Articles by Tim DeChristopher

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Pennsylvania Township Legalizes Civil Disobedience
Tim DeChristopher – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 May 2016

This is a press release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund about a groundbreaking strategy of resistance by a small Pennsylvania town trying to defend itself from the fossil fuel industry.

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Tim’s Official Statement at His Sentencing Hearing
Tim DeChristopher – Peaceful Uprising, 1 Aug 2011

Tim DeChristopher, who was sentenced Tuesday [26 Jul 2011] to two years in federal prison and a $10,000 fine for ‘disrupting’ a Bureau of Land Management auction in 2008, had an opportunity to address the court and the judge immediately before his sentence was announced. “In these times of a morally bankrupt government that has sold out its principles, this is what patriotism looks like. I do not want mercy; I want you to join me.”

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