PROTESTERS OCCUPY 200-YEAR-OLD TREE AT US-MEXICO BORDER TO STOP ITS DESTRUCTION: ‘SHE’S OUR STATUE OF LIBERTY’

Demonstrators stage ‘tree sit’ in Arizona town to stop felling of ancient cottonwood grove to make way for border wall Protesters are staging a “tree sit” in a tiny Arizona town to prevent the destruction of a grove of… The gathering ramped up last week in the town of Lochiel, in the remote San Rafael valley of south-east Arizona.

Environment | The Guardian reports that demonstrators stage ‘tree sit’ in Arizona town to stop felling of ancient cottonwood grove to make way for border wall Protesters are staging a “tree sit” in a tiny Arizona town to prevent the destruction of a grove of…

The report adds: The gathering ramped up last week in the town of Lochiel, in the remote San Rafael valley of south-east Arizona.

On 27 July, contractors working for Fisher Sand and Gravel crushed three of the largest cottonwoods with excavators.

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