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Bhopal: 20 years on

03-12-2004 14:33 | Health | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Bhopal Victim

The Bhopal Disaster of 1984 killed thousands of people in the Indian city of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. It was caused by the accidental release of forty tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) from a Union Carbide pesticide plant located in the heart of the city. This event remains the worst industrial disaster in history with significant injuries to at least 50,000 people.

The MIC leak began shortly after midnight on December 3, 1984. The vapors killed more than 2,000 people outright and injured anywhere from 150,000 to 600,000 others, some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries.

To commemorate the lives lost in the disaster Sheffield Indymedia has arranged for a screening of the film Bhopal Express to be shown at 6:30pm Sunday 5th December at The Showroom Cinema in Sheffield with all proceeds from the film to be donated to the Bhopal Medical Appeal.

Indymedia India has a number of articles about the disaster: Fast for clean up of Bhopal Factory Site | Cloud over Bhopal | Students at 60 Colleges on Five Continents Demand Justice

See also: Wikipedia: Bhopal Disaster | Website of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal | Website of Students for Bhopal, the student network for justice in Bhopal

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Martin Shaw leaves hospital after one month

06-07-2003 11:44 | Evian G8 | Health | Repression | World

Aubonne Bridge- Gesine
Martin Shaw, who has been injured during a non violent direct action at the Anti-G8 Protests in Lausanne, near Evian, has been released from hospital.
In a press conference, new video material was presented, which demonstrated the neglicence of the police at the scene.



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Women on Waves - Fighting for the Right of Abortion

27-06-2003 00:00 | Gender | Health | Repression | World

warsaw - women on waves
The ship from "Women on Waves" (WOW, polish: Kobiety na Falach), arrived the 22nd of june in the harbour of Wladyslawowo. Polish women organisations celebrated the arrival of the floating abortion clinic. Beforehand the landing of the ship was prevented by the authorities.
At the same time abortion enemies attacked the ship with eggs, bottles and stones. The authorities have searched the ship and sealed all drugs.

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Text video from 2006 World Indigenous Uranium Summit
16-06-2008 21:41

Audio Dialect - Tsunami relief work in southern India
16-06-2008 03:03

Text Lyme Disease and Plague Combined in Biowar Vaccine
15-06-2008 13:27

Text ALF target farming union offices over badger cull
13-06-2008 19:27 | 1 addition | 3 comments

Text US,Russian or Chinese military EMF kills dolphins
12-06-2008 14:53 | 4 comments

Image Novartis Global Week of Action Roundup
11-06-2008 14:28 | 1 comment

Image Lord Chancellor Jack Straw The Moral Dilemma Is Closer To Home?
10-06-2008 23:19

Text Oxford University desperate for money (£1.25 billion of it!)
07-06-2008 14:54 | 3 comments

Image 2 Million PETA Members Continue Heat on KFC after Victory With KFC Canada
04-06-2008 13:15 | 2 comments

Text Remember the 37
01-06-2008 13:26

Text Letter to Amnesty International
26-05-2008 08:45

Image HFE safe science or GM, eugenics, cloning& chimera bill?
22-05-2008 08:00 | 2 comments

Image "HFE" gm, eugenics, cloning chimera bill
21-05-2008 19:23

Text Last Primate Lab in Austria to Close!
15-05-2008 19:43 | 2 comments

Image Can Scottish Fungi Really Eliminate Depleted Uranium In Soil?
12-05-2008 12:02 | 10 comments

Text UK: Food Standards Cover-up of Aspartame Toxicity
11-05-2008 00:36 | 1 comment

Text Pandemic response plan: let the elderly, the sick, and the poor die
08-05-2008 17:20 | 2 comments

Text Last Chance to Shut the Door on GM Human Beings,ACT NOW!
06-05-2008 16:31

Image Free Binayak Sen Film Festival
03-05-2008 19:13

Image Appeal to observe one year of Dr. Binayak Sen’s unjust detention
03-05-2008 19:06

Image Massive side effects of TRASYLOL known for a long time
30-04-2008 18:11

Image SHAC National March & Rally at Novartis Primate Research Centre
22-04-2008 16:58

Text (BAYER) Questions about Trasylol Since 1963
21-04-2008 21:16

Image Sciencelink animal lab has been abandoned
21-04-2008 16:24 | 1 comment

Text HIV Protesters Beaten When Trying to Protest in Front of China's Premier
16-04-2008 03:02

