[UPDATE: If you'd like to help Tim's cause by donating some much-needed money, please see this newly launched support site!]

[photo: Salt Lake Tribune]

I just wanted to give a quick shout out to this badass activist that I learned about while in Utah. His story isn’t in the national mainstream news yet (that I know of), but it was well covered in the Salt Lake Tribune which I read over coffee every morning over coffee at my in-laws. You should know this story.

Remember that shit that Bush pulled earlier this year, opening up a ton of America’s wild land to oil and gas exploration to help out his buddies on his way out the door? Land that is literally next door to our most incredible National Parks like Arches and Canyonlands?

Well, graduate student Tim DeChristopher went ahead and bid on a ton of those contracts… and WON! thereby throwing a vitrual wrench into the process. Obviously, the bad guys are pissed. Please read more about what’s going on, this amazing citizen action and the undoubtably horrible legal process that is now descending upon him. Maybe we can raise the money and help just buy out these contracts and preserve the land.

Edward Abbey would be proud. <3 <3 <3

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