At Crossroads Women’s Centre, 230A Kentish Town Road NW5 (entrance in Caversham Road, nearest tube Kentish Town, fully wheelchair accessible)

with:
·Farah Edwards-Khan, Bhopali survivor and activist, who will speak about her personal experience, and the dynamic actions of Bhopali women survivors, who say: “We are not flowers, we are flames.”
·Claire Glasman, WinVisible (women with visible and invisible disabilities) which since it was founded in 1984 has publicised the Bhopal struggle as part of its fight against discrimination.
·Tim Edwards, International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal
·Anne Jones, mother of Simon Jones who was forced to take casual work on a dockside and was killed aged 24, will send a message of support

Followed by:
Global Women’s Strike Anti-war Community Picket
5.30-7pm Parliament Square SW1
Dedicated on this day to the struggle in Bhopal,and against corporate killing and killing for corporations everywhere (including in Iraq)

·On the night of 2-3 December 1984, a gas cloud from the pesticides plant in Bhopal immediately killed over 8,000 children, women and men. Since then a further 12,000 people have died and at least half a million more have been poisoned. Bhopal is recognised as the world’s worst industrial disaster.

·The company responsible, US multinational Union Carbide, was taken over by Dow Chemical which made napalm and Agent Orange used in Vietnam. Toxic chemicals continue to wash into the land and wells, poisoning new generations. . .

·Years later toxic chemicals are still found in the breast milk of women living near the plant. Dow Chemical says it will not pay for the clean-up of the site.

·Compensation has been very, very hard to get. Only those who have documents to prove their claim have been paid – less than $500 each – about 5p a day – enough to buy a cup of tea in Bhopal. Women have led the fight for compensation and accountability from the company and the Indian government.

·The killing pesticide gas is similar to nerve gas and causes death, disability and devastation on the same scale as that suffered by people, animals and the environment caused by military weapons of mass destruction – depleted uranium in Iraq, Agent Orange in Vietnam and nuclear testing in the Pacific . . .