A building at the Harney County Fairgrounds in rural Oregon was packed to the seams Wednesday night, as local residents discussed an ongoing occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Many of the speakers at the meeting said they didn’t…
Ryan Bundy of the so-called Bundy Militia tells Oregon Public Broadcasting that he and the other men occupying federal buildings in Harney County, Oregon, will leave peacefully if the people of the community want them to.
After some initial silence, Republican presidential candidates began to make calls for a peaceful end to the takeover of a small wildlife refuge by anti-government protesters 30 miles outside Burns, Oregon.
In many ways, the standoff between militia and the U.S. government encapsulates a deeply intertwined anti-federal sentiment mixed with Mormon symbolism.
The militiamen said their mission in Burns, Oregon, is to put the federal lands under local control, although it’s unclear by what means. The leader of the occupation, Ammon Bundy, said the protesters have a plan that will take “several…
A group of protesters and purported militiamen occupied a federal building at an Oregon wildlife refuge late Saturday and vowed to stay there indefinitely to highlight rancher rights. Amelia Templeton, a reporter for Oregon Public Broadcasting, joins Hari Sreenivasan on…
A group of militiamen took over the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in support of two nearby ranchers sentenced to prison beginning on Monday. The ranchers were convicted of setting fire to federal land.
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