BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 RDATE:20200308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 RDATE:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 RDATE:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 RDATE:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 RDATE:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 RDATE:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 RDATE:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 RDATE:20270314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271107T010000 RDATE:20280312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20281105T010000 RDATE:20290311T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20291104T010000 RDATE:20300310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20191006T190000 RDATE:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T030000 RDATE:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 RDATE:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 RDATE:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 RDATE:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 RDATE:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 RDATE:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 RDATE:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270314T030000 RDATE:20271107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20280312T030000 RDATE:20281105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20290311T030000 RDATE:20291104T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:689b549770aaba5a0b52aaa587637c0b CATEGORIES:Environmental Justice, Special Events, Social Actions, Lectures and Speakers, DPJC Organizational Events CREATED:20200908T210314 SUMMARY:AN UNREASONABLE WOMAN AND THE WAR ON PLASTIC URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.dpjc.org/dpjc-in-the-news/previous-events/2020/an-unreasonable- woman-online-event/eventdetail/915/-/an-unreasonable-woman-and-the-war-on-p lastic?tmpl=component DESCRIPTION: HOSTED by the Dallas Peace and Justice Center, Environmental Justice Comm ittee; Climate Reality Project DFW; CODEPINK Greater Dallas; Dallas Sierra Club; Downwinders at Risk; DSA North Texas Ecosocialist Working Group; Eart hworks Oil & Gas Accountability Project; Global Climate Strike - Dallas ; Global Climate Strike - Fort Worth; Irving Impact; Liveable Arlington; Pa x Christi Dallas; Southern Sector Rising; Sunrise Movement Dallas; Tarrant Coalition for Environmental Awareness; Texas Drought Project; Veterans For Peace Chapter 106; Waco Friends of the Climate; 350Dallas; 350.org (http:// 350.org/?fbclid=IwAR0nPPSYjJO3KrNfE-67MndQesjDjUZZWidw1XCt5xwCbRU8iiHvC-mYv cE) Fort Worth. \n \nTUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2020 AT 7 PM – 8:30 PM\nAN UNREASO NABLE WOMAN AND THE WAR ON PLASTIC\n\nAn Online Event\n Keep up with event updates on Facebook:\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3546342908723330/\n \nDid you ev er wonder…..\n…how to be a bulldog watchdog on industry?\n…how to do a citi zens’ lawsuit and win $50 Million?\n…how to be a “citizen-enforcer” of clea n-up compliance?\n \nDIANE WILSON knows how to do that, and she will tell y ou how! Learn about her successful campaign and lawsuit to hold Formosa Pla stics accountable for pollution of her beloved La Vaca Bay and nearby water ways, culminating in a $50 million settlement which will go to local enviro nmental projects!\n \nWHAT: Online event with Environmental Activist Extrao rdinaire, Diane Wilson, who will talk about her remarkable activist journey and the David-and-Goliath story of the largest settlement in U.S. history involving a private citizen’s lawsuit against an industrial polluter under federal clean air and water laws!\n \nWHEN: Tuesday, Oct 6, 7:00pm CST\n \n WHERE: Event will occur on Zoom. Register below for the event.\n \nDiane Wi lson is a fourth-generation shrimper, boat captain, mother of five, author, and an environmental, peace, and social justice advocate. During the last 30 years, she has launched legislative campaigns, demonstrations, hunger st rikes, sunk boats, and even climbed chemical towers in her fight to protect her Gulf Coast bay.\nShe is a co-founder of Code Pink, the women’s anti-wa r group based in Washington, DC and co-founder of the Texas Jail Project, w hich advocates for inmates’ rights in Texas county jails. Since 2012, Wilso n has been executive director and waterkeeper of San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper on the Texas Gulf Coast. In 2016, she and a small group of form er workers and whistleblowers from Formosa Plastics started collecting plas tic violations over a 20-mile area of Lavaca Bay and surrounding waterways. Within a 4-year period they have collected over 2500 samples of violations and 6000 videos and photos of plastic pollution coming from Formosa Plasti c outfalls. In 2017, Texas Riogrande Legal Aid filed a citizens Clean Water suit on behalf of Wilson and the San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper. In June 2019, a federal judge ruled on their behalf and declared Formosa a se rial offender with over 1800 clean water violations. The case was settled i n December 2019 with a precedent setting $50 Million awarded towards local environmental projects. The plaintiffs received no funds.\nWilson was featu red in the award-winning documentary Texas Gold, and in Americans Who Tell the Truth, a portrait series by photographer Robert Shetterly. She won the Blue Planet Award in Berlin, Germany for her activist work and in March 202 0 Netflix featured the SABE Waterkeeper story in Dirty Money series, Point Comfort.\nWilson is the author of three books published by Chelsea Green: U nreasonable Woman, Diary of An Eco-Outlaw, and Holy Roller. https://www.che lseagreen.com/writer/diane-wilson/ (https://www.chelseagreen.com/writer/dia ne-wilson/.)\n( * =Required Field )\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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She is a co-founder of Code Pink, the wo men’s anti-war group based in Washington, DC and co-founder of the Texas Ja il Project, which advocates for inmates’ rights in Texas county jails. Sinc e 2012, Wilson has been executive director and waterkeeper of San Antonio B ay Estuarine Waterkeeper on the Texas Gulf Coast. In 2016, she and a small group of former workers and whistleblowers from Formosa Plastics started co llecting plastic violations over a 20-mile area of Lavaca Bay and surroundi ng waterways. Within a 4-year period they have collected over 2500 samples of violations and 6000 videos and photos of plastic pollution coming from F ormosa Plastic outfalls. In 2017, Texas Riogrande Legal Aid filed a citizen s Clean Water suit on behalf of Wilson and the San Antonio Bay Estuarine Wa terkeeper. In June 2019, a federal judge ruled on their behalf and declared Formosa a serial offender with over 1800 clean water violations. The case was settled in December 2019 with a precedent setting $50 Million awarded t owards local environmental projects. The plaintiffs received no funds.
< p>Wilson was featured in the award-winning documentary Texas Gold, and in A mericans Who Tell the Truth, a portrait series by photographer Robert Shett erly. She won the Blue Planet Award in Berlin, Germany for her activist wor k and in March 2020 Netflix featured the SABE Waterkeeper story in Dirty Mo ney series, Point Comfort.Wilson is the author of three books publis hed by Chelsea Green: Unreasonable Woman, Diary of An Eco-Outlaw, and Holy Roller. https: //www.chelseagreen.com/writer/diane-wilson/
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