 Sorry, that was me. Who's next? Oh, I see. Okay. Okay. She's, she's there. Okay, everybody shut your eyes so you don't get seasick from that. Diane, can you turn on your, your sound and your video. And for we have 17 participants, we want to welcome you all to our webinar with Diane Wilson, the wonderful, wonderful activists, Code Pinker and Veterans for Peace and Environmental Activists Supremo. And we hope Diane will turn on her. I finally got it. Finally, we hear you. Now can we see you. Let's see. You may start the video. Yeah, it says I'm unable to start because the host has stopped it. Or on your, we just want you to start your video on the webinar so there should be something right there. Yeah. Yeah, I keep trying. I keep trying to push it in it. It says the host has stopped it. Oh, okay. Oh, no, no, no. Now it made me the host. Okay. Wow. Okay, now, now. The hunger strike this. Well, at least you have an excuse. I don't even have an excuse to, we want to thank Maxine and Mary of Code Pink Women for Peace for talking to us, myself through this and helping Diane's picture appear. Yeah. And we want to thank everyone who's on on with us for this wonderful webinar with Diane Wilson, our great friend and activists, colleague and so many different things of the, from, well, everything. And in fact, if I, Diane, if it's all right with you, could we start out and we'll show a few pictures of you and the various exploits that you're having been on hunger strike for what is it, 11 days. That's right. 11 days. You're looking really good. Yeah, I'm not feeling too bad. You, you, you get fuzzy in the head and weak in the legs but if I'm sitting I'm doing good. Well, and we are so pleased to be able to help elevate the massive work that you're doing in order to bring attention to us of an environmental problem in your area and we'll ask you to tell us about this but just to kind of go through these slides about stopping the dredging stopping the oil export and you, this is one of your signs from 11 days but and then just to give a little bit of, of a walk down memory lane for everyone of your unreasonable woman book that's been such a godsend to everyone. Diary of an echo outlaw what a story. That was going to schedule your boat just attention. That was a new word I was going to sink it sink it. And then from Texas to India to Taiwan, all of your work. And we'll ask you to talk to a little bit about some of these in just a few minutes but just to give people will tell us about this one what what was this all about. Well, believe it or not, it was after 30 days of doing a hunger strike in the ditch at Union carbide, and I had, I did the action to support the people in Bo Paul. As a matter of fact, it was the code pink women before they were code pink, who really made that hunger strike and support of the people of Bo Paul. Matter of fact, they call me from India and said that was the most successful hunger strike that ever did and it was, it was the women who started code pink, and it was, and, and I had been in the ditch for 30 days. I had been looking at a tower, and I was wondering if I could get over Union carbides fence and I figured I could. It didn't look like it was that hard it just had a high fence. And so, one day I put on a hard hat, you know and hard hats float in off the bay all the time from the, from the oil rigs out there. I put on a hard hat. I had a banner over my shoulder, put on some boots, a pair of sunglasses and took off for the plant. And the workers are always, you know, they thought I was a worker that lost my rice. So they gave me a ride right into the plant. And I scaled their 80 foot tower and I was, I bet I was up there, at least an hour and they never even knew it and I had to stand up and wait but security before they even, you know, I could have been anything and then it all hit the fan and I was up there eight hours. There was probably FBI. There was three or four cop cars ambulances deputies Union carbide security you name it they were there and and every time they started to climb the tower very carefully I look at them and I'd go, No, and then back down. It was really, it was really funny to have that much power of those guys because they were scared to come up and eventually they got that 200 foot. You know, rig and brought it out there and they put a SWAT team up there to get me down, which they did, which they did. Oh my reading in the chat and of course we'd like for everyone who's on the. This is a webinar so we don't really have the everyone's pictures to show as part of the gallery but if you write to us in the chat who you are. You know, Jody is Jody Evans is just written saying I was there in the back of the. Yeah, she talked me out to drink enzyme water. I was drinking this plain water out of the well and I think she put red hot pepper in it, and she put a lemon juice in it and yeah, yes, he brought order to that hunger strike me. Oh goodness. And let's see, we've got another picture. This was telling about your climbing the fence or and all. And also the whole issue of Bhopal, did you go to India? I went to India after Union Carbide blew up and Union Carbide is right there in Cedar, it's right outside of town. And it blew up one day and I had Ward Morehouse. People got to know that guy. He was wonderful. He was out of New York and I think he was, and he dressed like a carbide executive. You know, the white shirt and the tie. Anyway, but he was one of the best activists. And I know every time Union Carbide saw him, they must have just got very nervous. Let's put it that way. But he made it so I could go to India. And