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Students for Bhopal is active at more than 70 schools around the globe. Learn more by clicking the map below!
At Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, students are learning about the Bhopal disaster and its implications for globalization, corporate accountability, and society at large. ..........• "Globalization & Justice: Learning from Bhopal" To find out more about the Agnes Scott College campaign, contact Lara Denis. Students at the University of Alaska are learning more about the chemical violence in Bhopal and the human horror that the disaster continues to wreak upon the survivors. ..........• Film Screening & Discussion To find out more about the University of Alaska campaign, contact Varsha Mathrani. Hundreds of students at the University of Alberta are learning about the Bhopal disaster and the international campaign. “It was a huge success! The film was shown in a room for 400 -- and there were 435 present. Also there was an MBA student in the audience who had family affected by the disaster -- he sent a very long and emotional e-mail surprised that people here cared and so thankful they did." ..........• Suzuki Headlines Bhopal Documentary Screening To find out more about the University of Alberta campaign, contact Nancy Hannemann. The Tucson chapter of the Association for India's Development and the Southwest Network for Environment and Economic Justice (SNEEJ) are both organizing events to demand justice for the people of Bhopal. ..........• "Fighting Corporate
Globalization" Discussion To find out more about the University of Arizona campaign, contact Ranjini Swaminathan.
The Tempe chapter of the Association for India's Development is organizing events at Arizona State University to educate students there about the Bhopal disaster and its continuing aftermath. ..........• Bhopal Documentary Screening To find out more about the Arizona State University campaign, contact Venktesh Kalayanaraman. A unique academic initiative, the Bhopal Student Research Project, has been galvanizing students at Bard College. Designed and organized by the Human Rights Project at Bard College, the course enabled students to explore the history and systemic causes of the Bhopal tragedy, and to design their own creative and academic projects to further their understanding of the disaster's wide-reaching implications. Read more about the initiative at www.bard.edu/bhopal. ..........• Bhopal Student Research
Project To find out more about the Bard campaign, contact Bridget Hanna. Youth members of Amnesty International and Oxfam in Belgium are learning about Bhopal and taking action. "We made workshops over Bhopal, we sent some postcards to Dow Chemical and we organized a rule game, young people playing victims, workers, or directors of Union Carbide..." ..........• Bhopal Gathering To find out more about the Belgian youth campaign, visit the Amnesty Belgium website. The youth of Bhopal have been full and active participants in the long campaign for justice. "Shahid's interactive session with the students was quite memorable. He spoke intensely and what he said was startling for them. To a question 'what do you plan to do in the future?' his answer was, 'one of us will self immolate. We will die and if that does not work others will die'. It was so raw that there was a shocked silence." ..........• Thousands of Handprints
(click here for photos!) To find out more about the youth campaign in Bhopal, contact Rachna Dhingra.
At the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany, students are learning more about the Bhopal disaster and its aftermath. "All the students and our professor enjoyed the presentation, many of them were shocked after seeing the horrible photos and after knowing the actual recent situation in Bhopal." ..........• Bhopal Presentation To find out more about the Brandenburg University campaign, contact Shrinivas Tukdeo. Students at Brown University have joined the campaign, and made the connections between Dow and Death quite clear through their Halloween actions. "We feel that Halloween is the perfect time to highlight the unholy alliance that Dow and Death seem to have made," declared Mika Nagasaki, a sophomore at Brown. "Dow maximizes its profits by contributing to the deaths of thousands of people throughout the world, and Death is only too happy to collect these victims before their time. Dow's legacy of contamination and death must come to an end; by refusing to take action in Bhopal, Dow is condemning thousands more to an untimely end." ..........• "Dow Grim Reaper"
(click here for the photographs; here
for the press release!) To find out more about the Brown campaign, contact Aditi Bhaskar.
Students at the University of California, Berkeley have been organizing events to educate the campus community about the Bhopal disaster and to demand justice for the people of Bhopal. ..........• Berkeley Student
Assembly Demands Divestment (click here
for the press release, and here
for the resolution!) To find out more about the University of California at Berkeley campaign, contact Alastair Iles.
