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Bhopal Student Research Project In the spring of 2004, the Human Rights Project at Bard organized the Bhopal Student Research Project, a full-semester, student-led course that examined many of the issues surrounding the Bhopal disaster. These included international free trade as it relates to national civil and criminal laws, how courts determine accountability for criminal acts, and the role of extradition treaties as a means of ensuring accountability in an increasingly globalized economy. For more information about the continuing Bhopal initiative at Bard, contact Bridget Hanna. Bhopal 20th Anniversary Week of Action At Bard College the Human Rights Project (www.bard.edu/bhopal) has organized a few events to commemorate the 20th anniversary and bring attention to the Bhopal gas disaster. On November 22nd, we held a joint screening of Ilan Ziev's documentary Litigating Disaster and Harold Crooks’ documentary, Bhopal: The Search for Justice. After screening the two movies, we had a question and answer session with Raj Sharma, the lawyer who is working on the case and star of the film Litigating Disaster, and with Harold Crooks, who directed The Search for Justice. On December 1st, we screened Bhopal Express. On December 2nd, we had a candle-lighting vigil with testimonies of Bhopal survivors read out loud. This was followed by a screening of "The Heart Becomes Quiet," a documentary about the disaster. On December 3rd, Misty Seemans - who wrote a play about Bhopal - organized a performance at Bard. Sathyu Sarangi & Ryan Bodanyi Speak on Bhopal On April 5, 2005, Sathyu Sarangi and Ryan Bodanyi spoke to 30 Bard
students in a lecture titled "Frontiers of International Activism:
The Case of Bhopal." Sarangi has been an activist in Bhopal
since Sathyu Speaks to Students On Monday, May 3rd 2004, Satinath Sarangi, founder of the Bhopal Group for Information and Action and Managing Director of the Sambhavna Trust, spoke to Bard's students about the disaster, its implications, and the role that students and others can play in the international campaign for justice. "Flames Not Flowers" at Bard From November 11th through the 23rd, 2005, Bard College hosted
the exhibit, "Flames not Flowers," photos by Raghu Rai
and Maude Dorr, in their student center. Alongside this exhibit,
Bard premiered another smaller color photography exhibit called
"Bhopal: New Sites of Suffering and Healing in the Aftermath
of the Bhopal Gas The photos were hung down one long wall at the campus center at Bard, a locus of activity that everyone in the community passes through on a regular basis. The sequence begins with the disaster and Rai's photos, progresses through Dorr's collages, and then ends with the small exhibit of new images. Even as the show was being hung, many people stopped to look at the arresting images. Standing in the campus center watching the traffic, it is clear that most cannot pass the exhibit without paying attention to it, and many people seem very moved by what is portrayed. The sheet we provided for commentary has had only thanks and praise written on it thus far. We hope that this exhibit will help further raise the awareness about Bhopal at Bard, and will get people riled up to make some noise on the anniversary. Dow is Death
On October 31,
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disaster and is managing trustee of the Sambhavna Trust (
Disaster,"
by Bridget Hanna, William Hanna, Prakash Hatvalne and Adriane Raff-Corwin.
2006,
students at Bard College joined the nationwide Halloween Day of
Action for Bhopal, sketching chalk outlines and running footprints
outside the Bard Campus Center. “Bhopal is corporate murder,
nothing less” said Adr!ane Raff Corwin, a Bard student. “What
better time than Halloween to tell people about Dow’s reign
of death – in Bhopal and around the world?” Several
hundred people passed by the chalkings, which were filled with the
names of Bhopalis who lost their lives to corporate greed.
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.
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"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.