there was a tribunal for people in Asia who had been harmed by hazards. And so there was people from Japan, from Sri Lanka, from Japan, I mean, like Vietnam and Korea. And and and I got to tell my story about Union Carbide there in Cedar. Yes, I went there. And then I'm real well. There's a picture of you. Yeah, no, no, no, that one right there is which one are you looking at? The one on the right. Oh, yeah, yeah. That that one is I'm sitting in front of Dow in Cedar. And that's canoe. Actually, yeah, a little canoe down there. Yeah, that's how I met canoe at that that Union Carbide hunger strike. And and I believe that other guy there is he was a Green Party candidate. So he came down. But we're sitting in the ditch at Union Carbide in Cedar. Well, how about the picture on the left, Black Planet Awards? Yeah, yeah, well, that was actually a lot of fun. We delivered a a the Black Planet Award that came from Germany, the Ethicon Foundation. And I hand delivered it to Formosa's, the Wong family, which is a big deal. And there were like 40. And they call them in Taiwan, they're real up front. And they said thugs, they're thugs. And so they were all dressed in security uniforms, 40 people blocking us from going in. And there were so many media with cameras and activists that we collided at the door and busted it open. And we just fell in. And I threw that that trophy, which is a round ball is like a ball, I just threw it at the worms. Yeah. Oh my god. Yeah. Well, and all of this work, and you're going up on the the big thing that the crane had to drag you down. What what was the ultimate what ended up happening after that? They gelled me for, I don't know, 180 days or so and probably if and and went in and talked to the sheriff and shook her finger at it in there longer. But but but out of that out of that jail time and I was very, very proud to be able to do that. The jail Texas jail project started and it has between canoe, Christian Avini and gun do and between the Diana Clader and Anne Ride. And it's it's it's a wonderful project that helps the inmates and their families and for advocacy. And and one of them really outstanding things they did is they got where pregnant women are not chained when they're giving birth. Shackle when they're giving birth. That's right. But it was a Texas jail project that was instrumental in getting that changed. That's right. That's right. They're amazing. Well, so putting putting the time that you were in the huskow and the county jail in Victoria to good use. I did. You know, it's like the story they say that David Barragan, when they sent him to jail, he started organizing the inmates and they threw him out of jail. They were so sick of him. Just turn it around. Well, that when I first met you, though, was after you. Well, before you went to jail, but after you had climbed that tower and been a big anti-war activist, tell us some about that, please. Well, actually, it you know, I spoke at Bioneers a couple of times and and people there seem to get a big kick out of me talking about unreasonable women. And I would even after I talked about being unreasonable, I would even have women who would someone would come up crying to me about you know, how that affected them. And so I remember I went to Kenny and his wife, Nina, and I said, you know, I think we are doing unreasonable women for the earth type of thing. And so they got some funding and put a number of people in a canyon in California. And we talked about what it would be to be unreasonable. And the first thing we did after that meeting, they supported me at Union Carbide Hunger Strike. And then I think we went to went to another Bioneers and someone stood up and asked this group of women, they said, well, what are you going to do about the imminent war in Iraq? And we decided to do a hunger strike. And that's where we went. We went to Lafayette Park and camped out, got shoved out of Lafayette Park more times than I can count. I think it was freezing cold. It might have been snowing that time. And but you know, we formed this coalition and we did strikes to another hunger strike in the war. And we went to Baghdad. And I believe that one picture is when we went to Baghdad. It was before the war started and before the human shields started coming in. Wow. Yeah. Well, and I think I'm, well, you can see, let's see, there's Medea in that picture with you. There's Jody in the background. I'm not I'm not sure who the other folks are, but good for you all for going to to Baghdad. And then then in 2005, the pictures on the right, how about tell us about that? I guess I can. They're kind of blocked. Well, it's, is that Cindy Sheans? Yeah. It was Cindy Sheans and and you probably know more about that. She was the curl at absolutely ran that camp. It was it was like a company there. And if and then was the one who got everybody up and moving in the morning and get the food on and it was it was the most amazing sudden happening. I mean, what was it within a week? There were like how many thousands? Well, overall, in the 27 days we had the camp, there were over 15,000 people. Yeah. It was unbelievable. It was unbelievable. And I remember some civil rights people came out and I remember, what was it? Joan bias? Didn't she didn't she show up? Yeah. It was unbelievable. Yeah. And you're negotiating with several times. Well, I think they figured I was too aggressive with them and they brought Ann in for diplomacy. And then tell us about this picture of Amon Jordan and what what triggered going to Amon Jordan. It was after our hunger strike. We did another strike to bring the troops