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When Diane Wilson discovered that
her home, Calhoun County, Texas had been named one of the most toxic
places in America, she decided to take action. This was
business-as-usual for Dow/Union Carbide, one of the biggest toxic
offenders in Calhoun, also responsible for the now famous/infamous 1984
pesticide gas leak at its plant in Bhopal, India, killing 20,000 over
the last 20 years. In the 16 years since she began her fight, Diane has
received death threats, and suffered intimidation tactics; shots were
fired at her house from a helicopter and her dog was poisoned.
TEXAS GOLD profiles the brave and ballsy actions that have earned Diane
Wilson the title of 'unreasonable woman': waging multiple hunger
strikes, starting up a business bottling toxic water taken from a
superfund site - which she creatively labeled and sold back the crude
brew to the tycoons whose heedless business practices had polluted the
water - sinking her own shrimp boat on top of a toxic discharge site,
and being convicted for trespassing after chaining herself to an ethyl
oxide tower at her local Union Carbide plant and unfurling a banner
emblazoned with 'justice for the victims of the Bhopal disaster'.
DVD available. A production of Turtle Island Films, Santa Rosa,
California (21 minutes) |