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DeChristopher talks about conviction
Apr 07, 2011 1:22 am
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[/caption]Environmentalist Tim DeChristopher, and founder of Peaceful Uprising, who was recently convicted on two felony counts for disrupting an auction of more than 100,000 acres of federal land for oil and gas drilling, spoke at Bard College Mon. Apr. 4. WGXC Christina Malisoff and Sam Sebren recorded DeChristopher's lecture, and interviewed him afterwards. On December 19, 2008, DeChristopher posed as a bidder at a BLM land auction in Salt Lake City, and purchased 22,000 acres of land to prevent the Bush administration from selling oil and gas exploitation rights on vast swaths of federal land. He faces up to 10 years in prison, but is touring universities talking about environmental issues. Bard Center for Environmental Policy brought him to speak in the school's Multipurpose room in the Campus Center. Click here to listen to Sebren interview DeChristopher after the talk.
[/caption]Environmentalist Tim DeChristopher, and founder of Peaceful Uprising, who was recently convicted on two felony counts for disrupting an auction of more than 100,000 acres of federal land for oil and gas drilling, spoke at Bard College Mon. Apr. 4. WGXC Christina Malisoff and Sam Sebren recorded DeChristopher's lecture, and interviewed him afterwards. On December 19, 2008, DeChristopher posed as a bidder at a BLM land auction in Salt Lake City, and purchased 22,000 acres of land to prevent the Bush administration from selling oil and gas exploitation rights on vast swaths of federal land. He faces up to 10 years in prison, but is touring universities talking about environmental issues. Bard Center for Environmental Policy brought him to speak in the school's Multipurpose room in the Campus Center. Click here to listen to Sebren interview DeChristopher after the talk.