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= Solutions to the Problems = = Bhopal disaster still unresolved 20 years on =  Bhopal , India — This December 3rd marks the  20th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster at the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India. Twenty years later, the legacy of tragedy continues, and Dow continues to deny responsibility. Dow Chemical, which bought Union Carbide in 2001, refuses to take responsibility for the company they bought, living up to its history of valuing profit more than human life.
 * Dow in denial **

02 December 2004 Madrid Spain On the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal industrial disaster, Greenpeace activists display images from Bhopal and ask the general public for signatures demanding the chemical industry Dow to pay its debt with the citizens of Bhopal. The 1984 chemical explosion at Union Carbide in Bhopal, India killed and maimed thousands. Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001, but will not accept any responsibility for the clean up of the contaminated site.

02 December 2004 Rheinmuenster Germany Activists construct a memorial sculpture near the Dow Chemical factory in Rheinmuenster. The sculpture is a copy of the "Bhopal Memorial" - mother with two children. The banner reads:"Bhopal dies - Dow keeps silence!"

02 December 2004 Hyderabad India On the eve of the 20th anniversary, a candlelight vigil was held the the Bhopal Memorial in India. On the anniversery itself thousands of people took to the streets in Bhopal demading action form both Dow Chemical and the Indian government. They also burnt effigies of former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson.

Saftey systems designed to prevent such a disaster at the plant had been shut down to save money.The survivors have never received adequate payment for their unbearble illnesses and even 20 years after the disaster, the polluted site of the abandoned factory, bleeds poisons daily into the groundwater of local residents. Bhopal is an ongoing disaster and Union Carbide's new owners, Dow Chemicals, should take responsibilty and pay to clean up the toxic mess.