbide #DowChemical #Justice cc: @mekongreview @kixes https://mekongreview.com/bhopal-forty-years-on/

Bhopal gas tragedy: Toxic waste from deadly leak fuels protests in India
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c863jy00430o

#India #Bhopal #Waste #ToxicWaste #UnionCarbide

The Bhopal Gas Tragedy was the biggest industrial disaster, happened in the Union Carbide factory in 1984. None of the Union Carbide or Dow Chemicals officials were tried or punished, in spite of killing 3000+ people.
Even after 40 years after the incident, Bhopal is still struggling with the toxic waste and water and soil contamination. Union Carbide has no responsibility in cleaning up the mess or finding a solution. This is how Capitalism works!
#US government played a big role to protect the #UnionCarbide officials.


www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/02/india-toxic-waste-removal-bhopal-disaster-site-dismissed-as-farce

337 tons sounds like a lot, but the truth is that it is only a tiny fraction of the toxic waste that is still out there.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/madhya-pradesh/40-year-old-toxic-waste-of-union-carbide-ready-for-shifting-to-disposal-site/article69049546.ece

#india #bhopal #bhopaldisaster40years #UnionCarbide

#NuclearColonialism v. #RedPower

"The world has no shortage of #PoliticalPrisoners – or of environmental martyrs and heroes– but 80-year-old #LeonardPeltier, a #Lakota and #Anishinaabe AIM member, is arguably the most famous, the legal lynching he underwent so outrageous, and his incarceration in a 'maximum security' prison so protracted. Even former FBI agents have themselves essentially contended that Pelter was scapegoated by the FBI for the lethal shooting of two agents–Jack Coler and Ronald Williams– on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Michael Apted’s 1992 documentary Incident at Oglala, narrated by Robert Redford, is a good place to start if you’re new to this history. But if you’re looking for insights into the role that #UraniumMining played in the conflict, you’d be better off checking out #PeterMatthiessen’s book #InTheSpiritOfCrazyHorse: Leonard Peltier and the #FBI’s War on The #AmericanIndian ovement. To hear a first-hand account, check out Peltier’s memoir #PrisonWritings: My Life Is My Sun Dance.

"Despite well-documented prosecutorial misconduct powerfully depicted in Apted’s documentary, Peltier’s conviction has yet to be overturned. And in the face of decades of global, high-profile pleas for clemency for Peltier, including by James Reynolds, a “senior US attorney who was involved in [his] prosecution,” no president up until now has been willing to free Peltier. Given that he’s in increasingly poor health, time is running out, and the same president who just pardoned his own son may be Peltier’s last shot at clemency. If you haven’t yet done so, check out the Amnesty International petition– and Amy Goodman’s and Denis Moynihan’s recent column–making the case for his release. The Red Nation media collective also has an extensive playlist of podcasts focused on Peltier’s case and the long struggle to free him.

"Peltier, arguably the world’s most visible casualty of nuclear colonialism, was only three years into his sentence when Santee Dakota organizer John Trudell, his contemporary in AIM, delivered a searing 1980 speech at the Black Hills International Survival Gathering. As Zoltan Grossman has documented, 'Multinational mining companies, such as #UnionCarbide and #Exxon, proposed the development of the #BlackHills for energy resources, including #coal mines, #uranium mines, and coal slurry #pipelines.' The Black Hills gathering brought together a global convergence of more than 10,000 Indigenous activists and non-Native allies to hold the line against a repeat of the 1950s, which, per Grossman, had 'result[ed] in the extensive irradiation of the southern Black Hills community of #Edgemont.'"

Read more:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/11/tis-the-season-to-talk-climate-collapse-nuclear-colonialism-and-freeing-leonard-peltier/
#FreeLeonardPeltier #ClemencyForLeonardPeltier #ACAB #AmnestyForLeonardPeltier #SilencingDissent #NoUraniumMining

Bhopal gas leak disaster 40 years on: Search for corporate accountability after tragedy - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV8e115cwBY

See here for background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

#India #Bhopal #UnionCarbide #Capitalism

#YesMen Hoax on #BBC Reminds World of #DowChemical’s Refusal to Take Responsibility for #Bhopal Disaster

https://www.democracynow.org/2004/12/6/yes_men_hoax_on_bbc_reminds

#democracynow #UnionCarbide #YesMen #BlameCapitalism

https://vimeo.com/420078480

#warrenAnderson #UnionCarbide #Bhopal #DowChemicals #BBC #YesMen
#BlameCapitalism

Lessons
1 Paranoia is seldom a good idea
2 The media will have their own story, but you can shape it
3 The only story you can count on lasting is the one you tell
4 If you must lie (and you must), lie honorably
5 A campaign takes a long time to win; one action is just a small part of it
6 Take your lead from movements you respect

https://theyesmen.org/project/dowbbc/behindthecurtain

#Bhopal #UnionCarbide #Dow #BBC #YesMen #BlameCapitalism

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/02/bhopal-gas-tragedy-forty-years-of-struggle-for-justice-part-one/

#Bhopal #BlameCapitalism #MadhyaPradesh #Pesicides #unionCarbide #DowChemicals

My dad had invested in Union Carbide stocks and pulled out the very next day after this horrific tragedy. Not many people I’ve talked to over the years have any idea what I was talking about.
#Bhopal #India #UnionCarbide https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp35vlg3zvxo

Grazie al sacrificio di #JeremyHammond fu possibile scoprire, per esempio, che l'agenzia privata di intelligence #Stratfor sorvegliava famiglie vittime sterminate dalla #UnionCarbide nel più grave incidente industriale della storia: Bhopal in India

"What you have is - like with everything else from the Indian railways to any government organisation everywhere - it's a massively funded government organisation that doesn't work."

#DamienGrant, 2024
https://omny.fm/shows/the-working-group/the-manufactured-crisis-in-health-the-economy-and

The mention of the Indian railways reminded me an excellent TV mini-series called The Railway Men: The Untold Story of Bhopal 1984.

(1/3)

#podcasts #TheWorkingGroup #PublicServices #railways #Bhopal #UnionCarbide

From the Bhopal gas tragedy to Facebook and Bloomsbury, a history of corporate culpability

What ties Warren Anderson, the CEO of Union Carbide when the Bhopal Gas Tragedy occurred, to Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, and Nigel Newton, the CEO of Bloomsbury? It is the belief that they need not follow the same standards for their business in India that they do in Western democracies, writes Hartosh Singh Bal.

#CorporateCrime #business #meta #facebook #whatsapp #bloomsbury #BigTech #UnionCarbide #BhopalGasTragedy #DelhiPogrom #DelhiRiots #WarrenAnderson #MarkZuckerberg #hindutva #islamophobia #HateSpeech #industry #BJP #india #HartoshSinghBal

https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/facebook-bloomsbury-delhi-riots-corporate-culpability

Has anyone seen the film about Dr #VandanaShiva yet?

She was a #nuclearPhysicist turned #activist, originally tasked with investigating #UnionCarbide's #BhopalDistaster in the 1980s before forming a #SeedFreedom movement against #BigAg and #Monsanto that exploded globally (and proved itself in many ways).

An interview she gave on #AfshinRattansi's show on RT's, #GoingUnderground:

https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/569418-vandana-shiva-ecology-environment/

Thoughts?

#theSeedsOfVandanaShiva #dowChemical #duPont #ecology #environment