The UC Davis Student Government, the Environmental Policy & Planning Commission and the Ethnic & Cultural Affairs Commission are working together to educate students at UC-Davis about the Bhopal disaster and the ways that students can make a difference. "We had a small area of campus surrounded by a ridiculous amount of caution tape, making a great eye catching visual!" ..........• 20th Anniversary Outreach, Film Screening To find out more about the University of California, Davis campaign, contact Roshani Parekh.
The San Diego chapter of the Association for India's Development is spreading the word about Bhopal and educating people about the campaign for justice. ..........• Dow Protest: A Coalition-Building
Event To find out more about the University of California, San Diego campaign, contact Priya Natarajan. Students at CalTech, working with the CalTech Environmental Task Force, have hosted teach-ins, planned fundraisers, and held discussions with Jackie Barton, a Dow Board Member and CalTech faculty member. "In the wake of Enron and other corporate scandals, it's clearer than ever that we have to hold corporations accountable," said Dan Feldman, one of the campaign leaders at CalTech. "If we can't hold corporations accountable for an accident that killed 20,000 people, when can we hold them accountable?" ..........• Discussion With Dow
Boardmember Jackie Barton To find out more about the CalTech campaign, contact Dan Feldman. The members of AID-Pittsburgh are organizing to demand justice for the people of Bhopal, and they're raising awareness about the disaster and what can be done to help at Carnegie Mellon University. ..........• Vigil & Bhopal Express Screening To find out more about the Carnegie Mellon University campaign, contact Sanjeev Koppal. Students at the Center Learning Community Charter School in Pennsylvania are learning about the Bhopal disaster - and getting angry about it. "We showed to the seventh and sixth graders in my class. They were very sad when they saw what happened in Bhopal." ..........• Cloud Over Bhopal Screening & Debate To find out more about the Center Learning Community campaign, contact Ashish Bhandari. In Chennai, students from several area colleges - including IIT Madras, Loyola College, Vellore Institute of Technology, Stella Maris and Ethiraj College, and Holy Cross - have joined together to form "We Feel Responsible," an action collective dedicated to organizing for Bhopal and other progressive causes. ..........• Boycotting the Indian
Oil Corporation To find out more about the Chennai, India campaign, contact Dharmesh Shah. Students with ECO, one of the leading student environmental groups at the University of Chicago, are fighting for justice in Bhopal. ..........• Earth Day Bhopal
Discussion To find out more about the University of Chicago campaign, contact Heather Rosenfeld. Students with the local Association for India's Development chapter at the University of Cincinnati have organized a series of events highlighting the continuing disaster in Bhopal and the need for justice. "A person from Cleveland called and was interested in joining our events. But he was also asking if we were planning to go to DOW's facility in the state and are we having any rallies and protests and 'shouting'. He had been deeply hurt by the tragedy and wanted to 'shout'." ..........• Remember Bhopal Week
(click here for photos!) To find out more about the University of Cincinnati campaign, contact Sandesh Samdaria. The AID chapter at the University of Colorado at Boulder, as well as other campus groups including 18011, have recently become involved in the campaign for justice in Bhopal. "I couldn't have been touched more deeply by the interest, sympathy, and support that the students and people in Boulder expressed for the victims of the disaster and their campaign. Amazingly, nearly 350 people passed through the Bhopal photo display during its time in Boulder." ..........• Week of Bhopal Events (click here for photos!) To find out more about the University of Colorado campaign, contact Raghu Bhavansikar. In Cuddalore, India, itself a slow and silent Bhopal, school children are learning more about Bhopal - and the chemical dangers of their own community. "About 200 children from 18 schools participated in the painting competitions with Pollution as the theme. Some of the paintings featured Dow Chemicals and Union Carbide very prominently next to the SIPCOT industries." ..........• 20th Anniversary Vigil; Painting Competition To find out more about the Cuddalore, India campaign, contact Shweta Narayan.
