Monday, December 01, 2003

December 3 - Global Day of Action Against Corporate Crime

There's an election coming up in Bhopal.

"Each election, the parties come and make this an issue," said Satinath Sarangi, who heads the Sadhbhavna (Brotherhood) Trust which is involved in providing medical aid to the ailing survivors.

..."Imagine the chemicals have been lying there for 19 years as the federal and state governments fight over the issue of cleaning them. They wouldn't even allow Greenpeace to do it," Sarangi said.

...One of the key election issues centres on 1.5 billion rupees (around $326 million dollars) given by Carbide as compensation that is in the custody of India's Supreme Court as the
federal and state governments squabble over who is responsible for doling out the fund.

"The court had to take the money given by Union Carbide in its own custody as the two governments cannot reach agreement on who should disburse it," said [Abd al-Jabbar, who operates the bustling Swabhiman (Pride) Centre, an employment agency for victims of the disaster].

"And this money has been there for years as the two parties fight it out in the court while the victims suffer," he said.

...The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) has declared the upcoming anniversary on 3 December of the 1984 disaster, the 'Global Day of Action Against Corporate Crime'.

Besides coordinating protests against Dow-Union Carbide facilities worldwide, the ICJB has called upon groups which fight corporate crime to take action on that day against the human, environmental, consumer and labour rights violations by private or public corporations.
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I have a section on my website about corporate government and corporate crime. Have a look at it here.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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