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Fake bidder could face federal charges KUTV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA But Tim DeChristopher doesn’t have the money, and never intended to pay up. Now, the 27 year old environmentalist may face federal charges.
Imposter monkeywrenches mineral lands bid Salt Lake Tribune - United States Tim DeChristopher, 27, faces possible federal charges after winning bids totaling about $1.8 million on more than 10 lease parcels that he admits he has ...
Activist accused of tainting drilling lease sale The Associated Press The FBI was questioning a man who registered for the auction as Tim DeChristopher of Salt Lake City, said the bureau's Utah Energy Team Leader Terry Catlin. ...
Utah BLM lease auction goes through, sort-of
New West - Missoula,MT,USA
And the auction itself was disrupted by a couple environmental activists, one of whom, 27 year old University of Utah student Tim DeChristopher, ...
Bogus lease bidder won't face charges - yet
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
U. economics student Tim DeChristopher, 27, was detained and questioned Friday during the auction after other bidders complained to officials they thought ...
Activist disrupts oil and gas auction in Utah by launching bidding ...
It's Getting Hot In Here - Washington,DC,USA
On December 19 Utah resident Tim DeChristopher took creative and effective action to disrupt an auction that was selling off oil and gas leases on hundreds ...
Oil lays waste to the West Los Angeles Times - The greed, speed and scale of development in wild lands is an open wound on America. By Terry Tempest Williams December 7, 2008
DailyKos
Holiday oil and gas sale & civil disobedience
Remember This Name: Tim DeChristopher
Charges Will Be Announced Today Against DeChristopher - Amy Goodman Interview Too!
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Eco-activist bids up oil and gas leases at auction
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
At a federal auction for oil and gas leases in Utah last week, environmental activist Tim DeChristopher posed as a buyer, successfully bidding up lease ...
Hayduke Lives: Tim DeChristopher’s Heroic Act of Creative Civil Disobedience
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'Direct action gets the goods'
By AMY GOODMAN SYNDICATED COLUMNIST Tim DeChristopher is an economics student at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He had just finished his last final exam before winter break. One of the...
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Tim DeChristopher ALMOST Page on Wikipedia
I just discovered Tim HAD a page on Wikipedia. It was deleted after some debate. Here's a screen shot of the argument as of this post. The decision was thus: "Delete The article isn't about...
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Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
From Rachael Maddow's, Dec. 22: Lame Duck Watch: "Utah wilderness auctioned" The Bush Administration auctioned off sections of the Utah wilderness to be used for oil and gas drilling. One man...
Articles
Exactly a week ago on March 3, young climate change activist Tim DeChristopher was convicted for disrupting o...
What's a legitimate form of protest? Is it OK to throw a shoe at the president whose army invaded your country...
On election day, the Bureau of Land Management in Utah quietly announced its last round of oil and gas lease s...
Salazar right to cancel drilling leases Tribune Editorial Salt Lake Tribune Updated:10/14/2009 05:47:00 ...
Reporting from Salt Lake City -- Environmental activists were marching glumly outside the Bureau of Land Manag...
SALT LAKE CITY Hundreds of activists marched to the federal courthouse Monday to support a man who became an...
Below is a group letter from Becky Tarbotton (Director, Rainforest Action Network), Phil Radford (Director, ...
Blog Posts
Let's consider for a moment the targets the federal government chooses to make an example of. So far, no bank...
ONLY ON THE BLOG / EXCLUSIVE: Answering todays OFF-SET questions is environmental activist Tim DeChristopher. ...
We hit the recommended diaries. Thank you JohnnyRook. Student Who Stopped Auction of Public Lands Needs Our H...
Arnold Ill be back Schwarzenegger has been inciting Americans to rise up in revolt to overthrow the dirty indu...
Do you remember when Bush announced the peaceful transition of power to the Obama administration (still ...
Arnold Ill be back Schwarzenegger has been inciting Americans to rise up in revolt to overthrow the dirty indu...
SALT LAKE CITY NASA legend James Hansen is coming to Salt Lake to testify at Tim DeChristopher's arraignme...
News Articles
SALT LAKE CITY Hundreds of activists marched to the federal courthouse Monday to support a man who became an ...
Today, climate activistTimDeChristopherwas found guilty on two felony charges. His crime? Disrupting a federal...
Utah Student Who Prevented Bush Admin Sell-Off of Public Land Charged for Disrupting Auction AMY GOODMAN: How ...
The Salt Lake Tribune. Posted:12/31/2008 07:09:05 PM MST Fundraising » DeChristopher hopes to run out the cl...
The American legal system tends to pay obsessive attention to a persons motives and mental state. A hate cr...
Take the train. Dial down your heat. Write your senator. Taking those individual steps surely helps in the ba...
Activist Tim DeChristopher concedes he's had concerns at the prospect of spending 10 years in prison for disru...
Events
Tim will be Live on Tuesday, January 6th, with Troy Williams on the Award Winning radio show Radio Active, dis...- Tune in to www.thetakeaway.org early Wednesday to listen to the live radio broadcast with Tim!...
Listen as Tim speaks at noon! Music of the World, Voice of the Community. ...
Tim is Carolines guest this Thursady - Caroline Casey has had a really great radio show (for over 12 years) - ...
American Outrage/BLM Bidder American Outrage One of the nation's biggest environmental film fest...- Listen to Tim today, February 5th on any of these radio stations on NPR - KUSU-FM 91.5 Logan Mon - Fri, 0...
Join Tim DeChristopher in Moab as he visits the parcels that he won at the BLM auction held on December 19th. ...
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