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Showdown in the Malheur Marshes: the Origins of Rancher Terrorism in Burns, Oregon
St. Clair, Jeffrey; Ridgeway, James
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/05/showdown-in-the-malheur-marshes-the-origins-of-the-armed-occupation-in-burns-oregon/Date Written: 2016-01-05 Publisher: Counterpunch Year Published: 2016 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX18576 During the spring of 1995, shortly after the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, James Ridgeway and I spent a couple of weeks traveling across the West for a series of stories in the Village Voice that chronicled the rise of militant new rightwing movements of militias, white supremacists, Christian Identity sects and anti-government groups, including a profile of central Oregon rancher Dwight Hammond, now at the centre of the armed seizure of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters near Burns. |