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Tim DeChristopher News

Posted on April 29, 2009 | Leave a comment

I was all ready to attend the rally with Tim DeChristopher yesterday, but work got crazy and I couldn’t leave. Here are some links to the event:

We are Bidder 70 – One Utah

Accused saboteur pleads not guilty– Downtown SLC » NASA climate scientist joins march, calls U. student’s act extremely important
– Salt Lake Tribune

DeChristopher pleads not guilty after marching with supporters – Deseret News

Environmental activist pleads not guilty to disrupting auction – KSL TV

Arraignment Support Info and photos – Facebook

Tim DeChristopher Arraignment Rally

Posted on April 24, 2009 | Leave a comment

Tim DeChristopher, the U of U student who successfully shut down the auction of public land for oil drilling in Utah via a creative direct action maneuver, will be arraigned next week in Federal Court. Here are details about an event to support DeChristopher:

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Tim DeChristopher Arraignment Rally!

10:45am – 12noon, Library Plaza, 200 East 400 South, SLC
We’re looking for 1,000 pals to join us in Salt Lake City at the Federal Courthouse to show Brett Tolman, Jim Matheson, Ken Salazar and President Obama that we are serious about a Peaceful Uprising. We will not remain silent as they attempt to persecute Tim for standing up for the Truth. We stand in solidarity.
Renowned Climatologist James Hansen to speak at rally in support of Tim DeChristopher
SALT LAKE CITY — James Hansen, one of the world’s leading scientists studying climate change, will speak at a rally in support of Tim DeChristopher on Tuesday, April 28, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Salt Lake City library plaza.
The event is built around DeChristopher’s arraignment at 11:45 a.m. at the Frank E. Moss Courthouse in Salt Lake City. The University of Utah student is facing two felony charges for his nonviolent disruption of an illegitimate oil and gas lease auction of public land in Utah last December.
Even though a federal court and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar rescinded the auction because of its illegitimacy, Brett Tolman, the United States attorney for Utah, has decided to charge DeChristopher with two felonies, which could mean up to 10 years in prison.Renowned Climatologist James Hansen to speak at rally in support of Tim DeChristopher

The following is a schedule of the events with Hansen and DeChristopher:

Monday, 6 p.m.: Hansen talks with Radioactive, KRCL’s public affairs program.
Monday, 7:30 p.m.: Hansen will speak at U of U’s Social and Behavioral Science auditorium
Tuesday, 11 a.m.: Rally begins with speakers and music at the SLC Library Plaza.
Tuesday, 11:30 a.m.: March to Frank E. Moss Courthouse for DeChristopher’s arraignment.
Tuesday, about noon: Hansen will speak at rally for DeChristopher at the SLC Library Plaza.
Tuesday, 6 p.m. Hansen will speak at Utah Valley University in the library auditorium.

www.peacefuluprising.org

Going to Ft. Benning

Posted on October 9, 2007 | 1 comment

Tom turned 50 today. It’s also John Lennon’s birthday – he would have been 67 (see post below). It’s a great day in my life……

For his birthday, I presented Tom with airline tickets to go to Georgia (Ft. Benning) for the annual CLOSE THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS event, where over 10,000 people annually vigil at the gates to Ft. Benning in an effort to shut down the “School of Assassins”.

Tom has always wanted to go to this event (as have I!) and so it will be reality this year!

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Tagged Activism, anti-war, civil disobedience, Green Party, human rights, school of americas

Posted on February 5, 2006 | Leave a comment

Today Tom and I watched the film Hidden in Plain Sight, the documentary that looks at the nature of U.S. policy in Latin America through the prism of the School of the Americas (renamed, in January of 2001, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation), the controversial military school that trains Latin American soldiers in the USA.

Despite what supporters say of this school, it is a terrorist training camp. One of the arguments made in support of the WHISC in the film is that the personnel from Latin American countries that attend the school who are identified as brutual murderers of their own people are already criminals in their country and the U.S. training they receive has no bearing on what they will do when they return to their countries. My question, then, is if these attendees are already known criminals, why are they permitted entry into the “school”?

Whenever I view films and participate in other events that surround issue of closing the School of Assasins, I strenghten my interest and resolve to travel to Ft. Benning, GA in November during the annual vigil and direct action event. I am hoping that I will be able to make my schedule such that I will be able to go this year.

Watch the 4 minute film of the November 2005 vigil.

Nuclear Waste Storage and Civil Disobedience – Poll

Posted on December 31, 2005 | 2 comments

Would you risk being arrested in an effort to keep nuclear waste from being stored away from the site of its creation?
Enter your answers through the “speak” option.

100% certain, no doubt about it

80% certain

not sure

probably not

never

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