On Dec 10, a two-day exhibition was inaugurated at College Square Calcutta. The event showcased photos, images, collages, skits, and songs among others. The exhibition also highlighted local environmental issues and problems by means of various visuals, painstakingly put together by activists working at the grassroots level. The event drew a large crowd. Raghu Rai’s, photos on the Bhopal tragedy, visibly moved people
The mayor of Cochin Mr. C.M. Dinesh Mani flagged off the river-keeper in Eloor today at 10 a.m. The river-keeper, a Greenpeace active volunteer V.J.Jose, will use a small motorised boat to systematically patrol and monitor the waterways of Eloor. He would keep an eye out for illegal discharges from the Industries, collect water samples for analysis as well as document incidents of pollution.
Greenpeace campaigners spend some time with schoolchildren of a local school, the Siddhartha Matric and Higher Secondary School in Eloor. The school took pride in its activities related to environmental issues. The theater group traveling with the Greenpeace Jatha enacted a show for the students, stressing the need for greater environmental awareness.
Greenpeace has been at the forefront of opposing the setting up of a factory by Chemplast Sanmar, a Chennai based company that will convert Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) into Poly Vinyl Chloride (PVC). Navroz Mody, a senior Greenpeace campaigner presented the scientific details to the tribunal members and the participating audience at a hearing of the Indian people’s Tribunal, here in Cuddalore. The data based on reliable laboratory results, which were carried out by experts clearly revealed the threats emerging from the manufacture of PVC. He also highlighted how the entire process of manufacturing PVC carried very serious risks to the surrounding biotic community.
Greenpeace reaffirmed its commitment to oppose the spread or entry of factories and industrial units that contributed to environmental damage in any form.
It was an eventful day for the Greenpeace team; two Greenpeace activists chained themselves to the doors of the front entrance of the HLL office near Chennai, in protest against the company's involvement in environmental degradation.
Quite close to the office Greenpeace activists also put up a large banner accusing H L L of dumping mercury in Kodaikanal. From its vantage location the effect of the banner was apparent among the citizens who were still unaware about their corporate neighbour's misdeed.
Soon thereafter, members of the local and national media started arriving at the scene. In spite of the media's repeated requests, the H L L officials present at the scene did not clarify or elaborate on their stance regarding their proven role in damaging the environment. All they came up with was a press release that was vague and evasive.
Children from three local schools formed a human chain on the curb of a road, after taking part in a procession from the D C's court in Vellore.
The students put on headbands, and carrying placards voiced their demands for a better environment where disasters like Bhopal can never again take place.
Students participate in a slogal writing effort
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Greenpeace India's executive director interacting with students of Sunbeam High, Vellore.
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ov 12, Ranipet: Activists from Greenpeace and another local group shower flowers on a 'grave' representing the symbolic death of the Ranipet based Common Effluent Treatment Plant
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ov 12, Ranipet: Activists from Greenpeace and another local group shower flowers on a 'grave' representing the symbolic death of the Ranipet based Common Effluent Treatment Plant
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ov 12, vellore: an exhibition organised by Greenpeace in association
with a local group highlights the
tragic legacy of Bhopal, and reveals the environmental degradation in and around Alang in Gujarat
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well-attended public meeting was conducted at the Dodballapur Town Hall on the evening of 10th November. The gathering was addressed by and engaged with by Campaigners from Greenpeace India. The story of Corporate Crime against the people and the environment was mirrored in the play performed by the group on board the Jatha.
The sad and well-known death of the Pollution Control Board was finally certified by the signing of a "Death Certificate" by the Citizens of Dodballapur.
More about the "Death Certificate" tomorrow.
