If you’re in Salt Lake City, go by the press conference to be given by DeChristopher’s legal team at 1:30 p.m. on the steps of the Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse. Hopefully they’ll have some more information on what happened to get DeChristopher sent to the hole.
Check out Bidder70.org and PeacefulUprising.org for more info.
Tim DeChristopher was let out of isolation last night after calls to congress apparently put pressure on the government to let him out.
He was, he and his lawyers believed, put in there at a congressman’s direction.
His supporters call him a political prisoner, and it certainly sounds like it. They had been calling on President Obama to let him out. But why should directions from Washington (allegedly) determine where a prisoner in California spends his nights?
It all smells very bad.
It verges on being a thought crime.
Tim DeChristopher may have been put in isolation by a congressman who wanted to punish him. All because he used the word "threat" when talking about one of the world's more eco-friendly companies, Patagonia, RiledUp has learned.
The outdoor giant Patagonia donated to his legal defense fund but also partnered with an oil company on a project to restore wildlife habitat.
DeChristopher demands that corporations that donate money to him be ethical. He was asking his supporters to investigate whether Patagonia was shipping jobs overseas, and, if true, he said he might "make a threat to wage a campaign against them."
Tim DeChristopher has been in prison for more than seven months. He's worth still thinking about.