DeChristopher

<div>=</div><div>stop fed lands</div><div>
</div><div><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/9/17/tim_dechristopher_on_the_demand_to">http://www.democracynow.org/2015/9/17/tim_dechristopher_on_the_demand_to</a></div><div>A coalition of more than 400 organizations have called on the White House to stop issuing new fossil fuel leases on public lands and oceans. More than 67 million acres of public land and ocean are already leased to the fossil fuel industry. The coalition says that declaring unleased oil, gas and coal on public lands as "unburnable" would accomplish more in the global fight against climate change than any other single action taken by the Obama administration....</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">TIM DECHRISTOPHER: The Climate Disobedience Center is a new organization that we just got off the ground last week. I’m working with the folks who did the lobster boat blockade a couple years ago, where they blockaded a shipment of West Virginia coal from being delivered to the Brayton Point coal-fired power plant.<p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">AMY GOODMAN: In Massachusetts?<p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">TIM DECHRISTOPHER: Yeah.<p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">AMY GOODMAN: And it ended up that the attorney, the—what was it? The district attorney there joined with them?<p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NERMEEN SHAIKH: Sutter.</div><div>
</div><div></div><div><a href="http://www.globalpossibilities.org/a-closer-look-at-harvards-choice-on-fossil-fuels/">http://www.globalpossibilities.org/a-closer-look-at-harvards-choice-on-fossil-fuels/</a></div><div></div><div>
</div><div>http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/08/tim-dechrisopher-climate-change/</div><div>
</div><div>Recently, there has been a growing discussion of <a href="http://ecowatch.com/climate-change-news/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; line-height: 25.2px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">climate change</a> as a moral issue, both in academia and in religious communities. This past fall I spoke at three religion and climate change conferences in as many months, including a conference at Harvard Divinity School, “Spiritual and Sustainable: Religion Responds to Climate Change,” and in June 2015 I will join many global thinkers at a process theology conference on climate change in Claremont, California.</div><div>
</div><div>http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/18/tim-dechristopher-leases</div><div>
</div><div>Tim DeChristopher, co-founder of the new <a href="http://www.climatedisobedience.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Climate Disobedience Center</a> and <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/08/tim-dechrisopher-climate-change" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">outspoken climate justice activist</a>, is calling for an end to all new fossil fuel leases on public lands and oceans.He argues that <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/16/keep-fossil-fuels-in-ground/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">declaring unleased oil, gas and coal on public lands as “unburnable”</a> would accomplish more in the global fight against <a href="http://ecowatch.com/climate-change-news/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">climate change</a> than any other single action taken by the Obama administration. He argues that it could prevent 90 times more carbon emissions from being emitted than <a href="https://ecowatch.com/2015/08/03/obama-clean-power-plan/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Obama’s Clean Power Plan</a>.Watch him discuss this issue on <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/9/17/tim_dechristopher_on_the_demand_to" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Democracy Now!</a>:</div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Environmentalist <a href="http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/tim-dechristopher-sentenced-environmental-movement-response/5042/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(196, 4, 4); outline: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Tim DeChristopher</a> was moved into the Special Housing Unit of FCI Herlong last month, and placed in isolation — a practice that human rights groups have decried as<a href="http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-19/letters/31205630_1_solitary-confinement-mental-health-mental-state" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(196, 4, 4); outline: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">cruel and inhumane treatment and tantamount to torture</a>. After thousands of supporters called the Bureau of Prisons and members of Congress, DeChristopher was released from “the hole.” But the question remains: Why was a non-violent prisoner, with no disciplinary history, sent there?According to <a href="http://www.peacefuluprising.org/breaking-tim-dechristopher-transferred-out-of-the-hole-but-questions-remain-20120327" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(196, 4, 4); outline: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">DeChristopher’s support crew</a>, “Tim was informed by Lieutenant Weirich that he was being moved to the SHU because an unidentified Congressman had called from Washington DC, complaining of an email that Tim had sent to a friend.”In this email, DeChristopher said he was distressed to learn that a major donor to his defense fund was planning on moving jobs overseas. He said he would send a letter to the owners explaining his concerns, and that “this letter will include a threat to wage a campaign against them if they don’t reverse course and keep the plants open.”In other words: a member of Congress sought retribution for a non-violent activist promising to protest a corporate supporter.There’s no shortage of politicians who might be concerned about<a href="http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/tar-sands-xl-pipeline-civil-disobedience-arrests/5080/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(196, 4, 4); outline: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"> DeChristopher’s effective advocacy</a>. So <a href="instructions: Help us find the Congressman at the heart of Tim DeChristopher%E2%80%99s isolation! ..Clip to follow with more details. Recommended directions are below: 1.Get in touch with your Congressperson by calling his/her office. 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</div>moyers 5/13