Students with the Sierra Student Coalition have been leading the campaign for Bhopal in Dallas, TX, most visibly by organizing a vigil on the anniversary. "The point is, We Were There," wrote Christina Billingsley, the Texas State Coordinator for the SSC. "We were there, campaigning for Bhopal, along with 16 different countries, 25 different US campuses- taking action on that very day with us. It was an amazing feeling." ..........• Protest and Vigil
and Dow's Dallas Plant (click here for photos; here
for the press release!) To find out more about the Dallas SSC campaign, contact Christina Billingsley. The Amnesty International chapter at Dartmouth College - together with Project Bangladesh - has been raising awareness about Bhopal and the need for action. "Continuing to pursue events such as the Bhopal photo exhibit is the first step to demanding accountability and ensuring that events like the disaster in Bhopal don’t go unnoticed." ..........• Photo Exhibit and Discussion To find out more about the Dartmouth College campaign, contact Tara Seethaler. Students at Delhi University in India have been organizing an amazing campaign there for justice in Bhopal. From The Hindu: "Praising the effort of the students for raising such pertinent questions, human rights activist, Sayeeda Hameed, said, 'It is only when the youth get involved will this movement gather strength. Human memory is very short and when one generation passes, people can't be expected to remember. But it is very heartening that young people for whom this blot does not even form a part of their memory, are willing to take up the issue.'" ..........• Petitioning the Prime
Minister To find out more about the Delhi University campaign, contact Suroopa Mukherjee. Located only a stone's throw from Dow's world headquarters in Midland, Michigan, Delta College is a surprising place for students to be learning about Dow's dark side. Yet several students there are organizing a campaign to educate their fellow students about the Bhopal disaster - and the role that Dow has played in perpetuating it. ..........• Survivors Tell Students
of Chemical Terror To find out more about the Delta College campaign, contact Ryan Bodanyi. At Duke, the Association for India's Development and the Duke Indian Youth Association are joining together to raise awareness about the disaster and to take practical action that will help the campaign. ..........• Film Screening and Congressional Lobbying To find out more about the Duke University campaign, contact Somnath Roy. Members of AID Boston and the Boston Coalition for Justice in Bhopal have been educating the students at Emerson about the Bhopal disaster and the campaign for justice. ..........• Women & Bhopal: A Discussion To find out more about the Emerson College campaign, contact MoNa Mandal. Students with the Atlanta chapter of the Association for India's Development at Emory University are taking up the Bhopal campaign and demanding justice for the people of Bhopal. “Just imagine if the 20,000 dead and the 150,000 sick and suffering 20 years later were Americans! Could Dow continue to deny their responsibility for cleaning up the toxic mess that Union Carbide has left which continues to make more people sick and contaminate their grounds and water supply?” ..........• 20th Anniversary
Film Screening and Performance (click here for photos, and here
for the press release!) To find out more about the Emory University campaign, contact Alka Roy. Students with the Sierra Student Coalition at Flintridge High School in Sierra Madre, California, have been organizing an energetic and creative campaign against Dow Chemical and the board member, Jackie Barton, that lives nearby. "Bhopal is the absolute epitome of the big corporation against a rural village," Preeti emphasizes. "What really got me interested in working with the Bhopal campaign is the sheer tragedy of the whole ordeal. I think it's an atrocity that people are still suffering, 20 years after the actual incident." ..........• Fundraising, Petitioning, and RTS To find out more about the Flintridge High School SSC campaign, contact Preeti Upadhyaya. Students at the Forum High School for Creative Studies, in Blue Island, Illinois, are protesting Union Carbide's continuing disregard for the health of people who live near its plants - in Bhopal and in the US, as well. ..........• Protesting Union Carbide To find out more about the Forum High School campaign, contact Jan Favia. At Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington, students are learning about the terrible atrocities that happened in Bhopal - and what they can do to help. ..........• Documentary Screening and Discussion To find out more about the Garfield High School campaign, contact Farah Nousheen.