home. Wasn't that what it was? Bring the troops home. And after the hunger strike, we were invited to go to was it Jordan we went to or was it Iraq? Yeah. Iran. Jordan. We went to there and we talked to a lot of groups that wanted to voice their concerns about how they felt their country should be run and and that type of thing. And that photo is a gathering of a number of us. And it was amazing. I think after that, I think we might have went to Beirut from there. Yep. I think part of the group did go on. The Iraqi parliamentarians had come to us or sent a messenger to us at Lafayette Square saying when you in your fast, why don't you in your fast but come to to Amon where our a great number of parliamentarians are and we'll tell you about a peace plan we have and we just need to help getting the US to go along with this peace plan. So we ended up going and breaking our fast with the parliamentarians. Yeah. And me and Anne had went for chicken, right? It was like we just had a hankering for fried chicken. I remember that. We broke our fast a little bit early but we did 30 days so nobody got tired at us. That was that was really quite a time to be there in Amon and meet with the parliamentarians. And then that was when the Israeli attack on Lebanon happened. And then you and several others, Medea and several others went on to Beirut. Right. Right. That was amazing. And I remember we went to some of the camps, the refugee camps, and we handed out. We went to visit and then I remember one day, don't tell me how Medea raised it, but she had all of this ice cream, all these ice cream and we were handing out ice cream in this in this refugee camp. And I remember they're hearing loud explosions and I nearly jumped out of my skin and I couldn't imagine what that must be like on a on a steady term, getting that type of the shell blasts and hearing it all the time. Yeah. Well, but Medea is on this webinar and I'm sure she'll she'll write us a few little notes about where she got that. Yeah, I don't know where she got it. In the middle of all that bombing, I mean we went to two places where what was so amazing with Medea and I'm trying to think kind of reddish hair. What's what's her name? I can't be my brain. I can't remember her names, but we would go to places and they said you cannot get in here. There is no way. And Medea would go there, go talk to a couple of people and she said they'll take us. It was just hopping the car. Well, Todd Berry's also on and then Todd just wrote, Medea banned me from ice cream, but she gives the way to the rest of the world. Yes, she did. I got some great pictures of that actually. Oh, well, let's go. Yeah. And Gail Murphy's in. No, it was Gail, I'm sorry. Gail Murphy's not working. I see Barbara Briggs-Letson back there, Medea, Jeff Millard was on that trip. Father Louis Vitale was on the trip. Oh, I know. He wanted to go to Beirut too. Yeah, but he was too sick. He got too sick. He got too sick. Let's go on and then we're going to go through a few more historical opportunities to fully understand what Diane decides is going to do something. She does it. And we'll get on to the current project that she's working on in just a minute, but let's go through a couple of more. Oh, that. I believe we were in front of BP's headquarters. And I had, I get ideas and I get these spontaneous ideas. And I think they're really good. And I said, we need to go do a naked protest. And there were some Texas women with me and they said, oh no, Diane, that's not a good idea. And I said, no, it would be the shock of it will be good. Except everybody stripped off except me. I was hiding behind boards or something or another. No, I see Ray Abelay is in here with not much on. That's right. There were a couple of them really, really, but I was, but it was good. And I did. I heard a, I remember on the way home, I don't know who I was with, but they kept asking us if we were going to do it again. It was like, please do it again. Well, the sign says expose BP's indecent greed. So BP's indecent, not, not this. And I think Leslie Harris in the picture, and I think that's Nell, who's, you know, passed on. I think that was Nell standing next to you. And I don't know who's in the seagull outfit. But remember that it's probably Medea. I think that was about her size and that seagull outfit traveled around quite a bit. It ended up in Washington and in a congressional hearing that we'll hear a little bit about. Tell us about being in front of the White House and on another hunger show. Yes. Let me see. Which one is, oh, this is Guantanamo, wouldn't it? Guantanamo. Yeah. There were, there was myself and there was I, those vets for peace, Elliot and them. And I remember Eric and yeah, there was, there was a strong crew of serious hunger fasters. And, and it was, I think that was a mate, one of our major actions on a really bright sunny day. And, and at the very end, I just decided to I kind of do, when I finish a hunger strike, I just get an impulse to really finish it well. So I decided to go over the fence and the guys, I mean, those vets, they supported me and they, well, you know, it's pretty darn high and you're 56 days, you're pretty weak. And so they helped me get up there. And, and I think Ann and Medea and then we're distracting the cops and I got over there. And then we were yelling really fast, Diane, don't get up. Because you, you went sailing, well, not sailing, but yeah, tumbled on over. And then I think the breath got knocked out of you, didn't it? It really, really did. And then I stood up and then here come the, the guns and the dogs. And, and, and what