The Wheeler Opera House will screen the documentary film “No Man’s Land” this Thursday.On Jan. 2, 2016, armed protesters seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. The film shows the motivations behind the occupation and the affect it had on the surrounding community. Ammon and Ryan Bundy led a group of antigovernment extremists in response to the prison sentences of two Oregon cattle ranchers convicted of federal land arson. This is filmmaker David Byars directorial debut, funded by a Mountainfilm Commitment Grant. Byars examines the events in Malheur as extremist groups continue to emerge across the United States. The screening starts at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit wheeleroperahouse.com.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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One of the online Bundy haters posted an op-ed review of the documentary that was very biased - in Playboy magazine.
...just another excuse not to read Playboy's articles.
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