REMEMBER BHOPAL

On December 3, 1984, thousands of workers employed at a Union Carbide chemical manufacturing plant and nearby community members in Bhopal, India experienced horrific exposures to a deadly chemical product known as methyl isocyanate (MIC). This tragedy, which occurred as a result of plant equipment engineering and maintenance deficiencies, involved the release of some 40 metric tons of MIC gas into the atmosphere. In turn, MIC gas spread throughout the plant and into the nearby community exposing many thousands of women, men, and children. The Indian government reported 3,500 fatalities occurred as a result of the Union Carbide- MIC exposure incident. However, community activists believe more than 25,000 people have died and another 100,000 exposed individuals suffer health problems today as a result of the tragic incident.       

Let's take a moment out of our busy schedules today to memorialize those workers and community members who died and those who continue to suffer horrible physical and psychological harm associated with this tragedy.  

And, in the words of Mother Jones, let's remember to "Mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living."