03278cam a2200349 i 4500 122787284 TxAuBib 20060309120000.0 050418s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005009894 9781931498883 1931498881 (OCoLC)59881925 TxAuBib rda Wilson, Diane, 1948- An unreasonable woman : a true story of shrimpers, politicos, polluters, and the fight for Seadrift, Texas / Diane Wilson ; foreword by Kenny Ausubel. White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub. Co., 2005. 391 p. : map, HB ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Contents: Dirty secrets revealed -- A Shrimping Career Rehashed -- An Outlaw and a letter -- Adversaries Approach -- Of Fishermen and Politicos -- Knocked Clean out of the Ring -- Negotiating with the enemy -- The Press arrives to liars and fools -- Texas water commission files -- Dirty facts revealed -- A dream is a dream come true -- Losses, gains and petitions -- Money, Money, Money -- The informant -- Battle lines are drawn -- Union carbide blows; the fed arrives -- We strike at the heart of Formosa -- Beauty Queens, Banquets, and Spies -- Raining on the Chairman's Parade -- A Hydrochloric Cloud; a Worker Talks -- Kickbacks paid; internal memos conveyed -- A Bay under Siege; an Activist born -- Hunger Strike -- I strike at the gates of hell -- Death threats and deals -- Pain and defeat -- A Woman enters the sea -- Island of fire and solidarity -- A Radicalized woman -- The Vietnamese Connection -- The sinking of the SeaBee -- Sanchez comes home -- Victory, Redemption, and loss. When Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, learns that she lives in the most polluted county in the United States, she decides to fight back. She launches a campaign against a multibillion-dollar corporation that has been covering up spills, silencing workers, flouting the EPA, and dumping lethal ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride into the bays along her beloved Texas Gulf Coast. In an epic tale of bravery, Wilson takes her fight to the courts, to the gates of the chemical plant, and to the halls of power in Austin. Along the way she meets with scorn, bribery, character assassination, and death threats. Finally Wilson realizes that she must break the law to win justice: She resorts to nonviolent disobedience, direct action, and hunger strikes. Wilson's vivid South Texas dialogue resides somewhere between Alice Walker and William Faulkner, and her dazzling prose brings to mind the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, replete with dreams and prophecies. 20060309. Wilson, Diane 1948- Shrimpers (Persons) United States Biography. Chemical plants Waste disposal Environmental aspects Texas Seadrift. Environmental protection Texas Seadrift Citizen participation. Environmentalism Texas Seadrift. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005009894.html TXING