[NetBehaviour] Dow runs scared from water.

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Thu Jul 16 14:01:19 CEST 2009


Dow runs scared from water.

"B'EAU-PAL" WATER SCARES DOW EXECS INTO HIDING
Plans to contribute to climate action in lead-up to Copenhagen begin to
take shape

London - A new, beautifully-designed line of bottled water - this time
not from the melting Alps, nor from faraway, clean-water-deprived Fiji,
but rather from the contaminated ground near the site of the 1984 Bhopal
catastrophe - scared Dow Chemical's London management team into hiding
today.

Twenty Bhopal activists, including Sathyu Sarangi of the Sambhavna
Clinic in Bhopal, showed up at Dow headquarters near London to find that
the entire building had been vacated.

The attractive yet toxic product, developed by the Bhopal Medical Appeal
and the Yes Men with pro-bono help from top London creative design firm
Kennedy Monk (making-of video here), highlights Dow's continued refusal
to take responsibility for the disaster. (Five years ago, the Yes Men
impersonated Dow Chemical live on BBC World Television and announced
that after 20 years, the company was finally going to clean up its mess
in Bhopal. That hoax, which temporarily knocked two billion dollars off
Dow's share price, is featured in the Yes Men's new movie, The Yes Men
Fix The World, which opens in UK cinemas on August 11.)

http://www.theyesmen.org/blog/dow-runs-scared-from-water



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