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Darryl Hannah In A Tree, A-R-R-E-S-T-E-D

Posted Jun 14th 2006 11:53AM by TMZ Staff

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actress Daryl Hannah and another protester have been plucked from a walnut tree and arrested, ending their part in the occupation of a 14-acre mini-farm near downtown Los Angeles.

Firefighters on a cherry-picker-type ladder cut away branches to remove Hannah and veteran tree sitter John Quigley. On the ground below, sheriff's deputies evicted others, including some who'd chained themselves to the tree and to metal drums filled with concrete.

Several dozen others were arrested outside the green area for blocking traffic. About 350 people have grown crops and flowers on the land, in an industrial section of the inner-city, for more than a decade. Owner Ralph Horowitz says that's long enough. He wants to build a warehouse and says that's what the land is zoned for.



Tags: Darryl Hannah, DarrylHannah, Los Angeles, LosAngeles, protest, urban garden, UrbanGarden

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16. Wow! Communism is alive and well in the USA! Sweat Equity???? I love how that kind of argument always works for someone else's belongings or situation. How about this madam bomb. Why don't invite a bunch of squatters to your property, to do what in their mind benefits themselves, and then you share your land with them. Work out a compromise, hell, give them an equal share of the selling price when you sell. Make them equal owners while only YOU pay the mortgage! I'll be waiting to see the headlines on CNN for that one! Further, Whether the owner of the land likes Mexicans or not is irrelevant to the arguement. It is HIS land, not the trespassers who have illegally used it for their own purposes. Go back and read, and then re-read the writings of our founding fathers, and do so as often as needed until you understand how fundamental property ownership is to our Republic and our freedom. Bottom line protestors usually just protest and never really act. They usually want someone esle to do the acting. Case in point Ms. Hannah and her ilk, sit in a tree, chain yourself to this or that, but don't buy the land yourself. Get the government to sieze it and make a park out of it, but heaven forbid you open your wallet and do it yourself! Ms. Hannah has made millions in her demanding job of pretending she is someone else. So she could easily kick down a few hundred Gs and buy this land and let everyone plant on it and use it as they see fit. But she didn't because she, like the others are trespassing, law breaking, protestors and not doers!

Posted at 12:34PM on Jun 14th 2006 by Rod

17. A very valid point in this blog was made;:by others, which did not occur to me. It is a fine thing to believe ardently in any given point of view. And like others have said in this forum, If you wish to have a "little of piece of heaven", in the urban(e) madness that is Lost Angeles or Sao Paolo or Tokyo or many other cities, buy a piece of it and do what you want to do on your land. It seems likely that Hugh Hefner would sell us the Playboy mansion if we had enough money. Then we could put a big avocado farm there.

Posted at 9:15AM on Jul 16th 2006 by edward stevens

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