# Diane Wilson
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diane wilson is an American environmental activist, an anti-war activist, and an author. In 1989 she was a shrimp boat captain in Calhoun County, Texas, and she saw an Associated Press article saying that the county had the most toxic waste disposal of all counties in America. Wilson began a campaign against Formosa Plastics, a Taiwanese chemical company then building a PVC (polyvinyl chloride) facility near her town, with tactics including several hunger strikes and sinking her own boat to draw attention to the matter.
Episode 64: Sins of the Father
As we finish up the "Dormancy" section of The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson, we find ourselves getting caught up in the beauty of the prose and the layered sadness described therein. Rosalie eventually has to make a choice about her identity and her life, and often it seems like she doesn't have an...
Episode 65: Unforgivable Choices in Unfair Circumstances
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson continues to be thought-provoking and emotionally tugging. It is difficult to see the countless losses that Rosalie endures, that the Dakota people endure, and we wonder if there is ever an end? Will there ever be justice? Is there a way to move forward after learn...
Episode 66: Conditional Forgiveness
Right of the bat we have two very important warnings for the sensitive-eared listeners: (1) Sara is sick and definitely sounds like it in this, and (2) Sara cries. If you don't like the sounds of that, then maybe wait for the recap next week.
We continue to read The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson, a...
Marti Oakley & Linda Kincaid - Dorothy Wilson Stolen by NY Guardian
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Linda Kincaid will be co-hosting this show.
Our guests tonight are Diane Wilson, daughter of Dorothy Wilson. Jim Fargiano will also be joining the show.
Dorothy Wilson died of loneliness and despair after being p...
Episode 67: Devil's Deals
We are continuing to read The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson, and this story is taking us to all sorts of new places between reconciliation and reckoning, trust and skepticism, community and survival. We're shifting from the difficult history of wars to the difficult realities of the much more sinis...
Episode 68: And Then They Were Gone
At this point, we're not even surprised that The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson is continuing to make Sara cry. We're just surprised that Ian, who has been stone cold during most of the upsetting scenes, is actually pretty soft and emotional, too. This sad book continues to be sad, and it won't stop...
Plastic, Pollution & Power: Beth Gardiner on Who's Really to Blame
In this week’s Thought Sparks Podcast episode, Rita McGrath, a Columbia University Business School Professor, C-Suite strategist, business founder and best-selling author, sits down with Beth Gardiner, journalist with bylines in National Geographic, the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washingto...
Episode 69: Not All Tears Are Sad Tears
We are finishing up The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson, and it's a bittersweet experience. Fair warning, Sara cries again, but you shouldn't be surprised by that anymore. This book makes us feel things, okay? It's been a tough couple of months, so this ending is well deserved in our opinion. Join us...
Ep. 3 - Fighting for Our Lives in Fossil Fuel Country with John Beard Jr.
“This is about life. And this extractive industry is not a giver of life, it is a taker of life.”
On March 23, 2026, a massive explosion tore through the Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, shaking homes and sending a plume of smoke over a community that has lived with oil and petrochemical po...
Fighting for Our Lives in Fossil Fuel Country w/ John Beard Jr. / A People's Climate
“This is about life. And this extractive industry is not a giver of life, it is a taker of life.”
On March 23, 2026, a massive explosion tore through the Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, shaking homes and sending a plume of smoke over a community that has lived with oil and petrochemical po...
