On Thursday, December 3rd, the 25th anniversary of the disaster, about fifty people went to speak with a Dow representative and demand for justice in Bhopal. We went armed with thousands of kids' hearts - cut out of colored pieces of paper, bearing messages such as "Clean up Bhopal, Dow!" and "Have a Heart, Dow!"
These kids realized that Dow did not have a heart. "Dow, you don't have a heart! You don't have a heart so take our hearts - and with our hearts, perhaps you can finally clean up Bhopal and pay for the atrocities you commited!" scream the hearts of children from all around the world.
Dow ran away from KBF - in anticipation of protests, their employees were told not to go to work that day. The security guards refused to put us on phone with a Dow representative, and one said about our hearts, "That's sweet, kid. Congratulations, but we couldn't care less about 'em - and neither could Dow!" and when we handed a flier to another security guard, he ripped it up.
It was a perfect effort to wrap up our year's work with the Bhopal survivors. The cause is by no means resolved or ended, which no one seems to realize, twenty-five years after the disaster.
A few weeks later, KBF members, Akash, Gautama and Eamonn went back to the Dow office and delivered the hearts. Watch the video of that experience below:
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