{"id":468,"date":"2003-01-04T18:43:11","date_gmt":"2003-01-04T18:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/01\/04\/bhopal.html"},"modified":"2003-01-04T18:43:11","modified_gmt":"2003-01-04T18:43:11","slug":"bhopal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/01\/04\/bhopal.html","title":{"rendered":"Bhopal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1984 DOW Chemical created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhopal.net\/welcome2.html\">major disaster in Bhopal<\/a>, affecting thousands.  Lawsuits have continued for decades and many of those affected were not properly compensated.  To celebrate the anniversary of this disaster, a group of folks created a spoof website and emailed thousands in protest; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexonline.org\/news\/20021216_unitedstates.shtml\">this action was severely censored<\/a>.  At the same time, many of the women survivors did a silent protest of DOW Chemical in India to object to their treatment of this; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international_en\/news\/details?news_id=95504\">DOW Chemical is suing these peaceful protestors<\/a> for costing them money because their employees were distracted.  This situation is a reminder of why it is so problematic that our society and governments are controlled by corporations with greedy motives and minimal social responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1984 DOW Chemical created a major disaster in Bhopal, affecting thousands. Lawsuits have continued for decades and many of those affected were not properly compensated. To celebrate the anniversary of this disaster, a group of folks created a spoof website and emailed thousands in protest; this action was severely censored. At the same time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}