Daily reports from Seadrift
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26 AUGUST 2002
Diane Wilson chains herself to 70 foot tower at Dow plant to demand justice for Bhopal victims.
At 6.30am this morning Central Time, Diane Wilson, a shrimp boat captain and environmentalist from Seadrift, Texas, scaled a 90 foot tower at Dow Chemical's Seadrift plant, unfurled a 12 foot banner stating DOW - RESPONSIBLE FOR BHOPAL and chained herself to the tower. An eyewitness reported, "Dawn is breaking. she's hanging the banner. Will be spotted any minute now. It's windy and bloody loud up there next to all the compressors. She can't hear a word on her phone. she says, flames shooting up around her."
A KFPT
radio reporter has been arrested by Calhoun County Sheriffs for "trespassing
on private property". Call Calhoun County Sheriff on + 1 361 553
4646 to request his release.
Full press release here.
Diane's own story of her adventure on the tower and her arrest
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| This is the same tower that was implicated in a l991 explosion that killed 1 worker, injured 34 others, including 6 citizens after the plant had been declared the safest one in the state by the Texas Chemical Council. Shrapnel the size of cars flew into the countryside. | |
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Diane Wilson on hunger strike at Dow, Seadrift, 17 July to 15 August 2002 - Daily reports
Read
the daily reports from Diane and friends on hunger strike outside the
gates of Dow-Carbide at Seadrift, Texas
(large file 156K) Contains some pictures too.
| Alternatively, download the daily reports in Word format |
The following reports are available, more elegantly, from Alternet |
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| Day Twenty-seven | { | Diane combined these two - the days are blurring into one another | |
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