All Articles on Diane Wilson
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News 'David-and-Goliath Story' as Texas Environmental Activist Diane Wilson Wins $50 Million Judgement Against Plastics Giant Formosa The settlement funds will go to environmental projects and cleanup efforts in the Gulf Coast region. Read more |
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Views Scientists Warn That Canadian Glacial Melting Is “Outside the Scope of Normal” "I think Arctic science should be a priority. I think understanding our terrestrial and marine ice should be a national priority.” Read more |
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Views EPA’s Scott Pruitt: The Great Disruptor On January 17, 2017, a congressional hearing to confirm Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s chosen appointee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, was held in Washington, D.C. Now, anybody who knows anything about fracking or oil well drilling knows that wherever there’s a roomful of well-dressed... Read more |
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Views Bush’s Iraq Lies, Uncontested, Will Haunt Us Under Trump The CODEPINK Tribunal taking place December 1 and 2, and live streamed by The Real News, is a historic collection of testimonies about the lies and costs of the Iraq war. It takes on new meaning with the incoming Trump administration, and the hawks who are flocking to join that administration with... Read more |
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Views Big Tent Activism: On Why I Painted Kevin Zeese Editor's note: The artist's essay that follows accompanies the 'online unveiling'—exclusive to Common Dreams—of Shetterly's latest painting in his " Americans Who Tell the Truth " portrait series, presenting those who have courageously engaged in the social, environmental, or economic issues of... Read more |
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Views John Kerry Sells a War That Americans Aren't Buying If Congress approves military action in Syria, they will fail to represent the people who elected them. Read more |
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Views How You [and President Obama] Can Close Guantanamo Prison Yesterday, July 1, marked the first day in office for Clifford Sloan, newly appointed Guantanamo closure envoy. Shortly after his May address on counterterrorism, President Obama appointed Sloan to the Office of Guantanamo Closure in the State Department, a position that had been vacant since... Read more |
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Views For Yemenis, US Refusal to Release Gitmo Prisoners is a National Offense “In Yemen we are close to the bottom in all kinds of measures like income and education, but there’s one statistic where we come out on top: the number of prisoners in Guantanamo,” laughed Mohammad Naji Allaw, a successful Yemeni lawyer who ploughs his firm’s profits into the National Organization... Read more |
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News 'A Cancer on America': Panel Urges Obama to End Indefinite Detention at Gitmo Following congressional briefing, activist chains herself to White House fence to "force President to take action" on Guantanamo Read more |
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Views Happy Mothers Day: From Guantanamo to Yemen He disappeared more than a decade ago, just 18-years-old and teaching abroad, separated from his family for the first time in life. His mother and father, sick with worry, heard nothing. For all they knew he was dead. Then, one day they opened a newspaper and learned their son was being held in a... Read more |