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~ Women Refuses Jail ~
Civil Disobedience is what Diane Wilson used to send a message to Union Carbide (now owned by DOW) over their poisoning of the people of India in the infamous Bhopal incident. She is facing 4 months of prison for hanging a banner on a Dow Chemical Facility while the CEO, Warren Anderson (former CEO of Union Carbide) escapes any consequences. (welcome to the globlalsit/fascist reality) It will take all of us becomming more like Diane Wilson to take back our world.
Date: 10/11/2005 1:12:52 PM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 1709 times Wilson Interview Video
Three years ago Wilson was arrested for committing civil disobediance at a Dow Chemical plant to protest the company's connection to the Bhopal chemical disaster. She’s now refusing to go to prison until former Union Carbide CEO Warren Andersen is jailed for his role in Bhopal. [includes rush transcript] The Corporate Crime Reporter is reporting that Diane Wilson is facing four months of jail in Texas. But she now says that she’s not going to jail until Warren Andersen, the former CEO of Union Carbide, is extradited to face manslaughter charges in Bhopal, India. Andersen was CEO of Union Carbide on December 3, 1984 when a deadly gas leak from Union Carbide’s pesticide factory in Bhopal, India poisoned at least 500,000 people. More than 8,000 people died within three days and over 20,000 people have died to date as a result of their exposure. In August 2002, Wilson scaled a Dow Chemical facility in Seadrift, Texas and unfurled a banner that read – “Dow Responsible for Bhopal.” When she came down, she was arrested and charged with criminal trespass. In January 2003, Wilson was convicted of that charge and sentenced to four months in prison and fined $2,000.
* Diane Wilson, Fourth generation shrimper turned environmental activist from Seadrift, Texas. Author of the book “An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas.”
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