why is Darrly Hannah in a tree on CNN?

Answer 1

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Tree-sitting protesters, including some celebrities, vowed to peacefully resist eviction from a 14-acre (5 1/2-hectare) urban garden on which the landowner wants to build a warehouse.

The inner-city site is "a place of safety and respite from the harshness of the concrete jungle ... we just have to save it," actress Darryl Hannah said Thursday from the branches of an old walnut tree where she perched for the day despite her vertigo.

Below her, supporters had created a tent city in the midst of the flowers, bananas, edible cactus, sunflowers and other produce that is farmed by about 350 mainly poor, Hispanic families.

Hannah said she had created an "emergency episode" of her weekly podcast and urged people to support the garden, a green swath in an industrial area southeast of downtown.

The actress is among celebrities supporting the farmers. Folk singer Joan Baez sat in the tree Wednesday and musician Ben Harper and his wife, actress Laura Dern, gave speeches.

Few actual farmers were in the garden Thursday.

A civil court judge signed off on the eviction order Wednesday but there appeared to be no immediate effort to remove them.

"There's no action today," said Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which must enforce the court order.

"We're in the process of developing the best approach to this evacuation," Whitmore said. "The community is important to us. We are sensitive to these issues."

Tree-sitter Julia "Butterfly" Hill, who gained fame by living for more than two years in a California redwood, said she and others have "a commitment to passive resistance" when eviction occurs.

Hill was spending her third day on a wooden platform in the walnut tree and also was in the 10th day of a water-only prayer fast for the garden's survival, she said.

The land originally was owned by developer Ralph Horowitz but the city seized it in the 1980s, forcing him to sell it in order to build a trash-to-energy incinerator. When the project fizzled, the land was turned over to a food bank and people began gardening there after the 1992 Los Angeles riot.

Horowitz sued to get the site back and the city settled in 2003 by selling it to him for $5 million, leading to court battles. Eventually, he agreed to sell 10 of the 14 acres to The Trust for Public Land for $16.35 million but the group fell $10 million short and the option expired Monday.

A call to Horowitz went unanswered Thursday. But in recent interviews with the Los Angeles Times, he said he has been unfairly portrayed as a villain for wanting to sell the land for development.

Hill and Hannah said garden supporters were hoping the city or some benefactor would come up with the $10 million and the developer would sell, or that people would raise it dollar by dollar through small contributions. Hill also called on Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to help the farmers.

Talking with reporters at City Hall, the mayor called on Horowitz to slash the selling price.

He should "sell this property for what he bought it for," Villaraigosa said, noting that supporters of the garden had picketed his home.

"These people are good people. They want to farm this land. Unfortunately, Mr. Horowitz ... is now in a position where he's asking for $16 million," the mayor said.

Answer 2

She is protesting with a group of farmers and supporters confronting authorities trying to evict them from an urban garden near downtown Los Angeles.

About 350 farmers harvest produce and flowers on the land, which has been used as a garden for several years. But the property’s owner now wants to put up a warehouse, and sheriff’s deputies are trying to enforce an eviction order.

Interviewed by cell phone from a large walnut tree she’s holed up in, the actress says she and the others are doing the “morally right thing.”

Answer 3

Daryl Hannah is holed up in the walnut tree at an urban garden near downtown Los Angeles.

The sheriff is trying to enforce an eviction order against everyone there. Seven people are under arrest on charges including violating that order and obstructing the deputies. Some of them had to be hauled away on stretchers.

While Hannah is in a tree, other rebel farmers are chaining themselves to one another, to the tree, or to huge drums filled with concrete.

Answer 4

On June 13th, 2006, Hannah became involved with a group of farmers and supporters confronting authorities trying to evict them from an urban garden near downtown Los Angeles. She tied herself to a walnut tree, and said that she would not come down. Interviewed by a cell phone from the tree she’s in, the actress says she and the others are doing the "morally right thing."

Answer 5

Its a small area 14 acres of urban farm field. The city is evicting the farmers to build on that area. They have been like this for weeks protesting the city's buy. They lost...the police are out and arresting right now. So ..there u go.

Answer 6

She is protesting the eviction of some LA farmers. She holed up in a large walnut tree on the property.

Answer 7

because she is trying to steal some land from a guy named horowitz. he offered to sell it to the farmers that are squatting on his land, but they cant afford it. do daryl hannah is trying to get hollyweird to remember her by taking a stance with illegal aliens and land squatters...
too bad she's just a thief

Answer 8

Protesting turning a community garden into a wharehouse.

Answer 9

Something about saving a farm that is being sold for something other than farming.

Answer 10

Because that is what old actresses have to do in order to gain attention.