Students with the Atlanta chapter of the Association for India's Development at the Georgia Institute of Technology are educating their fellow students about the Bhopal disaster and how they can contribute to the campaign for justice. “Keep Fighting,” one attendee wrote. “We are with you. Your passion and dedication inspires us all. Unity in Justice for all people.” ..........• Film Screening and Campaign Update (click here for photos, and here for the press release!) To find out more about the Georgia Institute of Technology campaign, contact Srini Seetharaman. Students with Georgia State University and the local Association for India's Development chapter have been organizing a Bhopal campaign in Atlanta! "Students/professors were taking about how to make sure that Bhopal is included in discussions in classes/ curriculum such as industrial engineering, business ethics, international affairs etc..." ..........• 20th Anniversary
Vigil and Film Screening (click here for photos, and here
for the press release!) To find out more about the Georgia State campaign, contact Ian Fletcher. Students at Grand Valley are beginning to question Dow's story that they have no liability for the Bhopal disaster - none whatsoever. "Jason's main points were to say it wasn't right to hold a company liable for something that happened 20 years ago and not under their watch. Someone in the audience asked Jason, why can't we try it and see if it works?" ..........• Bhopal Debate To find out more about the Grand Valley campaign, contact Paul Damore. Students at Harvard are beginning to organize a full fledged campaign there, in the wake of a powerful visit by two survivors of the disaster in May of 2004. ..........• Survivors Speak to
Students To find out more about the Harvard campaign, contact Suvrat Raju. At the University of Houston, the members of the Houston chapter of the Association for India's Development are organizing events that both raise awareness about the Bhopal disaster among the students there are that also pose a threat to Dow and its reputation. ..........• Bhopal Photo Exhibit
& Film Screening To find out more about the University of Houston campaign, contact Harshad Parakh. Students at the University of Illinois have been busy organizing a campaign there! Among other things, they've been doing a tremendous job of collecting signatures for the Faculty Petition for Justice in Bhopal. According to Ravi Ravishankar, one of the student leaders of the campaign, "many of the faculty members that we've talked to have become advocates for the petition, and have promised to ask their colleagues to sign on as well." ..........• Faculty Petition To find out more about the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campaign, contact Ravi Ravishankar. Students at Illinois State University are determined to see Dow take responsibility for its actions in Bhopal and elsewhere. According to Dr. Fitzgibbons, ''I think this is a testimony there's a subset of students out there in colleges of business who are concerned about the environment, concerned about corporate action that hurts us and has negative impact on stakeholders.'' ..........• Demonstration and Petitioning (click here for the press release!) To find out more about the Illinois State University campaign, contact Dr. Dale Fitzgibbons. Students with the Bloomington chapter of the Association for India's Development at Indiana University are helping to educate their campus community about the Bhopal disaster and what can be done to help. ..........• Protesting Dow Recruiting
(click here
for photos; here
for the press release!) To find out more about the University of Indiana campaign, contact Yogesh Simmhan.
Students and Bhopal supporters at the Indian Institute for Forest Management in Bhopal are doing their part to remember the disaster that killed so many in their city, in the hopes that by remembering the disaster and sharing in the struggle Bhopal will never happen anywhere again. ..........• Photo Exhibition and Solidarity To find out more about the Indian Institute for Forest Management campaign, contact Nahar Muhammed.
Students at Jawaharlal Nehru University are learning about Bhopal through the creative performances of the Bahroop Arts Group, a theatre group that's staging performances about Bhopal and other pressing social issues. ..........• Bhopal Performance To find out more about the Jawaharlal Nehru University campaign, contact Anusha Chandrasekharan. Both the Association for India's Development chapter at Johns Hopkins University and the South Asian Students at Hopkins (SASH) have played a leading role in raising awareness about the Bhopal disaster and what can be done at Johns Hopkins. "A few of us drove up to another director's house - Paul Stern. He was out for dinner. Nevertheless we left a message that we would be back." ..........• Petitioning and "RTS"
Actions To find out more about the Johns Hopkins campaign, contact Nirveek Bhattacharjee. Students at Lewis and Clark are determined to spread the word about Dow's corporate crimes at their school--and they're also demanding that their school no longer ..........• Film Screening and Banning Dow Products To find out more about the Lewis and Clark College campaign, contact Lizzie Fussell. The members of the Association for India's Development Baton Rouge chapter, at Louisiana State University, are raising awareness about the Bhopal disaster and what can be done. "Given the interest in our group and the potential of making a bigger impact (as Louisiana is a hub of DOW and other petrochemical industries) and the presence of other active concerned groups, we are looking forward to taking this issue further." ..........• Documentary Screening
