20 JULY, 2002: For the last two days, Diane Wilson, a fourth generation shrimper from Sea Drift, Texas, has abandoned the waters of San Antonio Bay – swelled by five to ten million gallons of industrial effluent each day from a local canal – and begun a hunger strike outside Union Carbide’s Sea Drift chemical plant, one of the area’s chief polluters. Her action launches a worldwide hunger strike being conducted in relays around the globe by supporters of survivors of Union Carbide’s 1984 gas disaster in Bhopal, India.