<div>Bhopal Gas disaster - 28th anniversary</div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="line-height:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif">On the night of December 2nd, 1984, 27 tons of toxic gas escaped from the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. 8,000 people died within the next 72 hours. Thousands more were poisoned and blinded. 25,000 have died to date, and at least 150,000 people, including children born to parents who survived the disaster, suffer from chronic, debilitating, exposure-related illnesses. 347 tons of hazardous waste still lie exposed at the site, and Bhopal’s people drink water laced with toxins. </span><br style="line-height:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif">
<span style="line-height:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif">In memory o</span><div style="line-height:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;display:inline">
f the gas disaster and the ongoing tragedy in Bhopal, the Boston chapter of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) will be holding a die-in at Boston University, Boston Commons, MIT, Tufts, and Harvard University. Be there. Talk to volunteers, find out more, share ideas, act dead, sign a petition, chant slogans, and help to change things for the better.</div>
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<br>What: A die-in, organized by ICJB (Boston). Volunteers will take turns to lie down, covered in white shrouds, representing those who have died in Bhopal. There will be also be chanting of slogans and handing out of information. The event will culminate in front of the Harvard Science Center with a candle light vigil<br>
<br>When: Sunday, December 2, 2012, 12 pm - 5 pm.</div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style="line-height:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;display:inline">
<br>Where:<br>Boston University (outside George Sherman Union) - 775 Comm. Ave, Boston - 12 pm<br>Boston Commons (outside Park Street T-Stop) - 1 pm<br>MIT (steps) - 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge - 2 pm<br>Tufts University (near Tisch Library) - 35 Professors Row, Medford - 3:30 pm<br>
Harvard University (outside Harvard Science Center) - 4:30 pm<br></div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/119886818173460/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.facebook.com/events/119886818173460/</a></div>
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