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Formosa Plastics
March to the White House
Rally and Petition Delivery to Demand Justice for Victims of Formosa Plastics Disasters
January 12, 2024, 11:00am
We demand justice for Vietnamese fishermen.
Our collective mission is to amplify the voices of victims who have endured extreme hardships due to corporate negligence in environmental conservation, health, and human rights.
Photo Credit: Vietnammoi.vn
2016 Formosa Marine Disaster
In 2016, the Formosa Ha Tinh Steel plant in Central Vietnam released toxic chemicals into the sea, leading to extensive marine life casualties along Vietnam's coastline and severely impacting over 100,000 fishermen's livelihoods and causing devastation to over four million residents residing in four provinces. Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, belatedly admitted responsibility for Vietnam's most severe environmental disaster.
Photo Credit: Hao Min, TW Reporter.
A global coalition to fight Formosa Plastics
We are working with environmental activists and fence line communities in Texas, Louisiana, and Taiwan that are organizing against the Formosa Plastic Group’s harm.
Congressional Briefing
Justice for Victims of Formosa Plastics
A Serial Offender of Environmental Justice, Health, and Human Rights Issues at Home and Abroad
September 28, 2023
Food will be provided. The event will be live streamed and recorded.
Equitable and fair compensation for the victims.
An independent inquiry to confirm the cessation of pollution, cleanup of the impacted environment, and restoration of the livelihoods and communities of those affected by this tragedy.
The immediate release of all political prisoners associated with this cause.
An investigation into the Formosa Plastics Group and their business practices.
Livestream
Recording of the US Congress Briefing, September 28, 2023, 12-1pm EST.
VOA Report
Nỗ lực vận động cho nạn nhân Formosa được quan tâm tại Quốc hội Mỹ | Truyền hình VOA 30/9/23
Media Coverage
Images courtesy of Van Dau, see all photos.
We demand that the Vietnamese government release these prisoners who advocated for the victims of the Formosa environmental disaster.
Interviews with US Congress Members
Alan Lowenthal
Zoe Lofgren
Toxic Tour
Watch Zoom recording (in English, Vietnamese and Mandarin Chinese).
Protest in Taiwan
In May 2023, activists from Louisiana, Texas, and Vietnam traveled to Taipei to speak at Formosa Plastics’ annual shareholder meeting.
Interview with Nancy Bui
Interview by climate and ecology journalist Sally Jensen at Taiwan Plus.
Formosa Plastics explosion in Illinois
On April 23, 2004, five workers were fatally injured and two others were seriously injured when an explosion occurred in a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) production unit at Formosa Plastics in Illiopolis, Illinois, east of Springfield. The explosion followed a release of highly flammable vinyl chloride, which ignited. The explosion forced a community evacuation and lighted fires that burned for several days at the plant.
Spotlight
Report
A serial offender
This report by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), the Center for Biological Diversity, and Earthworks critically shows that Formosa Plastics’ long history exemplifies the profound risks that the entire petrochemicals and plastics industry poses to human health, human rights, local ecosystems, and the global climate.
$12,575,000
Total amount in fines paid by Formosa Plastics (Texas) for clean water violations to the San Antonio Bay Estuarine Trust since 2020.
Documentary Film
Red Sea: Vietnam’s Modern Disaster
Photo Credit: Prerna Srigyan, EcoGovLab
Research Collaborations
IMFA is partnering with academics, including researchers from the EcoGovLab at the University of California, Irvine to document and educate about the 2016 marine disaster.
Research Articles
Van Truong et al (2022)
Household recovery from disaster: insights from Vietnam’s fish kill
“What happened to the Vietnamese fishermen and their fisheries is what happened to us in Texas. This wrong has to be made right and Formosa must not be allowed to destroy another fishery.”
— Diane Wilson, Waterkeeper
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