An unreasonable woman
Subtitle: a true story of shrimpers, politicos, polluters, and the fight for Seadrift, Texas
By: Diane Wilson ; foreword by Kenny Ausubel
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: White River Junction, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9781931498883
Subjects: Chemical plants; Environmental aspects; Shrimpers (Persons); Environmentalism; Environmental protection; Citizen participation; Waste disposal; Biography
Description: The author describes her fight against Formosa Plastics, a multi-billion-dollar corporation that was illegally dumping harmful pollutants into the bays and community surrounding Seadrift, Texas.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Sabotage; title: Dirty Secrets Revealed; title: A Shrimping Career Rehashed; title: An Outlaw and a Letter; title: Adversaries Approach; title: Of Fishermen and Politicos; title: Knocked Clean out of the Ring; title: Negotiating with the Enemy; title: The Press Arrives to Liars and Fools; title: Texas Water Commission Files; title: Dirty Facts Revealed; title: A Dream Is a Dream Come True; title: Losses, Gains, and Petitions; title: Money, Money, Money; title: The Informant; title: Battle Lines Are Drawn; title: Union Carbide Blows; the Fed Arrives; title: We Strike at the Heart of Formosa; title: Beauty Queens, Banquets, and Spies; title: Raining on the Chairman's Parade; title: A Hydrochloric Cloud; a Worker Talks; title: Kickbacks Paid; Internal Memos Conveyed; title: A Bay under Siege; an Activist Born; title: Hunger Strike; title: I Strike at the Gates of Hell; title: Death Threats and Deals; title: Pain and Defeat; title: A Woman Enters the Sea; title: Island of Fire and Solidarity; title: A Radicalized Woman; title: The Vietnamese Connection; title: The Sinking of the SeaBee; title: Sanchez Comes Home; title: Victory, Redemption, and Loss.