Armed group takes over Oregon wildlife refuge building

On imagine le traitement médiatique si une telle action avait par exemple été le fait d’ouvriers agricoles journaliers en Californie pour exiger de meilleures conditions de travail.

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Ce mouvement fait écho à la « Sagebrush Rebellion », un mouvement revendiquant la privatisation des terres fédérales dans les années 1970. En effet, survivance de la conquête de l’Ouest, le gouvernement fédéral est propriétaire de gigantesques espaces de territoire dans les 11 Etats de l’Ouest – 81 % dans le Nevada, 53 % dans l’Oregon, 28,5 % dans l’Etat de Washington, contre 4 % en moyenne pour le reste des Etats-Unis.

Ces espaces sont gérés par le bureau de gestion du territoire (Bureau of Land Management, ou BLM, qui dépend du ministère de l’intérieur), l’office des forêts des Etats-Unis (The USDA Forest Service, qui dépend du département de l’agriculture), le Fish and Wildlife Service (un organisme qui s’occupe de la gestion et de la préservation de la faune et qui dépend du ministère de l’intérieur) et le National Park Service (agence chargée de gérer les parcs nationaux, les monuments nationaux, les propriétés historiques, les zones protégées du domaine fédéral qui dépend du ministère de l’intérieur).

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The Oregon standoff is far bigger than a group of armed men in a forest
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The weekend occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon may seem like the ravings of a small group of armed activists, but it belongs to a much larger movement in the western United States. Lawmakers in at least 11 states have in recent years explored the possibility of taking back federal land in their own way: through their state legislatures.

Before this weekend’s incident, and before the Cliven Bundy confrontation in Nevada in 2014, there was Utah’s H.B. 148. In 2012, Utah passed that bill into law, requiring the federal government turn over the public lands within the state. The law carried little force — the end-of-2014 deadline for the transfer came and went — but it signified the start of a new chapter in the four-decade fight over Western land.

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Extremist takeover in Oregon: What we know versus what is said | Warscapes
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ot long after extremists stormed the Malheur Wildlife Refuge did local news begin to cover a baffling, if not anxious scene. The anti-government “militia” was no stranger to the Burns, Oregon community, with ongoing interactions with federal officials to protest the incarceration of two ranchers, but Saturday marked a turning point in the dialogue: what was billed as a peaceful protest became an armed takeover of a federal building. Sheriff David Ward called the peaceful rally a ruse, claiming "these men had alternative motives to attempt to overthrow the county and federal government in hopes to spark a movement across the United States.”

The standoff with armed militia in Oregon escalated on Friday after police swooped in on one of the protesters to make the first arrest in connection with the two-week occupation of a federal wildlife refuge.

Kenneth Medenbach, who was arrested for unauthorized use of a government vehicle, is a chainsaw sculptor and longtime nemesis of the government with a history of previous entanglements with the courts over the occupation of federal lands.

He is the first militiaman connected to the armed occupation to be arrested since the bird sanctuary in rural Oregon was unexpectedly taken over on 2 January.

Medenbach, 62, was detained outside a Safeway supermarket in Burns, Oregon, some 30 miles from the Malheur national wildlife refuge, according to a statement from the Harney County sheriff’s office.

He appears to have driven from the occupied compound to a local supermarket in a vehicle allegedly stolen from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, which runs the refuge. The sheriff’s office statement said that law enforcement officers recovered “two vehicles stolen from the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge”.

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