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What It Takes to Shut Me Up

Editor’s note: Diane Wilson of Seadrift, Texas, is a fourth generation shrimper. In March of 1994, she took direct action against Formosa Plastics, a Taiwanese company, that had begun dumping toxins into Lavaca Bay. After her arrest and subsequent activism, she and others who organized to protect the region held the company to their goal: […]