AMY GOODMAN: We reached her by phone yesterday, in the tree, as the police were raiding the site below.

DARYL HANNAH: There has been a massive show of force. I can see hundreds of police cars and I can’t even tell you how many police and storm trooper outfits. And they’re executing an eviction, which is — seems to be unnecessary. Because there was a deal on the table — the Annenberg Foundation and the Trust for Public Land had put an offer on the table for Mr. Horowitz. And I don’t know why they’re wasting taxpayers’ money this way. These are families who depend on this food. Literally, they’re subsistence farmers.

I see hundreds of police officers. They’ve got band saws, they’ve got a teargas canister pointing right at us, a big gun with a teargas thing on it, bolt-cutters, generators, and cables, and climbing people in climbing gear. The officers — some of them are putting on rubber gloves. I don’t know if that’s to handle some of the people down below the tree who are in lockdown mode. But hopefully they won’t be using chemical weapons.

AMY GOODMAN: What are you planning to do, Daryl Hannah?

DARYL HANNAH: I’m planning to hold my position here. I’ve committed, a month ago, to taking a principled stand on behalf of these farmers and this farm. And I plan on staying until they make me leave.

AMY GOODMAN: Are you willing to be arrested?

DARYL HANNAH: I’m going to hold my position.

AMY GOODMAN: And Daryl Hannah was arrested. The actor was speaking from a tree on the urban farm in South Central Los Angeles, arrested with dozens of other protesters. For more on the situation today, we go to Tezozomoc, the elected representative of the South Central farmers. Welcome to Democracy Now!

TEZOZOMOC: Thank you, Amy.

AMY GOODMAN: What happened?

TEZOZOMOC: Well, you know, this is a very sad day in the history of L.A., one of the few days where the issue wasn’t about money. It was about, you know, one person’s greed, one person’s smallness. And, you know, they — the sheriff’s department raided us, along with the L.A.P.D., and we were able to hold them off for about eight hours with use of our lockdown devices, including barrels filled with concrete, and lockdown mechanisms to keep them at bay while we were able to bring the media and be able to shine that spotlight, so that that we wouldn’t be buried in South Central L.A.

AMY GOODMAN: So what will happen now?

TEZOZOMOC: We basically continue today, we’re going to court. One of the things that will happen is that as usual, Mr. Horowitz’s arrogance will probably get him in a lot of trouble. One of the things that he has done is the destruction of personal property. The bulldozing of the plots is — we are going to go challenge that situation in court today, because that is destruction of personal property. When somebody is evicted, you can’t destroy their property. You have to give people an opportunity to take that property with them. Even after the eviction. And that happens — you know, if you’re evicted out of an apartment, they can’t just destroy your stuff. They tell you, "ok, you have 10 days, and in 10 days you’ll have three hours to get everything out of there." And that’s one situation that he obviously has overestimated his authority.

Another issue is that a part of the place that he was bulldozing actually didn’t belong to him. It actually belongs to the City of L.A. And so there’s a whole bunch of issues. Additionally, he didn’t have a demolition permit, which requires a 30-day. He didn’t have a grading plan, which also requires permitting from the city. And so we were going to continue again, you know, he’s opened up an avenue for us to explore it. And we will basically go down that avenue, as we speak, this morning. Last night our lawyers were putting together a plan to go back to the courts and basically, deal with that issue.

AMY GOODMAN: Tezozomoc, we’re going to continue to follow the story, find out what happened in court today, as we report on this largest urban farm in the United States. It’s in South Central Los Angeles.