and Panel Discussion To find out more about the Louisiana State University campaign, contact Anand Chandolu. The Association for India's Development chapter at the University of Maryland, College Park has been organizing a series of actions and events around the Bhopal issue, including a "Return-to-Sender" action that targeted two of Dow's 14 board members. "On Dec 3rd evening, several of us went to the Watergate, the residence of one of the Dow directors - Barbara Franklin. She had gone for a dinner at the White House and had instructed the security *NOT* to accept anything from us." ..........• Anniversary Week:
Protests, Documentary, and "Return-to-Sender" Actions
(click here for photos!) To find out more about the University of Maryland, College Park campaign, contact Sekhar Jammalamadaka. The International Studies Program at Marymount Manhattan College has been playing a leading role in educating students about the Bhopal disaster. ..........• Documentary Screening To find out more about the Marymount Manhattan College campaign, contact Radhika Balakrishnan. Students from the Boston chapter of the Association for India's Development and from the Program on Human Rights and Justice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been organizing a series of events at MIT, one of the top engineering schools in the country. ..........• Cambridge Council
Dumps Dow Chemical, Cites Bhopal (click here
for the resolution!) To find out more about the MIT campaign, contact MoNa Mandal.
At McGill University in Canada, several organizations are joining together to organize educational programs about Bhopal and the campaign for justice. ..........• Bhopal Photo Exhibit, Documentary Screening To find out more about the McGill University campaign, contact Laurel Sprengelmeyer.
Students at the University of Michigan have been among the most active in calling for Dow Chemical to accept its responsibilities for Bhopal. "It's all about justice," said Shiny Mathew, one of the co-facilitators of Justice for Bhopal. "It's unjust - and frankly incomprehensible - that Dow refuses to clean up the Bhopal site and stop the continued contamination of thousands of Bhopal residents. It's Dow's legal and moral responsibility to remediate its own pollution." Justice for Bhopal has focused on three distinct campaigns: education, pressuring Dow directly, and pressuring the company indirectly by advocating for the University to take a stand in favor of the Bhopal campaign. Education Targeting Dow Targeting the University To find out more about the University of Michigan campaign, contact Deepti Reddy or visit the Justice for Bhopal webpage. Amnesty International and Physicians for Human Rights supporters have teamed up at Michigan State to raise awareness about the Bhopal disaster and demand justice - directly from Dow Chemical! ..........• Dow Shareholder Meeting Protest To find out more about the Michigan State University campaign, contact Nidhip Patel. Students with the local Association for India's Development chapter at the University of Minnesota have been organizing a Bhopal campaign at their campus. “When people are aware that this is happening, that’s when things are going to change,” said Dwijendra Guru, President of the AID-Minnesota chapter. ..........• 20th Anniversary
Day of Action To find out more about the University of Minnesota campaign, contact Tathagata Mitra. In Mumbai, India, students from several colleges and universities are taking action. “Students from various colleges like Sophia, St Xavier’s and Wilson signed up for the campaign,” said Shonali Sarda from Sophia College. “Yesterday we signed a petition against Dow which will be presented before court.” ..........• 19th Anniversary
Protest and Disaster Re-Creation To find out more about the Mumbai Colleges campaign, contact Vinuta Gopal.
Students and others at the Universidad Nacional, Heredia, in Costa Rica, are learning about the Bhopal disaster, Dow's toxic legacy, and what can be done to fight for justice. "We presented the video to our group of researchers and other staff members. It is still shocking. I will use the material also for our courses." ..........• Documentary Screening To find out more about the Universidad Nacional campaign, contact Clemens Ruepert. The Green Party of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ecology Now! and Amnesty International are teaming up to host educational events and spread the word about Bhopal, the international campaign, and how students can get involved. ..........• Film Screening and Discussion To find out more about the University of Nebraska campaign, contact Naomi Solomon. Students from the University of New Mexico and the New Mexico chapter of the Association for India's Development are starting to educate people about Bhopal, plan events, and investigate Dow's associations with their university. "The response was quite good. About 50 people stopped by and signed up to receive updates on future local actions. One of the ladies who stopped by got extremely emotional after reading about the disaster. Many people wanted to know what they could do about it." ..........• From Bhopal to New
Mexico: Environmental Justice Now! To find out more about the New Mexico campaign, contact Mohit Adhikari. Several organizations at New York University are teaming up to raise awareness about the Bhopal disaster and form a solidarity group dedicated to organizing future events for the campaign. ..........• Documentary Screening
and Q&A About Bhopal To find out more about the New York University campaign, contact Robert Lesko.
