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Protesters occupy 200-year-old tree at US-Mexico border to stop its destruction: ‘She’s our Statue of Liberty’
Protesters in Arizona are staging a 'tree sit' to prevent the destruction of ancient cottonwood trees by federal contractors building a border wall. Contractors from Fisher Sand and Gravel crushed three trees with excavators on July 27.
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