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher

DeChristopher

is an American climate activist and co-founder of the environmental

group Peaceful Uprising. On December 19, 2008 he protested a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Land_Management" title="Bureau of Land Management">Bureau of Land Management</a> oil and gas lease auction of 116 parcels of public land in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a>'s redrock country by successfully bidding on 14 parcels of land (totaling 22,500 acres) for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USD" title="USD" class="mw-redirect">$</a>1.8 million with no intention to pay for them.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-saltlaketribune-2011-07-19-1">[1]</a>

DeChristopher was removed from the auction by federal agents, taken

into custody, and questioned. DeChristopher served 21 months in prison,

from July 2011<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-deseretnews-2-11-07-26-2">[2]</a> through April 2013.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-saltlaketrib-2013-04-17-3">[3]</a>

Saying they had been rushed into auction with insufficient

environmental and scientific review, the Interior Department canceled

many of the leases shortly after the auction and a subsequent court

injunction.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-nyt-2009-02-04-4">[4]</a>

<h2>Contents</h2>

</div>

<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#Early_life">1 Early life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#Activism">2 Activism</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#Trial">3 Trial</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#Sentencing">3.1 Sentencing</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#Appeal">3.2 Appeal</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#In_the_.22hole.22">3.3 In the "hole"</a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#In_popular_culture">4 In popular culture</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#References">5 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#External_links">6 External links</a></li></ul>

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<h2>Early life </h2>

DeChristopher was born on November 18, 1981, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a> and grew up in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-5">[5]</a> After graduating from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shady_Side_Academy" title="Shady Side Academy">Shady Side Academy</a>, he attended <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_State_University" title="Arizona State University">Arizona State University</a>, and moved to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a> in 2005 where he worked as a wilderness guide for troubled and at-risk youth.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-6">[6]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-7">[7]</a>

As a guide, DeChristopher emphasized self-reliance skills and respect

for the natural world. His interaction with at-risk youth groups led him

to reject what he viewed as a political and economic system that

concentrates wealth in the hands of a privileged few while ostracizing

vulnerable and impoverished citizens in the U.S.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-8">[8]</a> This conviction later inspired him to study economics at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Utah" title="University of Utah">University of Utah</a>, where he received a Bachelor's degree in 2009.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-9">[9]</a>

<h2>Activism </h2>

As an avid reader, DeChristopher developed an interest in the writers

and philosophies that have shaped U.S. and global social movements. His

perspective on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_movement_in_the_United_States" title="Environmental movement in the United States">American environmental movement</a> highlights the critical role that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience" title="Civil disobedience">civil disobedience</a> has played in social movements throughout history, including the civil rights and women's suffrage movements.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] DeChristopher's acts of civil disobedience have been compared to those of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks" title="Rosa Parks">Rosa Parks</a> by the media,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-10">[10]</a> but DeChristopher has said that his actions are more comparable to those of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Paul" title="Alice Paul">Alice Paul</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-11">[11]</a>

who escalated the women's rights movement by forcing the government to

publicly arrest women protesting on the steps of the capitol and lending

visibility to an obscured social movement.

DeChristopher has expressed the need for similar tactics to end <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining" title="Mountaintop removal mining">mountaintop removal mining</a> in his home state of West Virginia.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-12">[12]</a>

<h2>Trial </h2>

DeChristopher was indicted on April 1, 2009, in a two-count felony indictment<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-13">[13]</a>

for violation of the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act and

making false statements. He pleaded “not guilty” on both charges, and

faced up to 10 years in prison and $750,000 in fines.

In November 2009 DeChristopher's defense team claimed a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity" title="Necessity">necessity defense</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-14">[14]</a>

which required proof that DeChristopher was faced with choosing between

two evils and that his actions resulted in the lesser of the two to

avoid imminent harm where no legal alternative was available. Federal

prosecutors and U.S. District Judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Benson" title="Dee Benson">Dee Benson</a>

prohibited the defense, precluding DeChristopher from presenting

evidence that might have supported his argument for necessity defense.

