A virtual 'sit-in' has been going on this week (ending 17th March) on the Dow Chemical companies web site. This was in protest to the fact that Dow Chemical have been to court this week in India. Not as the defendants for their ongoing responsibility for the Bhopal disaster, but as the plaintiffs: Dow is suing the Survivors of the disaster for protesting at a Dow plant, and they are demanding US $10,000 from them (about 10 years of wages at local rates)
After the 1984 gas leak, which has killed 20,000 people to date, Union Carbide abandoned the factory site and fled India. For 18 years since, the toxic wastes left by Union Carbide have been bleeding poisons into the groundwater and affecting the health of the people living near the factory. Dow merged with Union Carbide in 2001 and paid up for Union Carbide's asbestos liabilities, but it refuses to do the same for Bhopal.