Students at Charlotte Latin School, Myers Park High School and several other Charlotte-area high schools are teaming up to demand justice for the people of Bhopal, as a part of the North Carolina Sierra Student Coalition. "Our vigil went pretty well. We were out there for about 45 minutes in rush hour holding our signs and candles." ..........• Vigil & Demonstration (click here for photos!) To find out more about the North Carolina Sierra Student Coalition campaign, contact Katherine McEachern.
The student group Path of Greater Resistance has been organizing an outreach effort at the North Seattle Community College to educate students there about the Bhopal disaster and campaign. ..........• Documentary Screening To find out more about the North Seattle Community College campaign, contact Greater Resistance. The Amnesty International chapter at the University of North Texas is picking up the cause and educating students about the implications of the Bhopal disaster for globalization, corporate accountability, and human rights. ..........• Documentary Screening and Panel (click here for photos!) To find out more about the University of North Texas campaign, contact Ambreen Rahman.
Students with the South Asian Law Students Association of the Northwestern University School of Law are learning about the Bhopal disaster and how they can get involved. ..........• Documentary Screening To find out more about the Northwestern University campaign, contact Gaurav Mathur. Students with the Oakland University chapter of Amnesty International are taking their fight with Dow straight to the top - to Dow headquarters in Midland, MI! ..........• Protest at Dow Headquarters! To find out more about the Oakland University campaign, contact Ariana Toth. Students at Occidental College in Los Angeles are educating their community about the Bhopal disaster and confronting Dow Board members about the tragedy. "There's an ongoing human rights catastrophe in Bhopal and there has been for 20 years," says Clayton Perry, one of the leaders of the campaign at Occidental. "I mean, 20,000 people have died. How can you turn your back on that?" ..........• Pressuring Dow Boardmember
Willie Davis To find out more about the Occidental campaign, contact Clayton Perry. Students at the University of Oregon in Eugene have only recently begun their campaign, and have focused primarily on educating their campus. They've hosted a Bhopal teach-in and video showing, and they're looking into bringing the Raghu Rai photo exhibit to town. ..........• Video Showing and Teach-in To find out more about the University of Oregon campaign, contact Nicky Dunbar. Students at Penn State and members of the local chapter of the Association for India's Development have been educating the student body at Penn State about the Bhopal disaster - and the college's many connections with Dow Chemical. "The local paper asked Penn State about its Dow connections (too many!), making the PSU spokesman uncomfortable." ..........• Week of Bhopal Events To find out more about the Penn State campaign, contact Anand Narasimhamurthy. The Association for India's Development in Philadelphia supports the campaign for justice in Bhopal, and is raising awareness about the disaster and Dow's continuing liabilities at the University of Pennsylvania and in the Philadelphia area. ..........• 19th Anniversary Education To find out more about the University of Pennsylvania campaign, contact Nitin Bakshi. Members of the Portland Chapter of the Association for India's Development, together with students from Portland State University and Reed College, have been organizing an incredible campaign in Portland. "We've received wonderful support from Jobs with Justice, the Environmental Justice Action Group, Amnesty International, and others," said Kumaridevi Sivam, a mamber of AID and a leader of the Portland campaign. ..........• "Return-to-Sender"
Action To find out more about the Portland AID campaign, contact Sathish Sundaram. Students at Princeton have begun a campaign for Bhopal there, and already they have done something remarkable: they've forced Dow to take responsibility for (a very small portion of) the contamination in Bhopal!! "Sujit handed over a sheet of paper saying 'This has the testimonial of a survivor of Bhopal.' That distressed him. His smile became plastic and disappeared." ..........• Shapiro Accepts Some
Poison (click here
for the press release!) To find out more about the Princeton University campaign, contact Sujata Ray.
