I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear.

This week, O'Moyers & Company, Tim de Christopher tells why he spent two years in prison in the name of climate justice.

Civil disobedience is always a criticism of the existing power structure.

And it's always been that way.

That's the role of civil disobedience.

It's the role of dissent.

And Gretchen Morgasen of the New York Times talks about J.P. Morgan Chase and Jamie Diamond

and how the big banks still get their way.

If I were Jamie Diamond, I'd be worried about being called the King of the Heat,

because when

that happens, there is often a come-upance.

It hasn't happened to him yet.

So here is a man who has succeeded because he hasn't failed.

So the bar is quite low.

Thanks for joining us. If we now have representative government in name only and are governed instead by corporations

and their lobbyists, what's to be done?

Tim de Christopher wrestled with that reality and decided what he would do.

As a result, he spent almost two years in prison.

He's out now, and you can learn the whole story in the new documentary, Bitter 70.

In December 2008, as the Bush administration was coming to an end, this environmental

activist, then 27 years

old, went to an auction of gas and oil drilling rights on more than 150,000 acres of

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