On Thursday, February 6th, my social justice group screened a movie
for the class. The movie was called Bhopali. It was about a gas
disaster that happened in Bhopal, Indian because of union carbine.
There was a gas spillage and around 20,000 people died. Union carbine
has not taken responsibility and because the only thing they have done
is sent 450 million dollars to Bhopal due to the supreme court’s
orders. Though this may seem like a lot it was very little for a
multi-million dollar company and only gave about 300 dollars to each
victim. This is very little money for people who need extreme medical
care for conditions they got after the disaster. We showed the class
the first two chapters and the end. Before we showed the movie we
asked everyone a few starting questions and if they had every heard of
the Bhopal disaster and only one person had. This shows how little the
disaster was talked about and and how we need to educate more people
about what happened and spread the word. After the movie, we asked
them question about what they felt after watching the movie. Everyone
was shaken up and wanted to make a change. Our social justice group
hopes to do something possibly using social media and spread the word
about what happened.