Cindy's group is GSFP, which is an affiliate of Military Families Speak Out.
MFSO is headed up by Nancy Lessin, phone 617-320-5301.
Nancy Lessin is the Health and Safety Coordinator for the Massachusetts AFL-CIO. She's a union "educator". I wonder if any of the union's money or resources go to MFSO.
The Global Exchange Human Rights Awards - 2004
Also honored was Diane Wilson of Code Pink and UnReasonable Women. Wilson is a shrimper from a tiny gulf town in Texas. When industrial factories near her shrimping grounds polluted the bay, she saw her livelihood disappear. She fought back with hunger strikes, and organized other women to rise up against polluters who were endangering the health of everyone in their hometown of Seadrift. Then she found out about the Bhopal disaster. She learned that Dow Chemical, one of the major pollutants in her community, had bought-out Union Carbide, the company responsible for the 1984 explosion in India that has taken the lives of tens of thousands.
Realizing Bhopals struggle for justice was the same as her own, she planned a 30-day hunger strike at the Dow company plant at Seadrift. By the time Diane completed her fast and climbed the tower at the plant, the press was waiting. She has since infiltrated Congress to unfurl a banner saying "Let the Inspections Work!" behind Donald Rumsfeld as he testified about the "necessity" of invading Iraq and fearlessly participated in countless Code Pink actions against the war.
The gripping true story of one woman’s fight to save her town and her way of life from deadly industrial chemicals. Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, proves that one “ordinary” woman can force a giant chemical company to change its ways. When Wilson learns that she lives in the most polluted county in the United States, she launches a campaign against a multi-billion-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 even death threats. Finally, Wilson realizes that she must break the law to win justice: she resorts to nonviolent disobedience, direct action, and debilitating hunger strikes.
An Unreasonable Woman is a page-turner to rival stories like Erin Brockovich, Silkwood, and The China Syndrome. Wilson’s vivid South Texas dialogue resides somewhere between Alice Walker and William Faulkner, and her dazzling prose brings to mind the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, replete with dreams and prophesies.
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