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DOW CHEMICAL

CEO: Andrew N. Liveris
Contact the Corporation: Dow Chemical Co.
2030 Dow Center
Midland, MI 48674

Human rights abuses: creation of chemical weapons, marketing poisonous 
chemicals, illegal dumping of toxins into populated areas, environmental 
destruction, health problems, death

Dow Chemical has been destroying lives and poisoning the planet for 
decades. The company is best known for the ravages and health disaster for 
millions of Vietnamese and U.S. Veterans caused by its lethal Vietnam War 
defoliant, Agent Orange. Dow's "invent first, ask questions later" standard 
of business led the multinational company to develop and perfect Napalm, a 
brutal chemical weapon that burned many innocents to death in Vietnam and 
other wars. In 1988, Dow provided pesticides to Saddam Hussein despite 
warnings that they could be used to produce chemical weapons.

In 2001, Dow inherited the toxic legacy of the worst peacetime chemical 
disaster in history when it acquired Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) and 
its outstanding liabilities in Bhopal, India. As the Students for Bhopal 
website recounts, "On December 3rd, 1984, thousands of people in Bhopal, 
India were gassed to death after a catastrophic chemical leak at a UCC 
pesticide plant. More than 150,000 people were left severely disabled-of 
whom 22,000 have since died of their injuries-in a disaster now widely 
acknowledged as the world's worst ever."

Dow refuses to address its liabilities in Bhopal or even admit its 
existence, continuing in Union Carbide's tradition of profiting from 
extreme corporate irresponsibility. In India, Dow's subsidiary faces 
manslaughter charges and is considered a fugitive from justice for a 
pending criminal case related to the 1984 xhemical explosion. Dow and UCC's 
lack of accountability in the disaster continue to affect the lives in 
Bhopal to this day.

World wide, Dow is involved in human rights abuses: environmental 
destruction, water and ground contamination, health violations, chemical 
poisoning, and chemical warfare. Dow Chemical's impact is felt globally 
from their Midland, Michigan headquarters to New Plymouth, New Zealand. In 
Midland, Dow has been producing chlorinated chemicals and burning and 
burying its waste including chemicals that make up Agent Orange. In New 
Plymouth, New Zealand, 500,000 gallons of Agent Orange were produced and 
thousands of tons of dioxin-laced waste was dumped in agricultural fields. 
Dow's toxic legacies of human rights abuses traverse to agricultural fields 
in Central America where Dow exported EPA-banned pesticide DBCP for use on 
banana and pineapple crops. As a result, thousands of banana workers were 
exposed to DBCP and became sterile. In retail markets across the world 
Dow's dangerous chemicals are present as common household solvents, 
plastics, paints and pharmaceuticals.

Who's working on it:
•<http://thetruthaboutdow.org>Dow Accountability Network
•<http://www.earthrights.org/>EarthRights International
•<http://www.vn-agentorange.org>Vietnam Relief and Responsibility Campaign
•<http://www.ffrd.org>Fund for Reconciliation and Development
•<http://vietnam-dioxine.org>The Vietnam Dioxin Collective
•<http://www.bhopal.net>International Campaign for Justice In Bhopal
•<http://www.studentsforbhopal.org>Students For Bhopal 
•<http://www.amnestyusa.org/business/index.do>Amnesty International-USA
•<http://www.greenpeace.org/india>Greenpeace International
•<http://www.ecocenter.org>Ecology Center
•<http://www.trwnews.net>Tittabawassee River Watch
•<http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dow>Beyond Pesticides




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