Audio Indy Global Report from Bethlehem, on Resonance FM104.4 14 April
14-04-2008 14:36

Image Cannabis Campaigners Complain about Spinning Brains
11-04-2008 10:44 | 1 comment

Text Nude torch run against Olympic flame in San Fran, April 9th
07-04-2008 13:48 | 1 comment

Image Message of Support on Abortion Rights .
03-04-2008 14:33 | 1 comment

Text 28 Million Americans On Food Stamps $25 a Week ($1 per meal)
02-04-2008 20:56

Video Interview at the Solidarity Vigil Camp Tara!!
28-03-2008 15:51

Image Dengue fever epidemic in Rio de Janeiro (by Latuff)
26-03-2008 13:19

Video M3 Motorway destroys Rath Lugh Ancient Monument
22-03-2008 20:12 | 1 comment

Text Talking About Cannabis ... Time to bring 'em down
19-03-2008 11:24 | 3 comments

Image Rally for Dignity and Democracy, London 8 March
09-03-2008 18:14

Text National Drug Prevention Alliance Funded by Child Abusers!
02-03-2008 23:33

Text Support Bhopal Survivors
23-02-2008 19:08

Text US Government Agency Denounces Animal Testing
16-02-2008 00:37 | 1 comment

Text Keep Norwegian farm from publicly murdering Knerten the Pig
09-02-2008 16:47 | 2 comments

Image What a load of rubbish
09-02-2008 06:14

Text UCLA Vivisector Gets Return Visit from ALF
07-02-2008 22:21 | 4 comments

Text Re Secretary of State for Health Alan Johnson's release on water fluoridation
06-02-2008 20:59

Text Can YOU Scupper this Unjust Deportation in Just Three Clicks ?
06-02-2008 11:33 | 1 comment

Text Act Against Iraq Poverty (Updated)
05-02-2008 13:16 | 3 comments

Text Press Release: Act Against Iraq Poverty
02-02-2008 13:30

Text US Patents for HIV AIDS and Patent for CURE
02-02-2008 11:08 | 2 comments

Text Midsummer House – Diseased Meat, Taking Public Land and Animal Cruelty
29-01-2008 21:15

Text Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq
28-01-2008 16:27

Image Billboards Subverted + Vehicles Trashed at Oxford Uni Supplier
26-01-2008 16:23

Text Palestinian Demo Wales
22-01-2008 23:30

Text Midsummer House - A Rainy Day at the Diseased Liver Restaurant
21-01-2008 22:54

Text liber tea, egali tea, fraterni tea, eterni tea etc
13-01-2008 15:59 | 1 comment

Generic media a miracle plant that can save the earth
13-01-2008 15:23

Text Midsummer House Sells Diseased Liver – Demo Report
12-01-2008 22:54 | 1 comment

Image Latest raids and direct action
08-01-2008 16:30

Text NHS kills theatre nurse, Husband to be deported after inquest
07-01-2008 23:04

Text McDonald's celebrates 25 years in Lincoln
07-01-2008 12:43

Image Wastwater - Nuclear Twist
06-01-2008 00:27

Text Big Pharma spends more on marketing than R&D
04-01-2008 11:36

Text Holiday Season Hypocrisy
23-12-2007 20:47

Text Severe food shortages, price spikes threaten world population
23-12-2007 16:11 | 3 comments

Audio Bristol podcast - Stop Hinkley Nukes & Merry Christmas All
15-12-2007 22:19

Text Omaha mall killer Robert Hawkins HAD taken ritalin and ZOLOFT in the past:
15-12-2007 04:10 | 2 comments

Image Scottish Financial Enterprise “Houseboat Picton Was Everything We Ever Had!"
12-12-2007 16:24

Text Depleted-Uranium, Nuclear War and the politics of Radiation: Read and act NOW
01-12-2007 05:44

Text Iraq: Looking Back: 'Internationally Sponsored Genocide'
28-11-2007 18:55

Text Midsummer House – Fighting Back for the Animals!
24-11-2007 23:43

Text pandemics flu's crossover from the meat industry
23-11-2007 11:58

Text Happiness and the Self-Growing Seed
22-11-2007 15:28

Text Health Select Committee (NZ) Request Aspartame (951) Submission
20-11-2007 00:00

Text False Reporting by Incompetent Social Workers
09-11-2007 16:12

Image (BAYER) Twaiwan, Hemophiliacs await justice
09-11-2007 11:25 | 1 comment

Image Ding - Rooley Moor, valuing our South Pennine habitats and biodiversity
07-11-2007 18:09 | 2 comments

