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Students for Bhopal is supported by chapters of the Association for India's Development, Amnesty International, Sierra Student Coalition, SEAC, and the Campus Greens. Ryan Bodanyi
Why do you believe in justice for Bhopal? Somnath Baidya Roy Why do you believe in justice for Bhopal? Sandhya Banda Why do you believe in justice for Bhopal? Adr!ane Raff Corwin Aquene Freechild When she's not breeding prizewinning oysters or cooking '30 Minute Brownies' in 20 minutes, Aquene helps coordinate the Boston Coalition for Justice in Bhopal, which includes members of the Association for India's Development, Amnesty International, the Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia, and Boston-area student groups. Among other initiatives, the Boston Coalition helped organize a 1500-student protest outside the Indian consulate in New York, demanding justice for Bhopal. Aquene is a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison. There she organized multicultural events for two years with Wisconsin Union Directorate, and also co-founded and coordinated WISPIRG's Big Red, Go Green campus energy campaign. [Email Aquene] Why do you believe in justice for Bhopal? Bridget Hanna
Raghav Kaushik
Why do you believe in justice for Bhopal? Sandesh Samdaria His favorite melon may be the cantaloupe, but don’t let
that mislead you: Sandesh is a force to be reckoned with, and his
passion, his energy, and his desperate commitment to the cause Why do you believe in justice for Bhopal? Shalini Sharma
Why do you believe in justice for Bhopal?
International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal
Satinath Sarangi
About Sathyu: Rachna Dhingra
About Rachna: Nityanand Jayaraman
About Nity: Madhumita Dutta
About Madhu: Gary Cohen
About Gary: Ward Morehouse
Morehouse has written or edited some 20 books, including The Bhopal Tragedy; Abuse of Power: The Social Performance of Multinational Corporations; Worker Empowerment in a Changing Economy; and The Underbelly of the U.S. Economy. He is co-founder of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal and Communities Concerned About Corporations, a network of workers, community activists, victims of industrial disasters, and socially concerned investors fighting corporate power. He is also a member of the regular panel of jurists for the Permanent People’s Tribunal headquartered in Rome. A former academic, Morehouse taught Political Science at New York University and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Lund in Sweden and the Administrative Staff College of India in Hyderabad. He has also been a consultant to various United Nations agencies, including UNESCO, UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization), UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), and the Center on Transnational Corporations. [Email Ward] About Ward:
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Our
Mission Statement
Since
2003, Ryan has worked with students, young people, and cool people
to form “Students for Bhopal” – a student movement
for justice in Bhopal, scene of the world’s worst-ever industrial
disaster. Students from more than 70 colleges, high schools, and
universities around the world are involved in SfB, and their efforts
have been crucial to many of the 
As
a native of Kazakhstan, Somnath has often lived without access to
electricity – a fact which may have contributed, he feels,
to his unusual immunity from the electromagnetic force. Yet Somnath
has chosen to use his powers for good, and not for evil. His research
(at Princeton, Duke, and now at UIUC) focuses on land-atmosphere
interactions - particularly the effect of land change, such as deforestation,
on regional climate and meteorology – drawing the attention
of the 
Sandhya
prefers her martinis shaken, not stirred. Perhaps this isn’t
surprising, given her partnership in one of Seattle’s most
high-powered lawfirms, Banda, Panda, and Lambda. Appearing regularly
as a legal analyst for CNBC, Sandhya also helps coordinate
the 
In
the early 1990s, Adriane developed the plotline for TV’s
The X-Files. Since leaving the hit series, Adr!ane has found
a new passion in the Bhopal movement. In the summer of 2005 and
January of 2006, Adriane spent three months reorganizing the Sambhavna
documentation center in Bhopal, interviewing gas and water survivors,
and conducting centrifugal-force demonstrations for the benefit
of neighborhood youth. Her efforts in the United States have been
no less myrmecological: reforming SfB’s structure as a part
of the Structure Working Group (SWG, or swugg); organizing the first
Dow
and the Indian Government know her variously as "The Terminator
" and "The Nemesis." Her next door neighbors know
her as "The Aquene next door." We know her not as a flower,
but as a flame: a brilliant beacon, driving away the darkness, infusing
herself and her spirit into the campaign and inspiring all of us.
