Campus Campaigns

Often cited as the worst industrial disaster to date, the gas leak at a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India in 1984 killed 7,000 within days, and 22,000 to date.  The panelists include a chemical engineer who has worked in Bhopal and has affiliations with Union Carbide and Dow Chemical, and Boston's Environmental Health Fund Associates who have traveled to Bhopal and worked in the health clinic there.  What happened that night? What are the implications from an engineering perspective, a social perspective, and a corporate perspective?

The Associated Students of University of California Berkeley passed a resolution calling upon the Chancellor of UC Berkeley to write a public letter to Dow Chemical asking it to accept liability for the disaster and requesting the university to sell Dow stocks and reject all donations from Dow.