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Fundraising, Petitioning, and RTS At Flintridge Preparatory School in La Canada Flintridge, students meet at tables by the art building to plan their campaign. Senior Preeti Upadhyaya finds time to lead the group in between writing college applications. Passionate about the people of Bhopal, Upadhyaya clearly articulates her reasons for working so hard to spread the word throughout her school's student body. "Bhopal is the absolute epitome of the big corporation against a rural village," she 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." "People are still suffering and dying today," she observes. "If Dow does nothing to clean up the huge mess they've created, people will continue to suffer and die." Here are the two things: The Amnesty International club at my school raised $700 for the campaign/hospital. The group effort: There were about eight of us, raised about forty signatures for a petition that we gave to Jackie Barton, telling Dow they need to clean up their act. We also raise about forty signatures for a petition that will be sent to Senator Boxer, one of the California senators asking her to sign onto a letter sent to Dow signed by eighteen other congressmen. Then two days ago, we returned some water from Bhopal to Jackie Barton, one of the Dow board members who lives in Pasadena. She wasn't home, but we left the petition, and a poster made by one of my friends outside her door. Read the article in the Whole Life Times!
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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.