Ward Morehouse (1929 – June 30, 2012) was an

anti-corporate activist Anti-corporate activism refers to the idea of activism that is directed against the private sector, and specifically against larger corporations. It stems from the idea that the activities and impacts of big business are detrimental to the pub ...

. He also fought for the victims of the

Bhopal disaster The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Considered the world's wo ...

. Morehouse had dedicated over five decades of his life to activism, starting off as the founder of the Center for International and Comparative Studies, and then publishing textbooks for the

New York State Education Department The New York State Education Department (NYSED) is the department of the New York state government responsible for the supervision for all public schools in New York and all standardized testing, as well as the production and administration o ...

which aimed at helping students better understand foreigners. Next Morehouse founded the Council on International and Public Affairs (CIPA) a not-for-profit human rights organization where he first heard about the Bhopal disaster. Morehouse contributed significantly to the struggle for justice in Bhopal, founding the

International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) is a coalition of disaster survivors and environmental, social justice, progressive Indian, and human rights groups that have joined forces to hold the Indian Government and Dow Chemical Cor ...

(ICJB) as well as authoring several key books about the gas disaster. Morehouse relentlessly hounded

Union Carbide Union Carbide Corporation is an American chemical corporation wholly owned subsidiary (since February 6, 2001) by Dow Chemical Company. Union Carbide produces chemicals and polymers that undergo one or more further conversions by customers befor ...

to take responsibility for the disaster- in shareholder meetings, in the courts, in international human-rights tribunals, in the newspapers, and in the streets. He has kept close contact with victims' advocates in Bhopal and organized coalitions of U.S. medical, scientific, environmental, church, and labor groups to keep the pressure on Union Carbide. Morehouse was also co-founder of Programs on Corporations, Law and Democracy (

POCLAD The Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy (POCLAD) is an activist collective of 11 members(with three leaving, making 14.), who research the history of corporations in the United States. They are some of the main circulators of the notion th ...

) an American anti-corporate research collective.

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Apex Press home pageWard Morehouse 1929-2012 - Shays 2: The Western Massachusetts Committee on Corporations & DemocracyWard Morehouse 1929-2012 - Chuck Collins
Anti-corporate activists People from Westchester County, New York 1929 births 2012 deaths Activists from New York (state) {{US-activist-stub