was real funny is one of the guys that was wrestling me, I think that guy right there, he knocked himself in the face with his own gun. And so he was bleeding. And so when they went to the back to question me with Secret Service, they kept saying, did she do that? Did she do that? And he's like, I did it myself, like did it myself. I guess he did when we know that he was acting. So that was after 50, a 57 day hunger strike just to close Guantanamo and Guantanamo still open with 40 prisoners, but hopefully the, the Biden administration will finally get that prison closed down. Let's, let's sure hope so. Yeah. Well, going from in front of the White House to Congress, what in the world is going on here? Well, it was when the CEO of BP was going to testify in Congress. And matter of fact, I was in, I think Medea called me from DC and she said, do you know this CEO of BP is going to be testifying here? And so I went to DC and I was there two days, got arrested both days. And, and I was there when that picture was taken when Tony got up to, to speak. And I had been sitting outside since nearly two in the morning to be in line to get into that, into that hearing room. And I did. And the minute he got up, that's when I stood up. Off you went. And then here's another, picture it. You seem to like these police there in every picture with you. They do. You know, and the funny thing about that one is you see that court of black stuff, I put that through their security straight down and it just sailed right through. They didn't say a word about that. Well, and they didn't know what it was. So they were kind of afraid to touch you. They were, they were very afraid. But, but you know what was interesting when I went, they took me to jail. Everybody in that police room started clapping. Really? Because they knew it was about BP and what had happened to the Gulf. And I had so many of the police that were, were very sympathetic was what I was doing. Wonderful. Well, you know, the over time, the police that were so kind of mean and rude to us in the early days of the Iraq war, as their kids kept coming back from the war. And they started talking about to their parents about, you know, why are we over there? And the police started being a lot more sympathetic with our protests about that war. They sure did. Well, now here you are down in Texas and tell us what, what's, what was going on with this? You and the. Yeah, yeah, I'm, we, I, I got workers that started working with me. They would, you know, because down here, no unions and, and agencies don't work and politicians are bought off. And it was a do nothing agents, federal and state. And, and all of these pellets were showing up and the workers were coming and telling me about it. So I got workers from the plant and we would go looking for these pellets because nobody else would do anything. And, and eventually I found out that, that for most I had 10 stormwater outfalls. And that's where you, you see that kind of wire gauge stuff back there. That's the direction of the plant and that's the direction the water comes and there is pellets and powder like crazy. And so I eventually learned where they were and I would get the kayak and I'd go right up to them. And that's what I was doing. I was looking for pellets and that was before as we were filing suit and we collected over 2500 samples. Yep, that's it. There was a lot of them. There were a lot of pellets. I think the one place I was at, I think over a two year period there was like, what was it, 67 billion pellets. It was a lot. Oh my God. Well, and then, then what happened? You found all the pellets, you sued them in court. What happened? Yeah, we got this. So we had injured workers, ones that had been harassed by the by the company and had been fired because they were kind of speaking out. So we went to court and we had the lawyers was the Texas Real Grand Legal Aid, which is one of the best legal aid. They're just legal aid and they did it for free and they do it for poor people who can't afford anything. They normally do for migrant workers down in the valley and they took on our case and, you know, and I mean, we had the evidence. I know we had one of the big lawyers out of corpus. He said it was the immense evidence. And we did, we had bins that we put on a goat cart and hauled it into Victoria and hauled it through their little security stuff and and they were astonished by the amount of evidence and we had a good legal team and and we had a great judge and he listened to us and I was not used to people actually listening to us and seeing us and and and then the judge ruled that they were, they were, you know, that they were guilty. They had, you know, like 2000 violations and they said they were a serial polluter and their violations were enormous and they said the state of Texas obviously didn't know how to enforce or they didn't want to enforce and and right after that, Formosa was ready to settle. They, they was serious. I think they thought the judge was going to find them 200 billion dollars. So, so they were, you know, they wanted to settle and, you know, and my bottom line was they were going to give us 50 million dollars and we were going to go zero discharge and they did. They just very quietly wrote it down and it was amazing. Well, so did you get the 50 million? Oh, no, no, no, we make it very clear every single penny went to environmental projects in Calhoun County and probably for me, the best one, we put 20 million dollars into a sustainable fishery co-op for the fishermen who have who have about lost everything and they're going, there's no fish