This chronicle of the multifaceted Bhopal campaign against two of the worldamp39s most powerful chemical corporations Union Carbide and Dow Chemical Co. which now owns Union Carbide parallels the emergence of public understanding of environmental safety and corporate accountability that Bhopal helped to create.Written at the 20th anniversary the Reader includes primary source documents of this evolution. In 1984 the deadly pesticide used in Bhopal and in the United States was hailed by agrobusiness as part of its revolution. A valuable reference text for industrial accidents and corporate crimes as well as a handbook for research prevention and activism the collection includes gripping first person stories of some of the 200000 permanentlyinjured survivors activists journalists scientists doctors government and corporate officials. This anthology brings together neverbefore published testimonies archival documents translated from Hindi legal and scientific evidence and commentary social analysis even corporate perspectives on liability and web debates with comprehensive introductions for each aspect of the disaster. The Bhopal Reader documents forces that are even now bringing Bhopali women to the very doors of the corporation in protest. Some 21 years later the drinking water is contaminated because Union Carbide never cleaned up its abandoned factory with bags of stored chemicals causing genetic damage to yet another generation from the deadly methyl isocyanate MIC gas. The book reports on the international Bhopal campaign being waged today by survivors activists lawyers doctors in India the U.S. Britain and elsewhere around the world for compensation for all the Bhopal victims. It takes its readers across continents into newspapers television stations websites courtrooms shareholders annual meetings campuses and chemical plants. The Bhopal Reader presents a valuable case study of the complexities of fighting for justice in a world increasingly overrun by the po