An unreasonable woman : a true story of shrimpers, politicos, polluters, and the fight for Seadrift, Texas /
The author describes her fight against Formosa Plastics, a multi-billion-dollar corporation that was illegally dumping harmful pollutants into the bays and community surrounding Seadrift, Texas.
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White River Junction, Vt. :
Chelsea Green Pub.,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Sabotage
- Dirty Secrets Revealed
- A Shrimping Career Rehashed
- An Outlaw and a Letter
- Adversaries Approach
- Of Fishermen and Politicos
- Knocked Clean out of the Ring
- Negotiating with the Enemy
- The Press Arrives to Liars and Fools
- Texas Water Commission Files
- Dirty Facts Revealed
- A Dream Is a Dream Come True
- Losses, Gains, and Petitions
- Money, Money, Money
- The Informant
- Battle Lines Are Drawn
- Union Carbide Blows; the Fed Arrives
- We Strike at the Heart of Formosa
- Beauty Queens, Banquets, and Spies
- Raining on the Chairman's Parade
- A Hydrochloric Cloud; a Worker Talks
- Kickbacks Paid; Internal Memos Conveyed
- A Bay under Siege; an Activist Born
- Hunger Strike
- I Strike at the Gates of Hell
- Death Threats and Deals
- Pain and Defeat
- A Woman Enters the Sea
- Island of Fire and Solidarity
- A Radicalized Woman
- The Vietnamese Connection
- The Sinking of the SeaBee
- Sanchez Comes Home
- Victory, Redemption, and Loss.