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Events Friday and Saturday! Activists touring from
Bhopal will be here, we highly recommend not missing this
unique and important screening and discussion.
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Bhopal: 25 Years of Struggle for Environmental Justice
7:00 - 9:00 pm • Friday, May 29th, 2009
911 Seattle Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109
Suggested contribution: $5-$10 (Proceeds will be used to
cover costs. Any amount in excess of costs will be donated
to the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal.)
Meet activists from the longest standing campaign
against corporate crime and environmental injustice.
Using the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak tragedy in Bhopal,
India as the backdrop, the International Campaign for
Justice in Bhopal and numerous Seattle-based organizations
are partnering to discuss corporate crime, environmental
racism and toxic trespass. We look forward to your
participation!
Films:
Secrets and Lies
Directed by Stavros Stagos, Greece, 2007, 79 minutes (In
English, Hindi, & Urdu with English subtitles)
This historical documentary examines the 1984 chemical
disaster of Bhopal, which killed up to 20,000 people, and
how it continues to affect people today. It is by far the
most up-to-date film on the world’s worst industrial
disaster. Using U.S. multinationals Union Carbide and Dow
Chemical as cases, the documentary profiles how
transnational corporations hold themselves beyond the reach
of law, even as generation after generation continue to be
poisoned by their neglect.
Preceded by:
Hush Baby
Directed by Himali Kapil and Umang Bhattacharyya, India, 2007, 3.5 minutes (English & Hindi with English subtitles)
A powerfully evocative short film on the continuing damage
caused to Bhopal’s Generation Next, and the ongoing
contamination caused by groundwater contaminated by Union
Carbide’s toxic wastes.
Films will be followed by a Q&A session with:
Safreen ‘Rafat’ Khan, 16-year old
Safreen ‘Rafat’ Khan belongs to a family
of six members who live behind the Union Carbide factory.
Her mother was exposed to the gas in 1984. Safreen and her
family continue to live in the area and consume poisoned
water daily. Safreen and her sister Yasmin were the
youngest members of the team of 50 survivors who walked 500
miles from Bhopal to Delhi to meet the Prime Minister in
February last year. Safreen is a key organizer of the
newly formed campaign group -- Children Against
Dow-Carbide -- and believes that Carbide’s toxic
legacy must be ended before it takes its toll on yet
another unsuspecting generation.
Satinath ‘Sathyu’ Sarangi is a
metallurgical engineer turned activist who arrived in
Bhopal a day after the disaster and stayed on to become a
key figure in the struggle for justice in Bhopal. He is a
founding trustee of the Sambhavna Clinic, a non-profit
clinic dedicated to the holistic treatment of gas-affected
persons in Bhopal. As the founder of the Bhopal Group for
Information and Action, Sathyu has been involved with
relief, research and publication of studies on the health
impacts of the ongoing disaster on the residents of Bhopal.
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Panel Discussion:
Corporate Crime, Environmental Injustice and Toxic
Trespass: Lessons from the 1984 Union Carbide Gas
disaster in Bhopal, India
4:30 - 6:30 pm • Saturday, May 30th, 2009
Communications 120, University of Washington
Stevens Way E, Seattle, WA
Cost: Free!
Meet activists from the longest standing campaign against
corporate crime and environmental injustice!
In Bhopal, India, where in 1984, a poisonous gas leak from
Union Carbide’s pesticide factory wiped out more than
8,000 people, and left 150,000 people with chronic
injuries. In its hurry to escape to the United States,
Union Carbide left behind more than 10,000 tons of toxic
wastes that have since seeped into the groundwater. More
than 30,000 people have been exposed to the poisons in the
groundwater. Bhopal’s Generation Next is suffering
both from the hand-me-down effects of the toxic gases, and
the contamination in the water. The wastes still remain
where they were abandoned. Union Carbide has reneged on
its promise to face trial in India. The United States has
done nothing to uphold the rule of law.
Panelists will be Safreen ‘Rafat’ Khan,
Satinath ‘Sathyu’ Sarangi, and Dr. Sheela
Satyanarayana.
More details are available on our website,
click here.
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Arabic, Urdu, and Persian Summer Language Camp
9:00 am - 3:00 pm Weekdays • July 13th - 24th 2009
Northgate Elementary School in Seattle
11725 1st Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98125
Associates in Cultural Exchange, through grant from
STARTALK, is offering two-week Arabic, Urdu and Persian
summer language camps for children ages 10-14 at Northgate
Elementary School in Seattle. Classes start on July 13th
and end July 24th and meet from 9 am to 3 pm, Monday
through Friday. The instructors are native speakers. All
three camps are being offered free of charge with fresh
lunches included. To download the registration forms
please visit
http://www.cultural.org/wlp/camp.php.
For more information please contact Maka Janikashvili,
Ph.D, Director of ACE World Language Programs at
makaj@cultural.org
or by phone at (206) 217-9644 ext. 201.
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Films from South Asia at this year’s SIFF
Opium War: May 22, 2009 4:30 PM & May 25, 2009 9:15 PM
Tahaan - A Boy With a Grenade: May 28, 2009 4:15 PM & June 3, 2009 9:30 PM
Machan: June 5, 2009 4:30 PM & June 10, 2009 7:00 PM
Kanchivaram: June 6, 2009 4:00 PM, June 8, 2009 7:00 PM, & June 12, 2009 1:15 PM
Four Chapters: June 7, 2009 6:30 PM & June 11, 2009 4:00 PM
Afghan Star: June 11, 2009 6:30 PM & June 13, 2009 11:00 AM
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