The Bhopal disaster and its consequences are topics of discussion at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and students are hearing from some of the leaders of the campaign about what's being done to win justice for the victims. ..........• Diane Wilson, Yes Men Speak About Bhopal To find out more about the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campaign, contact Steve Pierce. Students at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, have been learning about the Bhopal disaster, the campaign for justice, and how they can make a difference both as individuals and as professional Designers and Architects. ..........• Learning from Bhopal:
A Symposium (click here for photos!) To find out more about the Rhode Island School of Design campaign, contact Peggy Lewis. Students and others at The University of the South have been moved to take action by the plight of the Bhopal survivors. "The chaplain offered a beautiful prayer and after some reflection and questions, the sachristans went on their way. After they left, the four us realized an amazing thing had happened. Two sections of campus, the church and the activists/ environmentalists, had been united under one cause, a rare and beautiful event." ..........• Documentary Screening
and Discussion To find out more about the University of the South campaign, contact Caitlin McCollister.
Students at St. Benedict's Preparatory School in New Jersey believe that "Everyone Deserves Clean Water", and they're speaking out. The SBP Environmental Club has been galvanizing hundreds of students at St. Benedict's to join the people of Bhopal in their demand for clean water and justice. "Students enjoyed it so much, our Environmental Club is overwhelmed with ideas for our next event." ..........• No One Wants to Drink
"Bhopal Water" (click here for photos!) To find out more about the St. Benedict's campaign, contact Daniel Saraiva. Students at Southampton are exploring the Bhopal disaster through the use of art and expression, in what they hope will be a unique and effective way of raising awareness about the disaster. ..........• Writing/Drawing Contest To find out more about the Southampton College campaign, contact Jessica Hoffman.
In Portland, Maine, students and other supporters of Amnesty International are joining together to remember Bhopal, educate themselves and others about the disaster, and organize to make sure that such a tragedy never happens again. ..........• Bhopal Vigil To find out more about the South Portland High School campaign, contact Hannah Dunphy. The members of the Bay Area chapter of the Association for India's Development, one of AID's largest, have been very active in their support for the Bhopal campaign. "Huddled in a circle, the attendees also had the chance to hear a first-person account from Vijay Rajvaidya who described his anxious moments in 1984 as he tried to find out the well-being of his wife and three-month-old son who were in Bhopal when the disaster happened." ..........• Confronting the Chief
Minister of Madhya Pradesh To find out more about the Association for India's Development campaign in the Bay Area, contact Sudarshan Suresh.
At the University of Sydney, Australia, the Faculty of Law hosted a seminar entitled “Bhopal, 20 Years On: Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights Violations Today”, which examined Bhopal's continuing legal implications. ..........• Bhopal Law Seminar To find out more about the University of Sydney campaign, contact Surya Deva. Led by the Austin Chapter of the Association for India's Development, students at UT-Austin are beginning to take action against Dow. "The quote below the statue - '...freedom is not given but taken...' sort of summed up our feelings on Bhopal. The statue was illuminated with candles and each of us holding a candle symbolized our intent." ..........• Student Governments
Vote Against Dow (click here for the undergraduate
and graduate resolutions,
and here for the press
release!) To find out more about the UT-Austin campaign, contact Gauri Karve. The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia has been organizing events at Tufts University to educate the students there about the Bhopal disaster so that they can join the campaign and demand justice from Dow. ..........• Questioning Dow CEO
Andrew Liveris To find out more about the Tufts University campaign, contact Sherebanu Frosh.