Although
Bridget was born with a gift for languages, it wasn’t until
the age of eight that she first began to play the piano in Spanish.
Now widely revered for her contributions to Spanish pianism, Bridget’s
career is on hold while she pursues a graduate degree from Harvard
University. Her passion for Bhopal also intervened; she first visited
in 2004 while working on Ilan Ziv’s documentary Litigating
Disaster. Since then she’s returned innumerable times,
spending months cataloguing primary documents for the 
One
of the first people in his family to try freeze-dried ice cream,
Raghav was fired from an early age with the desire to bring this
tasty miracle to the rest of humankind. Since completing his bachelor’s
degree in culinary arts at IIT Madras and his doctorate at the University
of Wisconsin, Madison, Raghav’s Freeze-Dried Ice Cream has
become the industry standard, enjoyed by astronauts and land-lovers
alike. Unlike most ice cream magnates, Raghav uses his fame and
fortune to support people’s movements all over the world,
including Bhopal. Since 2004, Raghav has been active in the 
makes
your commitment to locust musical compositions look banal. Despite
his aversion to crustaceans, particularly those from equatorial
regions, Sandesh led the effort in Cincinnati to host the first
annual 
Using
only a toothbrush and a large potato, Shalini once defended her
village singlehandedly against a plague of locusts. While the experience
taught her the value of the starchy tuber, it took her years of
dedicated practice to wield it with skill and precision. Her target?
Corporate criminals, and those who oppress people around the world.
Graduating with a degree in social work from Delhi University, her
special skill quickly found her working for such varied organizations
as Amnesty International, WWF-India, Pravah and the Center for Media
Studies in Delhi. However it wasn’t until October 2006 that
Shalini 
The
Satinath,
aka Sathyu, is a metallurgical engineer turned activist who arrived
in Bhopal a day-after the disaster and stayed on to become a key
figure in the struggle for justice in Bhopal. He is a founding trustee
of the 
Rachna
Dhingra, originally from Delhi, was just six years old when the
world’s worst industrial disaster struck Bhopal in 1984. She
was 18 when she moved to the US with her mother to attend the University
of Michigan; it was there that she first became active in the 
Nityanand
has a degree in electronics engineering, but works as ‘a traveling
journalist’. His work brought him to Bhopal for the first
time 10 years back in 1995. "I did an article on groundwater
contamination and got hooked to the issue." He lives in Chennai
and has since been writing research-based reports on environmental
and human rights issues. "Companies like the UCC and Dow Chemical
are being courted by the country. It means that we, as people, will
have to target Dow through legal and direct actions to hold them
accountable for their crimes. There is no other way that justice
can be delivered to survivors of Bhopal," says Nityanand, or
Nity, as his fellow activists call him. "I don’t travel
much any more, but the Bhopal issue takes me out of Chennai for
a few weeks in a year. Otherwise, I travel to other pollution-impacted
communities in Tamil Nadu and nearby areas." [
Madhu,
with a degree in environmental science, lobbies for the cause with
government officials concerned and provides research-based support
work. She has been involved with issues related to asbestos mining
in Jharkhand and safety of workers ever since she left her job as
a reporter with the Center for Science and Environment (CSE) magazine
Down to Earth. "I wanted to work freely, pick up a
bag and travel. So I left everything and did just that," she
says. What angers her the most is when the government expresses
its helplessness to resolve issues. [
Gary
Cohen is Executive Director of the Environmental Health Fund in
Boston, and a founder and co-Executive Director of 
Ward
Morehouse, author and human rights activist, is President of the
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.