Text Saudi embassy demo report: over 7000 lashes'sentence' for gay men.
23-10-2007 16:49

Text World Peace by 2015 : According to Harvey?
19-10-2007 02:49

Image Giving
12-10-2007 12:55 | 11 comments

Text Rotter (rotten) dam
26-09-2007 14:04

Text ‘Lancet’ report, meat = environmental threat!
14-09-2007 23:02

Text IRAQ: Between Dealers and Death Squads
10-09-2007 16:35

Text !950's Uncle Sam Revisited Newly Reconstructed for a Contemporary Audience.
09-09-2007 21:43

Text Fueling rising alcoholism in Iraq
07-09-2007 22:39

Text Occupation creates disaster in Iraq
05-09-2007 20:48 | 1 comment

Text Radiation Experts: The Next War will Endanger the Planet
03-09-2007 11:21

Text MMR and Freedom of Information
01-09-2007 14:55 | 17 comments

Text Hospital refuses transfer of Palestinian girl
30-08-2007 21:05

Text Dr Andrew Wakefield, the MMR vaccine and toxic chemicals
25-08-2007 02:00 | 2 additions | 30 comments

Text Iraq Trauma: "children grow up, people grow old"
17-08-2007 10:19

Text December 15 2003
13-08-2007 00:17

Text drug use and Barry Bonds
10-08-2007 08:40 | 2 comments

Text Foot in Mouth : Porton Down - as biosecure as Pirbright
09-08-2007 11:26 | 2 comments

Image Britain: Recruiting Kids to Kill
02-08-2007 19:31 | 5 comments

Text The Bottled Water Lie (it's just tap water)
01-08-2007 21:48 | 1 comment

Text Iraq “Violence has destroyed my family”
01-08-2007 20:40

Image Asbestos campaigners support call for investigation into PPG Group
01-08-2007 13:45 | 2 comments

Image Chem-trails NOT Contrails!
31-07-2007 11:08 | 6 comments

Image Gloria Arroyo's Economy: Not Working
28-07-2007 01:22

Text Iraqi children suffer psychological damage
18-07-2007 16:11

Image Canadian Doctors Exposed!!!
17-07-2007 15:46 | 1 comment

Text Alimta approved by NICE for asbestos cancer mesothelioma
09-07-2007 00:34

Text Lyme Survey and Cases
07-07-2007 14:58

Text The German State Wants To Abandon A Political Prisoner To Death!
04-07-2007 13:41

Text New Strain of Superbug Discovered
25-06-2007 17:19 | 1 comment

Text Aussies blockade cyanide train
03-06-2007 11:39

Image For the deaf who won't listen...
24-05-2007 14:35 | 1 comment

Text The Hidden Pollution Issue
23-05-2007 00:57 | 1 comment

Image The US war and occupation of Iraq—the murder of a society—Part two
21-05-2007 21:31 | 1 addition | 3 comments

Image Australia: 1 in 8 kids exposed to INDULGENCE: study?
21-05-2007 00:15 | 2 comments

Text Meningitis vaccine linked to ME in Norway concerns investigators in New Zealand
17-05-2007 03:03 | 6 comments

Image As Labour fiddles M.E. patients suffer and die
14-05-2007 16:46 | 3 comments

Image Ignored by the left…
07-05-2007 16:03 | 10 comments

Text global marijuana march: 14 held in moscow
06-05-2007 18:26

Image NZ parents retain right to smack children?
02-05-2007 13:02 | 6 comments

Image UK Refuses Entry to Lancet Iraq Death Toll Study Author
01-05-2007 12:02 | 3 comments

Image Australian ALP to vote on uranium mines policy
28-04-2007 00:20 | 6 comments

Text McDonalds vegan protest picnic
10-04-2007 23:36 | 9 comments

Text NCPA: Corporate Profits - Supercede Cancer Care Needs
04-04-2007 23:11

Text Swiss Court Ruling Allows Euthanasia For Mentally Ill
03-04-2007 17:11 | 3 comments

Image “Commercial interests must take second place to protection of the population’s h
03-04-2007 11:38

Image Cadmium causes Cancer.
29-03-2007 14:42 | 3 comments

Generic media 4th Anniversary of Depleted Uranium used in Iraq arriving in the UK
27-03-2007 19:32

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