I spoke at length with DeChristopher about hacking the Democratic party, arcane but vulnerable processes like elections and auctions, why Americans really should spend more time in prison, and other tragicomic matters of consequence. Read up, plug in, turn out.

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Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher has been released from custody after serving 21 months in federal prison. DeChristopher was arrested after...

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After watching four films in two days at this year's Cleveland International Film Festival highlighting the magnitude of problems plaguing our world, you might think I'd be ready to crawl into a hole. But how can I hide from these issues that are in desperate need of people advocating for solutions?

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A prominent environmental activist has been released from an isolation unit at a federal prison and placed back into a minimum...

Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher has been placed in isolated confinement, nonprofit Peaceful Uprising reports. DeChristopher has been held ...

DeChristopher's act was definitely a crime. A victimless crime, and an act of civil disobedience, but a crime nonetheless. The guilty verdict, delivered on March 3, was expected. But the auction itself was also a crime.

"I've been prepared to deal with these consequences for a while now," Tim DeChristopher said in a 2010 interview with Juliana Schatz. This past Tuesda...

SALT LAKE CITY -- A sentencing hearing turned into a rally supporting an environmental activist who has become an antihero after disrupting a governme...

On Dec. 19, 2008, a 27-year-old man named Tim DeChristopher, troubled by American energy policy and its contribution to global warming, broke the law....

If you sweated through last week's record heat, if your crops are withering in the southwest's epic drought, if you watched the Mississippi swallow your town -- then Tim DeChristopher acted for you.

Tim represents a new breed of disruptive, bold climate activists who are putting their lives on the line to bring about the transformational change we need.

During one of his high-intensity speeches earlier this month, Van Jones showed he was back in fighting form.

We want you to consider doing something hard: coming to Washington in the hottest and stickiest weeks of the summer and engaging in civil disobedience that will likely get you arrested.

For 33 years the Mountainfilm in Telluride festival has established an annual tradition of bringing together filmmakers, environmentalists, educators...

We are acting like Tim DeChristopher is doomed, and the best we can do is say "Adios, Tim." We can and must do better than that.

A jury in Utah has found Tim DeChristopher guilty for standing up to the oil and gas companies. This is precisely the sort of event that reminds us just why we need creative, nonviolent protests.

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was convicted yesterday of two felony counts. DeChristopher was o...