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Pressuring Dow Boardmember Willie Davis Willie D. Davis, a Dow Board member since 1988, resides in the Los Angeles area, and students from Occidental have unsuccessfully attempted to set up a meeting with him to discuss the Bhopal disaster. Clayton Perry, one of the leading campaigners at Occidental, reported that Davis "didn't want to meet so I left a letter, some of the fact sheets, and some of the photos in an envelope on his doorstep. The next day I called his office and had like a 30 minute conversation with his personal secretary, basically just me yakking about the atrocities. At the end I told her to tell him that if he chooses not to respond to this he could expect demonstrations at his house and office. That night I got a call from 'Dwayne' who I think was probably a lawyer." Clayton repeated his demands to 'Dwayne', but the call was inconclusive. Although Clayton hasn't staged his demonstrations, he hasn't gotten his meeting yet either, which, he says, makes him think that maybe it is time for a few demonstrations...more soon.
Pressuring Dow Boardmember Jackie Barton On December 10th, 2004, five students from Occidental were joined by students from CalTech as they passed out flyers on the CalTech campus, which described the Bhopal disaster and calling on Jackie Barton, one of Dow's Board members and a Professor at CalTech, to agree to the Bhopal survivors demands and to work within Dow to make sure that the company accepts responsibility for the Bhopal disaster. “If we can influence them to give the people of Bhopal justice and humane treatment, that will be a huge leap forward,” Perry notes. “I love what I do.” Read the article in the Whole Life Times!
Bhopal Teach-in Students at Occidental College in Los Angeles have been educating their fellow students about the tragedy of Bhopal. They sponsored a teach-in and documentary screening on their own campus, and several students attended the talk by Nity Jayaraman, a longtime Bhopal activist from India, at CalTech.
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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
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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.