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Diane Wilson, Eco-Outlaw, reading at BookPeople!
Anyone who pays attention to environmental news today probably feels equal parts hopeless and desperate. Small-scale lifestyle changes like using totes at the grocery store or becoming a vegetarian might assuage guilt, but does anybody really feel like they are doing something about global warming and mass extinction? Very much unlike most of us, author, activist, Texan, Eco-Outlaw and shrimper Diane Wilson was first moved to political action when shrimp, her livelihood, were threatened by chemicals in the water in Seadrift, TX, and then took up the Bhopal Disaster of 1984 as her major cause. She joined forces with the world famous anti-war organization CodePink and raised her activist profile to world class. You might have heard about her pouring oil on herself at senate energy hearings and BP shareholders’ meetings.
Now that Wilson can boast being jailed more than 50 times for civil disobedience, including one citizen’s arrest of Dick Cheney, she has followed up her first book with its sequel, Diary of an Eco-Outlaw: An Unreasonable Woman Breaks the Law for Mother Earth. Wilson, a self-proclaimed accidental activist, will read less like an environmental nutjob (hint: “Mother Earth” is in the title, but the text is thankfully “Mother Gaia”-free), more like one of your Texan relatives. Expect to find lots of common sense joyfully written and fun to read. Wilson will be reading from her new memoir at Bookpeople Thursday at 7:00 pm.
