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Article: BIOGRAPHIES: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY PROJECT PANELISTS, CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
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- November 3, 2009
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CALIFORNIA, Pa., Nov. 2 -- California University of Pennsylvania issued the following news release:
Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper, began fishing the bays off the Gulf Coast of Texas at the age of eight. By 24, she was a boat captain. In 1989, while running her brother's fish house at the docks and mending nets, she read a newspaper article that listed her home of Calhoun County as the No. 1 toxic polluter in the country. She set up a meeting in the town hall to discuss what the chemical plants were doing to the bays and thus began her life as an environmental activist. Threatened by thugs and despised by her neighbors, Wilson insisted the truth be told and that Formosa Plastics ...
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