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<DIV><FONT size=3 face=Arial>Colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face=Arial>EI/ICA/O:E have always combined deep, open-minded
spirituality with strategic action to make transforming change. That's what
impresses me also about Tim DeChristopher's last comment. He's quite a young
man. I wonder if Transitions folks would be interested in connecting with
his Peaceful Uprising group.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face=Arial>If you didn't watch Moyers & Company this past
weekend, I'd recommend it. You can watch just the Tim DeChristopher half if you
want - the web site allows it. At the end Bill Moyers asks Tim what he's going
to do next. "I'm going to Harvard Divinity School and become a Unitarian
minister. I think the keys to facing the climate disasters that will come are
spiritual."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face=Arial>Here's the link:</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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href="http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-going-to-jail-for-justice/">http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-going-to-jail-for-justice/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Janice Ulangca</FONT></DIV>
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<H1 class=entry-title>Full Show: Going to Jail for Justice</H1>
<DIV class=date>May 24, 2013</DIV>
<P>Tim DeChristopher tells why he spent nearly two years in prison in the name
of environmental justice, and Gretchen Morgenson discusses how banks are still
too big to fail and too big to trust.</P>
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<P>In December 2008, during the closing weeks of the Bush White House,
27-year-old environmental activist Tim DeChristopher went to protest the auction
of gas and oil drilling rights to more than 150,000 acres of publicly-owned Utah
wilderness. But instead of yelling slogans or waving a sign, DeChristopher
disrupted the proceedings by starting to bid. Given an auction paddle
designating him “Bidder 70”, DeChristopher won a dozen land leases worth nearly
two million dollars. He was arrested for criminal fraud, found guilty, and
sentenced to two years in federal prison — even though the new Obama
Administration had since declared the oil and gas auction null and void.</P>
<P>DeChristopher — who was released less than a month ago — joins Bill to talk
about the necessity of civil disobedience in the fight for justice, how his jury
was ordered to place the strict letter of the law over moral conscience, and the
future of the environmental movement. <EM>Bidder 70</EM>, a new documentary
chronicling DeChristopher’s legal battle and activism, opened May 17.
DeChristopher is co-founder of the grassroots environmental group Peaceful
Uprising.</P>
<P>Also on the show, Pulitzer Prize-winning <EM>New York Times</EM> columnist
Gretchen Morgenson tells Bill that, five years after the country’s economic
near-collapse, banks are still too big to fail, too big to manage, and too big
to trust. Stockholders’ reaffirmation of Jamie Dimon as JP Morgan Chase’s
chairman and CEO this week — despite a year of accusations and investigations at
the bank — is further evidence, she says, of an unchecked system that continues
to covet profits and eschew accountability, putting our economy and democracy at
risk. Morgenson also discusses how behemoth companies like Apple manipulate the
system and avail themselves of the biggest tax loopholes money and influence can
buy.</P>
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