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September 23, 2008 at 14:33:43     Permalink Stop DOW Chemical In India -- Send a free fax! Diary Entry by Mark E. Smith (about the author)

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US chemical multinational Dow Chemical, owner of Union Carbide, truly thinks that it is above the law. That, in India it can poison entire communities, causing sickness, cancers, deaths and birth-defects: that it can lie, cheat, bribe and buy off officials and twist politicians round its little finger; that it can terrorize ordinary citizens by calling on its friends in power to visit their homes with brutality.

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We have seen the state act this way while wooing Dow in Nandigram, and Bhopal. Now helped by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, and backed by aggressive sections of the Maharashtra police, Dow is trying to build a chemical experimentation facility in Shinde Vasuli village, near Pune.

In January, villagers dug up the road and stopped construction. In July, when the company attempted to restart construction with police protection, Warkari devotees of a local saint entered and demolished the construction site. A Warkari leader claimed responsibility but the police have cracked down on innocent villagers to intimidate the people of Shinde Vasuli into submission.

With the villagers and the Warkaris determined to ward Dow off, and the Government of Maharashtra bent on helping Dow Chemical, the stage is set for violence. Register your protest against the unconditional support of the Government to Dow Chemical and Union Carbide in Pune, and against the police high-handedness against Shinde-Vasuli villagers NOW by sending a free fax to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra

Click here to send a free fax. Thank you!

The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal

 

 

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