Award-winning journalist, P. Sainath, will speak on inequity, the food and farm crisis and the role of media.His talk will be preceded by a short audio-visual presentation on Bhopal to mark the 24th anniversary.The event is presented by the Association of India ’s Development (A.I.D.), Atlanta and co-sponsored by the South Asian Studies at Emory University with support from Amnesty International, Students for Bhopal, Raksha and Atlanta’s UDHR 60 Celebration Coalition.

The Event is FREE and open to the Public!
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Contacts: atlanta@aidindia.org  Alka (404) 358-2935 / Utpal (816) 456-0109
 

This is the 5th annual commemoration of the Bhopal gas tragedy in Atlanta (by A.I.D.) where issues of globalization, corporate accountability and inequity are raised. On December 3rd, 1984, tons of poisonous gas leaked out of the Union Carbide (Dow Chemical) factory in Bhopal, India killing 20,000 and exposing half a million people. Twenty-four years later, it is estimated that 120,000 still suffer from ailments caused by continued exposure to toxic chemicals left behind at the factory site which have seeped into the ground and contaminated the water supply. P. Sainath is the Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu newspaper and a visiting professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism. For two years the traveled across India, often on foot, in hilly, drought-prone, and tribal areas to put the issue of poverty back on the national agenda. His work resulted in an award-winning book, Everybody Loves a Good Drought, which was on India 's number 1 non-fiction bestsellers for more than two years. Referred to as "one of the world's great experts on famine and hunger", Sainath has won numerous awards, including the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award (referred to as the Asian Nobel Prize) for journalism, literature, and creative communication arts. A documentary film, A Tribe of His Own (2002), follows Sainath’s work and his contention that “Journalism is for people, not Shareholders”.