DeChristopher and his attorneys were also forbidden to inform the jury

that the lease auction was deemed unlawful, that DeChristopher had

raised sufficient funds for an initial payment to the BLM (which the BLM

refused to accept), or that DeChristopher's motives were grounded in

moral convictions related to climate change.

DeChristopher's necessity defense claim was condemned by prosecutor John Huber,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-saltlaketribune-2011-07-19-1">[1]</a>

"It becomes clear that the defendant's hopes are to have a prominent

venue for his global-warming show — a platform from which he could

educate the masses.” Huber also asserted that DeChristopher overlooked

legal methods of protest. In a court address, DeChristopher responded to

Huber's assertion:

<dl><dd>"The government has made the claim that there were legal

alternatives to standing in the way of this auction. Particularly, I

could have filed a written protest against certain parcels. The

government does not mention, however, that two months prior to this

auction, in October 2008, a Congressional report was released that

looked into those protests. The report, by the House committee on public

lands, stated that it had become common practice for the BLM to take

volunteers from the oil and gas industry to process those permits. The

oil industry was paying people specifically to volunteer for the

industry that was supposed to be regulating it, and it was to those

industry staff that I would have been appealing."</dd></dl>

DeChristopher's defense claimed a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_prosecution" title="Selective prosecution">selective prosecution</a>

defense in March 2010. Defense attorney Ron Yengich suspected

"political machinations" behind DeChristopher's indictment.

DeChristopher learned about his indictment from an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> reporter informed by an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuels_lobby" title="Fossil fuels lobby">oil and gas lobbyist</a>

in Washington D.C. Yengich also requested information from federal

prosecutors regarding previous cases where individuals and energy

companies that reneged on bids for public land without prosecution.

Judge Benson denied that request, citing “no support for further

discovery.”

Benson adamantly asserted that DeChristopher's actions were largely

unsuccessful and undeserving of comparisons to historical acts of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience" title="Civil disobedience">civil disobedience</a> by figures such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks" title="Rosa Parks">Rosa Parks</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau" title="Henry David Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</a>. However, DeChristopher's actions garnered national attention for an illegal government auction of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_land" title="Public land">public land</a> leases during the final days of the Bush administration. On January 17, 2009, U.S. District Judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_M._Urbina" title="Ricardo M. Urbina">Ricardo Urbina</a>

temporarily halted the sale of 77 parcels, citing BLM violations of

environmental laws protecting air quality and historic preservation. In

February 2009, Interior Secretary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Salazar" title="Ken Salazar">Ken Salazar</a> shelved 77 disputed lease parcels<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-nyt-2009-02-04-4">[4]</a>

– some of which had been won by DeChristopher at auction — and

criticized Bush administrators for conducting a “rush review” of the

contested lands.

<h3>Sentencing </h3>
On July 26, 2011, Judge Benson sentenced DeChristopher to two years

in prison, imposed a $10,000 fine, and ordered him into immediate

custody. The court's decision resulted in popular protest in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_City" title="Salt Lake City">Salt Lake City</a> and other U.S. cities.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-15">[15]</a> Salt Lake City police arrested 26 protesters, now referred to as the "Bidder 70 26"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-16">[16]</a>—also

a reference to the coincidental date of his sentencing, 07/26. The term

"Bidder 70" has become synonymous with Tim DeChristoper for the number

on his bidder card during the lease auction, and became the title of the

DeChristopher news and support website, Bidder70.org.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-17">[17]</a>

On the day of his sentencing, DeChristopher addressed Judge Benson and federal prosecutors with an official statement:

<dl><dd>"I know Mr. Huber [Federal prosecutor] disagrees with me on this. He

wrote that 'The rule of law is the bedrock of our civilized society,

not acts of "civil disobedience" committed in the name of the cause of

the day'. That’s an especially ironic statement when he is representing

the United States of America, a place where the rule of law was created

through acts of civil disobedience. Since those bedrock acts of civil

disobedience by our founding fathers, the rule of law in this country

has continued to grow closer to our shared higher moral code through the

civil disobedience that drew attention to legalized injustice."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-18">[18]</a></dd></dl>

The U.S. Attorney's office issued a memorandum addressing

DeChristopher's case that stated, "To be sure, a federal prison term

here will deter others from entering a path of criminal behavior."

