D.C. Drivers Should Avoid BP, Says Protester Outside Gas Station

Diane Wilson, a shrimper and activist from Texas, blocked the driveway outside a local BP gas station in Washington D.C. Saturday. Wilson told Talk Radio News that she wants drivers to stop using BP gas stations. (0:17)
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Boycott Of Local BP Gas Stations A Good Way To Affect The Company, Says Protester

Diane Wilson, a shrimper and activist from Texas, joined a protest outside a BP gas station in Washington D.C. to send a message to the corporation that their actions are unacceptable . (0:16)
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President Barack Obama Should Treat BP As A Criminal, Says Protester

Diane Wilson, a Texas fisherman, says BP America must be treated as a criminal and not a corporate entity. (0:27)
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Oil Spills Are Happening Everywhere, Says Protester

Diane Wilson, the Texas fisherman that, during a Senate Hearing last week, poured oil over herself to show her disappointment in the U.S. response to the Gulf Coast oil spill, says incidents like the Deepwater Horizon incident are happening across the country's coasts. (0:24)
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Texas Shrimper's Theatrical Protest Disrupts Senate Hearing

TRNS Correspondent Brandon Kosters interviews Diane Wilson, a shrimper and activist who doused her body in dense syrup that resembled oil during a Senate hearing with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Wedensday on the current oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. Wilson was protesting Joint Resolution 26, spearheaded by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski (R), which will restrict the EPA from monitoring the green house emissions of large corporations. (13:57)
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Code Pink red with anger

Four women from Code Pink, a group that protests injustice and the Iraq War, discuss their encounter with staff of the House Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law and the United States Capitol Police at a hearing in which former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove failed to appear under subpoena. The women were told to remove clothing with political statements and hats under threat of arrest. The women accuse the committee of censorship and say that Rove suffers no consequences for failing to come before Congress while they are threatened with arrest for expressing their right to free speech. (4:12)
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