houses anymore. There's no place to dock their boats. There's no place to get fuel or sell their shrimp, you know? So we put 20 million into it and we brought in a kick ass co-op out of Georgia, the Southern Federation of Co-ops and they came down and they're teaching these fishermen how to work together and how to be a sustainable co-op. So I'm very, very pleased with this. Was that co-op out of Georgia or out of Louisiana? Georgia. It's about 40 or 50 years old and it was usually black farmers that they were helping farm co-ops into exist and they had mainly worked with them and they had worked with some co-ops in Louisiana and so we, they had a great reputation so we brought them down and they've been working with the fishermen. Wonderful, wow, that is great. Well, here's a picture with a little more evidence. Yeah, that's before I packed them for the, for I packed them off and sent them to court. Are you still filing these pellets? Oh yeah, yeah, we're, believe it or not, we, we collected from January 2016 to February, March not 2019, which was the court date, took four days for the court and then immediately started still checking and collecting pellets and we have been collecting ever since. So it's still polluting? Well, yeah, because, because you, you try to, a plant that has failures that is causing the pellets to go out and the powder to go out, you, as a part of our, our settlement is like they have to find out what's wrong and how to fix it, you know, like, whether it's stormwater systems or the units and, you know, all of these different source control and all of this, but then a lot of the problem is, is that, yeah, you kind of know now, but it's like how do you fix it? But at least we have, we have a monitor and we, an independent monitor and every time, for most of violates our standard of zero discharge, they get a penalty and we put it in the, our little matagorda trust and we fund environmental projects. Wow. Yeah. Well, congratulations. That is a stunning, stunning success that you all worked hard to get and, and by golly, you got it. That is great. They called us crazy the whole time. Crazy good. Thank goodness. Well, now tell us what, what's going on now? You're on another hunger strike. Well, the thing that is, is here you fight all of these years with Formosa to clean up the plastic pollution, which by the way picks up, if there's contaminants in the Bay, it picks them up like there's a Superfund, there's mercury and it picks up the mercury and can you imagine these little pellets for the burns and for the fish that eat them and they're transferring the mercury all over the place. And so anyway, we, we've got 20 million to invest in this matagorda Bay co-op and they're just now getting, looking at buying docks and fish houses and right at the very moment they're trying to do that. You have a pipeline guy, Max Midstream, I've never heard of the guy before, and he wants to put in a oil export. There used to be a ban on oil exports because it's being exported out, you know, it's crude oil from the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shell. And so, you know, he wants a deeper and wider ship channel so he can get the really Supermax ships in to make more money. And so he is willing to pay the, to have it dredged. He's got a foreign funder to pay $360 million to dredge it and it's got mercury. It's going to resuspended methyl and mercury, which causes deformities in children. And, you know, and then it's going to cover up maybe over a thousand acres of oyster reefs. And here we are just trying to revive the communities. I mean, these, these fishing communities are literally, they're dead. You know, you go through SeaDrip, all five fish houses are gone. They're bulldozed. Every store is shut down and got boards up against it. You know, it used to be a thriving, you would have net shops, you would have marine supplies, you would, you know, it brought in the grocery stores. And this is all home family, fishermen, like family farmers. They're the same type of people. They go out in the evening and back in and it's very family orientated. And here he wants to just come in and dredge it, bring in an oil export and everybody just seems to go deaf about. And the thing that is they are what they, they wanted to expedite it, you know, they kept saying it's a deadline. It's a deadline. And it's like, well, it's a self-imposed deadline because they want to get that thing moving as fast as they can. And so. Now, what is the APA said about this? Don't they have to do an environmental impact statement or something? Well, it's the core of engineers. They did an EIS and they actually had three sentences about the mercury, you know, three sentences. And I know I was, I was, I was listening to the core was coming down and is telling where they were, they were going to, they wanted to put it out in the bay, open an open disposal, meaning, you know, they dredge it and blow it out. Oh yeah. And it would, it would cover up all of these natural, uh, uh, values and all of these natural endless to these matter of fact, they just bought the, uh, Powderhorn Lake and it's beautiful and it's got lagoons and it's got all these places you can go and all this and I guarantee you, they start blowing that sediment down there contaminate with sediment, I mean, contaminate with mercury and it's going to close it up, cover it with sediment. It's terrible. It's terrible. So I'm, I'm like, uh, they're not going to do it. They're, they're not. And it's like, what do I do when I got no money and no support and nobody likes it? It's like, well, I'll do a hunger