Kids go after Bhopal fugitive Union Carbide CEO

Akash Mehta,12, and brother Gautama,15, founders of Kids For A Better Future try to hand deliver extradition warrants to Union Carbide lawyers of former CEO Warren Anderson and other former Union Carbide management for criminal responsibility releasing in Bhopal December 3, 1984 40 tons of very toxic cyanide compound methyl isocyanate that has so far killed over 15,000, injured more than 500,000, and poisoned water and land that continues to cause birth defects and serious disease. They were turned away by security guards. India's courts have tried those responsible while in absence and given them lenient sentences but which have not been served, the perps preferring to forfeit their minimal bail. The kids are joined by their grownup friend Brian Mooney a cultural anthropologist who has studied the disaster and compares it in scale to the current BP mess. Union Carbide's assets and liabilities were bought out by Dow Chemical in 2001 who then claimed they are not responsible for a factory they did not operate. Organized by Kids for a Better Future: http://www.kidsforabetterfuture.org/ International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal: www.bhopal.net/ www.studentsforbhopal.org/ and Wetlands Activism Collective: www.wetlands-preserve.org/
camera, edit: Joe Friendly

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• Gautama
• Kids for a Better Future
• Wetlands Activism Collective
• environment
• pesticides
• environmental Justice
• toxics
• birth defects

[a4nak8r]

It's business as usual for the death bringing chemical companies like Dow Chemical and Monsanto. What a bunch of heartless greedy mofos!! They're only god is money.

My heart goes out to the many many victims of Bhopal.