DeChristopher responded to this statement during his court address:

<dl><dd>"The certainty of this statement not only ignores the history of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_prisoner" title="Political prisoner">political prisoners</a>,

it ignores the severity of the present situation. Those who are

inspired to follow my actions are those who understand that we are on a

path toward catastrophic consequences of climate change. They know their

future, and the future of their loved ones, is on the line. And they

know we are running out of time to turn things around. The closer we get

to that point where it's too late, the less people have to lose by

fighting back. The power of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">Justice Department</a>

is based on its ability to take things away from people. The more that

people feel that they have nothing to lose, the more that power begins

to shrivel. The people who are committed to fighting for a livable

future will not be discouraged or intimidated by anything that happens

here today.</dd></dl>

<dl><dd>"And neither will I. I will continue to confront the system that

threatens our future. Given the destruction of our democratic

institutions that once gave citizens access to power, my future will

likely involve civil disobedience. Nothing that happens here today will

change that. I don't mean that in any sort of disrespectful way at all,

but you don't have that authority. You have authority over my life, but

not my principles. Those are mine alone."</dd></dl>

Judge Benson explained to the court and to DeChristopher that were it

not for DeChristopher's "continuing trail of statements" post-auction,

he might have avoided prosecution and prison time. Judge Benson stated,

"The offense itself, with all apologies to people actually in the

auction itself, wasn't that bad."

DeChristopher was initially detained at the Davis County Correctional Facility in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmington,_Utah" title="Farmington, Utah">Farmington, Utah</a>. In October 2012, he was moved to a halfway house in Salt Lake City, and was released on April 21, 2013, a day before <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day" title="Earth Day">Earth Day</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-19">[19]</a>

<h3>Appeal </h3>

On July 28, 2011, DeChristopher's defense attorney Pat Shea and his

team filed documents notifying the court of their plans to appeal

DeChristopher's sentence.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-20">[20]</a>

On September 14, 2012, a three-judge panel of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Tenth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit</a> affirmed DeChristopher's conviction.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-21">[21]</a>

The court of appeals decided that the district court did not violate

the Constitution by taking DeChristopher’s beliefs and statements into

account when imposing the sentence.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-22">[22]</a>

On March 9, 2012, DeChristopher was moved to a restrictive "special

housing unit" then back to minimum security on March 27 because of an

email he had sent to a friend, according to a Peaceful Uprising press

release.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-23">[23]</a>

Officials of the U.S. Department of Justice and Bureau of Prisons

refuse to comment publicly on disciplinary actions, but Pat Shea, one of

his lawyers, said the reported punishment came after DeChristopher had

sent an email to supporters containing the word "threaten", which

triggered an alert from an internal monitoring system for inmate

correspondence; "and I think he learned a lesson that you don't

necessarily put all of your thoughts down in emails."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-24">[24]</a>

<h2>In popular culture </h2>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Sharpe_and_the_Magnetic_Zeros" title="Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros">Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros</a> singer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Ebert" title="Alex Ebert">Alex Ebert</a> recorded a music video "Let's Win"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-25">[25]</a> showcasing popular support for DeChristopher and scenes from a Salt Lake City protest in March 2011.

Author <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Guillebeau" title="Chris Guillebeau">Chris Guillebeau</a>'s book, The Art of Non-Conformity, supports DeChristopher's actions as "creative acts of protest" in times when "morality and law are on opposite sides."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-26">[26]</a>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a> magazine journalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Goodell" title="Jeff Goodell">Jeff Goodell</a> wrote an article on DeChristopher calling him "America's Most Creative Climate Criminal."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-27">[27]</a>

American author and environmentalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Tempest_Williams" title="Terry Tempest Williams">Terry Tempest Williams</a> published an op-ed piece in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salt_Lake_Tribune" title="The Salt Lake Tribune">The Salt Lake Tribune</a> following DeChristopher's sentence.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-28">[28]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-29">[29]</a>

DeChristopher was named an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utne_Reader" title="Utne Reader">Utne Reader</a> visionary in 2011.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-visionary-30">[30]</a>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TreeHugger" title="TreeHugger">TreeHugger</a> named DeChristopher 2011 Person of the Year on December 16, 2011.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-31">[31]</a>

A December 17, 2011 article in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salt_Lake_Tribune" title="The Salt Lake Tribune">The Salt Lake Tribune</a> named DeChristopher as one of 16 candidates selected by their Editorial Board to be named 2011 Utahn of the Year.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-32">[32]</a>