strike. So there you are. There I am. Day number, day number 11 now. Is that 11? Yeah. Now, have you had visitors, uh, support, uh, a few visitors coming out to see? I have. I really, really have, uh, I've had, uh, people from, from the county that have showed up. I have had, uh, I've had, uh, uh, oil guys too. You know, I'm used to seeing a bunch of petrochemical workers, but now I'm tending to see oil guys and they tend to throw curses from the highway and a few come by and video me and, uh, and I actually had one, one guy, an oil guy and he was, uh, I think he was on the verge of being a whistleblower and he said he had been collecting all spills locally for five years and he, he wouldn't got his phone and he was just flipping through all of these phones. I mean, of all these pictures and he said, well, his biggest cover up was 4,000, uh, barrels. He, they, they covered up 4,000 barrels of contaminated soil and sediment and oil and, uh, some terrible stories, but, but, uh, a really good, uh, uh, uh, visit was from, uh, Juan Perez and he's with the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. It's hard to say. Our own Juan Perez, uh, yes, yes, yes. And he said, he wanted to know what our concerns were and I told him that we, what our concerns were and that we were writing a letter to Biden and asked him to stop it. And, uh, he said, well, when you send that letter to Biden, send it, put, send it to us too. It will be the first letter on our desk. So, well, is he working in Washington now? Uh, right now he said he's doing a lot of conference calling. Uh-huh. But he's, yeah, I don't, I don't know if he's going to be up there or if it's, I don't, I don't know how they do it, but I know he's, he was appointed. Wow. Yeah. I was very, very impressed. Tell us, uh, what organization in Houston that he worked with? Oh, he's with Tejas. And before he was with Tejas, he was a really good buddy with Cesar Chavez. Uh, you know, he went with him in Mexico all the time. And believe it or not, you know, for a while, I had a group of injured workers and I still think that's a good idea actually. I've been trying to get someone to get interested in it, but he, he had, uh, I thought I was the first Texas injured workers group, but actually, uh, Juan had. And, uh, so, so we both got an interest in the workers and the labor force and I'm sorry. He was working a lot for what, about all the oil refineries that are, that are along the Houston ship channel. Oh my God. Yeah. He's with Tejas and he even takes groups on, uh, well he lives in around Manchester, which is, I mean, it's right there. I mean, you look over your shoulder and you got a big, uh, petro tank full of EDC or some lovely thing like that. So he and Brian have been doing that for a very, very long time. And I'm, and I'm sure his long history is, is, uh, got him, got him that appointment. And I think it's great. It's great. Wonderful. That is really great to, to know somebody that's on a White House appointed committee. So can we, uh, can we join with you as you write to him and. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. Because we were, uh, when we're writing the letter, we were looking for, uh, people that wanted to, people in groups that wanted to sign on to the letter and lovely. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. That, okay. Uh, then that's, uh, that's what we want to do. All of us, um, some, Ellen finally has written to say, I have something on my screen that's now being shared. So there we go. Sorry. So now tell us, uh, besides Juan and the White House, um, uh, committee, what are the other organizations that, uh, that you're working with in order to build a mobilization for trying to get this dredging stopped? Well, well, I know, uh, just for, I've had at least two phone calls when, um, you know, when, when you get on hunger strike, people get very, uh, uh, concerned and they really, they really want to do something. So I've been on at least two phone calls and there were about five different lawyers. And, uh, like some of them are from earth justice, earthworks, uh, there was healthy gulf. I think, uh, they've asked, uh, the, uh, water alliance to join. There is, um, um, trying to think right off the top of my head, Sierra club, Sierra club. Yes. Yes. And, and so, and then, and then there's a lot. So there's, there's a group that is working on the letter to Biden and also the, uh, you know, the illegal angle to, to stop it some way to legally, if there's a legal angle on it, but we're trying to stop the dredging and stop the, uh, oil exports. And you know, and there's eight on the Texas Gulf coast. So, you know, we're hoping he will, Biden will reinstate a ban, but, uh, I, I do know like a number of the, uh, groups are there, they have put together this flotilla, uh, action that we're going to do. I think the whole gulf is going to be a week of actions. And one of them on the 23rd through 25th, we, I think a camp out at Magnolia beach and food and good stuff. And then on, uh, bright and early Sunday morning, we're going to launch the kayaks. Oh boy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Careful. Oh, that's great. That's, that sounds wonderful. And are there some ships out there that you can actually block up right now? No, no, not yet, but it's kind of like a forewarning. If they, you know, for me, it's solidarity, but it's also, you know, a kind of shot over the bow and it's like, this is kind of a show. So they kind of know that they start trying to bring in dredges. What will they meet with, you know, a bay full of kayaks. Uh huh. Well, well, I'll tell