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Daryl Hannah got arrested yesterday while blocking TransCanada’s construction of its Gulf Coast tar-sands pipeline. But the more interesting story is that Eleanor Fairchild was arrested, too.
Tar Sands BlockadeEleanor Fairchild, a 78-year-old grandmother and landowner.
Who’s Eleanor Fairchild? No one you’ve heard of. The important part isn’t who she is, it’s why she was arrested and where she was when it happened. Fairchild was arrested for trespassing. And when it happened, she was standing on her own property.
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http://grist.org/news/texas-grandmother-arrested-for-trespassing-on-her-own-land-to-protest-keystone/
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