On Unreasonable Woman Diane Wilson

In October 2005, I had the pleasure of picking up great dreamer and "UnReasonable Woman" Diane Wilson from the San Francisco airport---she was traveling "on the lam" having just been ordered by a Texas judge to return to Texas and serve a stint in jail on an old Dow Chemical plant trespassing charge. We found ourselves continually on the look out for Texas Rangers or other Federales while waiting for her baggage--- it dawned on me at this point that I was "harboring a fugitive from justice". Like many others, I've come to support Diane for her passion and non-violent action to change things that are not OK in this world. You might not always agree with Diane on how she approaches something---but you can readily agree with her on what needs changing. On the drive to her hotel in Marin, we talked about being a writer and her love of the great American writer William Faulkner. If you haven't read Diane do so now, she's a gifted natural-born writer.

Diane managed to stay "on the lam" until early December when she slipped back into Texas and was arrested after unfurling a banner while chanting "Corporate Greed Kills and Iraq Kills Too!" at a Houston fundraiser for the less than admirable, Tom Delay--since she was very close to the podium when VP Dick Cheney approached to speak---obviously, she would be stopped and removed from the event. We've come to know now that anyone who wears a 'support' this or that t-shirt in the public viewing seats at the U.S. Capital will be taken away. The macabre scene that followed Diane's removal from the Delay fundraiser got even more frightening when neither her attorney, family, or closest friends and allies could find her for several days in the Houston jail system, reportedly due to a confusing mix up surrounding the name she was booked under. You can imagine how concerned everyone was for her safety. Sparked by the conditions and treatment of detainees within the jail system, once Diane was transferred from Houston to the Victoria jail, she placed a call-to-action for Texas prison reform. Of course she would, this is Diane Wilson.

The world-reknown environmental activist, author, and co-founder of Code Pink is not your everyday 'criminal'or activist. She got real angry about what was happening in her own backyard in the mid-1980's and chose to stop it. She chooses to go out daily to put her own life on the line for the future of her family, grandchildren and for the rest of us around the globe. Her work has cost her dearly in the process and she knows it. Diane Wilson follows her passion: unwavering dreams for peace and a healthy green environment. An UnReasonable Woman, a great dreamer, Diane Wilson's the real thing.


Producer and Director Carolyn M. Scott's TEXAS GOLD is the award-winning documentary about Diane Wilson's 'fight against chemical industry giants in the most polluted place in America.'

Photo Credits: Vicente Franco, Director of Photography, TEXAS GOLD