you that. So if anybody's down in the, the Texas Gulf Coast, they can help you, well, you're not going to be on this hunger strike forever, I hope. Are you, but well, when we stop it, well, yes, that's right. When we stop it, but we want, we want you around for, you know, another couple of understrike missions, I guess. But so people can, can write. They can, if they're in South Texas, they can come out to the flotilla. They can come by in solidarity. Sure. I'm always there. Can't miss my track. Yeah. It's red. It's red. It's really red. Indeed. Indeed. Well, we are so thrilled to have this opportunity to, to talk with you, to catch up with you, to find out what you're doing. And the latest very important cause that you're bringing to our attention, because without you're doing this, none of us would have realized that that big dredging operation could be taking place very, very soon. That's true. Very, very shortly. Yeah. So I appreciate it more that I can tell you that you lovely code peak vets for peace are doing this. I really appreciate this. Well, we appreciate your, your courage and your creativity and your relentlessness. I mean, taking, never taking no for an answer. And that's right. That's a way to, to come on strong and mobilize people. So any other ideas that you have of things that others of us ought to be doing in our own communities? Well, I think I truly believe everybody, there is something in their community. There is something that they can do. And I think for, for the, for the good of all mankind, I believe each and every one, there is something, one step we can take. And the thing that is, it's, you know, it'll, it'll get you out of your routine and maybe get you a little uncomfortable, but it will change your life. And you know, I'm an introvert and just stepping out to change my whole life. It really did. And it made me a very happy person. Well, we are happy with you. And before we go, if I think if Mary can help us, if people have a question, I think we can let you speak. And there's Mary. Hi, Mary. Thank you so much for everything. And Max is there also. If anybody has a question, raise your hand or just want to come on and say hello to Diane because I, you know, most everybody that's on here. And I'm sure they all want to say hello. Let's see. How about, how about highlight? Well, just gave Peter Bella the, the clearance to speak. Okay. Peter, go ahead. Does that work for y'all? Can you hear me? Yeah, good. Okay. I see that I see that I can. Yeah, I was very interested in some of the activities. And I don't know who to contact or for instance, Flotilla, how to get involved with that. And in general, if there's a way to find out from San Antonio where I am more about your hunger strike, sort of follow with and follow on, how can we do that? Well, there's a Facebook page. And I think it says, hunger strike to stop the dredge and stop oil exports. And so, so you can go there. And it's got things you can tweet, things you can Facebook, you know, and it's got, I regularly put up videos and blogs about what's going on. And I do know the action, I think, Ann, is the link to that kayak action there? Yeah, let me, let me pull it up right now and I can put it in the chat. Yeah, just check it out and come down. And like I said, lovely Magnolia Beach and a lot of good people, you'd love the people down here. That sounds good. Thank you. I am going for my second COVID shot on Monday, so I'll try to get down as quick as I can. Oh, that'll be super, super, super. Thank you. And I forgot to mention the Society of Native Nations have been extremely supportive down here. We've gotten a lot of support from them. Is that the folks here that are in San Antonio that you're thinking of? Yeah, great. Thank you. And keep up the great work. Oh, thank you. And see you in a kayak. I'm going to put the link into the chat right now. How about some other people that might want to say hello to Diane? Oh, I know there are plenty. Don't be bashful. How about this, how about, Medea, are you near your, your... It's Ty. He finds the best bicycle locks. I was going to tell you that is my favorite story. Yeah. Diane says, she goes, I want the most expensive bike lock you can find. Made $150 for this bike lock. She went, she went locked her neck. We all distracted the secret service. She, she locked her neck to the White House fence. It took them four hours to get. They had to bring out three fire trucks and all kinds of, they completely coded her with Romax, which is like non flammable. And then they, they had to slowly grind this thing off. Man, it was the craziest action I've ever seen in my life. That is right. I even had a lady recently asked me, she wanted to chain herself. And I said, get one of those. What was that, tungsten? Is that what it was? Yeah. It was like some German. Oh, yes. They're the best. They'll have a heck of a time getting that off you. Yeah. And it was Ty who went all over Washington looking for that. And we found, we were also, we were quite worried about, about, you know, I mean, that ledge on the White House, if anybody knows it, can't get there anymore. But that ledge on the wall is kind of slippery and kind of angled. Man, it's dangerous putting your neck up there. Boy. And, but Diane, she was all into it. It was a great action. I really liked it. Ty also knows how to get those bicycle locks into the congressional office building. Oh, wow. He just goes right on through security with them. It's amazing what you can get that through that security. I have been amazed about that. So how about, is it, Mary, is it possible that we can let