This chronicle of the multifaceted Bhopal campaign against two of
the world's most powerful chemical corporations, Union Carbide and
Dow Chemical Co. (which now owns Union Carbide), parallels the
emergence of public understanding of environmental safety and
corporate accountability that Bhopal helped to create.Written at
the 20th anniversary, the Reader includes primary source documents
of this evolution. In 1984, the deadly pesticide used in Bhopal and
in the United States was hailed by agro-business as part of its
"revolution." A valuable reference text for industrial accidents
and corporate crimes as well as a handbook for research, prevention
and activism, the collection includes gripping first person stories
of some of the 200,000 permanently-injured survivors, activists,
journalists, scientists, doctors, government and corporate
officials. This anthology brings together never-before published
testimonies, archival documents translated from Hindi, legal and
scientific evidence and commentary, social analysis, even corporate
perspectives on liability, and web debates, with comprehensive
introductions for each aspect of the disaster. The Bhopal Reader
documents forces that are even now bringing Bhopali women to the
very doors of the corporation in protest. Some 21 years later, the
drinking water is contaminated because Union Carbide never cleaned
up its abandoned factory with bags of stored chemicals, causing
genetic damage to yet another generation from the deadly methyl
isocyanate (MIC) gas. The book reports on the international Bhopal
campaign being waged today by survivors, activists, lawyers,
doctors - in India, the U.S., Britain and elsewhere around the
world - for compensation for all the Bhopal victims. It takes its
readers across continents, into newspapers, television stations,
websites, courtrooms, shareholders annual meetings, campuses, and
chemical plants. The Bhopal Reader presents a valuable case study
of the complexities of fighting for justice in a world increasingly
overrun by the politics of corporate rule under globalization. Its
voices herald the dialogues that will dominate this new century and
The Bhopal Reader is the indispensable guide to understanding them.
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