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...cost of $1.79 million. By the end, DeChristopher was simply bidding nonstop, and BLM officials finally caught on to what he was doing and took him into custody. Though now in the hands of the feds, he remains cool. "I told them I was there to commit civil disobedience and that this was a fraudulent auction," he says. (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...
...have also inspired more monkeywrenchers. On Mar. 2, environmentalists led by elders like Bill McKibben and Wendell Barry will descend on Washington to take direct action against a coal plant near the Capital, engaging in civil disobedience. That might not be on par with the fictional perpetrators' brand of eco-mayhem, but today's greens-like those in literature-are at least willing to put their bodies where their rhetoric...
...clearly garnered the nation's attention, her sexual orientation has raised relatively few eyebrows. Although Icelandic social policy is among the most progressive in the world - with provisions for marriage and adoption rights for same-sex couples - Sigurđardóttir maintains a decidedly low public profile with her civil partner of six years Jónína Leósdóttir, a noted journalist and playwright. "Being gay is not an issue in Iceland," explains Frosti Jónsson, chairman of Iceland's gay-and-lesbian association. "There are so many openly gay prominent figures in both...
Faust, whose field of academic expertise lies in the history of the South during the Civil War and antebellum periods, focuses “This Republic of Suffering” on how Americans struggled to understand and deal with death in the aftermath of the Civil...
...bill changes the Civil Rights Act so that workers can sue up to 180 days after receiving any discriminatory paycheck...