You have freedom of speech in America…but it always seems you can still get arrested for it…or should we say quietly removed from the streets. Daryl Hannah arrested? You go girl…tell them what’s on your mind… still I like her style and courage to stand up for what she believes in …instead of standing home or sitting in a bar …drinking and complaining about how America is going down the toilet…Are we still Americans?
Pass it on,
Dr Anthony
Actor Daryl Hannah has been arrested in front of the White House along with other environmental protesters who oppose a planned oil pipeline from Canada to the US Gulf Coast.
The sit-in on Tuesday involved dozens of activists campaigning against the Keystone XL pipeline which would go through six states to refineries in Texas.
Before she was arrested, Hannah said the protesters want to be free from dependence on fossil fuels and that she hoped Barack Obama will not give way to oil lobbyists.
The actor sat down on the pavement near the White House and refused orders from US Park Police to move.
TransCanada, a major energy corporation, says on its website that the $13bn (£7.98bn) Keystone pipeline system will play an important role in linking a secure and growing supply of Canadian crude oil with the largest refining markets in the US, “significantly improving North American security supply”.
Hannah, who made her name in films of the1980s such as Blade Runner, Splash, Roxanne, Wall Street and Steel Magnolias, has been arrested in the past for environmental causes.
She and Nasa climate scientist James Hansen were among 31 people arrested in June 2009 as they protested against mountaintop removal mining in southern West Virginia.
On that occasion, all were released after being charged with impeding traffic and obstructing an officer after they blocked a road near a Massey Energy subsidiary’s coal processing plant.
Police forcibly removed her from a tree in Los Angeles in 2006 as she was trying to prevent the demolition of a community farm which had become a cause celebre among other Hollywood figures.
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