After 18 days without food, the two women hunger strikers collapsed during a mass rally and were taken to hospital.
Sathyu broke his fast with orange juice.
Wilson picked up the fast soon thereafter. She says she will continue until justice is done in Bhopal.
Women in Texas, Nigeria, Ecuador, and India are teaching us a basic truth.
You can talk or write a blue streak and who listens?
But put your body on the line and things begin to move.
Get up.
Get out.
Push back.
Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter. Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Multinational Monitor, http://www.multinationalmonitor.org . They are co-authors of Corporate Predators: The Hunt for MegaProfits and the Attack on Democracy (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1999; http://www.corporatepredators.org ).
(c) Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
Published on Friday, July 26, 2002 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org/index.htm
Sathyu broke his fast with orange juice.
Wilson picked up the fast soon thereafter. She says she will continue until justice is done in Bhopal.
Women in Texas, Nigeria, Ecuador, and India are teaching us a basic truth.
You can talk or write a blue streak and who listens?
But put your body on the line and things begin to move.
Get up.
Get out.
Push back.
Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter. Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Multinational Monitor, http://www.multinationalmonitor.org . They are co-authors of Corporate Predators: The Hunt for MegaProfits and the Attack on Democracy (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1999; http://www.corporatepredators.org ).
(c) Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
Published on Friday, July 26, 2002 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org/index.htm