Author: mopress

"If I see nothing wrong with gay marriage and support it, and I see nothing wrong with nondenominational prayer in school — which I don’t with either of those things — then I’m the only candidate you will ever talk to who can advocate both positions and say there is nothing wrong with them." Kinky Friedman interviewed by David Webb in the Dallas Voice

AMY GOODMAN: So what’s Dow’s responsibility now?

DIANE WILSON: Dow’s responsibility, they claim all the profits, and we believe that they claim the liabilities also. I do know that they have taken on Union Carbide’s liabilities in the United States. There was a case where a child was contaminated with some of Union Carbide’s pesticide. And I believe the American child received up to $6 million. And the children over in India, a lot of them received nothing at all. And some of them just, you know, like $500.

AMY GOODMAN: You found Warren Andersen here in this country. Can you talk about what happened? DIANE WILSON: Well, it’s real interesting, because, you know, they had been trying to extradite him to India for a long time. And the FBI kept saying, well, they couldn’t find Warren Andersen. They just had no idea where that man was. Well, actually, it was Greenpeace who found him first. And once we heard that Warren Andersen was in South Hampton on Long Island, I was in New York one day. So I just decided just to go by his house and stand out front. And I had a big sign that said, “Warren, shouldn’t you be in India?” And I had actually had no idea that he was inside. You’d see — every once in a while you would see a curtain pull back. And I was really surprised when he and his wife walked out.

Note: In her preface to the interview, Goodman cites the Oct. 10 story by Corporate Crime Reporter.

Why into jail, of course, with Medea Bejamin and other "raucous" perhaps "unreasonable" inaugural protesters, reports the New Standard via a source from CodePink.

This year, Wilson’s publishing house Chelsea Green proudly posts word of its author’s jailing Dec. 5, 2005 at a Houston fundraiser featuring Dick Cheney.

As Kristin Mack reported for the Houston Chronicle:

At least one protester infiltrated the event. Diane Wilson of the progressive women’s group Code Pink said she paid only $50."

"I guess they needed people inside," she said. "You can get in pretty cheap. I didn’t want to give too much."

She briefly disrupted Cheney’s speech and rolled out a banner that reads: "Corrupt greed kills from Bhopal to Baghdad."

Wilson was promptly escorted out.

Meanwhile, 21 organizations, among them Veterans for Peace, the International Socialist Organization and Progressive Action Alliance, protested outside.

Note: See also this web bonus from bhopal.net: Diane Wilson ‘Manhunt’ for Anderson Ends With Diane in Jail

From Houston Indymedia

by Katie Heim Wednesday January 11, 2006 at 07:30 PM

Two of Diane Wilson’s daughters came to visit her in Victoria County jail on Sunday. They were made to wait over forty minutes to see their mother, while other inmates were able to visit with their respective loved ones. The youngest of Wilson’s daughters, who has always walked the straight and narrow and feared coming to the jail in the first place, was pulled aside and told she was under arrest. When Diane’s daughter (who prefers to remain nameless) asked why she was told the arrest was due to a traffic ticket from 1999. WIlson’s daughter says she’s only had one traffic ticket in her entire life, and she paid it. Despite these protestations, Diane’s daughter was searched and accused of trying to pass her mother information. She was put in a holding cell, where she wept uncontrollably. During this ordeal she encountered another prisoner, who asked her if she was there to see "that actvist Diane". The male prisoner said that the jailers didn’t like Diane, because Diane didn’t like Bush. WIlson has been attempting to organize the prisoners of the Victoria County Jail since her incarceration, and has asked for prisoner treatment standards several times. Diane’s daughter was held for several hours, until her sister posted the $320 to procure her release. She was then allowed five minutes with her mother, for whom she tried to wear a brave face. Diane’s daughter called Travis County, who issued the disputed ticket, and confirmed that the ticket had in fact been paid. She is now awaiting paper confirmation of this so that she can file a complaint with the sheriff’s office.