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Joan Baez Joins Tree Sitting Demonstration To Save LA Garden


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Folk singer Joan Baez sang "We Shall Overcome" from a tree-top perch in Los Angeles on Wednesday in a bid to save a community garden from demolition.

Baez, 65, who gave voice to civil rights and anti-war campaigners in the 1960s, joined Julia "Butterfly" Hill, an anti-logging activist, in taking up residence in the tree in the 14-acre (5.7-hectare) fruit and vegetable garden in gritty south Los Angeles.

Baez will take shifts occupying the tree with Hill, who spent two years in the late 1990s sitting in a northern California redwood to highlight the plight of ancient forests.

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