the video for anybody that wants to be on? Can we just tap video so everyone can see who is here or is that possible with the webinar? It's not possible to show everyone's video. I'm sorry. Okay. Well, how about other people that would like to make a comment? Many of you have been involved in these crazy things that we, we've worked on. I know, I'm just gonna say one thing. Can you hear me? It's Tyra. Hey, Derek. Yeah. Yeah. I know whatever Diane or you and are on an action that I'm, I'm involved in, I feel good. I feel totally good. Yeah. He's one of the best fasters out there. I guarantee you. Solidarity. Solidarity with you, my brother. Yeah. Well, my moment of fame was when I joined Elliott in pushing you over the fence. That was a great one. We have a picture. Very true. But I wanted to say that we're going live with the website soon that I told you about. And also on the story is all the information about what people can do. Oh, that's super. I appreciate it. That's very good. And the other thing I would like is I would like to put a recording of this webinar on the website. So I hope and we'll send it to us or somebody will send it to us. Yeah, we sure will. It's on YouTube. And I think it's on Medea's Facebook. And then we'll have this recording. So yes, we can send it to everyone. Good deal. Okay, you guys are great. Diane, we just love you. I'll wrestle. I'll wrestle you. Okay. We gotta have that arm wrestle. He's afraid I'll wrestle even win. That's why he wants to do it while you're on hunger strike. He's scared. He's scared. That's the only thing I'm scared of. Hey, it's Medea. I just want to send my love to Diane. I want to say how grateful I am that you are once again putting your body on the line. I knew it once and it was enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know. You know, I always love those hunger strikes. I remember one time, I think it was at one of the rallies in D.C. And they wanted me to go up and speak. And Jody was there and she whispered, do not say you're going on a hunger strike. And I went up and said, let's go on a hunger strike. And we did. We went on another hunger strike. Yeah. Oh boy. But sometimes you gotta tell everybody how you break these hunger strikes. The last time I broke it with the Mexican food is what I did. I remember the fried chicken with Anne. Oh yeah, it was Anne. With Anne it was definitely chicken. Chicken, yeah. But the one going over the White Owls fence, it was Mexican food. Yeah, it was great. Well, Anne Wilcox is just in the chat saying that hi to everyone. And then Pat Elder is working on military poisons in Maryland and he's listening. And he's really done a lot of work on poisons in our water supplies from the military. Good deal. Good deal. That's one of the worst is the military. It sure is. It sure is. Okay. Anybody else want to say hello to Diane while we're here? And she's probably about to faint from lack of food. Can you hear me? Yes, Crystal. So Pocky and I are driving across the country in June and we're talking about come on down. Come on down. Yep. I'll show you a time. I know you will. Okay. I love to have you. Yeah, I love you too. Bye-bye. That's great, Crystal. Another one of Crystal's road trips. Yeah. Watch out for those Pocky and I think Tygo is involved in going up to Standing Rock. And so when Crystal's on the move, we watch them. Let's see. Connie wants to speak, but apparently she has an older version of Zoom. Let's see. Madeleine from Houston says, won't this destroy the Iran's wildlife refuge? Yes. Yes. Yes. Eventually all of this. Well, the thing is, let's say the Iran's wildlife is around San Antonio Bay. This one will destroy the Powder Horn Reserve. This is a brand new one. It was a big to-do about all of these beautiful wetlands and marshes and places to kayak and the red fish and all kinds of things. And it's, you know, I think it was bought maybe two years ago and set up. And it would. It will totally close it off and smother it. And like I said, about a thousand acres of oyster reefs, you know, and there goes the livelihood of the fishermen. Wow. Connie says, hello from all your friends and admirers in Maine. Well, love you out there. Indeed. Well, we definitely want to urge everyone to keep in touch. Code Pink, thank you all very much. Code Pink, Mary and Maxine and Jody and Medea and everyone for putting up a lot of material on the Code Pink website. And we'll continue to populate that with more and more information. So we really, really thank everyone. And Mary, thank you and Maxine for being on to help us navigate this. And Diane, we will bid farewell and let you get to not having a good dinner. Yeah, I'll probably go to bed. Seriously, I'll probably go to bed. Yeah. Well, you take care of yourself. And I'll just mention that your daughter's concerned about you. Your daughter lets us know. Like, why are you letting my mom do that again? Why can't you stop her? It's like, well, you're a daughter. Can you stop her? No. We're friends and we don't have much luck stopping her either. I know. Those kids, they should know by now. Well, they do. And I know they deep in their heart, they are so, I mean, they're very proud of you. But everybody, of course, is very concerned about your health. And at any point, you know, you've made, you've made your point, that's for sure. It's up to us now. We've got the point and we come in to help with this. And we pledge that we will do that. And I'm most grateful. I really, really am. Okay. Well, thanks so much. And you take care. Peace. Peace out. Peace out. Okay. Thanks to everyone for being with us. Thank you.