Filmmakers George and Beth Gage made a documentary about DeChristopher called Bidder 70.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-33">[33]</a>

A "Special Treat" Q&A session was held following the 7:10pm May 17th, 2013 "Theatrical Opening" of Bidder 70

at Quad Cinema in NYC. DeChristopher spoke on topics relevant to

activist causes, his prison experience and why he plans to attend

Harvard Divinity School in the Fall. DeChristopher notably described

himself (for first time?) as an "anti-government activist". Notable

among questioners was Gasland director Josh Fox. A complete lightly

annotated cell cam video of the session was published on YouTube on May

20th, 2013.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_note-34">[34]</a>

<h2>References </h2>

<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-saltlaketribune-2011-07-19-1">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-saltlaketribune-2011-07-19_1-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-saltlaketribune-2011-07-19_1-1">b</a> Rogers, Melinda (July 19, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52220178-78/dechristopher-auction-huber-prison.html.csp">"Prosecutors say climate activist needs harsh penalty"</a>. The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2011-07-29.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.aufirst=Melinda&rft.aulast=Rogers&rft.au=Rogers%2C+Melinda&rft.btitle=Prosecutors+say+climate+activist+needs+harsh+penalty&rft.date=July+19%2C+2011&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sltrib.com%2Fsltrib%2Fnews%2F52220178-78%2Fdechristopher-auction-huber-prison.html.csp&rft.pub=The+Salt+Lake+Tribune&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-deseretnews-2-11-07-26-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-deseretnews-2-11-07-26_2-0">^{</a></span}> Amy Joi O'Donoghue (Tuesday, July 26, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705388228/Activist-Timothy-DeChristopher-sentenced-to-2-years-in-prison.html?pg=all2012">"Activist Timothy DeChristopher sentenced to 2 years in prison"</a>. Deseret News.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.atitle=Activist+Timothy+DeChristopher+sentenced+to+2+years+in+prison&rft.au=Amy+Joi+O%27Donoghue&rft.aulast=Amy+Joi+O%27Donoghue&rft.date=Tuesday%2C+July+26%2C+2011&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deseretnews.com%2Farticle%2F705388228%2FActivist-Timothy-DeChristopher-sentenced-to-2-years-in-prison.html%3Fpg%3Dall2012&rft.jtitle=Deseret+News&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-saltlaketrib-2013-04-17-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-saltlaketrib-2013-04-17_3-0">^{</a></span}> Maffly, Brian (April 17, 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56159854-78/dechristopher-tim-bidder-prison.html.csp">"Activist Tim DeChristopher to be freed after 21 months in custody"</a>. Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2013-04-22.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.atitle=Activist+Tim+DeChristopher+to+be+freed+after+21+months+in+custody&rft.aufirst=Brian&rft.aulast=Maffly&rft.au=Maffly%2C+Brian&rft.date=April+17%2C+2013&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sltrib.com%2Fsltrib%2Fnews%2F56159854-78%2Fdechristopher-tim-bidder-prison.html.csp&rft.jtitle=Salt+Lake+Tribune&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-nyt-2009-02-04-4">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-nyt-2009-02-04_4-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-nyt-2009-02-04_4-1">b</a> Kaufman, Leslie (February 4, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/us/05leases.html">"Drilling Leases Scrapped in Utah"</a>. Utah: The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-07-29.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.aufirst=Leslie&rft.au=Kaufman%2C+Leslie&rft.aulast=Kaufman&rft.btitle=Drilling+Leases+Scrapped+in+Utah&rft.date=February+4%2C+2009&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F02%2F05%2Fus%2F05leases.html&rft.place=Utah&rft.pub=The+New+York+Times&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-5">^{</a></span}> Viebrock, Suzie. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tellurideinside.com/2011/05/2011-mountainfilm-in-telluride-tim-dechristopher-bidder-70.htmlViebrock">"2011 Mountainfilm in Telluride: Tim DeChristopher, "Bidder 70".</a> Telluride Inside and Out. May 23, 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-29.</li><li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-6">^{</a></span}> Streep, Abe. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/nature/The-Trials-of-Bidder-70.html?page=all">"The Trials of Bidder 70"</a>. The Trials of Bidder 70. Retrieved 28 November 2011.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.atitle=The+Trials+of+Bidder+70&rft.aufirst=Abe&rft.aulast=Streep&rft.au=Streep%2C+Abe&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.outsideonline.com%2Foutdoor-adventure%2Fnature%2FThe-Trials-of-Bidder-70.html%3Fpage%3Dall&rft.jtitle=The+Trials+of+Bidder+70&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-7">^{</a></span}> Johnson, Kirk. (March 4, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/do-motives-matter-the-dechristopher-verdict/">"Do Motives Matter? The DeChristopher Verdict"</a> New York Times Green Blog. Retrieved 2011-07-29</li><li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-8">^{</a></span}> Gerhardht, Tina. (February 14, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://progressive.org/gerhardt021411.html">"Environmental Activist on Trial: Interview with Tim DeChristopher"</a> The Progressive. Retrieved 2011-07-29.</li><li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-9">^{</a></span}> Buxton, Nick. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://unityaotearoa.blogspot.com/2011/07/tim-dechristopher-interview-time-to-be.html">"Tim DeChristopher interview: Time to be honest."</a> Unity. Retrieved 2011-07-29.