To Protect Public Land, Eco-Protesters Get Creative. By Bryan Walsh, Time, January 31, 2009. "Tim DeChristopher, a 27-year-old college student, singlehandedly disrupted a multi-million-dollar land auction that would have put hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in southern Utah in the hands of oil and gas companies. But DeChristopher didn't use sabotage or homemade bombs -- just chutzpah... He may have also inspired more monkeywrenchers. On Mar. 2, environmentalists led by elders like Bill McKibben and Wendell Barry will descend on Washington to take direct action against a coal plant near the Capitol, engaging in civil disobedience. That might not be on par with the fictional perpetrators' brand of eco-mayhem, but today's greens -- like those in literature -- are at least willing to put their bodies where their rhetoric is."
2009-02-04
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