Ray Thomas on Wed, 22 Jan 2003 03:30:25 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> CALL DOW WEDNESDAY |
Regarding http://rtmark.com/pressthing.html: Today (Wednesday) is a good day to vent your anger at Dow, who decided to send their complaint about a parody website NOT to the site, and NOT to the host of the site (Thing.net), but to the upstream provider of the host of the site (Verio), who promptly brought down the whole ISP and is now cancelling their contract. Besides that, Dow is just plain nasty business. Visit http://www.greenpeace.org/ on Wednesday, Jan. 22 to find out more and to see how to let off some steam. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> CALL DOW DAY - WEDNESDAY 22 JANUARY Dow Chemical seems to think it can safely ignore the suffering of thousands of people in Bhopal who live with the contamination caused by the factory its Union Carbide subsidiary abandoned following the worst industrial accident in history. Despite receiving over 15,000 emails and many thousands of postcards and letters urging it to clean up Bhopal the company still insists the abandoned factory is not its problem. That is why we need your help to call Dow on Wednesday and tell them to clean up Bhopal now! Dow has an free phone ethics line open 24 hours a day to deal with any ethical concerns you may have about the company. The free phone number and further details will appear on the Greenpeace front page here: http://www.greenpeace.org/ on Wednesday morning Central European time. We would love to hear back from as many people as possible about your call to Dow and if you have sound recording equipment an mp3 sound file of your call. You can send your details by replying to the cybercentre article which will appear here on Wednesday morning: http://act.greenpeace.org/ Here are two fun example calls you can listen to: http://www.mad-dow-disease.com/media/dowcall2.mp3 http://www.mad-dow-disease.com/media/dowcall3.mp3 If you want to find out more before the call visit our section on Bhopal: http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/campaigns/intro?campaign_i d=399 1 Or if you need some motivation see how Dow is suing the Bhopal survivors rather than helping them: http://www.greenpeace.org/news/details?item%5fid=95486 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net