</li><li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-10">^{</a></span}> Goodell, Jeff. (July 27, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/a-rosa-parks-moment-climate-activist-tim-dechristopher-sentenced-to-prison-20110727">"A Rosa Parks Moment: Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher Sentenced to Prison."</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a>. Retrieved 2011-07-29</li><li id="cite_note-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-11">^{</a></span}> George, Carmen. (Feb 28, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://etalnews.org/dechristopher/2011/02/28/dechristopher-no-more-niceties/">"DeChristopher: No More Niceties"</a> Retrieved 2011-07-29</li><li id="cite_note-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-12">^{</a></span}> Randolph, JW. (July 27, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://appvoices.org/2011/07/27/tim-dechristopher-sentenced-speaks-on-mtr/">"Tim DeChristopher, Sentenced, Speaks on MTR."</a> Appalachian Voices.</li><li id="cite_note-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-13">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bidder70.org/files/64701_64800/64778/indictment.pdf">United States of America vs. Tim DeChristopher.</a> United States District Court; District of Utah, Central Division</li><li id="cite_note-14"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-14">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bidder70.org/files/62601_62700/62662/proffer-final.pdf">"Written Proffer of Choice of Evils Defense and Request for Evidentiary Hearing."</a> (PDF). Retrieved February 12, 2012.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.btitle=Written+Proffer+of+Choice+of+Evils+Defense+and+Request+for+Evidentiary+Hearing.&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bidder70.org%2Ffiles%2F62601_62700%2F62662%2Fproffer-final.pdf&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-15">^{</a></span}> Jensen, Derek P. (March 3, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/52264621-90/dechristopher-lake-salt-courthouse.html.csp">"DeChristopher sentence riles protesters, spurs arrests"</a>. The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2011-07-29.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.aufirst=Derek+P.&rft.au=Jensen%2C+Derek+P.&rft.aulast=Jensen&rft.btitle=DeChristopher+sentence+riles+protesters%2C+spurs+arrests&rft.date=March+3%2C+2011&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sltrib.com%2Fsltrib%2Fpolitics%2F52264621-90%2Fdechristopher-lake-salt-courthouse.html.csp&rft.pub=The+Salt+Lake+Tribune&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-16"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-16">^{</a></span}> John Hollenhorst (July 27, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705388293/Police-protesters-profess-praise-over-26-arrests-in-DeChristopher-demonstration.html">"Police, protesters profess praise over 26 arrests in DeChristopher demonstration"</a>. Deseret News.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.atitle=Police%2C+protesters+profess+praise+over+26+arrests+in+DeChristopher+demonstration&rft.au=John+Hollenhorst&rft.aulast=John+Hollenhorst&rft.date=July+27%2C+2011&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deseretnews.com%2Farticle%2F705388293%2FPolice-protesters-profess-praise-over-26-arrests-in-DeChristopher-demonstration.html&rft.jtitle=Deseret+News&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-17">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.Bidder70.org">http://www.Bidder70.org</a></li><li id="cite_note-18"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-18">^{</a></span}> Henry, Deb. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.peacefuluprising.org/tims-official-statement-at-his-sentencing-hearing-20110726">"Tim’s official statement at his sentencing hearing"</a>. Peaceful Uprising. Retrieved 2011-07-29.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.aufirst=Deb&rft.au=Henry%2C+Deb&rft.aulast=Henry&rft.btitle=Tim%E2%80%99s+official+statement+at+his+sentencing+hearing&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peacefuluprising.org%2Ftims-official-statement-at-his-sentencing-hearing-20110726&rft.pub=Peaceful+Uprising&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-19"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-19">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/22/earth_day_exclusive_tim_dechristopher_speaks">"Earth Day Exclusive: Tim DeChristopher Speaks Out After 21 Months in Prison for Disrupting Oil Bid"</a> Democracy Now. April 22, 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-20"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-20">^{</a></span}> Rogers, Melinda. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52305710-78/dechristopher-prison-benson-defense.html.csp">"DeChristopher's attorneys formally file intent to appeal"</a> Salt Lake Tribune. (Aug 1, 2011). Retrieved 2011-8-1.</li><li id="cite_note-21"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-21">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/11/11-4151.pdf">United States of America v. Tim DeChristopher</a>, No. 11-4151 (10th Cir. 2012).</li><li id="cite_note-22"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-22">^{</a></span}> Tim Phillips, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://activistdefense.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/court-of-appeals-upholds-activist-tim-dechristophers-felony-convictions/">"Court of Appeals Upholds Activist Tim DeChristopher's Felony Convictions"</a>, Activist Defense, September 14, 2012.</li><li id="cite_note-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-23">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.peacefuluprising.org/breaking-tim-dechristopher-transferred-out-of-the-hole-but-questions-remain-20120327">"Tim transferred out of "the hole", but questions remain"</a>. Breaking. Peaceful Uprising. March 27, 2012. Retrieved April 3, 2012.

