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by Conrad Anker
In December 2008 during the last days of his administration, the particular time where pardons fly and gifts are acknowledged, George W. Bush offered up 116 energy leases in southern Utah. The leases for underground reserves are put to auction, a standard practice when public property is sold. The market determines the price for the unproven opportunities and in competitive bidding the state, on behalf of the public, receives the highest amount for the resources. Auctions ...
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By Reilly Capps
This video went up on HuffPo yesterday.
There is a great deal to be written about Tim DeChristopher and the future of peaceful civil disobedience in this country. The history of peaceful civil disobedience is been complicated and confusing. There have been acts of peaceful civil disobedience that were profoundly misguided, and ended up doing more damage than good. (Although one struggles to think of pertinent examples. Perhaps that's because peaceful civil disobedience ...
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Tim DeChristopher-- the climate activist --received a 2 year felony sentence for disrupting a federal auction of oil & gas leases near preserved parklands in southern Utah. He's now in jail. We're not attorneys but other successful bidders in earlier BLM drilling auctions didn't get tried or go to jail for failure to pay. The Huffington Post provided a reasoned perspective on the sentencing and related events here.
Whatever the merits or demerits of the trial, we do agree with the ...
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Excellent lengthy interview with Tim DeChristopher, who faces sentencing in one week for disrupting an oil and gas lease auction in 2008. We've written about him a few times, since we think he's one of the most interesting figures in the climate movement today and one of its most original and heart-strong thinkers.
... the government really wanted me to take a plea bargain, because they felt like they needed me to come before the court with my head bowed and say, “I apologize for my ...