"Are You Moving Here Forever?" (Excerpt from 'The Oregon Standoff')
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1:39Now PlayingWatch the Full Length "The Oregon StandoffA Community Divided"
Members of an anti-Government militia have occupied the headquarters of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in a remote region of eastern Oregon for over a week, protesting what they claim is an overreaching federal Government. The occupation is being led by Ammon Bundy and his brother Ryan, two sons of Cliven Bundy, a Nevada rancher best known for an armed standoff with the federal Government in 2014 over a cattle grazing dispute.
The protest was sparked by the re-sentencing of two Oregon ranchers, Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son Steven, to 5 years in a federal prison for deliberately setting fires on their property that spread to the bordering Malheur Wildlife Refuge.
While the media has referred to the situation as an armed standoff, more specifically, the "Oregon Standoff," the federal authorities have kept their distance, and the local authorities, led by Harney County Sheriff David Ward, are also treading lightly.
VICE News traveled to Harney County, Oregon to meet with militia leaders, attend town hall meetings, and speak with local ranchers whom the protesters claim to be representing.
In this excerpt, a young reporter from a local school in Harney County interviews Ryan Bundy about the future of the occupation.
In PhotosThe Faces and Frozen Landscapes of the 'Oregon Standoff’
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