US Army Corps Of Engineers Permit Big Oil To Dredge Mercury-Contaminated Matagorda Bay

Likewise, In Okinawa, for over 10 years, activists have used kayaks and other boats to protest the construction of a U.S. Marine Corps runway into pristine Oura Bay which has endangered species the dugong and remarkable coral areas.

Flotillas of boats have been used to bring attention to other issues including the illegal Israeli naval and land blockade of Gaza. Since 2008, the Free Gaza Movement and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition have sailed 35 boats to challenge the Israeli blockade.

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In describing why she subjected her body to the first hunger strike and why she continues to use them, Wilson said she did what her heart told her to do and that hunger striking is the most accessible form of protest: "I didn't have money, and I didn't have any people. But I had myself."

Diane Wilson has more than herself as her friends with kayaks intend to help her keep Matagorda Bay free from dredging!

Wilson is the author of An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas ( 2005), Diary of an Eco-Outlaw ( 2011) and Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus (2008).

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