Bhopal activists bring case to City Hall

TitleBhopal activists bring case to City Hall
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AbstractOn Tuesday, activists from the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal, including two disaster survivors, appealed to Houston City Council Members to protect local communities from potential accidents like the 1984 disaster.
Notes'Campaign coordinator Krishnaveni Gundu:\n\"The people of Houston, the people of Texas, they should understand that these companies that the products that they make - the chemicals and the toxins they use to make these products - how dangerous they are. The first question to this company should be \'What is the treatment procedure for any exposure, such as Bhopal?\' They have never released this information, what is the guarantee that they would release this information to an American community that happened here. And they are also saying that people should demand that Dow Chemical should accept their legal responsibilities and their moral responsibilities in Bhopal. They should clean up the contamination in Bhopal, because if they don\'t show to the world that they\'re a responsible company, then how can an American citizen here trust them? What is the guarantee that they would not do this here?\"\n - brcostelloekuehn' 'Campaign for Justice coordinator Krishnaveni Gundu disagreed:\n\"Well the Council\'s reaction was that it is not their jurisdiction. And I thought that\'s really sad, because the kind of toxins and poisons these companies put into the environment, they don\'t know any jurisdiction. These poisons don\'t know any jurisdiction. And these are persistent organic pollutants, which means they\'ll never ever, ever leave the planet. I mean they will just travel up from the water and soil and into plants and into the food chain and right into your bodies and be deposited into your fat tissue, which is exactly what is happening now to the people of Bhopal.\"\n - brcostelloekuehn'
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