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In many ways, at nearly 80 years old, Diane Wilson would have rather stayed home. A retired shrimper from Texas with a rural high school education, she agreed to come here without thinking too much, as usual. That’s how she does things.
She, crossed 13 time zones to confront Formosa Plastic’s leadership on its home turf at its annual shareholder meeting in Taipei, Taiwan. Wilson believes it's important to stay in their face. She traveled all the way there to show Formosa that even at 78, she isn’t going away and she isn’t alone.
Two of her allies also joined her: Sharon Lavigne, 76, a retired special education teacher from Louisiana’s St. James Parish and Nancy Bui, 72, a former Vietnamese refugee in Texas whose organization is suing Formosa in Taiwanese court over a 2016 disaster in Vietnam.
“There is a solidarity, not just within this village but in many villages all around the world,” said Annie Huang, an organizer with ERF. “It inspires us—the village leaders and people like Diane.”
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