The Victims of Union Carbide in Bhopal, continue to suffer acutely down the generations whilst the the Government of India is trying its best to ensure that the charges against the culprits are reduced so that extradition would not be possible!!

hunger fast

NAGAPATTINAM July 7. Farmers who have taken up kuruvai cultivation with the help of filter points in the delta region are now keeping their fingers crossed following depletion of groundwater table.

More than 30 international aid agencies working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have accused Israel of obstructing their operations to the point that they can no longer fulfil their mandates.

MONDAY, JULY 08, 2002 10:47:09 PM ;The Times of India

The right to life and livelihood is the central issue with unorganised workers as closures and retrenchments have become the order of the day. R. GEETHA writes on a march by such workers, earlier this year.

writes in The Hindu

CPI-M's police brings back the dark '70s in West Bengal,
arresting political dissidents after midnight without warrant,
keeping them without charge and beating them up to
extract names of others.

To the best of our knowledge, there are six objectors currently held in the military prisons of Israel. One of them, Ilan Windholtz, is serving his fourth prison term in a row (which requires especially massive pressure in his case).

COURAGE AND DETERMINATION IN STRUGGLE FORCES THE DICTATORSHIP TO RETREAT

Latvia: the new apartheid

Pictures from the indefinite hunger strike by 3 Bhopal activists, including two women survivors -- Rasheeda Bee and Tara Bai -- and Satinath Sarangi, a long-time Bhopal activist. The hunger strike has entered its 10th day (starting 8 July). The Government is yet to respond.  http://www.indiatogether.org/photo/2002/bhopal-nd.htm

Pressured by Dow Chemical Co, the Indian Government has taken decisions aimed at burying the ongoing saga of suffering of the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal. This has catapulted the Bhopal campaign for justice into an unanticipated emergency. More than anytime else, your support is crucial now.

Three Bhopal activists, including two survivors of Union Carbide's disaster, are on their 9th day of hunger strike to protest two recent decisions that will bury the Bhopal disaster by letting the accused for causing the disaster off the hook, and misappropriate survivors' compensation money for distribution among non-gas-affected people.

Dr. Lev Grinberg is a political analyst, senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, says, President George Bush's speech intensified the plight of the peace supporters in Israel, and in the entire Middle East.

THESE SAME ZIONIST "STATESMEN" HEEDLESSLY PUSH THE WORLD TO THE BRINK OF ANOTHER TOTAL WAR - REVOLVING ENTIRELY AROUND THE HOLY LAND.
 http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/

If Mr. Bush truly understands the "deep anger and despair of the Palestinian people," then he must also understand the occupation must end before anything else can be achieved.

The United States' has a distinct responsibility to intervene in atrocities committed by Israel the single largest recipient of US arms and foreign aid. Israel occupation's end should be TOP concern for ALL Americans.

EFFECTIVE AND CHEAP ALTERNATIVE THERAPY DISCOVERED IN PORTUGAL

babylonicide