"Tim was moved back to the minimum security camp – late on the night of

Wed March 28th, after FCI Herlong, the BOP office in Washington, DC and

members of Congress received thousands of phone calls…"<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.atitle=Tim+transferred+out+of+%22the+hole%22%2C+but+questions+remain&rft.date=March+27%2C+2012&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peacefuluprising.org%2Fbreaking-tim-dechristopher-transferred-out-of-the-hole-but-questions-remain-20120327&rft.jtitle=Breaking&rft.pub=Peaceful+Uprising&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-24"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-24">^{</a></span}> Paul Foy (March 29, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NATIONAL_PARKS_DRILLING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">"Lawyers say Utah activist being punished in prison"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a>. Retrieved April 3, 2012. "Salt Lake City (AP) — A prominent environmental activist has been released from an isolation unit...."<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.atitle=Lawyers+say+Utah+activist+being+punished+in+prison&rft.aulast=Paul+Foy&rft.au=Paul+Foy&rft.date=March+29%2C+2012&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fhosted.ap.org%2Fdynamic%2Fstories%2FU%2FUS_NATIONAL_PARKS_DRILLING%3FSITE%3DAP%26SECTION%3DHOME%26TEMPLATE%3DDEFAULT&rft.jtitle=Associated+Press&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-25"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-25">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wagingnonviolence.org/2011/06/popular-support-mounts-for-tim-dechristopher/">"Popular support mounts for Tim DeChristopher with new music video"</a>. Waging Nonviolence. June 9, 2011. 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Retrieved 2011-07-29.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.btitle=The+Art+of+Non-Conformity+%C2%BB+About+the+Art+of+Non-Conformity+Site&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fchrisguillebeau.com%2Fabout-the-project%2F&rft.pub=Chrisguillebeau.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-27"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-27">^{</a></span}> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Goodell" title="Jeff Goodell">Goodell</a>, Jeff (July 7, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/meet-america-s-most-creative-climate-criminal-20110707">"Meet Americas Most Creative Climate Criminal"</a>. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2011-07-29.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.aufirst=Jeff&rft.au=Goodell%2C+Jeff&rft.aulast=Goodell&rft.btitle=Meet+Americas+Most+Creative+Climate+Criminal&rft.date=July+7%2C+2011&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fpolitics%2Fblogs%2Fnational-affairs%2Fmeet-america-s-most-creative-climate-criminal-20110707&rft.pub=Rolling+Stone&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-28"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-28">^{</a></span}> Williams, Terry Tempest (July 28, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/cms/sites/sltrib/pages/printerfriendly.csp?id=52271955">"The real criminal"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salt_Lake_Tribune" title="The Salt Lake Tribune">The Salt Lake Tribune</a>. Retrieved 2011-07-29.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.aufirst=Terry+Tempest&rft.aulast=Williams&rft.au=Williams%2C+Terry+Tempest&rft.btitle=The+real+criminal&rft.date=July+28%2C+2011&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sltrib.com%2Fcsp%2Fcms%2Fsites%2Fsltrib%2Fpages%2Fprinterfriendly.csp%3Fid%3D52271955&rft.pub=The+Salt+Lake+Tribune&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-29"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-29">^{</a></span}> Williams, Terry Tempest. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wn.com/Terry_Tempest_Williams_on_the_heroism_of_Tim_DeChristopher">"Terry Tempest Williams On The Heroism Of Tim Dechristopher"</a>. Retrieved 2011-07-29.