FEATURED ARTICLES
- Bhopal Express: Lessons on corporate governance, Times Of India
- NEW MASS STUDENT MOVEMENT BUILDING AGAINST DOW CHEMICAL
- More than 16,000 Gather Ft. Benning, Georgia in Opposition to the SOA
- Thirteen anti-SOA Human Rights Defenders to Face Trial
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day."
- - Robert Nesta Marley
KNOW YOUR HISTORY - DECEMBER 3rd
1980 -- Yesterday, 3 U.S. Maryknoll nuns & a lay missionary were raped,
murdered & buried in a field in El Salvador by US trained troops. Today,
the Reagan administration goes into immediate denial & coverup. Secretary
of State General Alexander Haig suggests the nuns provoked the incident,
running a roadblock in Marxist jeeps, & were shot trying to flee. The FBI
& CIA report this is a total fabrication. Two decades later relatives &
friends are still trying to get the truth.
1984 -- In Bhopal, India, a Union Carbide pesticide plant leaks a cloud of
poisonous methyl isocyanate gas aloft. Up to 10,000 people die, some
50,000 are sickened with devastating after effects for years to follow.
The U.S. government continues to block extradition of Union Carbide
officials facing criminal prosecution in India. Executive privilege?
Weapons Of Mass Destruction?
RHINO SEZ:
That you haven't had any bloggings from The Rhino in awhile is
not because the shrub gang hauled me off, nor was it cause the internet was
acting up. I've just needed a break & some time to consider my options
for blows against the empire in the coming 4 years. I'll be blogging less and
inconsistently until early next year but don't anyone thing the horned on=
e has given up or gone right. My bumper sticker & my slogan for the holiday
season is, "WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB?"
As to the title of this blog issue, "Terrorists In Suits," I offer
today 2 links concerning each of 2 topics whereof American based financial
interests have been responsible for the killings of thousands of innocent civilians.
The first being Union
Carbide's (now owned by Dow Chemical) mass destruction
and mass killing in Bhopal, Indian 20 years ago today, and the huge student
movement going on here in the US to bring at least some of those responsible
to justice.
The second concerns the ongoing struggle to close The
School Of The Americas,
where the US Government (with US Taxpayer dollars) has been training Latin
American military in the arts of interrogation & torture for decades. Two
weekends ago, a record 16,000 liberation theologists & good old patriotic
Americans turned out to voice their outrage about this key hypocrisy of US
foreign policy.
In both cases, there are ways each of us can help the struggle.
Until next time, Rhino sez, "Keep the faith!"
(o/)(o/)(o/)
Bhopal Express
Lessons on corporate governance two decades after the tragedy
The Times Of India, December 03, 2004
Twenty years ago, Bhopal choked over methyl isocynate fumes from the Union
Carbide India Limited (UCIL) factory. According to the Madhya Pradesh Gas Relief
and Rehabilitation Department, over 15,000 lost their lives and 550,000 suffered
serious injuries. The Supreme Court awarded a compensation package of $470
million in 1989, based on estimates of 3,000 dead and 15,000 injured. The judgment
absolved UCIL and its parent company in the US, Union Carbide Corporation
(UCC), of criminal liability and appointed the Indian government as the sole
representative of the victims, thereby ruling out individual suits against
UCC and UCIL. Neither the Centre nor the state government has acted sincerely
in that capacity. The Centre dragged its feet over carrying out a comprehensive
medical survey, as a result of which documentation of medical disorders, crucial
to establishing the corporate's guilt, remains inadequate. Former UCC chief
Warren Andersen, charged for culpable homicide, remains an absconder from Bhopal
courts for a decade, yet it is learnt that the then state government did not
try to hold him back when he was here...
MORE: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/944319.cms
(o/)(o/)(o/)
NEW MASS STUDENT MOVEMENT BUILDING AGAINST DOW CHEMICAL:
LARGEST SINCE THE VIETNAM WAR
The International Campaign For Justice In Bhopal, 12/3/04
Students from more than 60 colleges, universities, and high schools worldwide
have organized events this week to mark the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal
disaster, and to demand that Dow Chemical resolve its legal and moral responsibilities
for the Hiroshima of the chemical industry. The events, organized by
Students for Bhopal, Association for India's Development (AID) chapters,
the Campus Greens and the Environmental Justice Program of the Sierra Student
Coalition (SSC), represent the first mass student movement Dow has faced
since its production of Agent Orange and Napalm during the Vietnam War...
LOTS MORE AT: http://www.bhopal.net
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More than 16,000 Gather Ft. Benning, Georgia in Opposition to the
SOA/WHINSEC!
School Of The Americas Watch, 12/03/04
Over 16,000 people from across the
Americas - including actors Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon and George Wendt
and musician Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls - gathered this weekend outside
the gates of Ft. Benning, Georgia in the largest and most diverse demonstration
yet of opposition to the School of the Americas/ WHINSEC! The gathering culminated
on Sunday with a solemn funeral procession to the gates of Fort Benning.
Fifteen people were arrested in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, many
negotiating a 10-foot-high barbed-wire fence to enter the base. They took this
action despite knowing they likely face 3-6 months in federal prison...
MUCH MORE AT: http://www.soaw.org/new
(o/)(o/)(o/)
Thirteen anti-SOA Human Rights Defenders to Face Trial in Federal Court in
January 2005
School Of The Americas Watch, 12/03/04
Thirteen people arrested
at Fort Benning, Georgia on November 21, 2004 calling for the closure of the
SOA/ WHINSEC will face trials in federal court on January 24, 2004. Ten arrestees
were released from custody after a night in jail on $1,000 bond; one, a Georgia
resident, was released on $500 bond; one, Ed Lewinson, was not charged; and
one, 79-year-old Tom MacLean, initially refused to pay bond but was released
on his own recognizance this week and will appear in court on January 24. Two
minors arrested on the base were not charged...
YOU CAN HELP AT: http://www.soaw.org/new
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