The members of the New Orleans chapter of the Association for India's Development are making life difficult for Dow. They don't believe that Dow should continue with business-as-usual as the people of Bhopal suffer, and they've decided to take action. ..........• Protesting Dow Officials To find out more about the Tulane University campaign, contact Biswanath Gouda. At Vintage High School, California, the Amnesty International group and the Poetry Club has partnered with the Corporate Action Network and Students for Bhopal to educate students about the Bhopal disaster, Dow’s responsibility, and how students can help. "We get told a lot of stuff in school, but not the important stuff like this. And I'm 18 years old right now and about to graduate and no one has mentioned Bhopal, India until the teach-in. What else haven't I been told?" ..........• Bhopal Teach-in To find out more about the Vintage High School campaign, contact Sushanna Ellington. At the University of Washington, several campus-based and community organizations are teaming to to spread the word about Bhopal and the international campaign for justice. ..........• Seattle Proclaims
"Bhopal Remembrance Day" (click here
for the proclamation, here
for press release!) To find out more about the University of Washington campaign, contact Vani Subramanian. At Wesleyan, students, Amnesty International members and Bhopal supporters are standing up for Bhopal and demanding that justice no longer be denied. ..........• Dow Board Member Confronted; Cries With Shame To find out more about the Wesleyan University campaign, contact Betty Kolod. Students at Wheaton College have been very active in educating their campus and campaigning against Dow. "Students here are like students elsewhere," says Janine Jacques, one of the student campaigners. "When we heard about what was happening in Bhopal, we were outraged. We decided that we had to act." ..........• Bhopal Teach-in To find out more about the Wheaton campaign, contact Aditi Desai.
Students at William and Mary have focused primarily on educating their campus about the Bhopal disaster, although they were ready when Dow's CEO, Michael Parker, came to town... ..........• Education To find out more about the William and Mary campaign, contact Azita Ranjbar.
At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a school with a history of protests against Dow and its profiteering from death and destruction, students are once again educating themselves about Dow's crimes and what they can do to demand justice. ..........• Documentary Screening
and Discussion To find out more about the University of Wisconsin, Madison campaign, contact John Peck.
Members of the Association for India's Development chapter in Milwaukee have joined the fight for justice in Bhopal! After confronting one of Dow's Board members on the disaster's 20th anniversary, Maneesha Bidani wrote, "Two folks went up to the door to present Ringler with a jhadoo and letter which he refused and told us to get off his property. We stayed on the street in front of his house and shouted chants and marched so that he would know for sure that this issue was not going away." ..........• A Delivery for Board
Member Ringler! (click here for photos;
here for the press release!) To find out more about the AID Milwaukee campaign, contact Kamayani Swami. At Yale, students and supporters of environmental justice and human rights are learning more about the Bhopal disaster and how they can help make a difference in the struggle for justice. ..........• Terry Allan Speaks To find out more about the Yale campaign, contact Mokshay Madiman.
In Togo, Africa, Young Volunteers for the Environment, the biggest-ever youth organization in the sub region, is raising awareness about the Bhopal disaster and Dow's corporate crimes. "We had a wonderful event. The best demonstration was during our YVE general assembly. The event gathered about 150 youths from all over the country and from neighbouring countries such as Burkina Faso, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, and even France." ..........• International Forum
on Bhopal, Pesticides, and Corporate Responsibility (click here
for photos; here for the press
release!) To find out more about the Young Volunteers for the Environment campaign, contact Sena Alouka.
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Valley State University
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Indian
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Nehru University, India
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Manhattan College
Mass.
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Seattle Community College
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Wheaton
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College
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University
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University
Young
Volunteers for the Env., Togo
The international student campaign to hold Dow
accountable for Bhopal, and its other toxic legacies around the world.
For more information about the campaign, or for problems regarding this
website, contact Ryan
Bodanyi, the Coordinator of Students for Bhopal.
WE
ALL LIVE 
IN
BHOPAL
"The year 2003 was a special year in the history of the campaign for justice in Bhopal. It was the year when student and youth supporters from at least 30 campuses in the US and India took action against Dow Chemical or in support of the demands of the Bhopal survivors. As we enter the 20th year of the unfolding Bhopal disaster, we can, with your support, convey to Dow Chemical that the fight for justice in Bhopal is getting stronger and will continue till justice is done. We look forward to your continued support and good wishes, and hope that our joint struggle will pave the way for a just world free of the abuse of corporate power."
Signed/ Rasheeda Bi, Champa Devi Shukla
Bhopal Gas Affected Women Stationery Employees Union
International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal
This is what the www.studentsforbhopal.org site looked like in early 2008. For more recent information, please visit www.bhopal.net.