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Will Smith nervous about daughter dating
LOS ANGELES, June 14 (UPI) -- Activist actress Daryl Hannah was pulled from a tree and arrested while protesting the reclamation of farmland in central Los Angeles.
Hannah was among an estimated 45 people arrested Tuesday, the Los Angeles Independent Media Center said. Thirty people were chained together and attached to steel drums filled with concrete to prevent bulldozers from plowing over farm plots.
Hannah only recently learned about the farm cultivated by 350 low-income, inner-city gardeners and she said she believed protesting was the "morally right thing to do," the Los Angeles Times reported.
The city purchased land from Ralph Horowitz in the 1980s for a garbage incinerator, but abandoned the plan after a citizen outcry. In 1992, the land was leased to a food bank, which permitted urban farmers to grow crops.
But a 2003 court battle transferred the property back to Horowitz for $5 million and he plans to use the land to build a warehouse.
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