Posts Tagged ‘2012 Olympics’
Aug 11 2012 by Jade in Brighton
Campaigners in London yesterday paid a early morning visit to Dow executives who were staying in the Mayfair Four Seasons Hotel to demonstrate that London does not want to play any part …
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Jul 25 2012 by Jade in Brighton
PRESS RELEASE Olympic Protesters Arrested for Spilling Custard Campaigners condemn heavy-handed policing of Greenwash Gold Award ceremony A mock awards ceremony at the Olympic Clock in Trafalgar Square descended into farce today …
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Jul 24 2012 by Jade in Brighton
PRESS RELEASE Five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal will jointly organize “Bhopal Special Olympics” on July 26, a day ahead of the London Olympics to …
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Jul 12 2012 by Jade in Brighton
Yesterday, Wednesday 11th July 2012, a motion was passed by the London Assembly which condemned Dow Chemical and its’ role in the aftermath of the Bhopal Disaster. The International Olympic Committee …
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Jun 12 2012 by Jade in Brighton
Amnesty International has mailed all of its members asking them to take part in their ‘Don’t Dow It’ campaign, opposing Dow’s olympic sponsorship, and we hope that you may be keen to …
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May 2 2012 by Jade in Brighton
The International Campaign for Justice (ICJB) in Bhopal North America condemns in the strongest terms Dow Chemical’s sponsorship of the London 2012 Summer Olympics. The London Olympics Committee forgot, or rather deliberately …
Tags: 2012 Olympics, Bhopal activists, Bhopal Gas Disaster, bhopal medical appeal, David Cameron, DOW Chemical, Inidian Government, International Campaign for Justice Bhopal, locog, london 2012, meredith alexander, methylisocyanate, union carbide, wikileaks
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Apr 2 2012 by Jade in Brighton
On Friday 30th activists supporting survivors of the 1984 gas disaster gathered in London to tell the London Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympics Games (LOCOG) to ‘Drop Dow Now.’ Activists …
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