December 23, 2008

Posing as a Bidder, Utah Student Disrupts Government Auction of 150,000 Acres of Wilderness for Oil & Gas Drilling. "He didn't pour sugar into a bulldozer's gas tank. He didn't spike a tree or set a billboard on fire. But wielding only a bidder's paddle, a University of Utah student just as surely monkey-wrenched a federal oil- and gas-lease sale Friday, ensuring that thousands of acres near two southern Utah national parks won't be opened to drilling anytime soon."

posted by homunculus 15 years ago

Bogus lease bidder won't face charges - yet
posted 15 years ago by homunculus
I have to agree with him that the protest tactics of the 60s don't work anymore - while the "protest zones" set aside in Bush elections have defused the power of those efforts, his creativity realy speaks to my old Berkeley sensibilities. We shall overome, indeed!
posted 15 years ago by path
"overcome"
posted 15 years ago by path
Oops. I had more to say but typing os too hard.
posted 15 years ago by path
The overome is the superior chromosome Nietzsche often wrote about.
posted 15 years ago by middleclasstool
Yeah for student unrest and disruption!!! Sock it to The Man!! Bring back the sixties... er... *adjusts peace sign* Whatever.
posted 15 years ago by BlueHorse
Good on him. He's willing to pay the price for the consequences too (although I hope he won't have to).
posted 15 years ago by gomichild
Paddle #70? This beats Animal House. Thank you, sir, may they have another?
posted 15 years ago by Dan Folkus
Utah Student Raises $45,000 to Protect Land from Drilling
posted 15 years ago by homunculus
Protesters buy up Heathrow land Land earmarked for the construction of Heathrow's third runway has been bought by anti-expansion protesters. Activism + acquisition = acquivitionism?
posted 15 years ago by roryk
Tim DeChristopher's website
posted 15 years ago by homunculus
Utah Student Who Thwarted Auction of Utah Wilderness Hails Cancellation of Bush Admin Selloff
posted 15 years ago by homunculus
Yeah!!!
posted 15 years ago by BlueHorse
Utah Student Who Prevented Bush Admin Sell-Off of Public Land Charged for Disrupting Auction
posted 15 years ago by homunculus
Wait, will he be tried before or after Bush?
posted 15 years ago by flurker
Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher Convicted on Two Felony Counts Jurors Not Allowed To Hear That DeChristopher Tried to Pay For His Bids & Feds Rejected His Money
posted 13 years ago by homunculus
Tim DeChristopher banned from dangerous acts of ‘social justice’
posted 11 years ago by homunculus
Terror charges faced by Oklahoma fossil fuel protesters 'outrageous'
posted 10 years ago by homunculus

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December 23, 2008