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.aufirst=Terry+Tempest&rft.aulast=Williams&rft.au=Williams%2C+Terry+Tempest&rft.btitle=Terry+Tempest+Williams+On+The+Heroism+Of+Tim+Dechristopher&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwn.com%2FTerry_Tempest_Williams_on_the_heroism_of_Tim_DeChristopher&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-visionary-30"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-visionary_30-0">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.utne.com/Environment/Utne-Reader-Visionaries-Tim-DeChristopher-Disobedient-Green.aspx">"Tim DeChristopher: Disobedient Green"</a>. Utne Reader. November–December 2011. Retrieved October 19, 2011.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.btitle=Tim+DeChristopher%3A+Disobedient+Green&rft.date=November%E2%80%93December+2011&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.utne.com%2FEnvironment%2FUtne-Reader-Visionaries-Tim-DeChristopher-Disobedient-Green.aspx&rft.pub=Utne+Reader&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-31"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-31">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.treehugger.com/culture/Tim-DeChristopher-Person-of-the-Year.html">"Tim DeChristopher is TreeHugger Person of the Year"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TreeHugger" title="TreeHugger">TreeHugger</a>. 2011-12-16. Retrieved 2012-05-12.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.btitle=Tim+DeChristopher+is+TreeHugger+Person+of+the+Year&rft.date=2011-12-16&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.treehugger.com%2Fculture%2FTim-DeChristopher-Person-of-the-Year.html&rft.pub=TreeHugger&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-32"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-32">^{</a></span}> Fitzpatrick, Tim (December 17, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53133186-78/utah-utahn-named-whose.html.csp">"Editor column: Who should be 2011’s Utahn of the Year?"</a>. The Salt Lake Tribune.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.atitle=Editor+column%3A+Who+should+be+2011%E2%80%99s+Utahn+of+the+Year%3F&rft.aufirst=Tim&rft.au=Fitzpatrick%2C+Tim&rft.aulast=Fitzpatrick&rft.date=December+17%2C+2011&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sltrib.com%2Fsltrib%2Fnews%2F53133186-78%2Futah-utahn-named-whose.html.csp&rft.jtitle=The+Salt+Lake+Tribune&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-33"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-33">^{</a></span}> Gage, Beth; Gage, George; Morrison, John (January 27, 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blip.tv/aspect-ratio-cfi/aspect-ratio-january-2013-6520970">Aspect Ratio - January 2013</a> (Television Production). San Rafael, CA: Community Media Center of Marin. Retrieved 2012-02-03.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.btitle=Aspect+Ratio+-+January+2013&rft.date=January+27%2C+2013&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fblip.tv%2Faspect-ratio-cfi%2Faspect-ratio-january-2013-6520970&rft.place=San+Rafael%2C+CA&rft.pub=Community+Media+Center+of+Marin&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-34"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#cite_ref-34">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sy-2WAvAHo">"Tim DeChristopher Speaks after "Bidder 70" NYC Theatrical Opening, May 17, 2013 [Uncut]"</a>. Kevin G. O'Neill: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://twitter.com/kgo81">https://twitter.com/kgo81</a>. 2013-05-20. Retrieved 2013-05-20.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATim+DeChristopher&rft.btitle=Tim+DeChristopher+Speaks+after+%22Bidder+70%22+NYC+Theatrical+Opening%2C+May+17%2C+2013+%5BUncut%5D&rft.date=2013-05-20&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9sy-2WAvAHo&rft.pub=Kevin+G.+O%27Neill%3A+https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fkgo81&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li></ol>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.justice.gov/usao/ut/press/indictments/DeChristopher%20indictment.pdf">Decristopher Indictment</a> United States of America vs. Tim DeChristopher indictment</li><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.justice.gov/usao/ut/press/releases/DeChristopher%20final.pdf">DeChristopher Press Release</a> The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">United States Department of Justice</a> post-trial press release for DeChristopher's trial.</li></ul>

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