Tag: Diane Wilson
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An Unreasonable Woman: An interview with Diane Wilson
An Unreasonable Woman An interview with Diane Wilson By Kelpie Wilson t r u t h o u t | Interview Tuesday 28 March 2006 Diane Wilson – shrimper, anti-toxics activist and author DIANE WILSON IS THE AUTHOR of An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas…
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Bhopal protests catch Dow pants down in Texas, New Orleans, Berlin and Chicago
Bhopal protests have been cropping up all over the planet, where Dow least expects them. On February 17, Diane Wilson and others attended a Dow banquet at Lake Jackson, Texas where they were received with all the joy and hospitality Macbeth showed to Banquo’s ghost. Read about it here. Bhopal campaigners turned up to picket…
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Ghost of Bhopal spoils Dow’s feast
JHADOOS AND BANNERS RETURN TO HAUNT DOW A Dow Chemical banquet at Lake Jackson, Texas, was attended last night by broom and banner wielding volunteers of the ICJB, who handed out copies of the Bhopal Chief Magistrate’s order summoning Dow Chemical US to appear in the criminal trial in Bhopal. Lake Jackson police turned out…
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San Francisco asks Dow to produce Carbide for trial
The City of San Francisco has become the first US city to pass a resolution urging Dow to address its liabilities in Bhopal. “It is unforgivable that survivors of the disaster are being revictimized by the inaction of Union Carbide and its new owner Dow Chemical,” said City of San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin today.…
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Recent Bhopal talks at US colleges
Berkeley, April 14, 2004: Rashida Bee and Champa Devi, two survivors of the Bhopal disaster, and Sathyu Sarangi, a longtime activist for justice in Bhopal and managing Director of the Sambhavna Clinic, spoke at the University of California, Berkeley in an event organized by the Association of South Asian Political Activists and the South Asian…
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Diane Wilson faces jail for Dow protest
Diane Wilson, “famed shrimp-boat-captain-turned-activist and merciless scourge of Dow”, attends a Texan court on Monday, 26 Jan for a jury trial. She’s facing charges of criminal trespass and resisting arrest, stemming from her August, 2002 protest action at the former Carbide plant in Seadrift, Texas. If convicted, Diane will have to serve around three to…
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Helicopter buzzes Diane Wilson’s house in attempt to intimidate her into silence
We have to take this very seriously because after a 1992 action against Formosa Plastics, shots were fired from a helicopter at her house, narrowly missing a relative and killing her dog. PLEASE READ THE FULL STORY BELOW AND CALL KATHY HUNT, DOW PR LEADER AT SEADRIFT
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Diane Wilson chains herself to 70 foot tower at Dow plant to demand justice for Bhopal victims. (May face federal charge.)
At 0545 am 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.…