Sitting In (1991) history of the 1979 #UnionCarbide #strike and #occupation at #Altona, Victoria,
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/570657
Barry Hill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Hill_(Australian_writer)
#labormovement #Sitdown #solidarity #strikes #workingclasshistory
"...between 100K and 200K still suffer from a laundry list of serious chronic conditions: reduced breathing capacity and vision, damaged immunity systems, joint pains, neurological disorders, kidney diseases, cancers (...) The incidence of children with intellectual and physical disabilities born to mothers who’d been exposed to MIC is 7 times higher than that of non-exposed mothers." #Asia #SouthAsia #Bhopal #UnionCarbide #DowChemical #Justice cc: @mekongreview @kixes https://mekongreview.com/bhopal-forty-years-on/
⬆️ @solownh
>> #Russia... if you're listening...
I hope they are not listening. Otherwise, they will try to build #Chernobyl-like plants in the most densely populated areas of #USA, and #Trump will approve those projects.
I KNOW this can happen, because it has happened before when #UnionCarbide, a #US company did just that in #Bhopal, #India in the eighties and killed 15,000 people in a metro area in one night 😱
🔥 Watch #TheRailwayMen on #Netflix 🔥
Bhopal Gas Tragedy: 40 Years After Unloading of Waste Starts in Dhar
https://www.indiaweekly.biz/bhopal-gas-tragedy-waste-disposal-dhar/
Bhopal gas tragedy: Toxic waste from deadly leak fuels protests in India
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c863jy00430o
Union Carbide waste: Video shows ‘black’ water from borewell; officials collect samples
To dispel any fear, the district administration visited the area near Pithampur town, and water samples from the borewell and nearby drain have been collected.....This was originally posted on India Weekly. Read the detailed report here:
https://www.indiaweekly.biz/union-carbide-waste-disposal-water-pollution/
#UnionCarbide #WasteDisposal #WaterPollution #Pollution #madhyapradesh #India #UK #USA #Pithampur
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy was the biggest industrial disaster, happened in the Union Carbide factory in 1984. None of the Union Carbide or Dow Chemicals officials were tried or punished, in spite of killing 3000+ people.
Even after 40 years after the incident, Bhopal is still struggling with the toxic waste and water and soil contamination. Union Carbide has no responsibility in cleaning up the mess or finding a solution. This is how Capitalism works!
#US government played a big role to protect the #UnionCarbide officials.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/02/india-toxic-waste-removal-bhopal-disaster-site-dismissed-as-farce
337 tons sounds like a lot, but the truth is that it is only a tiny fraction of the toxic waste that is still out there.
#NuclearColonialism v. #RedPower
"The world has no shortage of #PoliticalPrisoners – or of environmental martyrs and heroes– but 80-year-old #LeonardPeltier, a #Lakota and #Anishinaabe AIM member, is arguably the most famous, the legal lynching he underwent so outrageous, and his incarceration in a 'maximum security' prison so protracted. Even former FBI agents have themselves essentially contended that Pelter was scapegoated by the FBI for the lethal shooting of two agents–Jack Coler and Ronald Williams– on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Michael Apted’s 1992 documentary Incident at Oglala, narrated by Robert Redford, is a good place to start if you’re new to this history. But if you’re looking for insights into the role that #UraniumMining played in the conflict, you’d be better off checking out #PeterMatthiessen’s book #InTheSpiritOfCrazyHorse: Leonard Peltier and the #FBI’s War on The #AmericanIndian ovement. To hear a first-hand account, check out Peltier’s memoir #PrisonWritings: My Life Is My Sun Dance.
"Despite well-documented prosecutorial misconduct powerfully depicted in Apted’s documentary, Peltier’s conviction has yet to be overturned. And in the face of decades of global, high-profile pleas for clemency for Peltier, including by James Reynolds, a “senior US attorney who was involved in [his] prosecution,” no president up until now has been willing to free Peltier. Given that he’s in increasingly poor health, time is running out, and the same president who just pardoned his own son may be Peltier’s last shot at clemency. If you haven’t yet done so, check out the Amnesty International petition– and Amy Goodman’s and Denis Moynihan’s recent column–making the case for his release. The Red Nation media collective also has an extensive playlist of podcasts focused on Peltier’s case and the long struggle to free him.
"Peltier, arguably the world’s most visible casualty of nuclear colonialism, was only three years into his sentence when Santee Dakota organizer John Trudell, his contemporary in AIM, delivered a searing 1980 speech at the Black Hills International Survival Gathering. As Zoltan Grossman has documented, 'Multinational mining companies, such as #UnionCarbide and #Exxon, proposed the development of the #BlackHills for energy resources, including #coal mines, #uranium mines, and coal slurry #pipelines.' The Black Hills gathering brought together a global convergence of more than 10,000 Indigenous activists and non-Native allies to hold the line against a repeat of the 1950s, which, per Grossman, had 'result[ed] in the extensive irradiation of the southern Black Hills community of #Edgemont.'"
Read more:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/11/tis-the-season-to-talk-climate-collapse-nuclear-colonialism-and-freeing-leonard-peltier/
#FreeLeonardPeltier #ClemencyForLeonardPeltier #ACAB #AmnestyForLeonardPeltier #SilencingDissent #NoUraniumMining
⬆️ >> 40 years ago, #UnionCarbide went to #Bhopal, #India and killed 15,000 people in a single MIC gas leak… Also, any guess which land areas #Trump will target for #EEE? Which areas have populations whose lives are cheapest and easily expendable?
Hope I'm wrong, but instead of gassing train-loads of people at a time, can #DOGE show merciless efficiency, and destroy/cleanse undesirable areas on a massive scale? Oops?
DOGE = Destruction of Government & Environment
⬆️ >> 40 years ago, #UnionCarbide went to #Bhopal, #India and killed 15,000 people in a single MIC gas leak. Now they won't have to go far.
Definitely watch #TheRailwayMen on #Netflix, especially if you've never heard of the Dec 1984 Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal that killed 15,000 people ➡️ https://www.netflix.com/title/81711003
Also, any guess which land areas #Trump will target for #EEE? Which areas have populations whose lives are cheapest and easily expendable?
#OSHA will be NoShow soon.
⬆️ @GreenFire
That's pure #inflation, er, #priceGouging. Used to be half million dollars for #entrepreneurVisa. After all immigration restrictions were always for the poor, never for the rich.
#Trump will offer #EEE #ExpeditedEnvironmentalEntitlements for $1+Billion.
And in the name of efficiency, #Musk will lead #DOGE — Destruction of Government & Environment.
40 years ago, #UnionCarbide went to #Bhopal, #India and killed 15,000 people in a single MIC gas leak. Now they won't have to go far
Bhopal gas leak disaster 40 years on: Search for corporate accountability after tragedy - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV8e115cwBY
See here for background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
#YesMen Hoax on #BBC Reminds World of #DowChemical’s Refusal to Take Responsibility for #Bhopal Disaster
https://www.democracynow.org/2004/12/6/yes_men_hoax_on_bbc_reminds
Lessons
1 Paranoia is seldom a good idea
2 The media will have their own story, but you can shape it
3 The only story you can count on lasting is the one you tell
4 If you must lie (and you must), lie honorably
5 A campaign takes a long time to win; one action is just a small part of it
6 Take your lead from movements you respect
