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the climate.... So Tim DeChristopher posed as a bidder and won 14 parcels of land at an oil-and-gas lease auction. He received 24 months in prison... When that Republican hooligan,James O'Keefe, acted as a phone repair man in order to gain access to a Senators phone lines, how much prison time did he get? If I call correctly-NONE
"Tim DeChristopher, sentenced yesterday to 24 months in prison for a creative act of resistance straight out of the Monkey Wrench Gang. He didn't damage anything except the pride of the Bureau of Land Management, when he posed as a bidder and won 14 parcels of land at an oil-and-gas lease auction. They were gorgeous pieces of land that he protected -- but far more, he was acting on behalf of every landscape left on the planet.
And it's time for you to take the same kind of responsibility. In a few weeks, those of us at tarsandsaction.org will be gathering in Washington DC for two weeks of civil disobedience against the proposed Keystone Pipeline, that will carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta down to the Gulf of Mexico. Jim Hansen, the NASA climatologist, says that if those tar sands are fully exploited it's "essentially game over for the climate." If those words don't inspire you to act, nothing will -- and so far more than a thousand have signed on, meaning this will be the largest civil disobedience action in the history of the country's climate movement."http://www.alternet.org/environment/151804/tim_dechristopher_is_going_to_jail%2C_now_it%27s_our_turn
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