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Title: Activist seats himself on huge earthmover
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Chinn, Paul
Date Created and/or Issued: 1989
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Derek Rhys sits alone on top of a massive bulldozer during a standoff between the environmental group Earth First and developers of a proposed housing tract in Caballero Canyon above Tarzana. The activists won the first round when developers agreed to halt construction until a meeting is held between Councilman Marvin Braude and representatives from the group. Photograph dated June 6, 1989.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 24 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00059480
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b088_f2_i10
CARL0000063366
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23474
Subject: Earth First! (Organization)
Green movement--California--Los Angeles
Demonstrations--California--Tarzana (Los Angeles)
Housing development--California--Tarzana (Los Angeles)
Earthmoving machinery--California--Los Angeles
Canyons--California--Los Angeles
Tarzana (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Caballero Canyon (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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