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An Unreasonable Woman Comes To Troy
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Went down to The Sanctuary for Independent Media to see Diane Wilson, author of "An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas". Ms. Wilson was there to speak about her fight to force industrial plants in Calhoun County to stop their release of toxins into the Gulf. According to her the poisons were streaming into the Lavaca Bay, and from there to the Gulf which killed the shrimp.

She talked about her hunger strike which everyone believed she was crazy for doing, including her own family of brothers. That was until she gained some media attention which forced Formosa Plastics sit down at the bargaining table.

Currently she is wanted in Texas on an outstanding warrant she'd incurred for protesting at a Dow Chemical plant in her hometown of Seadrift, TX. She climbed a 70 foot tower, chained herself there for eight hours to protest Union Carbide's denial of responsibility for the 1984 chemical plant explosion in Bhopal, India that left thousands dead. She told the crowd, of about 30, she would return to Texas and serve out her sentence when Warren Anderson, former Union Carbide CEO, appears in India courts for manslaughter and other charges brought by the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court of Bhopal, India.
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