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Darryl Hannah arrested over farm protest

Darryl Hannah, the actress well known for her role as a mermaid in the 1984 film Splash, was arrested along with dozens of protesters fighting to prevent a Los Angeles farm from being destroyed on Wednesday reports BBC.

"I spent the last 23 days down at the South Central farm, which is the largest urban farm in the nation and provides food for hundreds of families," Hannah tells PEOPLE. "The subsistence farmers are from one of the poorest communities. This farm should be a model for sustainable urban agriculture. It needs to be replicated, not eradicated."

For the past three weeks, Hannah and protest organizer John Quigley had been sitting 40 feet above the ground in a large walnut tree. Folk singer Joan Baez and anti-logging activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill had also taken shifts in the tree, although neither was present when the arrests were made.

Hannah was pulled from a walnut tree at Los Angeles' South Central Urban Garden by the local police. .

The removal of the protesters marked the end of a three-week celebrity-studded campaign to save the community farm in an impoverished area of south-central Los Angeles.

"I’m very confident this is the morally right thing to do, to take a principled stand in solidarity with the farmers," Hannah said by mobile phone before the officers reached her.

Los Angeles Sheriff's Department spokesperson Kerri Webb said the protestors were arrested for violating a court order and obstructing sheriff's deputies who were enforcing the order, two misdemeanors.

Police arrived at the garden without notice at 5 a.m. Tuesday, but because some demonstrators had attached themselves with "chain links, handcuffs, and 55 gallon steel drums filled will cement," it took officers several hours using power tools to break through the devices.

"Arrests were made from 6 a.m. in the morning until 1 p.m.," said Webb.

June 15, 2006
POSTED BY Fabien Montique
TAGS Gossip

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Let me get this straight. I have a piece of land that I pay property taxes and mortgage payments for and people can just DECIDE to plant on it free of charge.

Crazy, why didn't they go about it the right way

Posted by: speakingmymind | June 15, 2006 5:19 PM

This article doesn't explain the whole story which involves Mr. Horowitz's property, his generosity, and the fees charged to the farmers by those running the farm – I have heard that the farm organizers (Tezozomoc, Rufina Juarez and Fernando Flores) were charging the farmers around $1000/month (find their website, it was supposed to have had this information posted there at one time) to farm on the property – which was not theirs to begin with but was in fact owned and being paid for by Mr. Horowitz. So, where did this money go to, and if Mr. Horowitz was not charging them to use it, why did they charge others? Read the articles below for more of the facts involved. It appears that Mr. Horowitz has been a very generous man and has been taken advantage of. There is much to be discovered about what really has been happening here – it has not been a Garden of Eden as some make it out to be.

Police Forcibly Shut Down South Central L.A. Urban Farm, 40+ Protesters Arrested
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/fallow-dreams/13785/

PLEDGING THE FARM
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/pledging-the-farm/13737/

Posted by: Concerned American Citizen | June 16, 2006 10:35 AM

These people believed in "squatters rights" How about if we have the same amount of people take up residency in front of Daryl Hannah’s house, call it their own, and then, after say "14 years", demand to own the house for a fraction of the cost? Wonder if that would fly with her – especially if it involved her own personal property and not someone else’s like, for example, Mr. Horowitz’s?

Posted by: Concerned American Citizen | June 16, 2006 10:56 AM

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