UPDATE FROM BHOPAL -15 YEARS LATER
Come hear Satinath (Sathyu) Sarangi, an activist visiting from Bhopal, India
speak on
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN BHOPAL,
GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM, & CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
NEW YORK CITY
A brown bag lunch presentation and discussion:
When: TUESDAY, JUNE 15th
11am-1pm
Where: Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
6 East 39th Street, 12th Floor
New York, New York 10016
WASHINGTON DC
2 Presentations!!!
First:
Brown bag lunch presentation & discussion
When: June 17th
Noon-2pm
Where: Center for International Environmental Law
1367 Connecticut Ave, NW
Washington Dc
(Near Dupont Circle Metro)
Second Presentation:
Reception and Presentation (with food!)
When: June 17th
6-8 pm (presentation will begin at 6:30)
Where: Luna Books
1633 P Street, NW
Washington DC
(Near Dupont Circle, on P St between 16th and 17th)
Why:
On the night of December 2-3 1984, a lethal gas leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide factory in the city of Bhopal, India. Over 500,000 men, women and children were exposed to the poisonous cloud and at least 6,000 died within the first week after the disaster. Today, almost 15 years later, tens of thousands of survivors suffer from the long term effects of gas exposure, including irreparable damage to their lungs, brains, eyes and reproductive and immune systems.
Union Carbide continues to victimize the people of Bhopal by evading responsibility for its actions and by refusing to provide just compensation and health care for the victims and their families.
Satinath (Sathyu) Sarangi, a metallurgist by training, has lived and worked in Bhopal since before the gas disaster.
• After the gas leak, he formed the Bhopal Group for Information and Action, which works with Union Carbide's victims.
• In 1996, Sathyu established the Sambhavana Clinic - A Peoples Health and Documentation Clinic which is currently the only non-governmental medical initiative concerned with the victims of the December ‘84 Union Carbide disaster.
Sathyu is currently in the United States on a tour in preparation for the 15th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster. He seeks to meet environmental and health activists in the United States, provide an update from Bhopal and discuss ways to work together for a future with No More Bhopals!
Please join us for the presentation. And please spread the word to friends interested in international toxics, health and corporate accountability issues!
For further information, or to RSVP, please call Ann Leonard or Neil Tangri at Essential Action: 202-387-8030
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Neil TANGRI