FILMS FROM BHOPAL AND FRIENDS OF BHOPAL

 

MR DAMORE GOES TO LANSING
Brilliant 5 minute short about how Dow Chemical poisoned the Tittibawassee river with dioxin- the most toxic substance known to humanity - and how elected Michigan politicians, all ex-Dow staffers, helped cover it up. (large WMV file)

     
     
 

DIANE WILSON NEWS VIDEO
Diane explains why she is refusing to go to jail until Carbide ex-CEO Warren Anderson returns to India to face criminal homicide charges. Made by Sanford Lewis. Click here, or on the picture to watch the video.

   
  Bhopal Express
Mahesh Mathai's award-winning cult classic is now viewable online from Bhopal.FM. BHOPAL EXPRESS is the charming and heartbreaking story of a romance set against the deep tragedy of the Union Carbide gas disaster of 1984. Featuring memorable performances from Naseeruddin Shah and Zeenat Aman, the film stars Kay Kay and Nehra Raghuraman. Shot in Hindi with English subtitles. 98 minutes.
     


 

Twenty years without justice: The Bhopal Chemical Disaster
The ICJB's 20th anniversary video was made by attorney-filmmaker Sanford Lewis. Featuring Rasheeda Bee and Champa Devi Shukla, 2004 winners of the Goldman Award, "the Nobel Prize for the Environment", speaking of their families' experiences of THAT NIGHT, as the night of disaster is still known in Bhopal, this short film traces the causes of the disaster, the company's attempts at denial and cover-up, the continuing plight of the victims and Carbide's second assault on the Bhopalis, the deadly contamination leaking from its abandoned plant.


   


 

ICJB's secretly-shot video of survivors' attempt to begin a clean-up of Union Carbide's abandoned and derelict factory in Bhopal
On 25th November 2002, Bhopal survivors and groups and their supporters, including chemical waste disposal experts entered the factory to begin containment of wastes lying in the open air. The plan was to put the waste into secure drums, lock it in a warehouse and hand the keys to the authorities. The film was meant to be a record, but turned into an eye-opening record of police brutality.

 

   
 

Yes Men hoax
On December 3, 2004, the 20th anniversary of the Union Carbide gas disaster, a Dow spokesman named Jude Finisterra appeared in a Paris studio of the BBC to announce to an astonished world that Dow was "doing the right thing", accepting full responsibility for Bhopal and liquidating Union Carbide to provide a $12 billion fund for compensation, clean-up and remediation of the derelict factory, andlong term medical care of the victims of gas- and water-poisonings. Dow would also release long-withheld medical and scientific data about the leaked gases and co-operate fully in the outstanding legal cases. Finisterra was actually Andy Bitchlbaum of the Yes Men. The hoax was widely broadcast and Dow's share-price plummeted. The reason it was instantly believed by all, survivors, activists and the BBC, to be true, was that it was so obviously what Dow ought to have done. And ought still to do.

   
   
   
   
   
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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