AID logo
Association for India's Development
Austin Chapter
Bhopal History
Resolution
Events
Projects
Donate
Articles
Contact Info
Resources
FAQs
 

 


Compassion wherever there is suffering. Conviction that the compassion is strong enough to eliminate suffering. Courage to make this conviction a reality. This is AID.


BHOPAL CAMPAIGN

"We are not expendable. We are not flowers offered at the altar of profit and power. We are dancing flames committed to conquering darkness and to challenging those who threaten the planet and the magic and mystery of life."
-- Rashida Bee, Bhopal gas leak survivor

REMEMBER BHOPAL

 

 

20,000 KILLED
170,000 SEVERELY AFFECTED
Bhopal Gas Tragedy - Dec. 2-3, 1984


And you thought only weapons could cause mass destruction
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy - 20 Years Later, A Continuing Disaster

Association for India's Development, Austin
invites you to

"REMEMBER BHOPAL"

Date: Dec 2 nd, Satday, 2006

Time: 12:00 to 3:00 PM Die-Ins Observing 22nd Anniversary of Bhopal Disater

Location: Austin Capitol Building


7:00 PM Candle Light Vigil

Location: MLK Statue, East Mall, UT

Photo Journal - Mujhse Dosti Karoge? - prepared by Vijai Gandikota (AID) sent to children in Bhopal.


LATEST NEWS/UPDATES

INTERNATIONAL HUNGER STRIKE CALLED OFF


PRESS CONFERENCE on Bhopal Campaign at UT Campus.
Apr 19, 12:30 pm CPE 2.212

Click here for the press release



AUSTINITES IN RELAY FAST TO EXPRESS SOLIDARITY





EXPRESS YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE BHOPALIS TO THE INDIAN GOVERMENT





PROTEST AGAINST THE OUTRAGEOUS AND SHAMEFUL ARREST OF PEACEFULLY MARCHING BHOPALIS



Resolution in support of Disassociation of the University of Texas at Austin from Dow Chemical Company

Bhopal resolution AR 3 was voted unanimously in favor by the Graduate Student Assembly of the UT, Austin in the debate.
Bhopal resolution AR 26 was voted in favor by the Student Government of the UT, Austin in the debate.
The final vote was YES-21, NO-13, ABSTAIN-0.

MARCH TO DELHI
More than 130 Bhopal survivors began their march on foot to New Delhi on February 20, demanding justice and a life of dignity for those affected by the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster and those poisoned since by ground water contaminated with Carbide chemicals. The march is the biggest and most important action ever organized by the Bhopal campaign.
Support Bhopalis marching to Delhi.

 

 

SUPPORT THE BHOPALIS MARCHING TO DELHI

3rd December 1984
Shortly after midnight poison gas leaked from a factory in Bhopal, India, owned by the Union Carbide Corporation. There was no warning, none of the plant's safety systems were working. In the city people were sleeping. They woke in darkness to the sound of screams with the gases burning their eyes, noses and mouths. They began retching and coughing up froth streaked with blood. Whole neighbourhoods fled in panic, some were trampled, others convulsed and fell dead. People lost control of their bowels and bladders as they ran. Within hours thousands of dead bodies lay in the streets.
Compassion wherever there is suffering. Conviction that the compassion is strong enough to eliminate suffering. Courage to make this conviction a reality. This is AID.