Oregon Militia

Rural Oregon Deserves Better Than The Bundys

November 1, 2016 Jessica, www.telesurtv.net Educate! #NoDAPL, Oregon, Oregon Militia

By Jessica for ROP - Many of us across Oregon are reeling after the acquittal of the Bundys and some of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupiers. How can seven people who orchestrated a 41-day armed standoff that held an entire community hostage be acquitted, especially on the same day over 100 indigenous water protectors in North Dakota were shot at, beaten, and arrested? Some media are repeating the false Bundy talking point that this acquittal is “a victory for rural communities”.

Militia Builds New Road On Fed Land, Trample Indigenous Artifacts

January 23, 2016 Amanda Peacher, www.opb.org Educate! Oregon Militia

By Amanda Peacher for OPB - The armed occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge continue to use government equipment inside the complex. One militant, who refused to give his name, again plowed dirt with a refuge bulldozer Wednesday. He wouldn’t say why he was operating the machinery, but in several places, sagebrush and vegetation had been newly removed, leaving wide patches of bare mud within the complex. The new road connects a bunkhouse with another road. When asked about the construction, the militant claimed that the road was already there, and that militants had only removed snow from the path.

Utah Protest Responds To Oregon Militia

January 20, 2016 Staff, www.fox13now.com Resist! Land, Occupation, Oregon Militia, Salt Lake City

By Staff of Fox 13 News - SALT LAKE CITY -- The occupation of Oregon’s Malhuer National Wildlife Refuge sparked another occupation in Salt Lake City Sunday, as activists in favor of government managing public lands made their voices heard at a duck pond at Sugar House Park. Among those gathered at the park was a man calling himself “Slickrock Stranger” who sang a new take on the classic, “This Land is Your Land.”

Conflict With Environmentalists & Militia In Oregon

January 18, 2016 Conrad Wilson and Amelia Templeton, www.opb.org Resist! Environment, Oregon, Oregon Militia

By Conrad Wilson and Amelia Templeton for OBP - Candy Henderson is in the middle of treatment for breast cancer. She said she’s still sore from a recent surgery that removed part of her breast and lymph nodes. In a few weeks, she will start radiation treatment at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. But in the meantime, Henderson, who describes herself as an avid hiker, drove 400 miles from her home in Walla Walla, Washington, to join a small counter-protest at the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Understanding The Oregon Militia

January 10, 2016 Les Zaitz, www.oregonlive.com Resist! Carbon infrastructure, Federal land management, Fracking, Mandatory Sentencing, Oregon, Oregon Militia

By Les Zaitz for the Oregonian. Rep. Walden intended, he said, to quickly make points about grazing permits, the proposal for a 2.5 million acre national monument in Malheur County and other Western issues. He started talking at 7:25 p.m. Eastern time to a nearly-empty chamber. "I got up there and 17 years of working with farmers and ranchers and folks in eastern Oregon just poured out," Walden said. He described it as an "artesian well of emotion." He talked of knowing the Hammond ranching family of Diamond for nearly two decades. The patriarch, Dwight Hammond Jr., and his son Steven went to prison the day before Walden's speech. They were convicted on arson charges for burning federal land – a case that triggered the militia to rally in Burns. He recounted episode after episode of what he said was arrogant federal bureaucracies hampering rural Oregon. "Do you understand how frustrated I am at this? Can you imagine how the people on the ground feel?"

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